Red Bull Motorsports
F1
Watch the life of an F1 bolt
Here’s how much effort goes into a single piece of an F1 car.
3 min
Red Bull Racing: The Life of a Bolt
See how a front suspension bolt is created before it makes it onto the Red Bull Racing RB12.
Red Bull Racing design, produce and inspect over a million parts a year and in a sport in which success and failure are separated in the smallest of margins, the pursuit of mechanical perfection is critical.
This is the story of a single bolt, RB12-FS-00663-02 to give it its official name, for Red Bull Racing’s 2016 F1 car, the RB12.
The RB12-FS-00663-02 may just be a humble front suspension bolt, but it's been conceived, built, tested and raced with every bit as much care and attention to detail as the front wing or the turbo.
Watch Red Bull Racing’s The Life of a Bolt in the video player above.
