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Race wise, Miami was not one of the best. If you want to watch two good races I would recommend the two most recent - the British GP at Silverstone and the Austrian GP at the Red Bull Ring. Both had some great wheel to wheel stuff.
I'd like to see Hockenheim back on the calendar. The last race there was amazing.
Silverstone was the best race this season.
The Brazilian GP 2021 was one of the best last season and it got nothing from drive to survive.
And fast hard Trak is Belgium
Miami is a terrible track
The other thing about F1 is the regulations , very very specific rules telling teams what they can and can't do, ride hight, wing widths, 100ltr fuel tank, break disk and pad size etc etc, but they all find a different way around these regulations to make it go as fast as possible. Some incredibly intelligent people.
Also during the Covid-19 pandemic, the UK had a shortage of medical ventilators, so an number of UK based F1 teams designed , developed and manufactured, new efficient ventilators for the NHS. Brilliant !
And put together, those regulations are the "formula" in Formula1
And they using the technology they already researched to do ventilators, imagine the efficiency of that
i hate when someone comes with innovation , gets few seconds of lap time and next year they ban it .
would love to see how it would look without some rules
This is one of my favourite parts, like some of these engineers could probably reschool to lawyers in a matter of hours - they're so creative to skirt around rules or through loopholes - It's amazing.
@@doposud I try thinking of it the other way, we get to see creative new things because some alot of innovations are banned, I do agree some are really stupid in their reasoning for banning others make more sense.
There have been times when 3 driver's had the same time down the 1000th of a second over a lap. 3 different drivers , 3 different teams, 3 different engines. That's when you know your on the limit. Simply amazing.
It have been 3 different drivers but 2 teams 1997-Spain GP in Jerez Jacques Villeneuve,Heinz Herald Frentzen were in same team and Michael Schumacher
*2 Teams
Williams and ferrari
F1 designing and engineering is all about finding what the (lengthy) rule book does NOT say.
The most visual exemple was probably the X-wings at some point. The FIA was trying to lower the amount of aero allowed, but they somehow missed a tiny spot in the middle of the car in their regulation. So obviously, the teams rushed to implement some crazy contraptions to add a little bit more of aero in that tiny spot that they missed.
A single F1 piston can cost £50,000. Last year a replacement front wing cost £150,000 and a gear box £750,000. Costs are staggering. The bit that amazes me with the engines is they are seized up when cold and need a "life support" machine to have hot oil pumped through to heat the parts up before the cars can be fired up.
Monocouque 1 500 000 -2 000 000 USD
@@supreme3376 the Monocoque is basically the chassis, as everything needs to be supported by it, plus it has to withstand all forces even during crashes. It's a quite cheap part for the amount of things it's supposed to do.
i thought it was the opposite; when you heat up the engine the metal expands. So the engine cannot be seized up; the cylinders/pistons needs heating to have any compression at all?
@@robertjansson72
You are correct that the metal expands. This is why the engines are so expensive. Certain part of the engine are made from metals that expand, while others from metals that don't expand as much. The tolerances are so small the pistons are seized inside the engine block. Fluid of around 80c needs to be pumped through to loosen them up before starting.
@@Gthornby The main issue when cold start is that you may induce uneven warming up. This would induce excessive wear as the tolerances these engines are build are very small. One common example is the piston which warms up way faster initially because the cylinders are water cooled, so the cylinder walls stay cool for longer than the piston, which would then lead to issues. The thing about the engine basically seized up when cold is actually BS. You can turn them over when cold no problem. You're just not supposed to start them.
They stopped F1 cars refueling during the race because there were a number of serious accidents while refueling. They want the pit time to be as quick as possible so safety was being put as a second and it was only a matter of time before someone was killed or seriously injured with the fires 🔥 that were happening
Refueling was banned until some point in the 90s, so this has been back and forth to some extent.
Every FIA decision of last 20 yrs went wrong for Ferrari.
@@unwokeneuropean3590 Or ferrari just went wrong.
@@rasmuswi It was banned last time in 2009.
How can someone fail to connect a fuel hose? I know they have to do it fast but... Come on. I don't understand.
4:38 kind of, but not really. F1 is basically competitive aerospace engineering. You could argue that NASA in the space race was kind of similar, but think of it more as if Boeing, Airbus, and Lockheed Martin decided to hold a contest to see who's plane is better. Not just the outright fastest, but also most reliable and most fuel efficient. F1 is basically a contest to figure out which team can interpret the rules (loosely sometimes) and create the fastest car. Aerodynamics, engine, electric hybrid deployment, chassis, and reliability are all pushed as far as the money will allow, in search of every thousandth of a second.
And don't think that driver skill doesn't matter. The driver is responsible for converting those theoretical thousandths into real lap times. A Mercedes is kind of pointless if you've got backmarker drivers driving them. The cars don't drive themselves. No TC or ABS, just a driver and over 1000 horsepower in a 900kg car.
As for cross-over technology during the pandemic here in Woking, Maclaren used their team to design a respirator for hospitals. They didn't have the manufacturing capacity but they worked out the parts which could be built by other people.
