Why Do F1 Cars Spark?
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- čas přidán 9. 01. 2020
- Why do Formula 1 cars create a shower of sparks when racing at 200mph? What are the differences between the sparks in the 1980's and the sparks now? You've come to the right place to find out.
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80s sparks were made by the drivers steel nuts grinding over the track
Hahahahahaa that ones funny xD
Ouch
Probably brass with a special steel jacket.
Oof size: maximum
This one is really funny and True! You had to have balls of steel to drive these vehicles
How many times can we use the word sparks.
Matt: yes
@@phillipgonzales8732 Me: 14 times for spark sparks and sparkage...
Take a drink everytime matt said "spark"
Phillip Gonzales I counted 18
as many as sparkly possible.
This style of comment is played out
F1 fans: We like sparks!
Ferrari fans at Brazil 2019: Yeah ok we don't like sparks.
take my like
don't generalize my friend isso é evil
I haven't seen much f1 lately. What happened to Ferrari at Brazil?
@@Seb-Storm Sebastian and Charles crashed each other out, from a possible podium or 4-5, it was a double DNF.
@@Seb-Storm Oh and you can just search charles and seb, the f1 channel uploaded the video
“Race cars don’t need headlights because the track is always 𝐋𝐢𝐭"
-Lightning McQueen
So lit, they're on fire. Probably need some medics and firefighters for this.
Shut up nigga
“Just like my brother” I think the rust ez owner says
@@davester5234 "just like my brother but he still needs head lights"
"Bit of metal called Kevlar" Yeah pretty sure Kevlar is not a metal of any kind.
@@businessmail4929 i guess being salty fulfils your purpose somehow as well i guess?
@@bluehornet197 wrong guess.
Business Mail I don’t think knowing if Kevlar is a metal or not is smartass material.
@@silliussoddus1449 I dont think I asked you
Business Mail Are you a troll or are you genuinely this bitter?
95% of f1 fans already knew it but we all still watched because we need a dose of f1
Nope I don't I just wanna see who's complaining about such an obvious topic in these comments😂😂
Aditya Patnaik We’re like alcoholics in need of a drink. 🍺🍺🍺
Testing will be here soon
You should check out _James C._ He's been uploading lots of F1 clips lately
TRUTH!
com gelo e limão
One of the most visually pleasing things for an F1 fan... except from seeing Carlos Sainz on the TV
That's such a rare occurrence, you might as well not bring it up
Carslost Sainz
Ryan O'Keefe car lost Sainz
Carlost his way all the way to a Ferrari drive in 2021 you mean.
Who?
I've always had a question about this. Theoretically, these sparks are due to friction between the car and the track. Wouldn't this friction slow the car down by milliseconds perhaps? (Just curious)
100%
The friction is heavily outweighed by the downforce gain from being so close to the ground
@@Khorshedalam1992 truu
@@Khorshedalam1992 Yep, the friction may contribute to say 0.1% (not sure the actual value), buts the gains from the down force probably outweigh the friction by several times. Man, physics is my favorite subject.
Came to the comments looking for this Q & A. Thanks!
Use magnesium instead of titanium
Use fireworks instead of magnesium
@@keppycs magnesium would be more impressive
@@bluehornet197 okay, then use tnt instead
They used to make cars out of magnesium, a lot of people died
Yeah just make floors from tnt
Next video: why do F1 cars have engines?
Farhan Malek9 They don’t, they have power units
@@WTF1official
Next video: why do F1 cars have power units?
@@WTF1official which contains an internal combustion engine (ICE)
@@WTF1official They have ICU's
@@WTF1official Then why do F1 cars have ride heights? Next vid
It was definitely a spectacular sight to see when Indycars had sparks flying out from behind them for the first time during the 2004 Indianapolis 500. I recall that's the very first time the Indy 500 experienced something like that.
Newbie F1 fan here. Came into it mid 2019 season. This was really awesome. The sparks actually caused me some anxiety not knowing the cause. Honestly don't know why I watch with my anxiety levels sometimes. Never shouted at my TV so much haha. But this will atleast calm the anxiety over sparks since I now know the cause. Ace! 😊
I only started watching F1 because my favourite car company, Alfa Romeo, came back.
It's good to see new F1 fans. Who's your favourite so far?
Self obsessed mug
Keyword: anxiety
because they're low.
The end
El Pequeño Pene technically the truth
Well yes, but actually no.jpg
Unai Mendizabal Lekuona no. that’s literally why. it’s not technically the truth if it’s literally the truth
dirt nasty low
With the wooden plates, they were low and didn't produce sparks.
Since when did kevlar start getting called a metal?
I think it both started and ended with this video...
Only because the narrator is a clown who doesn't know basic science
@@kiyoponnn He's following a script you dumbass
Or sleep deprived like I'm most of the time, not much makes sense at times, stupid insomnia
He should've mentioned that was the reason they switched from Kevlar to metal was because of the sparks, Kevlar not being metallic and all that....
Drinking game: Take a shot everytime Matt says "spark"
I'm dead
@@alduin2418 Rest in Peace Brother
Drinking game: take a drink every time he says “sparks.”
