FORMULA 1

Formula 1

Formula 1

Introduction

Formula One, also renowned as Formula 1 or F1, and officially mentioned to as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the largest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The "formula" in the title mentions to a set of directions with which all participants' cars should comply. The F1 time of the year consists of a sequence of races, renowned as Grand's Prix (translated to English as "Big Prize"), held on purpose-built circuits and public roads. The outcomes of each race are blended to work out two yearly World Championships, one for the drivers and one for the constructors, with racing drivers, constructor teams, pathway agents, organizers, and circuits needed to be holders of legitimate Super Licenses, the largest class of racing permit handed out by the FIA. (Arron 2003)

Formula One cars race at high speeds, up to 360 km/h (220 mph) with motors revving up to a formula-imposed restrict of 18,000 rpm. The cars are adept of lateral acceleration in surplus of 5 g in corners. The performance of the cars is highly reliant on electronics (although traction control and driving aids have been ostracised since 2008), aerodynamics, suspension, and tyres. (Jones 2003)

History

The Formula One sequence has its origins in the European Grand Prix Motor Racing (q.v. for pre-1947 history) of the 1920s and 1930s. The "formula" is a set of directions which all participants and cars should meet. Formula One was a new formula acquiesced after World War II in 1946, with the first non-championship races being held that year. A number of Grand Prix racing organisations had prepared out directions for a World Championship before the conflict, but due to the suspension of racing during the conflict, the World Drivers' Championship was not formalised until 1947. The first world championship race was held at Silverstone, United Kingdom in 1950.

The sport's name, Formula One, shows it is proposed to be the most sophisticated and most comparable of the FIA's racing formulae. (Lang 2005)

 

Return of Racing

The first Formula One World Championship was won by Italian Giuseppe Farina in his Alfa Romeo in 1950, barely defeating his Argentine teammate Juan Manuel Fangio. However Fangio won the name in 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956 & 1957 (His record of five World Championship names stood for 45 years until German driver Michael Schumacher took his sixth name in 2003), his mark cut off (after an injury) by two-time champion Alberto Ascari of Ferrari. Although the UK's Stirling Moss was adept to contend regularly, he was not ever adept to win the World Championship, and is now widely considered to be the utmost driver not ever to have won the title. Fangio, although, is recalled for dominating Formula One's first ten years and has long been considered the "grand master" of Formula One.

 

Big Business

Beginning in the 1970s, Bernie Ecclestone rearranged the administration of Formula One's financial rights; he is widely credited with transforming the sport into the billion-dollar enterprise it is ...