Currently the car racing can be divided into two categories, namely venue racing and non-venue racing. Venue racing, as its name suggests, refers to the racing car to compete at a predetermined and closed venue. Venue racing includes drift racing game, Formula One(F1) racing, sports car racing, GT endurance race, the venue motocross, drag racing and so on. For F1 racing cars, it must be manufactured in accordance with vehicle technical rules issued by the Fédé ration Internationale del’Automobile(FIA), it is including the standards of racing cars’ body structure, length and width, minimum weights, number of cylinders, fuel tank capacity, electronics equipment, the working volume of engines, tires distance and size in all aspects and so on.

 

The racing cars at high speeds may cause its car body to lose balance, the aim to deliberately increase the counterweights of the car body is to resist the updraft of air resistance. It is the only way to better maintain the car balance at high speeds, because it is too difficult for the racing car to resist the updraft relies on its own weights. So in terms of F1 racing car, one of the most important factors for the racers to achieve success can be depended on distributing every pound weight of the racing cars evenly, besides, the racing drivers are also committed to pursue the perfect balanced counterweights of the racing cars.

 

The particularity of racing car designing requires its counterweights to be as small as possible in order to save space, it also means that designers must use high intensity and heavy materials to make the racing cars’ counterweights. Since tungsten alloy with a high density feature, so it’s often used as a tungsten alloy counterweight, and applied in racing in order to optimize the car's performance, so makes the racing car have a good balance performance and to be well controlled during the racing games. In other words, why apply the tungsten alloy counterweight in racing cars, the purpose is to increase the weights of the racing car chassis so that the car can make the body to maintain balance in the high speed driving. Current F1 Team engineers typically use "tungsten sheets" as counterweights to adjust the weight of the racing car, this tungsten sheets are very expensive, which basically cost about 40,000 euros per sheet.