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Race Car vs Regular car - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Designed for daily traveling, can not withstand hard punishments that race cars receive.
- - - - Engines are designed to offer maximum power and torques in higher rpms.
        
        Driving in a higher rpm is very taxing for the engine, the engine has to last the whole duration of the race.
- - - - Did not make the change in material
        
        Aluminum requires a slightly wider cable.
        
        Not suitable for short bend radius found in race cars.
        
        Do not have the reliability that copper does.
        
        Aluminum relaxes after a period of time, although it will still pass a current, the connection is not as strong, which is not enough for high intensity operations that is needed in race cars.
  - - - The length of wiring cable has increased significantly in the past few decades
        
        Early 90s: 5 meters(Certain models.)
        
        Today: Similar cars has 30 meters.
      - Material changed from copper to aluminum
        
        Reduces weight of the vehicle.
        
        This change is ideal for long straight paths found in road cars.
- - - - The aesthetics is not so important in a race car, because the car is born to race, its purpose and goal is to win the race, to have a faster speed and be safer for the driver, both the driver and the designer usually does not consider aesthetics as a very important feature of the vehicle.
    - - Compared to race cars, road cars has a much higher requirement on aesthetics, because drivers(customers) usually take the aesthetics of the vehicle as a very important part to consider when choosing a vehicle to buy, so companies(designers) are likely to make the vehicle aesthetically pleasing to make it appealing to the customers.
  - - - That safety requirements for race cars are much higher than road cars since it is build to survive harsh accidents.
    - - Safety is also an very important part of a road car, but they are not but for harsh accidents that race cars would experience, so
  - - - Less consideration on comfort.
- - - - You can see that the shape of most of the race cars are pretty flat, this is because if the car is big and high, the car is likely to be unstable when turning, so the driver will have to slow down, and slowing down is not what is expected in a race, so the shape is important.