The best way to get really drunk, really quick..
Great need a liver transplant..
I've been hospitalised
I'm dead, but miraculously came back
No, I'm not surviving that XD
Ask George what he thinks about Vettel sparking in Bahrain😂😂 well I love those sparks, because it makes it so awesome to watch races and espacially battles
I was wondering on this for a lot of time!
Thanks for the video!👏
I love seeing the slowmos that show the stresses in the wings, body and tyres when going over kurbs etc
Or when the cars jump over the kerbs,you can t notice that in normal speed camera
Great you’ve just reminded me of how much I miss F1 😢
Wpoooooo been waiting waiting ages for a vid ! Need to top up on some top F1 knowledge !
since you guys were talking about his overuse of the word “spark” here you go
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He said the word Spark 17 times, just to answer the Shot Challenge comments..
The “edited” was from me making each time 1 second behind so you can hear the word spark in its glory.
S P A A R C
You bro r the reason I look at yt comments
Deserved a like.
sad
Gotta have a lot of free time to do this
Wow how crazy. Thank's for sharing as I have been curious about this for sometime now.
Your content is top notch, in many senses. Please keep up the good work. Are there more such channels with similar depiction of content but on topics apart from F1?
Also, the DRS can cause sparks: With less downforce coming from the rear wing (when DRS is open), and the normal amount of downforce from the front wing it can affect the aero balance of the front and rear of the car as the ride height is lower in the front than the rear= sparks
Aled2187 you are right only if the skid blocks are in front of the front axel, but they are not.
Lies again? YALE NUS Expensive Education
interesting and visually cool..I knew lowriders out in California who'd weld a piece of titanium to the cross beam underneath the engine, forget the part name, but when they dropped the front-end sparks would shoot out about 30 ft.
Thank you for this video. I’m a new fan and I been wondering this since i started watching
yes! thank you, i've been wondering this since i got back to f1 after a 15 year hiatus.
Red Bull: sparks? Never heard of him before..
Also red bull: I’m going to fit extra big skid blocks to Verstappens car
What I like more than the sparks......when you can see the air coming of the rear spoiler....almost as if it was in a wind tunnel.....that shit blows my mind.....Usually only seen when there is High Humidity.....
Radio Active you know I like more than the wind in the wing.......The F****ING V12s
@@camillecirrus3977 it actually is fascinating when the air comes out of the rear spoiler it looks neat
This explains a lot, thank you!
Thank you for answering this question!!!
Mansell-Senna moment was so awesome, side by side at 300 kmph sparks flying, vapour trails from the rear wing, what a scene to behold.
I always wondered if excessive sparkage would cause the cars to slow down a little bit due to the friction.
I was always wondering! Thank you🙏🏻
Thanks for explaining.
Next video: “Why does F1 even exist?”
Clorox Bleach because yes?
BLASPHEMY
Research is where competition is .
Most cars in f1 have road going cars, f1 parts are the very best out there, all except redbull....so basically at some stage a performance part , either engine, back wing for supercars...like the super car that nearly killed the stig taking a corner at 150+..went spinning for ages, stig say's, put a wing at the back and it'll break the lap record, a week later , he did just that... Buy a lot...beating a Bugatti Veron to top spot...
Because 🗿 said so
Love them. It really gives the feeling of racing on the edge. I seem to remember Scalextric even introduced cars that sparked in the late '80s/early '90s!
Thanks, I needed that.
This video 'sparked' me to subscribe a year ago. Great content!
Everyone appreciate teams efforts for making faster cars year after year. But very few appreciate FIA for making races safer and cars faster
racing will ALWAYS have some element of danger involved..just look at the tragic events at Spa last season...freak accidents like Spa and Jules Bianchi's are a rare occurrence thank god but will always happen,it's just the nature of open cockpit racing..
Call ne old fashioned, nut I'm still awed in respect after a driver crashes at 180 mph and walks away 10 seconds later.
Correction,the FIA makes the cars more faster
@@thesucker2002 corrected!
@@alphawolf9990 lol thanks
Why do I still watch this even though I already knew the answer?
The cars were particularly sparky at Bahrain this year, I thought the desert dust was getting in the engines. Thanks for the explanation.
Nice explaination, Sparky!
"Why do F1 cars spark?"
"Because they hit the ground"
Duh
@@Bungle2010 except that it is...
we don't spark : the doctor
@@Bungle2010 you joking right
Bungle2010 ....what?
Bungle2010 they’ve always sparked since they started lowering the cars to get more downforce which was in the late 80s. are you stupid?
the red bull is so low it literally spark in any circuit
Nice and simple, thank you!
So LIT! That was ⚡️ some spark info!
"Use magnesium instead"
Mercedes: *heavy breathing*
**Says kevlar is a type of metal**
Me: lmao what?
Good video dude.😂👍
This video sparked my interest.
When it's the off season and you're struggling for content...
They struggle to provide anything of substance even when its the 'ON' season...
Adam Jackson harsh...but fair...
For F1, I still want to see flames out of the exhaust, like the F2 cars.
