Quote Originally Posted by Muirenn View Post
You mean that tires contact the road in a much greater surface area than a bicycle tire?

Actually,...English, please?
There's a good picture of the cars here.

http://www.formula1.com/content/fom-...ed-podium.html

I think there must be something more solid in the part above/behind the driver's heads, which is there for safety reasons. I've seen the driver walk away unhurt after his car flipped upside down and then bounce rightside up again. Whatever is in there, the car did not break apart from the impacts.

Anyway, as I said before, they have different requirements and budgets in mind when they make the carbon for these cars vs. mass-produced bike frames. I can't find the link to it, but I recall BikesnobNYC writing about his carbon road bike cracking pretty easily, from hitting against a lamppost or something similar.