Will there be Cheeky Loopholes in 2022 Formula 1 Cars?
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- čas přidán 28. 01. 2022
- So the likelihood of the teams all sticking to the exact meaning of the rules is highly unlikely. F1 engineers are geniuses’ at figuring out cheeky ways to find performance where the rules were supposed to limit it.
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Brawn 2009 with the double-diffuser and genius front wing, Mercedes in 2014 with the split Turbo and Ferrari in the early 2000s.
And all of those came after big rule changes - and we’re about to see one of the biggest rule changes in F1 history - so are we going to see some epic ‘Silver-Bullet’ solutions for massive performance?
Well, we’re got Scarbs back to run through where the teams will be looking to get that ‘Magic Solution’ - Let’s go!
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So Brawn nailed it in 2009, without much money, too! And the story as we know, they were expecting a 50% reduction in downforce due to the new regs, and they managed to gain the majority of that back!
Brawn got lots of things right now we look at the double diffuser as the kind of the key thing but there was another two teams that had that in pre-season testing before 2009 braun got the front wing right rear brake ducts lots of little features they got absolutely right plus they had you know the fantastic mercedes power unit and that just gave them the advantage which lasted um for the majority of the year while everyone caught up
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Yeah, can't wait to see Schumacher vs Mazepin. Battle of the century.
Mazepin was sometimes further behind Schumacher than Schumacher was from Hamilton!
So 2022 would be Schumi Jr cruising at the front, while Egghead would be in an epic fight with fellow backmarkers Merc and Red Bull
Son of a god vs son of a b*tch
That would be epic
@@juzzadood4419 Aye. XD
Still on about Mazepin? This will never go away like COVID
Suspension is going to be the dark art this year which nobody might expect with the new tyres.
A very soft seat suspension would be good for the driver safety and be a moderate double suspension loophole
@@glike2 Seat suspension would really fuck with the drivers feel of the car
@@glike2 And totally Stupid, cause you want to "suspend" the maximum mass not just the driver.
Indeed. The question is gonna be: Pushrod or pullrod? We already know that McLaren and Ferrari are going for a pullrod front suspension, because of its aerodynamic advantages. With the changes in airflow, due to the new front wing designs and the loss of the bardgeboards, we could see some interesting solutions at the front suspension.
Even if any team discovers a loophole, we all know the FIA being the FIA will ban it eventually.
They'll take their time about it tho
He said FIA wouldn't be changing rules midseason
@UC5ejXPzhdiRpUsjyoLbvKeA 🤣totally. It had nothing to do with Mercedes' enormous supply of cash, which in turn allowed them to find loop-holes, like DAS in 2020, brake magic, rear suspension that allowed them to stall the diffuser at speed, and an engine that was able to run in qualy mode for the last few races... It's definitely a conspiracy, and has nothing at all to do with their unstoppable R&D.
Or the team will win by loophole,make race boring
loopholes will be banned instantly and branded as cheating
unless mercedes find it *traditions*
If FIA stopped banning certain things, then F1 gets more expensive which is the opposite goal it's trying to accomplish which is to become more sustainable. Some new developments can be very profound in performance- but very expensive to produce the physical part and even moreso, the silly amount of man hours and equipment/software usage perfecting said part to be used to its full potential. For us spectators, FIA banning certain things can and usually are a GOOD thing. If FIA stopped banning parts that are extremely complex or too big of an advantage; then very quickly the top teams will make even larger gains of performance to smaller teams and the racing itself becomes more boring.
Not saying this is you, but soooo many people cry out for closer racing while under the same breath; wish for FIA to let teams have full-reign over their car developments... INSTANTLY I know they are clueless and it gets a bit annoying when so much of the fanbase don't even know what they're asking for!... But still talk like they got it figured out, had they used a LITTLE brainpower into going below the surface of what they're proposing, they'd see their own contradictory! Again, not saying this is you, but I wouldn't be surprised if this comment could apply to 80% of those who liked your comment as I highly doubt 20% or more are okay with duller races for the sake of development (again I say, they don't actually know what exactly they're asking for).
I think a lot of teams might try to make the air coming back of the car dirtier.
well maybe because this cars design rules are mainly on making the air behind them cleaner... interesting thing to keep in mind !
@@xYoshiLP. Exactly. It's a kind of dirty trick, no pun intended, but if it works, it works. I think that could potentially be a difficult balance between drag, vortex "placement" and air control on the rest of the car.
I can't wait for testing to start man. I just hope there isn't a huge gain from something that looks dumb and phallic.
Packs of gravel taped to the gearbox
I think it was Ross Braun that said if they find that is being done the FIA will ban the thing that's doing it.
