Untold Facts/Stories of Past F1 Cars

I came across an interesting series of articles titled "My F1 Cars" on www.racefans.net. Didnt think there would be much interesting information but I was pleasantly surprised. If you have a few minutes to spare, I highly recommend them. The series only has two articles so far, but I'm looking forward to the futures ones. Here are a few quotes I found interesting to draw you in :D

On the topic of the 2010 HRT F110:

Quote:

'This is what we’ve had on CFD and in the wind tunnel, it’s going to be 60 points of downforce, that’s the real car.' And 60 points of downforce is two-and-a-half seconds, that would have brought us into sort of Toro Rosso territory at the time...

On the topic of the 2004 Williams FW26

Quote:

That car, at every corner it scared me. I was in awe of it. It was like, holy cow, this is a sensory overload like I’ve never experienced. And of course, you got the sound of 19,000rpm.

https://www.racefans.net/2020/04/10/...arun-chandhok/




On the topic of the 1992 Benetton-Ford Cosworth

Quote:

McCarthy was still feeling the after-effects of his ‘meetings’ when he got into the B192 the next morning. “They strapped me in and, I’m not kidding, my first few laps hitting bumps I was burping Heineken. Suddenly I’m in an absolute dynamite Formula 1 car and I’m slightly hungover from the night before.” ... “He [Scumacher] said ‘Bridge corner, I’m flat’. I said ‘No way’.” McCarthy took some persuading it could be done. “I’m coming up to that with my balls wrapped around my neck with a light tap on the brake, let alone a lift, a light tap on the brake and I’m coming through scaring myself.”

https://www.racefans.net/2020/04/02/...erry-mccarthy/