As buttons began to appear on an F1 steering wheel everything became very complex. Drivers are juggling lots of things mid-race where the press of one wrong button could have a detrimental impact.

There are dozens of buttons, switches and knobs on an F1 racecar’s steering wheel. Here’s an inside look at what they all do. Accessibility statement Skip to main content ...

F1 cars are some of the most complex race cars on the planet, and that includes their steering wheels. All of those buttons have important functions.

If you've ever seen a steering wheel from a Formula 1 car before, you'll just how wildly complex they are. Covered in buttons, rotary dials, switches, paddles, lights, and often, a big screen, it ...

Formula 1 drivers may be the stars in the cars but there is another super-brain in the cockpit - the steering wheel. Without these cut-out, carbon fibre discs, modern F1 drivers would be ...

Glancing at a modern Formula 1 race car's steering wheel reveals a very complex contraption, and it's just as in-depth of a wheel as it suggests. Mercedes-AMG, the reigning F1 champion, recently ...

The construction of a steering wheel is very important – both as fabric and as overall distribution of the buttons on it – as it adds up to the comfortability of the driver insidee the cockpit.

Slotted behind the car’s halo and set deep within its tub, F1 drivers have more than two dozen buttons, knobs, rotary dials, menus, displays, and LEDs to interact with on the steering wheel ...

Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 understands that confusion—and they’ve been so kind as to tell us how drivers somehow don’t screw up and press the wrong button mid-race. Latest News ...

F1 cars are some of the most complex race cars on the planet, and that includes immensely complicated steering wheels. What do those buttons actually do?