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Chassis
Monocoques, suspension geometry, safety structures — the engineering skeleton that holds everything together.
Component Profiles
- Component
Monocoque
The carbon fibre structural core of an F1 car. Simultaneously the strongest and lightest safety cell ever built for a land vehicle — designed to keep the driver alive in a 300km/h impact.
- Primary material
- Carbon fibre composite
- Bare weight
- ~35 kg
- Component
Halo
The titanium cockpit protection device that has saved multiple drivers from fatal injuries since its controversial 2018 introduction. A device that changed the aesthetic and safety standard of open-wheel racing permanently.
- Material
- Titanium alloy
- Weight
- ~7 kg
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