As a big European F1 freak it’s really cool to see new people get into the sport. Next year will be great for Americans. F1 will be racing in Las Vegas over the strip😱
Yeah for F1 to be really big it has to break it into the US market. And I think they will eventually with more races in the US and maybe Andretti getting a team. That Vegas race will be awesome to see especially for those seeing it in person but as far as the racing it would probably be just okay but the stage and atmosphere it will be outstanding. Maybe comparable to Monaco where the race or racing is nowhere near a regular circuit but the atmosphere and stage makes it work and one of a kind anyway.
The Vegas GP will be my dream race to see live for sure and I can only imagine how awesome it would look on the strip with all the lights, wow!
It's gonna suck
F1 is already big and they've been racing in the US every year with only a few exceptions for decades, like I'm talking 40-50 years.
Also, F1 races every year in the US already at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. This year's Miami race was the first of 2 here this year and next year with Vegas it will be 3, which is not going over very well with some of the teams at the moment due to the cost of traveling halfway around the world to race. They were already traveling to the Western Hemisphere 4 times in a normal year (Canada, US, Brazil, Mexico) so coming back 2 more times will probably be very hard unless they start doing multiple races over here on back to back weekends to reduce the back and forth travel.
I dont know man, in 5 years the calendar will be 15 races in the middle east or North America and just 6 in Europe and obviously that sucks
@@xDaniik and most of them probably gonna be some wack street circuits… really going downhill track wise
F1 showed the way to get great thermal efficient and reliable power from small capacity engines with turbos. Suddenly naturally aspirated engines are very rare due to emissions but twin turbo units with huge power are the norm. F1 has been using Hybrid Tech (battery and energy/heat recovery for awhile now) so those technologies are already in road cars.
Yeah but you have to miss the sound of the old V8 V10 and V12 engines, they were ear-splitting loud, so are the V6's, but if you're going to damage your hearing what a sound to do it to.
@@aberamagold7509 Yeah it is great when they get the old cars out for demo runs like Seb driving Red 5 amd Davaid Coultard taking the 2014 RB car out
Now that the tech is in road cars, I think f1 should go back to the screaming v12s but using eco fuels, and loose the hybrid battery system, get the cars lighter by 200kg back down to 650kg. I think it’s the next logical move for the whole motor industry. Battery manufacturing and disposal are in no way eco, only the vehicle running emissions are.
@@scottbradley2494 Totally agree that would have been really cool. Especially lighter cars since I think regular cars seem to get heavier and heavier and that can't be good for fuel/energy economy.
@@scottbradley2494 shame those engines would never come back unless people like honda, mercedes, aston martin and alpine leave the sport, audi and porsche would lose interest, and get replaced with pure racing teams and even then im not sure
She mentions data collected, but it's easier to put into context if you add that each team collects roughly 1 petabyte of telemetry per weekend.
Another thing worth mentioning is that is also poses a slightly different demand on the pilots. The car may change weekend to weekend, and you have to adapt while working together with the engineers in setting it up, and often developing it. Many of the most successful F1 drivers achieved their success at least in part by helping to create the winning car.
As someone who was into Nascar myself, 2 years ago I go into watching F1 and even got the F1 games. I now enjoy F1 way more. I just find it more exciting to watch, and am a fan of every driver on the grid. There's so much history in it, and it is just a blast and joy to watch.
Favorite generation of F1? Watch the Ron Howard movie Rush. Extremely dangerous, huge power and massive tires. The best looking and sounding Era for F1 in my opinion. There is also a great documentary called Hunt VS Lauda which covers that Era on CZcams. Thanks again Ian for another great post.
Or the documentary about senna from top gear.
What most people don't realise, even many f1 fans, is that f1 is primarily a team sport. Most prize money goes to the team, not the driver.
Sure the leading driver gets the most media attention, but at its heart its a team effort.
This. Most of the time people forget this. It is not a drivers championship but a manufacturers/engineering championship. Most of the vids explaining F1 forget about this vital key of the sport. Fortunately she mentioned that in the video.
yeah i didn’t really realise this fact as a fan until recently
I'm pretty sure in previous years Ferrari were spending north $550mil a season maybe more one year one of the Williams bosses said that they'd spent $500 and they estimated Ferrari had spent 3 times that $1.5B. The tech in F1 does indeed trickle down into cars and busses things like the kinetic energy systems are found in busses in the UK these came directly from F1. A lot of the car safety improvements are from F1. They don't refuel they used to but after a couple of accidents they stopped refuelling. During the Covid lockdown a lot of the F1 teams turned their engineering teams to making medical devices and equipment.
Before the restrictions came in that said a car was only able to have 8 engines in a season, ferrari were known for having quali engines.
These would be super-high performance to the detriment of longevity and were lucky to last for 30 laps. They would be fitted just for qualifying to get them at the front and by the end of the hours session they would be scrapped. Then the race engine would be fitted for the next day.
@@soopafamicom Wasn't this common among many teams? To have specific engines for qualifying I mean. Atleast among the larger/wealthier teams? Thinking mcclaren, mercedes etc here. You seem more knowledgeable than me, so please do correct me!
@@JohanHultin As far as I can recall, a lot of the teams not quite as throwaway with engines as ferrari. If an engine lasted a weekend that was enough, turn it up for a qualifying lap and hope it had enough to get pole.
McClaren, Renault or Honda still didn't have the money to waste that Ferrari seemed to have, to put in a really hot qualifying only engine that they didn't mind if it only lasted an hour.
It's good that budget caps and limited engines have come in, but if they are doing the silly sprint races and 20+ races in a season then it needs to be upped as teams are getting penalised halfway through a season.
