High Hardness Tungsten Heavy Alloy Counter Balance Weights Machined
Easily
Tungsten heavy alloy tungsten counter Balance Weights ASTM- T-21014
What is Formula 1 Racing Car?
A modern Formula One car is a single-seat, open cockpit, open wheel
race car with substantial front and rear wings, and an engine
positioned behind the driver. The regulations governing the cars
are unique to the championship. The Formula One regulations specify
that cars must be constructed by the racing teams themselves,
though the design and manufacture can be outsourced.
As this type of car needs very high speed to win in the
competition, this requires not only the excellent performance of
the professional racers, but also requires wonderful capability of
the formula racing cars.
Reasons for Choosing Tungsten Alloy as Counter Balance Weights in
Formula 1 Racing Cars
As this type of car needs very high speed to win in the
competition, this requires not only the excellent performance of
the professional racers, but also requires wonderful capability of
the formula racing cars. The most important thing to top speeds are
in practice limited by the longest straight at the track and by the
need to balance the car's aerodynamic configuration between high
straight line speed (low aerodynamic drag) and high cornering speed
(high downforce) to achieve the fastest lap time. During the 2006
season, the top speeds of Formula 1 cars were a little over 300
km/h (186 mph) at high-downforce tracks such as Albert Park,
Australia and Sepang, Malaysia. These speeds were down by some 10
km/h (6 mph) from the 2005 speeds, and 15 km/h (9 mph) from the
2004 speeds, due to the recent performance restrictions (see
below). On low-downforce circuits greater top speeds were
registered: at Gilles-Villeneuve (Canada) 325 km/h (203 mph), at
Indianapolis (USA) 335 km/h (210 mph), and at Monza (Italy) 360
km/h (225 mph). In the Italian Grand Prix 2004, Antônio Pizzonia of
BMW WilliamsF1 team recorded a top speed of 369.9 kilometers per
hour (229 mph).
Tungsten Alloy Counter Balance Weight from Zhuzhou Jiabang
Tungsten heavy alloy (WHA) counter balance weight of racing car is
now becoming the most popular material for ballast, due to its main
advantages as follows:
Highest density
Adding WHA counter balance weight into the whole framework of a
racing car is helpful to optimize the performance of the racing car
during the racing progress, which contributes to the better control
of the car’s movement.
High tensile strength and good creep resistance
Tungsten has high tensile strength and good creep resistance with a
high mass/size ratio, so it will be the ideal to work in a
restricted space. Its high density also gives enhanced sensitivity
by increasing the control of load distribution.
Machined Easily
WHA is also easily machineable which gives designers greater
flexibility in deciding on the final shape of components and offer
counter balance weight designers several advantages over
conventional counter balance weight materials e.g. lead or steel.
Tungsten heavy alloy is becoming more and more popular for counter
balance weight, balance weights for flywheels, ballast for F1
formula car, racing weights, dynamic balancing, etc. It is the best
material of tungsten alloy for the counter balance weight, and has
been widely known and applied.
