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F1 engineering course

Don't just watch F1.
Understand it.

Commentators talk about dirty air, ground effect and deployment like you were born knowing what they mean. Paddock Pass teaches you — on a real 3D car you take apart with your fingers.

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How it works

Learn with your hands,
not a textbook.

No videos to sit through, no walls of text. Every lesson happens on the car itself.

01

Pull the car apart

Drag the front wing off. Lift the engine cover. Explode the whole car with a slider — down to the V6 hybrid's turbo and MGU-K.

02

Follow guided lessons

Each lesson steps you around the car — the camera flies to the part being explained, highlights it, and shows you why it's shaped that way.

03

Prove it & keep a streak

A short quiz closes every lesson. Daily streaks keep you coming back until race engineering finally clicks.

The course

Six chapters. One car.

A structured curriculum from nose to diffuser — built around the 2026 regulations, with a new lesson released every week.

C1

Anatomy of an F1 Car

Meet all 16 assemblies and learn what each one is there to do.

C2

Aerodynamics

Downforce, ground effect, dirty air — and the 2026 active aero X- and Z-modes.

C3

Chassis & Safety

The carbon monocoque, the halo, and how drivers walk away from 300 km/h crashes.

C4

The Hybrid Power Unit

Inside the V6, the turbo, and the 350 kW MGU-K that makes 2026 cars half-electric.

C5

Running Gear

Suspension, brakes, tyres — everything that turns downforce into lap time.

C6

Racing the 2026 Rules

Manual override, energy management, and how the new rules change racecraft.

F1 car at speed with aerodynamic wake trailing behind
Wind tunnel

See the air that sticks the car to the track.

Aerodynamics is where F1 is really won. A dedicated Wind Tunnel tab walks you through the invisible forces — downforce, drag, ground effect — and how teams chase them in the tunnel.

  • 01

    Downforce & lift

    Why an F1 car could drive upside down — and what wings really do.

  • 02

    Drag & DRS

    The price of downforce, and how the rear wing opens to cheat the air.

  • 03

    Ground effect

    How the floor and diffuser suck the car down at 300 km/h.

Pit stop

Two seconds.
Twenty people.
Zero mistakes.

The most intense two seconds in sport. A dedicated Pit Stop tab breaks down how a crew changes four wheels faster than you can blink — the kit, the choreography, and the strategy.

  • 01

    The two-second stop

    How four wheels get changed faster than you can read this sentence.

  • 02

    Wheel guns & one nut

    10,000 rpm guns and the single nut that holds each wheel on.

  • 03

    The choreography

    Twenty jobs, rehearsed thousands of times — every stop a race of its own.

Overhead view of a Formula 1 pit stop crew changing tyres
Inside the app

Built like a garage, not a classroom.

Race week

New content every Grand Prix.

When the circus rolls into town, a race-week module drops in the app: the circuit's corners and timing sectors, what the track demands from the car, and where the race will be won. It disappears when the chequered flag falls.

This week only · then it's gone
Grand Prix circuit map with sectors, corners and DRS zones
Get started

Sound like an engineer by Sunday.

Download Paddock Pass and start your first lesson today — no account required, you'll be pulling the car apart in minutes.

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