@@JohanHultin Yeah many if not all the teams had quali engines that would last only that duration and would have to be rebuilt or something before next race.
Also the race engines were tuned up pretty crazy which is why we used to see a lot of engine failures back in the days.
@@akse thanks man, pretty much what I thought, appreciate the clarification!
She forgot to mention, technology wise, that the motors themselves are getting smaller and smaller with years; I remember the V12s from the late 80s, to V10s in the mid 90s, to V8s and now they are all turbo V6s. 😀
And even just saying “turbo V6” doesn’t really give the right impression to most people who are familiar with road cars. Most V6 road car engines would probably be around 3 litre capacity, but the F1 engines are only 1.6 litre, and yet because they rev to 15,000rpm, are super thermally efficient and employ hybrid technology, their total peak power output is in the 1,000bhp range.
If we continue the progression in 30 years they'll be using inline 3 engines 😂
@@MaxenceMouries and if they’re still getting 1000bhp out of the power train I’m not sure I see the problem 🤔
@@davidburke2132 it's more in terms of sound
@@MaxenceMouries funnily enough, sound isn’t really the prime consideration for racing teams! 🤣🤣🤣
You have to follow it for a season to know about 50% of what is there too know.. I've been following F1 since 1975 and I still get amazed by the stuff they come up with... The fact that the cars are all different but they manage to get within 0.01 seconds in qualifying is amazing. You can't compare it to Indy.. Indy cars are cool, but they are nothing like the cars in F1.. the tech is out of this world.. it took Honda at least 5 years to make a competitive engine with the Kenetic energy restore, the hybrid engine, the 1.6L V6 engine that all have to work together and be perfect. F1 cars are about 14-16 seconds faster per lap at COTA than an Indy car...F2 cars are even faster than an Indy car.
The difference between one race to the next could be that the car changed on hundreds of levels..
NEXT STEP: Co2 neutral cars by 2026 ...0% emission fuels
1.6 litre 😉
Yup, I know it was a typo' 😎
@@gordowg1wg145 thanks..and fixed it ;)
Indycar isn’t about pure speed or laptime. It’s about getting some of if not the best open wheel racing without bankrupting a country or two to do it.
@@CasuallyCareening I can respect that, F1 isn't bankrupting anyone with the current rules.. 140 million budget cap (now a little more due to inflation) will actually make the teams very much money..and not like before with budgets running into the 200-300 million and teams maybe brake even or losing money.
@@avdtouwMercedes spent $2 billion just on the power unit. So much for budget cap.
I miss the times when fueling was allowed. It added a lot to the strategy side of the sport, but I understand the ban because of security.
How was Miami?. In a word: cringe.
They acted like they were the best thing ever and they were only the rookies (in F1 hosting venues). I heard several times the flex "best in the world", the hosts had no understanding of a lof of things but acted like they were the ones that everyone else had to look after, the Vips in the grid were only there just for the photos and free promotion for themselves and had no clue at all, problems with price vs quality all around the paddock, the fake marina fiasco, dull circuit... It felt very "americanized" and below average. OTOH Austin did it way better, even the first time, and the circuit is way better.
Let's hope LV takes notes from Texas and not Florida...
I’m not surprised to hear this.. that doesn’t sound Americanized to me but rather Miami-ized haha that’s how Miami is, rather a shame they let that facade overshadow a epic Sport at a debut track.
Thanks for your thoughts 👍🎉
I agree with you completely. Miami was high from sniffing it's own farts. Every driver hated the surfacing of the track. Give me a break with the fake lagoon! Jeebus! It was cheesy and Americanised, which I realize are synonyms. COTA got it right, and I'm going next year, jah willing. Why doesn't F1 go back to Watkin's Glen? Or Detroit, Long Beach or Road America(with modifications)? Not to mention the former International race tracks F1 could go back to. I think racing in Las Vegas is gross.
Same here
@@aprilkurtz1589 I'd even accept them doing a race on the Daytona Road Course if they wanna stay in Florida
No fueling isn't due to security concerns... it was a literal fire hazard..
If you want to know how much of an impact it makes for the Teams to design their own cars, look up the Brawn GP team, how they came, saw, won it all and left in the space of 1 year
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I would highly recommend Drive to Survive. Especially watch the most recently season. It was an incredible season.
One product originally designed for formula 1 which trickled down was Kevlar as used in bullet proof vests etc. It was originally developed to replace steel as a lighter, higher tensile strength reinforcing in F1 tires.
Wow that’s interesting 👍 thanks
Also they developed their own breathing help*Dont know the medical term*. Under the start of the pandemic for extremly cheap prices and sold/gave away to hospitals. Right?
That is not true Kevlar is a brand name made by Dupont as a steel replacement for radial tyres Carbon fiber used in F1 is not the same thing as Kevlar although similar .
You really need to look at footage from the V10 era. There are some videos of various Ferrari cars from the past 25-30 years doing laps with all the engines making music. V12, V10, V8, and turbo V6. The 12 does sound good but the 10 is top tier. 3.0 V10 doing 19,000RPM putting out over 900HP.
There is the Renault engine that can play "God Save The Queen". Just to give you an idea of how fast the engines can change RPM so rapidly.
V10 became my favourite engine configuration purely because of F1.
I love that Vettel bought and converted Mansal's old Renault V10 to run on carbon neutral fuel.
