Why This F1 Car Has FOUR PEDALS
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This F1 car has two brake pedals - and one of them didn't just slow the car down…
As always in F1, there is a VERY thin line between cheating and innovation. And one of my favourite examples is McLaren’s genius ‘Brake-Steer’ system.
The system was so clever it was banned.
This is the fascinating story of how McLaren outwitted the F1 world with £50 worth of tech , how Hakkinen and Coulthard had to change their driving entirely, and how this technology was so ingenious - it was banned.
In 1996, McLaren chief designer Steve Nicols was trying to figure out how to make his McLaren quicker.
The tyres at the time were a bit bizarre. Compared to today’s cars (where the rear tyres a