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This Amazing Timelapse Shows You Just How an F1 Car Is Built

Have you ever wondered how an F1 car is actually put together? Slotting the whole structure, gubbins, guts, and gears together like a massive jigsaw puzzle? Watch Marussia build its F1 car for this season from start to finish. It's like the best Lego project you've ever seen, but real. Read More >>

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This is the Ferrari F1 Simulator Alonso Uses to Practice

When you think of the best of F1 drivers, you kind of assume that their prowess on the track is god-given, and while you might be right to some extent, they certainly practice, a lot. This is the very simulator that Ferrari built for Fernando Alonso, and apparently it can even be programmed to teach him new tricks. Read More >>

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Of Course Formula One Drivers Stay Fit With a Car-Shaped Exercise Machine

Professional race drivers spend hours in a car battling excessive G-forces, and so require just as much training and physical fitness as an athlete running up and down a field. But their needs are specialised, which is why Ferrari F1 drivers Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa use this racecar-shaped workout machine from Technogym. Read More >>

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Why Yes, It Is Possible to Change All Four Tyres on an F1 Car in 2.05 Seconds

Next time you go to your local tyre shop, demand a 'Mark Webber change', just like this. During the Malaysian Grand Prix last month, the Red Bull team managed to break records. Not with the fastest car or anything like that, but with the fastest pit stop, where all four wheels are changed, ever made. In just 2.05 seconds. Incredible. That's barely enough time to stop a car, let alone anything else. Read More >>

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For the First Time Ever You Can Watch F1 in 3D

F1's only really gone HD recently, but now Sky's pushing the boat out with a full-on 3D broadcast of the pinnacle of motor racing for the first time ever. Between February 28th and March 3rd, you'll be able to watch all four test days from the third F1 test at the Circuit de Catalunya, if you've got Sky that is. Read More >>

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These Are the 2013 F1 Cars

Another year, another F1 season, another set of four-wheeled carbon-fibre lust machines. This is basically just brazen automotive porn, but who cares? Click through to see some hot-and-heavy hardcore rear spoiler action. Read More >>

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This Is the Gorgeous New McLaren F1 Car

McLaren has just taken the wraps off its brand new 2013-season F1 car, the MP4-28. It's a beauty, but will it win races? Both Jenson Button and McLaren's new-kid-on-the-block Sergio Perez seem to think so. Read More >>

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You Can Now Buy This Insane-Looking Six-Wheeled F1 Car

The radical 1976 British Tyrrell P34 F1 racer, sporting four wheels at the front and two at the back, has gone up for sale. The expected asking price? Just £750,000. OK, maybe you and I can't actually buy it, but Richard Branson probably could. Read More >>

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Watch an F1 Driver Get Lost Right in the Middle of a Grand Prix

The final race of the F1 season was this weekend just gone in Brazil, and it was an eventful one alright. Rain, crashes, spins, wins, and, err, Kimi Raikkonen getting lost right in the middle of the race. Yep, lost on a closed track. Impressive stuff. Read More >>

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How Do You Perform the Perfect F1 Pit Stop?

These days, pit stops can make or brake a race. Hell, four wheels, some minor wing adjustments, and even a steering wheel change, can all be completed in under three seconds. But that's only possible using the latest tech, materials, and some serious organisation. Here's a sneak peak into what happens in that crucial three seconds. Read More >>

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Prepare For F1′s Return to the US This Weekend With These 50 Must-Follow Twitter Accounts

America's brand new F1 circuit sees the limelight this weekend, as Formula One takes to the just-finished Circuit of the Americas in Austin, marking the first US F1 GP since 2007. It should be quite a circuit, if the "greatest hits of all F1 circuits" quote is to be believed. To help you get closer to the action, Jalopnik's compiled a list 50 must-follow Twitter accounts for exhaustive, behind-the-scenes coverage of this weekend's race. Check it out: [Jalopnik] Read More >>

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Got £90,000 to Burn? You Need This Truly Awesome F1 Simulator In Your Life

What you're looking at here is the ultimate F1 simulator money can buy, which is about as close as you'll probably ever get to driving the real thing. You sit in a full-sized F1 car, surrounded by three 23-inch screens and enough speakers to blow your ears off. It's so good, some 'clients' are even using it for race prep. Read More >>

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Did You Know Supercomputers Basically Power Formula 1?

Have you ever wondered how Formula 1 teams improve their cars, from minor tweaks to full-on design revolutions? A supercomputer is behind it all. Well, there are teams of guys who do the simulations, of course, but the 40 Tflop computers do the crunching. Here's what they look like and how it all works. Read More >>

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This is What It Looks Like When Drivers Race Each Other Right Off the Road In a 180MPH F1 Car

For anyone who didn't see the Italian grand prix this weekend, we saw some seriously insane skills from Fernando Alonso, handling a car hurtling along at 180mph, on the grass, mere centimetres from the side of Vettel's illegal manoeuvre. It was genuinely a heart-in-mouth moment, but it's not the first time. These two have history. Read More >>

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This Is What a Formula One Car Looks Like Cut in Half

Every wondered what's actually inside those sleek, carbon fibre-covered racing machines? Wonder no more, Sauber's giving you a glimpse inside one of its actual racers with this full-length car cut away, which took two whole years to painstakingly slice in half. Read More >>