Ev's are fine but they do have their drawbacks, I want the noise and fun of a manual or semi auto I.C.E.
Late 80’s and early 90’s was an amazing time for F1!
As someone who was never into motorsport until I discovered F1 in 2016, I loved this video. Its always amazing to see someone discover this great series so many of us love. There is always a lot going on in F1 (both on and off the track) but I hope you keep going on your journey of discovery! Cant wait to see more videos of you learning about F1!
Ian, a big reason for the popularity explosion in the USA is the Netflix show Drive to Survive, which goes behind the scenes and explores the personalities of the drivers and bosses of the teams. Great series.
Couldn't watch past half season one. The amount of fake dramatised bs was appalling.
IMPORTANT NOTE, if you're new to watching F1 is to NEVER miss the start (lights out) part of the race to the first corner. A lot happens within those few seconds that could completely influence how the rest of the race is going to pan out. Most of the crashes happen here, track positions are lost or gained all within that time. The best teams (and drivers) to respond & adapt their strategies to what would have happened make the racing even more crazy. That is just the tip of the iceberg about the spectical of F1.
Underrated comment.
I used to always watch F1 as an internet stream through Ziggo (ISP) in the Netherlands and there was a period that with each race the stream would just die right before the start because of too many people tuning in simultaneously... That was always fun.
About the advertising thing in the financial report (haven't seen the rest of the vid yet) this reminds me of the classic quote "win on sunday, sell on monday!".
The amazing thing is that every team develops his car and the final lap difference in a circuit of 5km can be of centems of a second
One of my favourite parts of F1 is the communications infrastructure. There's about 6 people on the pitt wall more or less running the race for the team. They are connected to the 2 drivers, garage mechanics, engineers, aero engineers, tyre specialists and race directors. They are also connected to teams at the back of the garage and to mission control centres at their home bases around the world.
Long time F1 fan, a few extra details. Engines are not incuded in the cost cap currently. With regards to the future, they are going for synthetic fuels, developed in part by Paddy Lowe.
Before the cost cap the budgets got insane. Teams could also practise extensively before the season, Jenson Button holds the highest number of laps of Catalunya (Barcelona track) at 7,423!
He's driven 34,607 km of that track (4.6 km track)!
Sadly the cars have gotten heavier and longer, in part to safety. Hopefully this issue is getting addressed in the near future.
Before automotive companies got involved (bar Ferrari, who have been in F1 since the start) it was privateers who ran teams such as Colin Chapman and Lotus, Bruce McLaren and Jack Brabham. Enzo Ferrari called them "garagista's" in a pejorative term.
I found the Miami race itself ok, the track has the ability to be altered, which is good, but this new style of car does not go well around street circuits. The actual spectacle of Miami was way off the mark, especially with the choice of VIP's on the track. Ego driven, rude and pointless being there for a true race fan watching at home. Hope Miami organisers look at Texas more for inspiration, rather than backwards at Michael Mann's Miami Vice!
Great thoughts and input thank you 🎉😎
@@IWrocker A pleasure Ian. Lots of random bits. Keep up the good work!
In relation to the advertising point, Red Bull bought 2 teams just to advertise their drinks (Red Bull and Toro Rosso, which means Red Bull in Italian) and Ferrari set up their road car business just to fun their F1 team back in the 1950s I believe
there is a LOT of drama and intensity in the sport, and thats a part of what makes it entertaining
Melbourne Australia has had the grand prix here for over 25 years on a street circuit we use to go to work on each day and it travels around the world each year and some of the tech from the cars does filter down to the cars we drive today and they are now racing electric cars as well to better understand the way the motors can be improved for the road have a look at a few races from this year and you will get a better understanding of the sport real quickly cheers
Please, react to more F1 content if you want, cuz i'm loving it
You got it 😉
@@IWrocker Also i guess i should tell you about teams and drivers.
Red Bull (Max Verstappen and Sergio "Checo" Perez), Ferrari (Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz), Mercedes (Lewis Hamilton and George Russell), McLaren (Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo), Alpine (Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon), Alfa Romeo (Valtteri Bottas and Guanyu Zhou), Haas (Kevin Magnussen and Mick Schumacher), Alpha Tauri (Pierre Gasly and Yuki Tsunoda), Aston Martin (Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll) and Williams (Alexander Albon and Nicholas Latifi)
I went to a couple Indy 500's, Indycar in Cleveland and at Michigan as well , Nascar in Michigan,MotoGP at Indy, and saw F1 5 times at Indy in early to mid 2000's, great battles between Michael Schumacher and Mika Hakkinen. The V10 F1 engine is the undisputed champ in ripping your eardrums out of your head! Please F1 bring this incredible engine back!!!!
The larger F1 teams (Mercedes, Ferrari, Red Bull) spent as much as $450 million per year on their operations before the $145 million budget cap was introduced in 2021
I think you'd be interested in the raw stats, the engine size and power output, also the pit stop speeds, it's absolutely out of this world!
czcams.com/video/I522EMW89sE/video.html
Now you’re speaking my language 😎
Yup, wr for a pit stop, 1.8 seconds... 4 tyres off, 4 tyres on
@@christiandyrvig5789 Shame they introduced a minimum of 2 seconds per pit stop for "safety reasons" because some teams couldn't match Red Bull's pit performance.
