Aerospace bolts have rolled threads for high static and fatigue strength. That F1 bolt looks like it has cut threads.
Wow! I bet the engineers who work for the Red Bull F1 team have never heard that idea before. Why don't you contact them and let them know?
My mate works for Maclaren and makes bolts. They are rolled and x-rayed because they buy in their titanium from suppliers. That would have cost around £300 plus because the machines and time taken to inspect which drives the overall cost sky high!! A bolt failure is actually more expensive than a non critical part because of insurance calculations of the driver and not the car. You want to see what some gearbox parts cost to make!!! The engines are leased from the manufacturers and are not made by the competing racers so costs here cannot be read. Most of the F1 teams only make a small proportion of parts required for a complete car.
If the design is UK based, fantastic, if the manufacturing is UK based, fantastic. If the UK has involvement in it's development, fantastic.
If the Chinese then ,ass makes it, without the ego videos, then sell to the rest pf the world, fantastic. No, hold on a minute :flushed:
TBF to Red Bull and the vid makers,, it was prob the makers who included the laithe bit, not knowing anything about engineering or metallurgy ( i may be wrong tho )
tbh I love this kinda stuff, a) because its beyond my knowledge and b) because its a 'because we can' activity
Just an observation from their video. If they do indeed have rolled threads as PeterT says, then they should show that. Otherwise, the video is flawed as it does not represent reality.
Comparing a Harley to a superbike there mate! Nascars' are very primitive compared to F1, even the Euro/Asia junio feeder series has more performance than those tanks.
