Ultra_Nexus

Semi Auto box has been surpassed by twin clutch now.

The brake materials for an F1 disc and a road car disc are completely different.

Carbon Fibre is, again, an aircraft industry trick.

KERS is a posh name for the hybrid trickery Honda/Toyota have had for years.

lower

Lots of technologies have their roots elsewhere but are developed by F1 into applications that are then converted for road use.

F1 and motorsport provides the conduit into the road car.

Bassoctopus

I'll remind you of your post

Subaru2000

It's a shame, in there second year, the team looked strong in the first half of the season. BMW then wrongly decided to look toward year 3 and cocked it up big sytle

BMW did a lot better than Honda,but in a much shorter time frame. Pity they've gone imo

Dembo

It's marketing, not technology. If you're a car manufacturer, it makes a lot more sense to associate your brand with an F1 team instead of say, a footballist club.

Ferrari are probably the only manufacturer that do benefit because their products are sports cars. Whereas BMW make repmobiles; Mercedes make luxury cars for rich people; Toyota and Honda make old people cars, and the least said about Renault cars the better. I don't know why any of those manufacturers though they'd get some benefit from their involvement in F1.

gaddafi

c'est la vie

no great loss to F1

Ultra_Nexus

So that's semi auto flappy gears.

That's nowhere near 1%!

Of course, as Dembo says, it's all marketing (bar Ferrari I suppose).