Woo hoo!!! Next week's the last week of school before term break, a well needed one after the 1st exhausting half of the sem. Can't wait man...but kns...got 3 quizzes next week. The school certainly doesn't let us go off easily. Heat transfer, french and Are you ok mental health. Can't wait for the quizzes to be over man. Looks like this term break's gonna be an exciting one with fun filled activities lining up like badminton chalet, Glenn's welcome back dinner, MRO workshops, and the 1 day Singapore Biennial day trip. Not to mention F1. Still trying to think of a way to hear the cars revving at over 19000 rpm. but im sure at tt kinda rotating speed, we can hear it from quite a far distance. Anyway, 5 interesting facts about f1 cars below. Enjoy!
1. An F1 car is made up of 80,000 components, if it were assembled 99.9% correctly; it would still start the race with 80 things wrong!
2. An F1 car can go from 0 to 160 kph AND back to 0 in FOUR seconds!!!!
3. An average F1 driver looses about 4kgs of weight after just one race due to the prolonged exposure to high G forces and temperatures for little over an hour (Yeah that’s right!!!)
4. The amount of aerodynamic downforce produced by the front and rear wings and the car underbody is amazing. Once the car is traveling over 160 kph, an F1 car can generate enough downforce to equal its own weight. That means it could actually hold itself to the CEILING of a tunnel and drive UPSIDE down!
5. When an F1 driver hits the brakes on his car he experiences retardation or deceleration comparable to a regular car driving through a BRICK wall at 300kmph!!!
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