Why are F1 steering wheels expensive?
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- čas přidán 30. 05. 2024
- This Formula 1 steering wheel costs over £30,000 and with good reason, as it’s the most important component of an entire Formula 1 car.
Not only will the driver use this to steer into and out of corners, they’ll also have control over hundreds of different settings to make sure their car is always performing at its best out on-track. Here is how they do it.
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Every Formula 1 steering wheel is custom made for the person driving the car. It is hand-built using a carbon fibre structure for the core.
Like the rest of the car, it is very light but also very strong, and can handle all of the forces that both the car and driver place on it during a race.
A Formula 1 steering wheel contains over 20 points of control for the driver to modify throughout a race.
These are a combination of military-spec buttons, rotary switches, dials, and the paddles on the back of the wheel too.
On top of this there’s a large display and three arrays of LED lights to quickly give a driver the information they need.
A team will make around 3 wheels per driver at the start of the season, and may add more as the design gets updated throughout the races.
This, combined with the materials, safety requirements and the customisation of each wheel, results in one that takes up to 5 weeks to assemble, and costs over £30,000 to produce and set up.
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Research & Sources:
Formula 1 Steering Wheel Tour with Carlos Sainz - @Ferrari
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Valtteri Bottas explains 2019 Mercedes F1 Steering Wheel - @MercedesAMGF1
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F1 Explained: The Steering Wheel - @Formula1
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How does an F1 Steering wheel work? - @drive
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How an F1 Steering Wheel is Designed & Tested - @drive
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Mercedes-AMG F1 W11 EQ Performance Steering Wheel (2020) - @AmalgamCollection
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ClubSport Steering Wheel Formula v2.5 X - @Fanatec_Official
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F1 steering wheels are incredibly complex 🤯
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Love the way one steering wheel is worth more than a brand new 2022 car, and when max gets pissed he just chucked it out of the car like its nothing lol.
Look up Rubens Barrichello. Chucked it at Casino Square at Monaco, few cars hit it, it ended up near Swimming Pool half a lap later.
That "click the like button" plug was smoooooooth
Ha, indeed.
This channel is really underrated. I learned rallying and formula e from you man.
The effort you are putting into these videos are massive
Hoping to see you back in action mate!
Cheers
I had no idea it was this complex, very enlightening, thanks!
Glad you liked it 🙂
There's a big gap between sim racing wheels and real wheels but it's getting a lot closer these days. Fanatec for example have started making wheels that you can use both in your sim and in the real race car. That's pretty cool.
I don't know why you rewrote the radio button description, the first one was perfect!
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This is a very good in depth video. Very well done, there was alot that I didn't know.
Thank you, researching this one was fun 🙂
another great video PJ. wonder how much money Williams saved not having their screen on the wheel? and 10 meters of cable was very surprising, id assumed it would just be some massive circuit boards inside!
It's a combination of boards and wiring, based on the videos I've seen. if you check the Aston Martin video in the description you'll see one opened up.
As for the screen, having it on the chassis means less inertia and weight in the wheel, but it also makes it trickier for the driver to get in/out.
Mercedes in one of the source articles said that the screen and electronics was the most expensive part of the materials.
I was searching for this for so long and one of my favourite sim racing youtubers did it!
Thanks 😀
Most of the explainers I saw only went into the buttons, but the way these are built is impressive too.
Another Great video im a big fan of this type of content :)
Thank you 😀 These videos are hard to make but I'm still learning.
That's wild how much wire is in those wheels! Great video
All those buttons 😯
I love the design of the Williams wheel
I wonder when they’ll go to an integrated LED panel. I get the feeling it’ll happen eventually.
Great video!
Thank you 😀
Good question
Never seen a youtuber do a video about how to change brake bias and diff during race or quali lap.. Would be very interessting to see you do one for us.. Plz PJ ☺️
Good idea 🙂
Do you remember Hamilton’s steering wheel change in a race? Can’t remember what race it was or even when, but a fault meant he had to switch it out during a pit stop. Didn’t lose much time for it aswell.
India 2012! They changed the steering wheel as fast as the tyres.
@@PJTierney Yes India! I knew it was in Asia cause it was a really hot race I remember. But yeah, they’d practiced for it before hand but still really impressive
Steering wheel wrc please
If I can get my hands on a real one that would be a good video 😀
feels good to own a sim racing mercedes 1:1 wheel
I don’t think Amalgam’s model is functional, but a sim-racing version would be pretty cool.
Thrustmaster do make a Ferrari wheel based on the 2020 car though.
@@PJTierney yea i bought one from myles better design a long time ago and it’s basically a one to one merc wheel and the screen and buttons are all functional so yea
Nice 😀
I held the real Lotus wheel once (back in 2012), it weight almost nothing.
@@cornbaII I just looked him up, damn those are cool.
@@PJTierney yea i he used to make them but he stopped he’s gonna start making them again this may i think but it wasnt a cheap wheel lol it was $800 but i honestly think it’s worth it
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