@@Martin-di9pp there is no minimum for a duration of a pit stop. The only thing they did is introduce 2 safety time minimums (from ending the screwing the tire to button press, and from button press to green light). So pit stop record can still be beaten but its WAY WAY harder than it used to be (yes its on the limit of impossible atm).
regarding the length (and size of the f1 car in general): a good reference would be the ford f150 raptor (length and widthwise), which is *definitely* bigger than the average honda civic
height? i guess you meant width lol
@@eatthisvr6 yea i meant width lol
Hey, I love how receptive you are to F1 and all the new information that you may not be used to as a Nascar fan. Earned a sub!
Following F1 since 1984. I was 8.
Still very very much into it.
Childhood passions, they never die out😉
10:00 Absolutely. Last year we saw a huge battle between Red Bull's golden boy, Max Verstappen, and the legendary Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton was trying to win his 8th driver's championship, which would have set an all-time record. On the other hand, Verstappen was the rising star of F1. Everyone knew it was just a matter of time before he won the championship, but the last 7 years had been absolutely dominated by the Mercedes team and their superstar, Hamilton (minus 2016, when Hamilton was bested by his own teammate, Nico Rosberg, but that's a story for another day). Verstappen was trying to put an end to that dominance by winning his first championship, which would make him the first Dutchman to do so. Their battle was fierce and it got a bit dangerous at numerous points. In the end, Verstappen won the championship.
This year, we once again have an interesting battle. However, this time it's a fight between Max Verstappen, who's trying to solidify himself as a bona fide future legend, and Charles Leclerc, the amiable rising star of Ferrari. Ferrari is the team with the biggest legacy in F1. In short, to talk about F1 is to talk about Ferrari. Ferrari has struggled in recent years, but this year it has risen from its ashes to try to put an end to 14 years of championship drought. Who will win?
And that's only in recent memory, you should look into legendary rivalries, like Mika Hakkinen vs Michael Schumacher, Niki Lauda vs James Hunt or the most legendary rivalry of all time in F1: Ayrton Senna vs Alain Prost.
You forgot to mention that Verstappen won the championship due to the rules not being followed. He'll forever be known as the human error champion of 2021.
We must not forget that Hamilton was in a title battle with Vettel in the Ferrari in 2017-18.
@@Stevesixty7 BS!!! That Championship wasnt won by 1 race,over the whole season MAx deserved that championship more than Lewis.So stop whining
@@mrx5232 bit like Leclerc deserving more points this year?
@@m4dalex828 so did Verstappen with his DNF
For me, my favourite season was 2004. It was crazy to see Ferrari create perfection that season.
Tyres played a huge factor in that. Basically had bespoke tyres that didn't deg at all. So drivers could push for an entire stint and Ferrari had them taylormade for them basically.
Ferrari had an huge advantage, that they were the only big team with bridgestone tires. I think that was a big part of their success in the early 2000s. They tested their cars basically every single day. My favourite Ferrari season is 2002, because the F2002 was just unbeatable. But the best overall season still is 2012 for me.
@@flo6119 2012 still hurts. Ferrari fucked alonso.
just here to say, love ur honesty and genuine interest in learning about f1 while being respectful.
I worked in F1 for 8 years, this is great, thank you for posting, it was a great experience but sadly came to an end in 2012 after a car accident which forced me out of work until last year but as I live in Wales there are no teams for at least 200 miles :(
Formula E is related but not similar, the type of circuits they race in, their performance, their strenghs are different, for example monaco GP had different layouts for both sports until last or the year before that (correct me if I'm wrong, cause I may be), they are completely two different things, the points they have in common are that they are formula racing cars, the rest isn't the same, while realated, they're very different takes on motorsports.
Loving the F1 videos Ian.
Love your open-mindedness to see a different sport than the ones you are used to. Another aspect: There's also the long term stories of a team and/or driver over several years.
European here, from Switzerland, where Sauber originated. One of the things people don‘t understand about F1 in my eyes is the CONSTANT NEVER PAUSING EFFORT of the teams to improve their cars FOR EVERY SINGLE RACE! You can be good at the beginning of the season and if you don‘t constantly improve for every weekend, find some grams to spare here, get some 10th of seconds there you‘re gone! And at 300 km/h aerodynamics are just absolute key, since the air resistance increases by the square of the speed. It‘s a world of it‘s own, very VERY competitive, a lot of show too, but over all just very impressive stuff. Thanks for your inbiased interest in this part of racing.
F1 is clearly on the up in the States since Drive to Survive aired on Netflix. They recently signed a new TV Deal going up from 5 million a year to between 75 and 90 million a year and hit crazy ratings at bad times of day. The race in Miami was okay as is the track, the attendance proves them right in going into areas like that. Drive to Survive unfortunately bloated up or just made up rivalries which is great TV but makes fans support drivers instead the sport or teams. F1 twitter is hell after every race :D
For someone like me, coming from Europe and watching F1 for 20 years plus, it has lost a lot of it's glamour in Europe. There arent as many stars seen at Monaco, no fashion shows etc. So they go into new markets, 3 races in the US this year. Old school fans mostly don't like that part. There is no race in Germany for example, even with Mercedes dominating for close to a decade.
Visiting F1 at the track isn't as great as visiting a smaller series. You dont get close to cars, drives, pits etc. You are just sitting and watching the cars go by for a crazy amount of money. F1 is best on TV, as hard as this sounds.
