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2. Rudder for Formula 1 driver serves not only to fulfill its primary function - change of direction of the machine, and, in fact, is the main center of the machine control.
He concentrated all the control switches and toggle switches, which we used to see in our road cars scattered across the dashboard.
Location of Controls on the steering wheel depends on the characteristics of the machine, and the preferences of the pilots of the team, so that different handlebars not only all the team, well, and often the racers, as wheel each team develops considering its specificities and preferences of a pilot (perhaps with the exception of small teams with limited budgets).
Most often used buttons located at the top of the steering wheel and a large LCD display, which appeared on the wheel with this year - so that pilots could easily get to them thumbs. This is where almost all the handlebars you can find the buttons rev limiter in the pit lane, radio, and DRS and ERS. For the latest on the steering wheel there are usually a few switches responsible for the accumulation and energy return.



3. In the example steering Fernando Alonso in the team Scuderia Ferrari tell exactly which button is responsible for what.
Unlike other rudder command, the Ferrari no control buttons DRS and ERS. They, like Red Bull, arranged on two additional lobes on the reverse side of the handlebars.
The biggest switch in the middle of the steering wheel - multi-MF, which controls the basic parameters of the differential.
Around the MF-switch located four smaller - switch control engine torque TRQ, engine speed STRAT, fuel mixture FUEL, ERS-charge level of the system when the system consumes or generates energy SOC.
Radio button on the left from the bridge, control oil flow.
Downstairs on the handlebars attach three switch. BO - mode «Burn out» to warm tires. START, when the pilot must be enabled at the start, and WET, if the track is wet.
About the display at the top of the button and neutral transmission speed limiter in the pit lane P, aokrug who made small well that the pilot did not accidentally clicked on it



4. The rudder is attached to the steering column using cunning attachment which is both a communication port with all the electronic systems.
Steering wheel in the car is not worth all the time, but on the contrary, it is set only after the driver sits in the car and he takes off his rider before leaving the cockpit. Otherwise, he just can not get out of it.



Handlebars are usually made from carbon fiber, aluminum, titanium, steel, rubber and plastic. Weight steering is 1-1, 5 kilograms. Collect one steering takes from 90 to 120 hours. In an average season, the team produces the order of 8-9 rudders for one pilot. One wheel can cost up to 65 million euros per season, and the teams they spend, on average, from 315 000 to 325 000 euros for a single pilot.

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