TNN | 5 hrs ago|F1 racing isn't a job for clock-watchers. Sometimes drivers work 15 hrs/day at the racetrack. 
TNN | 6 hrs ago|Did you know that F1 drivers possess the most finely-tuned bodies in world sport - fitter than footballers and leaner than athletes?TNN | 18 Oct 2011, 21:59 IST|It would surprise you that the fuel an F1 car runs on today is surprisingly close to the composition of ordinary, commercially available petrol. It was not always so. TNN | 18 Oct 2011, 21:47 IST|As head and neck trauma is the greatest single risk of injury to race drivers, helmets have to be light, strong and impact resistant. Current Formula One helmets are massively strong, and weigh approximately 1.25 kg. TNN | 18 Oct 2011, 21:31 IST|An ordinary car tyre typically has a life of 25,000 km or more. A Formula One tyre is designed to last for, at most, 200 km. TNN | 18 Oct 2011, 21:18 IST|The suit needs to be light and breathable, to allow the several kilos of sweat produced by the driver to escape. TNN | 7 Oct 2011, 05:42 IST|Where the driver sits in the car is called the cockpit. The cockpit is part of the 'heart' of the modern Formula One car, the 'monocoque' (French for 'single shell'), or 'tub'. 
TNN | 11 Oct 2011, 06:00 IST|The HANS system consists of a carbon fibre shoulder collar which is secured under the driver's safety belts and connected to his helmet by two elastic straps.TNN | 12 Oct 2011, 06:20 IST|The engine of a Formula One is perhaps one of the most powerful and stressed pieces of machinery. Modern F1 engines owe little except their fundamental design of cylinders, pistons and valves to road-car engines. TNN | 13 Oct 2011, 05:48 IST|Formula One cars have gears, just as regular road cars do. But as is the case with anything in F1, it's all highly advanced. TNN | 15 Oct 2011, 07:01 IST TNN | 14 Oct 2011, 06:41 IST 
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