And the money part: Merc spent 400 Million plus a year so the costcap had to come to give smaller teams a chance. Marketing is crazy in F1, its one of the biggest sports in te world. Red Bull has two teams for exposure since 2006, so they must see a result out of that.
The car is the most important part in the whole thing, a great driver can't win in a bad car. Alonso is one of the best ever and hasn't won a F1 race since 2013 and even left to do the Indy500 and win Le Mans because of not having a chance in F1.
I know quite a few younger adults who've come to it via the Netflix show - very good for the long-term future of the sport, I think.
Awesome insight thank you
I definitely recommend that show. It has some creative video cuts so not everything in the Drive to Survive is actually fully truthfully - especially all the drama is excaggerated as much as possible using the video clips they had. As long as you keep that in mind, it might be better than watching the true thing.
All video clips and interview clips are still all totally real. The presentation order of the clips may not always match the reality, though. For example, they may cut a short clip from another race in the middle of comments from other drivers from another race to make drama more serious sounding.
@@MikkoRantalainen creative is the bare minimum of saying that they are lying and faking drama.
F1 has also gone down over the years from full combustion V12 engines, to modern V6-hybrid engines with a battery added, which is much more applicable to modern hybrid road cars. They have also set initiatives to use fully synthetic and sustainable fuels by 2026. So it’s not quite as bad as it might have sounded in the video :)
Thankfulky Audi and Porche are trying to get into f1 to introduce the new gen of fuels.
@@marioelburro1492 And remove the god forsaken MGU-H.
About time tbh
Wow, loved this video! I'm actually the opposite (a new Indy fan) and both series are super entertaining! Just clicking on IWrocker's Jim Clark video (i just saw, recommended ) right now! So cool!
Best part of 400,000 at British GP at Silverstone a few weeks ago
You should react to Red Bulls mechanics fixing their car before the race start. It’s crazy to see how dialed even the mechanics are.
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The Netflix series Drive to Survive got a lot of people into the sport. ESP Americans, like me. Dts is overly dramatic but watching it will give you about 4 years of storylines and history, which by knowing helps when watching.
As a lifelong F1 fan I have only the first season plus the start of season 2.
I like knowing about behind the scenes stuff that we never see but then they started to add unnecessary drama.
F1 is dramatic enough without dts.
Thanks for sharing that link, that was incredible.
I have to watch DTS thanks for the reminder! And thanks for the link.. that sounds intriguing 🎉😎
@@IWrocker anytime. I just got into f1 last year. It’s opening the door for me getting into racing. Weird sense I’m American but we move
@@IWrocker it's actually amazing!
Ok i'll be honest with you the Miami GP was scam & just a publicity stunt really...
Was the cringiest gp I have ever seen, “chuck baby” 😂
It was an insult to the sport. It was all about the show instead of the sport and the show was shit and fake.
@@Gangrieksta it really was, was all for the spectacle
17:33 they used to be able to refuel during races...
Got banned for the 2009 season, mostly for safety reasons
I went to COTA in Austin a few years ago and it was sick. We sat at turn 15 and from our seats got a good view of the cars ripping down the back straight directly towards us and then got to see a bunch of tight close turns in a row. It was awesome
I'd check out the doughnut media videos about f1
I grew up in Chicago and have been following F1 since the mid 70's back then I needed to read about the results in magazines, occasionally WW of sports showed highlights, but I did manage to see races at Watkins Glenn, Montreal and Long Beach. Once ESPN featured the live races, then living in Hawaii I would get up at 2am to watch the races. I have been a long term fan, and the new interest in the spectacle along with the new owners Liberty Media, Netflix and the British commentators have tainted the sport in my opinion, making it a traveling circus, reality spoof, and a biased rooting platform for UK drivers.
i was at the race in miami, it was INSANELY crowded but it was definitely a good time, plenty of entertainment and stuff to do, and seeing F1 cars in person is something you really can't just describe
They’ve also been racing in Austin for a while now it’s usually a pretty good race there
I don’t think electric is the future, as it’s been proved in the long run electric cars are worse for the environment. I would like to see something done with other energy sources like hydrogen etc
My thoughts exactly, but instead of hydrogen an F1 style hybrid turbo in road cars with sustainable carbon neutral fuels.
I don't think its been proven, not as far as i know ? Gas cars are still way worse. There's a good Donut video on the subject. Also, to be honest, the actual solution to the environment problem is better public transport.
@@lovelywii F public transport and I live in an area with excellent public transport.
You can't beat driving your own vehicle and going where you want, when you want, taking any route you want. Plus no standing and waiting.
@@MrKnowledge0014 You dont have to like it, its just objectively the best way to address climate change when it comes to transportation.
@@lovelywii kind of, there are soo many contributors to climate change not just personal vehicles.
