Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Formula One Racing World
Summary from United States, from articles in English
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Unlike Nascar, which keeps the field evenly matched by restricting what race teams can do to their cars, Formula One is all about fine-tuning the vehicles. (article 4)
There are a few general regulations (called the formula), which dictate things like the number of cylinders an engine can have and the car's maximum length. (article 4)
The top teams - which have thousands of employees - can blow more than $400 million a year trying to make their cars go a few milliseconds faster. (article 4)
Every aspect is aerodynamically designed, from the body to the driver's helmet, and the cars can go from 0 to 100 mph then come to a complete stop, all in less than five seconds. (article 4)
Alain Prost learned this the hard way in 1991 when he essentially said that his Ferrari was driving like a truck. (article 5)
It was June 2007 in sleepy Surrey County, and Coughlan sauntered through the door of the shop holding a sheaf of 780 pages. (article 1)
Surrey is McLaren country, just down the road from what locals call the Spaceship, the futuristic, top-secret, half underground headquarters of the McLaren Formula One racing team. (article 1)
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Story keywords
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Ferrari, Stepney, McLaren, Coughlan, Dennis |
Source articles
- Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Formula One Racing World (Wired, 06/03/2008, 569 words)
- Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Formula One Racing World (Wired, 06/03/2008, 827 words)
- Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Formula One Racing World (Wired, 06/03/2008, 576 words)
- Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Formula One Racing World (Wired, 06/03/2008, 1002 words)
- Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Formula One Racing World (Wired, 06/03/2008, 971 words)
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