Monday, December 17, 2018

10 Amazing Facts About Formula 1 Race & It’s Cars

Do you know?

Formula 1 teams like McLaren, Ferrari, and Red Bull spend approx.  320 million USD per year. This spending includes Car Cost, driver cost, team management cost, and many other small extra costs.

Fact 1: The Formula 1 automobile racing is the highest class of single-seater auto car racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and owned by the Formula One Group. The “formula” in the F1 name refers to a set of rules that all participants need to follow.

Fact 2: The distance of a Grand Prix may not exceed 305 km, and no race may last for more than two hours.



Fact 3: The first motoring contest took place on July 22, 1894, and was organized by a Paris newspaper, Le Petit Journal.

Fact 4: F1 car is assembled with approx. 80,000 separate components.

Fact 5: An F1 car can accelerate and decelerate from 0 to 160kph and then back to zero in just four seconds.

Fact 6: A Grand Prix driver changes gears between 2,500 and 4,000 times in a race.

Fact 7: Only six women have entered a Grand Prix between 1950 and 2016, and the number of men entered in that period was 822.

 Fact 8: Susie Wolff is the first woman in 22 years to take part in a Formula One Grand Prix weekend during the 2014 British Grand Prix.

Fact 9: Racing tires are designed to last 90 – 120 km. Moreover, F1 car tires rotate approx. 50 times in a second when the car is running at maximum speed
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Fact 10: F1 helmets are among the toughest things in the world.


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Sunday, December 9, 2018

5 Things To Know About 2020 Porsche Taycan

Porsche Taycan is a first electric car that we’re expecting to arrive next year in the market. Here is everything that you should know about it.
Porsche stunned the world two years ago with the promise of launching its all-electric car. They promised the production of their electric car (Taycan) will start in the year 2020.

#1. It’s called as Taycan

Taycan pronounced as tie-con is a Eurasian word that means “lively young horse.”
According to Porsche CEO Oliver Blume, ”Our new electric sports car is strong and dependable; it’s a vehicle that can consistently cover long distances and that epitomizes freedom.”

#2. The price will be between the Cayenne and Panamera

According to Rober Meier, the model-line director of the Taycan, ”We are expecting a price somewhere between a Cayenne and a Panamera.” Cayenne costs approx. $65,700 whereas the price of Panamera is around $85,000. So, we believe Taycan base model will costs you around $75,000.

#3. It’ll Have Two Battery Capacity Options

According to the reports, Taycan will come with a choice of two battery packs of 80 kWh and another 95kWh. The bigger battery means the more horsepower.
Moreover, Taycan will have a battery cooling system. Porsche wants the Taycan to offer consistent, repeatable performance, and keeping the battery within an ideal operating temperature is essential for this.

#4. It’ll be the first of electric Porches

Porsche will invest approx. $8 billion by 2022 in electrification. The largest part of this investment will be towards Taycan and other cars based on the electric platform. The Taycan must be Porsche’s first foray into all-electric cars, but it won’t be its last.

#5. Taycon will be on sale in 2020

The Taycan is expected to go on sale sometime before the end of 2019 without any delays. The car will be launched as a 2020 model year car. Moreover, there will no surprise in seeing this car’s debut in production form at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2019.
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