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That car graphic was brilliant way to show the advancement of the car itself much love from New Zealand brother
About the only part of Formula 1 that's identical for every team is TYRES. Pirelli are the sole tyre supplier to F1, and they use 5 different hardness formulations plus 2 wet formulations (which are basically C1 tyres with treads to handle water), 3 neighboring formulations per race plus wet, depending on the conditions of the track and the forecast for the race weekend. That means in a race using C3/C4/C5 the soft tyre (C3) may actually be the hard tyre in a race using C1/C2/C3. Each team gets a certain number of tyre sets per car (no swapping) for the weekend, and all used and unused tyres are returned to Pirelli afterwards. Cars must use at least 2 different compounds per race, so Med/Hard, soft/hard/soft, etc with each tyre having advantages and disadvantages and each pit stop taking 24-29 seconds total, with only 2-3.5 seconds stationary to change all 4 tyres
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Hey Ian, i am not sure if someone already mentioned but an important part is the tire/pit strategy. How often they go and which hardeness tire they choose. You can see which one they use from the colour on the side. The DRS can only be used if the racer is not more than 1 sec behind the other racer at the DRS detectionzone.
Hey Ian, fun fact for you:
With a wing setup for a "handling" course like Monacco, an F1 car is theoretically able to drive at the ceiling of the Monacco tunnel at 120 km/h (around 75 mph). This huge amount of produced downforce also means that breaking out of top speed results in deceleration forces of over -5g.
Another interesting fact:
The center of gravity in an F1 car is quite a bit lower than the center of the wheels. This leads to the chassis of the F1 car leaning into corners instead of leaning out of it (aka rolling) like any street car would do.
One thing worth mentioning is that teams are not allowed to copy aerodynamic parts from each other. Once a team comes on a track with some special shape e.g. for a wing, other teams cannot make their parts exactly similar. It's kind of like they automatically receive F1 wide patent for any form they show up with, at least for the ongoing season. I think copying last year designs is allowed.
I spent the majority of the pandemic discovering and exploring the world of F1… the teams, the cars, the drivers, the strategy, the circuits, the rich history and lore… hundreds of hours on CZcams, Reddit, documentary films, biographies… subscribed to F1TV to be able to watch any session live even though they are mostly early mornings for me on the west coast of the US…
…I love it, I can’t get enough. I don’t regret any time or money spent learning and enjoying this sport. As an American I’m used to seeing many different sporting leagues, and I can say that, as a product, F1 is by far the most impressive and polished of anything I’ve seen.
Embarrassingly, it took me 40 years to figure out what I had been missing all along, but I’m here now, and a fan for life!
I love the way you engage with your community, asking these cool question, great work! Keep it up
Fun fact, the downforce created by f1 cars is so intense that they can theoretically drive upsidedown into a tunnel and get away with it haha
F1 has been racing at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, TX since 2012. My first time attending was back in 2017.
To be honest, i dont even own a driving licens because i'm a so called "Green Guy" but man....
To see your enthusiasm enjoying some of those awesome Cars (or better Artworks) just blows me away.
Great Channel, Great Guy Keep on
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Its also cool to think F1 was basically carried not by companies but by engineer who wants to make cars go fast. Frank Williams and Bruce McLaren both set up teams as individuals just because they liked racing. The teams they set up are the 2nd and 3rd most successful in history.
here are some fun facts about F1's aerodynamics:
f1 in normal configuration produces 5G (5 times its own weight) of downforce at top speed. in max downforce config like the one they use at Monaco, they produce close to 6.5G. so forget about driving upside down on the ceiling of a tunnel. think about driving upside down on the ceiling of a tunnel while having an F150 dangling from it.
downforce is only a part of f1's aerodynamics. a more complex aerodynamic feature is channelling air to and away from body parts. teams spend a shit ton of time in wind tunnels fine tuning bits and pieces at the front end so air goes to a specific aerodymanic structure at the mid or rear of the car at certain speed. air also need to be directed away from wheels to minimise aerodynamic drag. then teams has to think about how to mess up the wake (within the rules of course) their car left behind so that the following car gets turbulent and fucked up air therefore has less downforce and less chance to attack.
f1's safety is also very robust. drivers have been in 50G crashes without sustaining any injury.
f1 is, i would say, 50% engineering and 50% driving. that's what's fascinating about it. if you are reading this comment as i post it, it's F1's French GP weekend. come and hop into the rabbit hole mate :)
I like your videos, man. Algorithm keeps bringing me back. You're someone I'd enjoy a beer with, you look like an intelligent, open-minded individual.
Having attended a few F1 races at the track, it is something for the bucket list for anyone into motorsport. The ambience is totally different than watching on TV. One thing that will first hit you is the noise, the glorious noise. Also speed is something that on TV looks very tame when shot with long lenses, different thing when you are trackside.
Watching from Brazil, even If we have no drivers on F1 nowadays, we keep enjoying the races and all features
"I imagine there'll be a lot of drama" - not bad, first timer, you got it dead right! 😂
Rain races are always good because the slippery track eliminates any advantage the good cars have - it makes all cars equal and you see whos the best driver.
You need to hear the “old” F1 v10s and v12s at full noise …..I’m an Australian…I can remember walking down Rundle street mall on the way to the AGP track in Adelaide and hearing the scream of the Lamborghini V12s echoing off the buildings ….no noise pollution in those days 🥸
one of the best reacts to this video u have gained a sub. very humble
My thoughts on American F1 tracks:
Miami - pretty much like a battle on who has the fastest car on a straight line or the most powerful power unit
COTA/Austin - whoever is better at managing tires or which car eats up tires the least wins because tire degradation is high in COTA
Now you understand how impressive it was that Jack Brabham won 3 world championships as the builder engineer AND driver. You need to check him out.
A lot of things she have missed to mention but could be interesting for you. For instance, the gear ratio has to be set at the beginning of the season and can not be changed during the season.
