About Me:
I have been watching F1 since I was in middle school and am a big fan of the sport. I really enjoy working with cars of all sorts and someday would like to work in motorsport. My favorite drivers are Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri. Max is the reason I got introduced to the sport: my Dutch family was very excited to have a teenage Dutch prodigy on the grid and I heard about it so much that I started watching races. I have not been to an F1 race in person yet, but I have attended Nascar, Spec Miata, rally, and sprint car races.
I have been watching F1 since I was in middle school and am a big fan of the sport. I really enjoy working with cars of all sorts and someday would like to work in motorsport. My favorite drivers are Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri. Max is the reason I got introduced to the sport: my Dutch family was very excited to have a teenage Dutch prodigy on the grid and I heard about it so much that I started watching races. I have not been to an F1 race in person yet, but I have attended Nascar, Spec Miata, rally, and sprint car races.
Production Statement:
The assignment for this project was to create a site that combines writing with integrated multimedia. We were given a lot of creative freedom and could take this project in any direction we chose. I decided to create a site about the parts and development of F1 cars since it is a topic that I am very passionate about. A lot of the sport can be very techincal and hard to understand for a casual viewer, so I wanted to make a more accessible breakdown of what the car parts do and why they are important. I also included a section about how the cars are developed both short-term and long-term and the regulations teams have to work under, since this can also be very confusing to someone without a motorsport background or who just got introducted to F1. I hope this site will also be helpful to people like me that were introduced to F1 at a younger age, since I often found the techincality to be quite boring because I didn't understand it.
Initially, I wanted to have the user just be able to hover over an image of a whole F1 car and have descriptions for the car parts to pop up over the single image, but this was very difficult to make responsive and since I was working on a deadline I decided to just use images of the different components with a description that appears when you hover over them. I realized that this might work better because you can look at each part directly, where if you were hovering over an aerial image of a car you wouldn't be able to see much detail on parts such as the steering wheel or rear wing.
For this project, I used chatGPT for the descriptions of each car component and for each topic listed on the development page, but edited them and ensured their accuracy.
Production Statement:
The assignment for this project was to create a site that combines writing with integrated multimedia. We were given a lot of creative freedom and could take this project in any direction we chose. I decided to create a site about the parts and development of F1 cars since it is a topic that I am very passionate about. A lot of the sport can be very techincal and hard to understand for a casual viewer, so I wanted to make a more accessible breakdown of what the car parts do and why they are important. I also included a section about how the cars are developed both short-term and long-term and the regulations teams have to work under, since this can also be very confusing to someone without a motorsport background or who just got introducted to F1. I hope this site will also be helpful to people like me that were introduced to F1 at a younger age, since I often found the techincality to be quite boring because I didn't understand it.
Initially, I wanted to have the user just be able to hover over an image of a whole F1 car and have descriptions for the car parts to pop up over the single image, but this was very difficult to make responsive and since I was working on a deadline I decided to just use images of the different components with a description that appears when you hover over them. I realized that this might work better because you can look at each part directly, where if you were hovering over an aerial image of a car you wouldn't be able to see much detail on parts such as the steering wheel or rear wing.
For this project, I used chatGPT for the descriptions of each car component and for each topic listed on the development page, but edited them and ensured their accuracy.
Sources for this project:
Images for this project are from Motorsport Technology, motorsport.com, Pirelli, RadioTimes, Tibco, Motorsport Technology, Pirelli, Motorsport Week, Popsci, Motorsport Week, Formula 1 Dictionary, Car Throttle, Wikipedia, Crash, and Racecar Engineering. Information generated using the help of chatGPT