What is the most important thing in Formula 1? It’s safety. That’s why engineers pay a lot of time to create strong monocoques made of carbon fiber. The first idea to use all-carbon-fiber monocoque belongs to McLaren team who firstly used it 31 years ago on the MP4/1. However it took years for teams to be able to make their own shells instead of using aircraft suppliers, the idea of carbon fiber innovations in the automotive world is tied to the sport.
In the video below Nico Rosberg with the help of a Mercedes F1 engineer tells us keypoint in making safety and light body for Formula 1.

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