I was reading that F1 drivers have to withstand really high temperatures consistently during a race and don’t have A/C. How come they’re hot if there’s wind coming at them really fast throughout the entire race?
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1. The drivers are in fireproof race suits and crash helmets. They don’t get the breeze.
2. They’re usually following behind a car that it putting off a lot of hot air from things like the engines and brakes. The brakes regularly get over 1,000°C during a heavy braking zone.
3. They usually take place when it’s hot out already. Most races take place in the middle of the day and during the summer or the warmer parts of the year. This is excluding a few races like those in the Middle East in the middle of the desert, they race when it’s cool enough to race. But its still usually very hot because it’s a desert.
4. They’re sitting right in front of the engine. The car gets hot because of that, and they only have the tiny hole at the top to let the heat out.
5. An F1 car is designed to be as fast as possible. They don’t care about driver comfort pretty much at all.
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