Making a single bolt for an FL car
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Making a single bolt for an FL car
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Re: Making a single bolt for an FL car
#2Insane? I've worked in F1, and seeing making this bolt doesn't sound extraordinaire. It's rather normal engineering technology.
There are far more interesting, extremely expensive, specialized engineering methods in F1.
Re: Making a single bolt for an FL car
#3Insane? I've worked in F1, and seeing making this bolt doesn't sound extraordinaire. It's rather normal engineering technology. There are far more interesting, extremely expensive, specialized engineering methods in F1.
Don't leave us hanging like that. Would you mind sharing an example?
Re: Making a single bolt for an FL car
#4"Behind every shit-talking, shade-throwing, sauna-enjoying DTS cast member is a small army of engineers agonizing over the literal nuts and bolts of the cars they pilot."
Re: Making a single bolt for an FL car
#5This looks like a “write 500 words about an F1 bolt but with zero research” puff piece
Re: Making a single bolt for an FL car
#6I might be missing something but this doesn't seem like an insane amount of work.
Re: Making a single bolt for an FL car
#7Insane? I've worked in F1, and seeing making this bolt doesn't sound extraordinaire. It's rather normal engineering technology. There are far more interesting, extremely expensive, specialized engineering methods in F1.
Don't leave us hanging like that. Would you mind sharing an example?
Maybe taking telemetry data and rider feedback to calculate ideal suspension settings, engine mappings, etc. In other words, putting the best possible car on the particular track.
Re: Making a single bolt for an FL car
#8Insane? I've worked in F1, and seeing making this bolt doesn't sound extraordinaire. It's rather normal engineering technology. There are far more interesting, extremely expensive, specialized engineering methods in F1.
Well, I think most bolts don't go through that extensive QA process in general
But yeah I agree this one is your run of the mill engineering, if only done for a part that normally doesn't see such testing (maybe in Aerospace and military applications)
It seems it's part of the suspension so it would be natural to be a part that has tighter tolerances
Re: Making a single bolt for an FL car
#9The video that "recently surfaced on Instagram" was uploaded to YouTube by Red Bull six years ago:
Re: Making a single bolt for an FL car
#10The video forces us to think that they turned on all the machinery to produce just a single bolt, which is unlikely to be true. They filmed a single unit from a much bigger batch. These bolts may have the same complexity of one used in a 737.