The Incredible Evolution of F1 Steering Wheels
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F1 steering wheels have come a long way. They used to be just for turning the car but now they are SO MUCH more.
But how did we get from massive wooden steering wheels to sculpted carbon fibre units with more computing power than your laptop?
Let's walk through the steering wheels from every era or F1.
It may seem funny to us now, but wheels weren’t the first choice by car manufacturers for the apparatus to turn their vehicles. They started off with a lever that looked like a joystick you would play video games with in the 1990s (if you can remember that).
Luckily, they thought of a different way of doing it and the steering wheel was born. There was nothing flashy about the