Formula 1: The Official History

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Not only was their works Jaguar team sold to Austrian drinks company Red Bull, [24] but the few remaining small independent teams, who traditionally had used Ford engines, found their engine supply in a precarious state. The Drivers' Championship was very closely fought, with six drivers leading the championship at various points, in the joint longest ever (nineteen-race) season. The 2008 season also marked the first time since the 2001 San Marino Grand Prix that all cars competed without using traction control. One statistic proved the two teams' dominance: they together won all but one of the races, the controversial U. The only British team that was also a manufacturer of road cars like Ferrari was Lotus; but even so, that company grew considerably but never to the size of Mercedes or Alfa Romeo.

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Like the Repco the Cosworth was light and compact but it was a real racing engine using 4-valve DOHC heads and delivered much more power.

The McLaren M2B, designed by Robin Herd, used an aluminium-wood laminate known as Mallite for much of its monocoque, although the car's design did not make best use of the new material. The total number of races run to Formula One regulations remained about the same as it had been before the introduction of the World Championship. Against a small field of Ferraris and Maseratis, Stirling Moss won the Argentine Grand Prix driving a mid-engined Cooper entered by the private team of Rob Walker, and powered by a 2-litre Coventry-Climax Straight-4. There was an immediate effect, in his first year with the Scuderia Schumacher won three races, more than the team had managed in the previous five years.

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After agonising defeat in 2007, Hamilton clinched the Drivers' Championship in dramatic fashion, overtaking Timo Glock in the Toyota to secure the fifth place he needed in the last corner of the last lap of the final Grand Prix. For 1976, Fittipaldi made the surprising decision to drive for the Brazilian Fittipaldi Automotive team of his brother Wilson, sponsored by Copersucar. was a transitional year for most teams, however, the year did see the first use of composite materials, a technology which would later revolutionise the sport.

Come the Korean round, 2 rounds before the Indian one, Red Bull had developed a special aerodynamic diffuser that gave th Engine RPM reached 20,000 rpm (and over for Renault and Cosworth) in 2006, and was initially limited to 19,000 rpm for 2007; this was lowered to 18,000 from 2009 to 2013. Moss gave Lotus its first Formula One victory at Monaco but his season was ruined by a serious crash at Spa, Belgium. This was the first victory by a Japanese car and, as of today, the only one by a car powered by a transverse engine.

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For the same reason special racing fuels, previously an exotic mixture of benzenes and toluenes, were banned and only those with similar characteristics to everyday unleaded petrol would be permitted. The V10 and V12 engines produced by the Japanese manufacturer proved to be just as good as the turbo V6s before them, and the V10 was the best engine over the two seasons it was used and developed by Honda. An enlarged V6 held some promise but Surtees left mid-season after a dispute with team manager Eugenio Dragoni at the 24 Hours of Le Mans sportscar race. Despite Ferrari's dominance (taking 15 wins from the 18 races), the battle back in the pack was much more open than 2002, as powerhouses McLaren and Williams got off to horrendous starts with radical new cars.

The Indianapolis 500 would never be important for Formula One and was no longer part of the championship after 1960. Alan Jones and Keke Rosberg brought success to Frank Williams at last in 1980 and 1982, while young Brazilian Nelson Piquet won titles for Brabham team owner Ecclestone in 1981 and 1983. Patrick Depailler was killed in 1980, probably due to high lateral acceleration causing a black out in Hockenheim's fast Ostkurve. McLaren and Ferrari had better seasons in 2010, finishing respectively second and third among the constructors. Driving for Maserati, he took his fifth championship in the 1957 season, a record which would not be beaten for 46 years.

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With SOHC heads and no more than 330bhp, [note 3] the Repco was one of the least powerful of the new 3-litre engines but unlike the others it was light, reliable and available right from the start of the new rules.

Initially a standardised engine was proposed, but this idea was rejected by the teams, who came up with their own cost-cutting measures. litre engines (1962–1967) [ edit ] See 1962 season, 1963 season, 1964 season, 1965 season, 1966 season and 1967 season. com/en/formula-1-merchandise/formula-1-the-official-history-book/t-21989943+p-34913337724756+z-9-2101873575" on this server. The 1968 Matra's most innovative feature was the use of aviation-inspired structural fuel tanks but the FIA decided to ban the technology for 1970.