Formula one is one of the motorsports that requires the participants to be fast and precise to win.
The formula 1 cars are specially built with different features from regular sport cars. Evidently is the steering wheel which has different key functions.
The steering wheel is made of carbon fibre, fibreglass, silicon, titanium and copper.
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In a season each driver gets three to four wheels with each wheel taking about 80 hours to build.
A standard Formula 1 car steering wheel has a total of 25 buttons and switches with also the clutch and the shift paddles.
Five of the 25 buttons and switches are used to change the brake settings of the car. One of the buttons helps the driver shift the brake balance from the front to the rear or vice versa.
Among the five is a button that helps optimise the brake balance while navigating through corners. On the breaking setting, another switch helps change the amount of engine braking or adjust the brake migration.
On the wheel there are three switches that control the differential. The differential being the amount of torque transferred between the rear wheels.
The remaining buttons and switches have a wide range of purposes, from adjusting the settings of the Power Unit to changing the data that is displayed on the screen, activating the radio or the pit lane speed limiter among others.
One of the most used components of the steering wheel are the shift paddles around which are used about 50 times in a race.
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