A visual guide for complete beginners

Formula 1, explained from zero.

Every term is explained before you need it. Small animations show you what the commentators are talking about, one idea at a time.

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Part 1 · Chapters 01–02

How a race works

What happens across a race weekend, and the tyre strategy that so often decides it.

  1. 01Your first racePractice, qualifying, flags, safety cars and pit stops. Enough to follow a race on Sunday.
  2. 02TyresSoft, medium, hard, and the ones for rain. How rubber decides races.

Part 2 · Chapters 03–06

The field

Everyone and everything on the grid: the car, the teams, the drivers, and the tracks they race on.

  1. 03The carTake a modern F1 car apart, piece by piece, as you scroll.
  2. 04The teamsWhere every team on the grid came from, and what they’ve won.
  3. 05The driversWho is on the grid, how they got there, what the job does to a body, and the champions before them.
  4. 06The tracksEvery circuit on the calendar, in 3D, split into the three sectors the timing screen shows.

Part 3 · Chapters 07–09

Understand the driving

Why every corner is driven differently, what a car that won’t turn feels like, and how drivers differ.

  1. 07CornersHairpins, chicanes, esses and sweepers. Why every corner is driven differently.
  2. 08HandlingUndersteer, oversteer, and what a driver means by a car that won’t turn.
  3. 09Driving stylesLate brakers, smooth operators, and why two drivers can’t share a setup.