A new exhibition looking at the evolution of Formula 1 opens in London this week as the sport celebrates its 74th year.
"Formula 1: The Exhibition", running at the Excel Centre, has six galleries that feature memorabilia from F1 best teams, state-of-art simulators that offer members of the public an opportunity to “get behind the wheel of an F1 car”, and seven legendary championship winning cars that include drivers Lewis Hamilton’s 2018 Mercedes AMG F1 W09 and Max Verstappen’s 2021 RB16b.
“So, the show has taken seven years to put together, and a lot of that time has been spent really building trust and relationships with different teams and personalities. It's almost been like a giant treasure hunt, if I'm honest with you,” curator Tim Harvey said in an interview with Reuters on Tuesday (August 20). “Piecing together examples of the sports innovations and engineering items, artefacts, interesting pieces that can support the wealth of stories that exist across the whole exhibition. But we now have nearly all of the Formula 1 teams contributing to the show.”
