Carbon Fibre in a modern Racing Car

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Racing cars used to be made of the same sort of materials as road cars -  steel, aluminum, and other metals. In the early 1980s, however, Formula 1 went through a revolution with the use of carbon composite materials to build the chassis.

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Today, most of the racing car chassis - the monocoque, suspension, wings and bodywork is built with carbon fibre. The material has four advantages over every other kind of material for racing car construction:

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    It is super lightweight.

    It is super strong.

    It is super stiff.

    It can be easily molded into all kinds of different shapes.