An F1 Steering Wheel

karthik247 · 22nd October 2006, 18:52

Today, a steering wheel is a complex electronic device that allows the driver to control a vast amount of carsettings. The teams often assign one engineer that is responsible for its electronics and the design so that the drivers can use it comfortably. For that reason, today's handles of a steering wheel are anatomically formed and made of hard rubber that provides extra grip for the driver's hands. The main part of the wheel however is constructed, just like almost every car part, of carbon fibre to reduce its weight. The pieces used today have a pricetag of around € 23.000 each.

The manufacture of any part on a Formula 1 car is a complex process, and the steering wheel is no exception. Various lightweight materials are used for its production, including the before mentioned carbon fibre and rubber with aluminium, titanium, steel and plastic. A complete steering wheel can take approximately 100 hours to produce from start to finish.

With the average steering wheel controlling as many as 12 separate parameters on the car, there is a large number of components, buttons and switches that have to be fitted during the manufacturing process – some 120 separate items in all. Yet, despite the myriad of materials and parts that make up each completed wheel, the weight of the finished unit, as fitted to the car, is just 1.3kg

1. Pit lane speed limiter
2. Differential +
3. Engine push
4. Gear upshift
5. Traction control +
6. Engine push setting switch
7. Clutch lever
8. Traction control
9. Team info inlap
10. Burn out
11. Multifunctional switch
12. Lambda
13. Diagnostic
14. Wing angle info switch
15. Clutch
16. Differential selective switch
17. Team radio
18. Traction control -
19. Gear downshift
20. Engine break
21. Differential -
22. Neutral
23. Display page change

Source
http://www.f1technical.net/articles/30

swale84 · 22nd October 2006, 19:12

Thats a hell lot of controls to be bothered with when your doing F1 speeds!!!..BTW, do all teams have the same layout or is each layout
specific to one team?

rranjith_kum · 22nd October 2006, 22:41

yeah read an article on Autocar india 's supplement toyota-one aim
buttons include for bringing up drink for driver's mouth tooo....

22nd October 2006, 18:52	#1
karthik247 Senior - BHPian Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: BLR, HYD Posts: 2,710 Thanked: 30 Times	An F1 Steering Wheel Today, a steering wheel is a complex electronic device that allows the driver to control a vast amount of carsettings. The teams often assign one engineer that is responsible for its electronics and the design so that the drivers can use it comfortably. For that reason, today's handles of a steering wheel are anatomically formed and made of hard rubber that provides extra grip for the driver's hands. The main part of the wheel however is constructed, just like almost every car part, of carbon fibre to reduce its weight. The pieces used today have a pricetag of around € 23.000 each. The manufacture of any part on a Formula 1 car is a complex process, and the steering wheel is no exception. Various lightweight materials are used for its production, including the before mentioned carbon fibre and rubber with aluminium, titanium, steel and plastic. A complete steering wheel can take approximately 100 hours to produce from start to finish. With the average steering wheel controlling as many as 12 separate parameters on the car, there is a large number of components, buttons and switches that have to be fitted during the manufacturing process – some 120 separate items in all. Yet, despite the myriad of materials and parts that make up each completed wheel, the weight of the finished unit, as fitted to the car, is just 1.3kg 1. Pit lane speed limiter 2. Differential + 3. Engine push 4. Gear upshift 5. Traction control + 6. Engine push setting switch 7. Clutch lever 8. Traction control 9. Team info inlap 10. Burn out 11. Multifunctional switch 12. Lambda 13. Diagnostic 14. Wing angle info switch 15. Clutch 16. Differential selective switch 17. Team radio 18. Traction control - 19. Gear downshift 20. Engine break 21. Differential - 22. Neutral 23. Display page change Source http://www.f1technical.net/articles/30 Last edited by karthik247 : 22nd October 2006 at 18:53.
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22nd October 2006, 19:12	#2
swale84 BHPian Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Pune Posts: 459 Thanked: 9 Times	Thats a hell lot of controls to be bothered with when your doing F1 speeds!!!..BTW, do all teams have the same layout or is each layout specific to one team?
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22nd October 2006, 22:41	#3
rranjith_kum BHPian Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Coimbatore/ Aachen Posts: 693 Thanked: 20 Times View My Garage	yeah read an article on Autocar india 's supplement toyota-one aim buttons include for bringing up drink for driver's mouth tooo....
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