Great project 👍
That's the video we've all been waiting for :o
"Why do cars have wheels?"
lol
mos
Because if not italy woukd be called ytali
They dont have... They are flying duhh
"Maximise downforce" during the ground effect era 😂 cmon Matt
This video sparks joy.
I was searching this for years !!!!
US GP 2023
I thought it was because they filled the tires with fairly little air, say 15 psi in order to allow thermal expansion. In Stock Car Racing, waiting for the tire pressures to come up because of this thermal expansion is often referred to as “Letting the car come to you.”
Thanks for not stretching this vid
“Watching sparks is one of the best things in F1”...
Shows how boring the racing really has become.
Let’s hope the 2021 rules help change that.
Give me an example of an exciting racing series?? And I'll show u a spec series!
Then u wld cry about that too
@@darwinLee81283 Wipeout race series is pretty exciting!
I prefer MotoGP, I think it's more exciting than F1 on the basis that F1 seems to clinical, Le Man's is fricking awesome though but do appreciate the F1 tech
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Well this certainly aged well
F1 is truly unbelievable when it comes to burning money. There is always talk of cost cutting, etc, etc. But using a rare metal like titanium just to make sparks is pretty crazy. Between the 50 thousand pounds piston, five thousand pounds break rotor, all of it going to the bin at the end of the season, I sometimes wish F1 would truly get more basic and leveled, so we got back to a driver's championship and not a technology championship.
Titanium is not a rare or particularly valuable metal.
I have 3 sports bikes in my workshop.
All 3 have full Titanium exhausts fitted as standard and can be replaced for only a few quid .
Naw, heavy disagree. I love the extravagance that goes into Formula One. There is plenty of other types of racing where it is quite a bit more basic.
It’s F1, not GT4
I always loved watching it fly.
I think it looks (Spark)tacular.
2:51 that sauber livery was beautiful
Next: why do f1 cars have wheels?
Well F1 has become a bit dull and boring as of late, imagine how much worse it would be without wheels... The greatest Static Display Championship in the world!
Short answer: too low
Long answer: way too low
Correct answer: way too good
Just what I needed after this day to make it a bit better. Formula video + listening to the music I like (Delta Parole, Metallica and other) make me feel the speed and excitement!
30 years old and just became a fan in the last few months, glad I finally know why they do that, I was so confused haha
Its not a big deal I see Honda's do this all the time
Spock from Star Trek called and said stop saying his name so much.
May the force be with you Spock.
You can see that at Daytona with stock car racing when the car's get bunched up together high speeds at the start of the race when the air pressure on the tires are low.
Great explanation of something I hardly think about. I have honestly wondered if F1 was still using the legality plank anymore.
F1 car sparking
Ferrari fans: *visible frustration*
Watching in a red bull tshirt
And what do you see?
@@erikheijden9828 wings
@@erikheijden9828 redbull wings
I think sparks just make your car look broken.
One time I was driving down the freeway and hit a rather large bump, my muffler mounts broke and I started dragging my muffler and all I could see in my mirrors were sparks. Had like 900 more miles to drive that day too. I lucked out and found an S hook thingy on the side of the highway which I used to rehang the muffler, then my car wouldn't start. After waiting for AAA for a bit and knowing there wasn't any shops close enough to get a free tow to, we ended up push starting the car which worked. Had to push it up a small hill first. Made it home without any more problems after that though.
I knew about the plate put in, but not about the metal bits. Interesting!
Because metal hits the road.
The car is low.
I've saved you 10min
Bro it’s 3 minutes
@@ejguitar5452 exactly
Plot Twist: Heavy driver balls dragged on asphalt cause this effect.
I’ve always wondered!
more videos like this!
They spark because Marie Kondo made them so they 'spark joy'
Let’s be honest, nobody searched for this
I always thought the titanium bolts were places there to gauge downforces. Too many sparks meant you could lower the downforces a bit and not lose much performance. But I stand corrected.
So cool!
Do you guys react to comments?
Maybe...
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Hi, I have a suggestion for the halo upgrade if they are opting for a windshield they could go for a mesh type design to allow air flow in the cockpit
That's actually not bad
i love any short vid
The most visually pleasing thing for an F1 fan is onboard footage. Hope I helped.
Nice theme worry classic it's from the 80's , food job and personally I really like sparks
This video needed more info on what the underside of the car actually looks like. I knew there was a wooden plank there, but I didn't know anything about any metal blocks and I didn't understand how they're mounted or why.
I always wondered about the sparks
I'm so proud of myself. I figured they were bottoming out but didn't know it was because of fuel. Now, I will go forward and be an engineer or scientist. :D
Fun vid too!
Yes wtf1 is back
Brilliant!👏👍🙂🏎
I never knew these things spark (I am into racing and cars, but more into drag racing and drifting part).
Today I learned
Hi, I've seen some older races where there seems to be multiple knife edges jutting out from the bottom of the car and they seem to be retractable, and used for braking purposes, I could be wrong-not all seeing is believing but would be helpful if someone pointed out exactly what was happening is this regard. Looking forward to the answer.