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chassis weight

Posted: 20 Mar 2006, 19:12
by on
Hi,
I have a some questions: :cry:
How mutch weight a monocoque of F1 chassis? :?:
And have a somebody here pictures of pruduction F1 monocoque chassis ? :?:
From how many parts is monocoque of F1 consist befoure finaly glue completation? :?:

Posted: 20 Mar 2006, 20:17
by Spencifer_Murphy
Well the weight of the monocoque is usually quite secret. Although Ferrari's F2003-GA was rumoured to weight as little as 440kgs.

With regards to pictures I cant help you there sorry. One of the other guys will probly have some info though! :wink:

Posted: 20 Mar 2006, 20:28
by scarbs
The monocoque or tub weighs arounf 70Kg, they are made from several major peices, most teams split the tun into upper an dlower halves, also some teams split the upper half into two. the other major piece is the seat back\bulkhead. often the rear bulkhead is made as part of the upper\lower halves. lastly the roll strucutre is bonded on.
Then teams have cosmetic panels to addon, such as the sidepod front, cockpit paddign surrounds and inlet snorkel.

Scarbs...

I have some images on my site...

http://scarbsf1.com/chassisconstruction.html

Posted: 21 Mar 2006, 01:23
by Spencifer_Murphy
There u go then. I never knew that. All i knew about the weight was the the F2003-GA was supposed to weight only 440Kgs without ballast.

But I didn't know the weight of the tub alone.

Thanks Scarbs!

Posted: 23 Mar 2006, 12:53
by DarkSnape
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Posted: 23 Mar 2006, 13:12
by m3_lover
allainz have been busting out a lot of good pictorials on their articles lately.