Each driver has right to use 3 engines per season. After each swap, he will drop down 5 places on the start. After those three, each swap takes him to the back of the starting grid. And there are actually 3 engines in the car.
The main is the turbocharged V6, 1.6l petrol engine, őproducing approximately 700 HP. The second one is the KERS - flywheel based Kinetic Energy Recovery System, that makes app. 150 - 160 HP - this one is also called MGU-K. This device ‘harvests’ energy produced under braking that would otherwise be lost. Under braking, the motor-generator acts via a flywheel to generate electricity, which is then stored in a 20kg lithium-ion battery. The third one is called MGU-H and it converts heat energy into electricity, to be deployed in a similar way - at the driver’s command via his right foot and throttle. That stored electricity can be used for spinning the turbo for power gain when being chased by another car on the straight line which is in the DRS zone.
There are 3 different types of tires (compounds): soft, medium and hard. Hards are long lasting but slower in the corners. Likewise, softs have better grip but last lot shorter. On each race, two different types of tires must be used (so at least one pit stop per driver) but usually we have two pit stops. This gives a plenty room for different strategies depending of one's starting position, length of the race, vehicle aero setup (drag, down-force, weight,...) type of the track surface, conditions (sandy tracks in the Middle East)... Also, there are two type of "wet" tires - medium and wet (though, we almost never see them using the blue - wet tires since the race marshals halt the race as soon as few drops of rain falls down (sissies!!!)
The cars are almost 6 meters long. Soon they will not fit on some of the classical tracks. Fi., there are almost no overtaking anymore in Monte Carlo because there is not enough space to fit two cars one next to another.
During the years (and I'm here more than half a century) the F1 became much more a race between the engineers and not racing between the drivers. I mean, the engineering factor was always there, but not with such a huge impact on the sport as nowadays. Believe me say that many of us (from Europe) prefer Indy Car way more then F1 just because of that - same cars, same engines, only the cojones make the difference in results. (and some luck, ofc.)
There is a lot more to it, but even this was way too long. Sorry about that!
Cheers mate! A great video, once again!
As a Nascar fan I recently started following F1 after watching the driven series on Netflix. Still learning a lot about the sport however they have the same problem as Nascar as who gets out front stays out front. F1 allows drs drag reduction system (rear tail fin opens up and creates less drag) to allow for passing throughout the field. It works sometimes but the car behind has to be within 1.2 seconds behind in order to be able to be used. Still better than nothing, at least they acknowledge the problem and are working to create a better race.
I went to the 1st formula 1 race in Indianapolis back in 2000 and it was something I had never experienced before. Now growing up in the US I have been to multiple forms of racing from dirt track racing stock car to modified dirt cars. Everyone was loud but the noise of the formula 1 cars was something else. It was truly an amazing experience. I was able to get close to one that they had on display it looked very complex but really interesting. I will never forget that experience. It was truly amazing.
Refuling was a thing some years earlier, but was removed due to the very real possibility of big accidents. (I think there was a specific one, after it was cancelled, but i cant remember it)
Testing for the newest tech is also done in f1.. stability control, abs, power control, a lot of control stuff that works in your car without you knowing it!... Like helmet fitting control, seat fitting control, downforce control, control control. all kinds of tech going on there that I can not explain to you!!!!
The lady is an Eleven or Twelve.
Intelligent delivery, she is indeed a F1 fan.
In the late 60s r early 70s the top Formula 1 --- with Phil Hill, the only american to ever win a Formula 1 Championship, --- went to Indianapolis with their European cars
Racing against the top American Pilots in their Indy Cars.
The end result was amazing! The European cars finished in the top slots.
I believe that the best american pilot finished 6th or 8th.
The European cars were far more advanced.
And Indy is very different from F1 circuit --- drivers only make left turns.
Comparing with Monaco or Nurbubring, it's quite a different game.
17:33 they used to be able to refuel until 2010 when it was banned on safety grounds with incidents such as Jos Verstappen's fire whilst fuel leaked and Felipe Massa ripping the fuel hose in singapore in 2008
At 5:30, yeah, these cars are HUGE. I think the biggest cars to ever race on track. It has been trending to bigger and bigger cars since 2007
Ohhh men! The V10 era was the best one, the sound, speed, drivers, everything was really good
Take a look the car of the Williams Renault 1992-93 for example, some might argue those were the most tech F1 cars ever.
As is with any sport, the more you know about it, the more you can enjoy it. That video does a good job of an F1 baseline but once you get into details of the power units with separated impeller/propeller turbos, MGU-H and MGU-Ks, plus driver personalities and team rivalries it gets to another level altogether.
I went Istanbul Grand Prix last year and it was soo different experience that i cant describe it you must be in a race weekend to taste it
please do as much F1 content as you can this was great. love seeing others get into F1 too
I can't travel around the globe to watch the races, so I found f1tv online and now stream the races. And yeah, sometimes I get up early, and sometimes watch the streams after the ace when I got time. It made watching F1 easier for me.
There is a channel called "Chain Bear" that makes videos about F1 that breaks down aspects of the sport and talks about them - for example, he made a video talking about the history of the on screen graphics. He also made a video about what makes a track suitable for F1.
This is such an earnest and sweet video!!!!! I subscribed instantly
There are actually some huge things they've developed that brands have then started using, Luke the split turbo and the mgu-h.