The RB7 is unveiled.
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Started on April 10th 2011, 308 days after cutting the first part, after about 800 hours of designing and manufacturing of about 6500 single parts within 10 month. After converting 534 grams of paper, after hours and hours of studying pictures, books, technical regulations, after several hours of drawing, creating and designing parts, now, on February the 11th, 2012, all together results in a model of a great car, which won the 2011 Formula 1™ drivers as well as constructors championship. Created by a design team, located in Milton Keynes, UK, lead by Mr. Adrian Newey, Rob Marshall and Peter Prodromou, with an insane amount of the great british engineering excellence and many creative engineers.
My own RB7 is completely one-man handcrafted (except a few sponsor labels) by myself without using any CAD program or other computer help. A Formula 1 car made by compass and straight-edge construction – when you've seen that last time.
About a third of the building time, I spent with researching and analysing pictures, publications, any information which was available. Another relatively big amount of time I spent with drawing, creating and designing complicated parts, such as monocoque, bodywork or suspension geometry.
Anyway, the car is finished now. The only drop of bitterness is, that I wasn't able to built a fully closable engine cover. But the good aspects of the car let me overlook this.
I want to say thank you to all of my friends, fans and followers for your great exaltation!
Another special thank to some very helpful sources:
- Red Bull Racing Ltd.
- for designing that insane antetype for my model
- for their assistance of the Haynes Owner's Workshop Manual
- Renault F1
- for publishing great pictures of their RS27-2011 engine
- Haynes
- for their great work Owner's Workshop Manual
- McLaren Electronic Systems
- for the free access to the Formula 1TM standard electronic system data
- FIA
- for the free access to the 2011 technical regulations and appendix
- Craig Scarborough
- for his analysis of 2011 F1 technology on scarbsf1.wordpress.com
- the guys on f1technical.net - that means, you!
- who published and analysed many technical photos of the RB7
- wri2.net & sutton-images.com
- for taking interesting technical shoots of the RB7
Now, you can make you a picture of my almost endless work from the last ten month.
That's it from the RB7, I hope you've fun and I hope that I can "entertain" you also at my new project, the Audi R18. I'll post the link to the construction report here soon.
Cheers,
Paul
