The future of F1 will debut this weekend. But back in 2015, a designer conjured up three concept cars to envision F1's future. Not only are they excitingly different, they're gorgeous:
a time when the racing world was ruled by savage beasts. They were captured just before the snowy season, when noble brave men had one winter to tame this creature. After months of championship battle, a handful of the best animals were kept for another winter of training, while the others were set free again."
F1 has problems. For one, it's horrifically expensive: Top teams like Mercedes spend hundreds of millions per year to stay in the lead, while those without the cash, like Caterham and Marussia, fall by the wayside. Second, the rules are so rigid, so constraining, that there's little innovation---a point Ferrari made as only Ferrari canThe upside is that while there are problems, there are also plenty of ideas for fixing them. A shift from open to closed cockpits, to promote safety.
The closed cockpit is the biggest and most fundamental change. It's an idea that's periodically suggested to improve driver safety, and van Overbeeke says he first considered design a car with a canopy in 2009, when, in the space of one week, F1 driver Felipe Massa suffered a concussion after being hit in the head by a loose spring, and 18-year-old Formula 2 driver Henry Surtees was hit in the head by a loose wheel and killed.
The front wings are less complex and delicate than those used on today's cars. The idea is to make overtaking other drivers easier---and thus make the racing more exciting: Today's front wings are incredibly sophisticated and designed to produce downforce, keeping the car grounded at huge speeds, Scarborough says. But if they get too close to another car, the changes in airflow upset the aerodynamics---so they have to trail farther behind, making it harder to move ahead.
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