How are cockpits drained of water?

[RAF]

Stupid question but...
When it's raining, how do they stop the cockpit of an F1 car filling up with water? Do they have drainage holes?

[Manoah2u]

http://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewto ... f=1&t=6362

not a stupid question, but has been asked before.
typed 'f1 cockpit drain' in google and this was the 1st link, right here.
not that i mind putting this up here, but, despite it actually is a good question,
quite honestly, you could have done that yourself

[Jersey Tom]

That's actually a pretty good question. I'd have to assume so.

[RAF]

I did actually google " how do they stop the cockpit of an F1 car filling up with water" but nothing came up.

[Manoah2u]

I did actually google " how do they stop the cockpit of an F1 car filling up with water" but nothing came up.

lol, i can imagine that sentence putting up some difficulties, yes

[marcush.]

first of all -has anyone of you guys ever driven his Roadster in the rain? It´s not like the car is filling up with water .a formula 1 car usually is driving at considerable Speed ..so the Problem is mainly on the grid at standstill -they got umbrellas and bodyworkcovers for that..

[Kiril Varbanov]

http://mythbustersresults.com/car-vs-rain

There are 5 parts of the video in Youtube.

[fasterthanyou]

first of all -has anyone of you guys ever driven his Roadster in the rain? It´s not like the car is filling up with water .a formula 1 car usually is driving at considerable Speed ..so the Problem is mainly on the grid at standstill -they got umbrellas and bodyworkcovers for that..

I do drive my imaginary roadster sometimes but physical simulation in my imaginary world is not up to the standard.

[Jaap]

Because of the aerodynamics, there is no airflow going into the cockpit. So there is no rain going into the cockpit. However, when the cars are standing still, because of a red flag or something, they dry it with towels because some rain still collects.

I'm sure they don't have a cockpit drain because it would be terrible for the aerodynamics

[Skippon]

The tub doesn't have drain holes as such - but then neither is it sealed in.
It'll get wet inside if stationary!!!
Then there are some apertures where the electrical harnessing etc passes through........

[flattyre]

I'd imagine that both the heat in the cockpit and the airflow from the vent on the front of the nose would help the cockpit to dry out. Are the drivers' overalls waterproof? I doubt it, because they'd need to be able to perspire. Some water might get absorbed into that...

As said before, any drainage would probably be awful for aerodynamics, so I doubt they have any of that.

[Trocola]

My question is

What happens with the water that goes inside the air intake? That can't be very good for the engine

[Manoah2u]

My question is

What happens with the water that goes inside the air intake? That can't be very good for the engine

works the same for any car any engine out there. first of all there's an air filter so water is never 'flooding' in anyway,
and besides that, it isn't neccesarily bad. first of all there's always an amount of humidity when air enters an engine.
apart from that, water is actually in certain cases beneficial, ever heared about water injection? the result is engine cooling,
finally, the amount of water entering the intake is minimal - so it really won't affect so much at all.

[Richard]

From personal experience, you don't need to drive too fast to avoid rain getting in the cockpit of an open car. Also from personal experience, you don't need to drive fast to get drenched when there's a hole in the floor. So I'm sure the teams would be more worried about water getting through the floor into the electrics.

Anyway, drivers talk about getting drenched in sweat in every hot race, so a few drops of rain in damp races shouldn't bother them?

[WillerZ]

Holes in the floor are banned by the rules; if they weren't everyone would use the "drainage holes" to feed the upper-deck of a double-deck diffuser.