Tag Archives: f1

June 4, 2011
Sebastien Buemi accidentally hits crazy fan with F1 car in Japan– also tagged , , ,

Formula One driver Sebastien Buemi was in Japan at a Red Bull F1 Exhibition when a fan attempted to jump over his moving race car with predictably disastrous results.
Luckily for both parties involved, the young racing driver was traveling less than 20 MPH when the unidentified man decided to jump.
After the fall seen here the [...]

February 10, 2010
Force India launches VJM03 for 2010 F1 championship– also tagged , , , , , , , , , ,

Force India: The Little Team That Could. After decades of racing as Jordan Grand Prix, the team changed hands several times over the past few years, first as Midland, then Spyker before Indian billionaire Vijay Mallya stepped in and took over.
No one thought the tumultuous outfit had much fight left in it, but last season [...]

June 27, 2009
Artist Creates Life-Size F1 Car Out Of Styrofoam– also tagged , , , , , , , , , , ,

Remember as a kid when you’d pick up any ol’ scrap of material and create an amazingly complex tank or heavily fortified hillside bunker? How about a life-size F1 car replica… out of Styrofoam?
Michael A. Salter never grew out of that art-for-scrap mode of thought as evidenced by his life-size and fairly accurate replica Formula [...]

July 7, 2008
VIDEO: Batman takes to Silverstone with Toyota F1– also tagged , ,

Kids argue over all sorts of things. We’re sure that if you stood around a school yard for long enough, well… you may get picked up by the cops.
But not before you hear a couple of kids arguing over something as rediculous as, “What’s faster, the Batmobile or a race car?”
Until recently, it would’ve seemed [...]

May 31, 2007
VIDEO: Step inside BMW’s F1 wind tunnel– also tagged , , ,

Fun though it may be, racing is still an applied science. Perhaps this is most evident in the tech heavy F1 cars. BMW uses a very trick wind tunnel to test their Sauber F1 car in virtually all dynamic conditions to ensure that the aerodynamics give the desired result.
This video has a bit of a [...]