UNDER THE HOOD

HOW DO YOU DEFINE A CONSTRUCTOR?

Formula 1 is unique in many ways, but perhaps none more so now than the fact all its competitors are also constructors. It is unfortunate for engineering creativity that there is no other professional single-seater, open-cockpit, series that does not use standard chassis, but equally with this distinction present it is imperative that an F1 car remains the ultimate racing machine.

There have been many interpretations of this throughout F1’s history, and in the 1970s it came to a head as the ‘grandee’ constructors held the ‘garagistes’ in contempt. Enzo