No one's going very fast
or far in F1 without some form of fuel
to power the cars
so let's take a look at what that is
today and how it got there
in the early days teams concocted their
own highly volatile mixtures of fuel
to get the biggest bang for their buck.
That was
soon banned from then on teams were forced
to use petrol
based on normal pump fuel.
In the early eighties
teams discovered it was faster to half-fill the tanks, race with a lighter
car before refueling at the halfway
point and racing to the end
that meant some frantic pit-stops to
get the fuel into the cars as quickly
as possible
that meant fires and that soon got banned. With no mid-race
refueling teams were back to
filling up the cars before a race
they forged alliances with oil companies
and of course the FIA kept a very close
eye on what they were up to
eventually it was decided in the
nineties that refuelling should come back
to make the show
more exciting. Rushing to get fuel into
cars was again
Deemed too dangerous and so eventually it got
banned
again in 2014 F1's gone
all green, well, not quite green but definitly super
efficient cars now use a third less fuel than
last year
but go just as fast so now when talking
about
F1 feel we're no longer just talking
about this
a big chunk of what makes these cars go
around in 2014
is now this too
