HOW PROPER POSITION PREVENTS POOR PERFORMANCE
Ergonomics, the study of how design features improve people’s efficiency in their working environment, isn’t a word often associated with motorsport. It is however a fundamental part of the process of designing a vehicle. It sits alongside packaging as the starting point for what is popularly known as the architecture of the vehicle.
The modern Formula 1 car is certainly a triumph of packaging. The complex power unit and all its associated systems are contained within extremely narrow confines so as to allow the engine cover and the diffuser ‘boat tail’ to be
