WINNER for Best Temporary Exhibition Design in the 2007 Design Week Awards.

Thrilling, seductive and addictive, Formula One is among the world’s most popular sports. Formula One is also an intensely secretive industry that invests hundreds of millions of pounds every year on design and technology – with £500 million spent by the racing teams to optimise their engines alone.

For the first time the public could discover the design innovations at the heart of the sport in the Design Museum exhibition featuring iconic cars and compelling deconstructions of F1 technology. An F1 car consists of over 10,000 components requiring 4,000 drawings and accuracy to within a tenth of a millimetre. As well as exploring the history of F1 design, the exhibition explored how billions of pounds have been invested in design and technology in order to make the cars ever faster and safer.

Formula One - The Great Design Race was on tour at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery in 2008 and National Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington earlier this year.
To book this exhibition please email: touring@designmuseum.org

The Design Museum’s exhibition Formula One™ - The Great Design Race is sponsored by Intel.

Young visitors to the Formula One exhibition were invited to design a ‘Racing car of the future.’ The response was overwhelming and choosing the winners was a difficult task. Click on the PDFs to see the winning entries.