@@jcf20010 It'll be interesting to see what tactics and what people will try to report to the FIA. I am craving for this season to start so bad. I might even get to see one of the races this year in person!
The testing when the Brawn car and the regulations were new was really funny. I mean most or everyone thought the other teams were sandbagging or just ran slower laps with more fuel and things like that since the Brawn car was so damn fast compared to the others. Then the season started and Brawn was still ways ahead of every other car and everyone was shocked.
I feel the regulations are tighter with less possibilities to exploit the rules but I really hope someone comes with something cheeky because that is one aspect I really like with F1 the bending and really make the most out the rules.
@sebulbathx They'll find something, 800 engineers at the big teams versus 20 at the FIA. Massive difference in brain power. Mercedes came out with DAS within stable regs, inventing something revolutionary shouldn't be too difficult with such a massive change.
@@Bahamuttiamat Yeah your right. The teams brain power are incredible nowadays especially the bigger teams. But yeah I think at least one team will have something different for good or worse. I hope some team further back will have something innovative to propel them higher up in the field, that would have been really cool. As they said in the video if Haas came up with something and all of a sudden we would have Schumacher and Mazepin fighting for podium. Not likely but a nice twist for the grid if that heppened.😁
As long as it’s not a caterham 2014 front wing loophole
@@sebulbathx Well, Lawrence Stroll has enough $$ that if he sees that a team has developed an advantage, he will just pay them for the design info, like he did for the 2020 car, buying the brake duct info (and who knows what else!) from Mercedes.
@@RbNetEngr honestly I hope that happens. One of the best parts of the 2020 season was seeing racing point compete for podiums and wins. Not just merc or Red Bull or Ferrari. I think a lot of us are just tired of seeing the same teams win.
Brilliant video. I was hoping to see something like this from you guys. A suggestion for a future video is how the new cars are going to handle and how this will affect the way the cars drive and which drivers driving style is likely to suit the new cars the best.
Some things we can only find out after *pre season testing* or the first couple of races.
@@Euclides287 just like in this video, we don't know what loop holes there will be they've made intelligent predictions on it. I'm suggesting the same for driving styles. Scott has brilliant insight into the different driving styles so it would be great to see his predictions
@@benfulford3943 I agree. The harder it is to follow another car, the more skill is required to win. The 2022 rules may even out the playingfield in more ways than we thought. Who knows..
Brilliant? Really? It was filled with speculation that has been covered in numerous videos, demonstrations of what we already know and recaps of innovations from previous season.
Maybe I missed something. Could you tell me what I missed?
My expectation is that some loophole will be found that will drive the amount of dirty air back up to 2021 levels
I think it'd be fun if the FIA randomly deleted a paragraph or something from the regs, just to see what teams notice and what wacky things they come up with
that would be awesome, or just delete one random word from every paragraph
"the rule book doesn't say that we can't put a machine gun in the cockpit"
@@commenttorv5572 Max Verstappen turns into Max Damage.
"will there be cheeky loopholes?"
Absolutely.
Craig starting to become full time at Driver 61 🤣
Yoooo Hoooooo Anand?????
The engineering aspect is one of my favourite things about F1, so I can't wait to see what everyone is bringing to the table. Hopefully it will still be competitive season though, regardless of how much I love unfair advantages.
Sadly we will have to wait until March to see some...
Where is Anand?
Yeah well, the engineering aspect of F1 is pretty much gone now though.
I don't get why they don't just go the Indy-car way completely now. I don't get why they pretend it wasn't that now anyway.
well 2022 proved to be sad and this season is quite boring
I really hope some random team will be far to good this year!
Alpine.....🙏
Hass for championship
Haas
*Ford has entered chat*
Alpine and Aston Martin .
"Invert the cars at turn 3"
Mick: understood
Nikita: Thank you mick
Well Haas actually has a chance as there chassis is made by dallara and they are wayy experienced with under floor down force
and you think the other teams dont have experience?
F1 teams have pretty much mastered how to use a floor that is made by the rules to be as ineffectiv as possible very effectiv. now there life is just getting easier in that regard. I doubt dallara has some pseudo advantage. most important thing where they can make differences probably will be elsewhere and espeically in creating dirty air on purpos.
And they spent all last year developing the 2022 car so they have the best chance of finding a big loop hole in the rules.
@@KangaRooTube true man
@@omadta5798 yeh that's correct too
@@KangaRooTube just imagine Mick Schumacher contesting for championship and Nikita grabbing points finishes
I don't think many people realise what a flex it is to have Scarbs appearing in so many videos of this channel. Love it!
This was a very long video for the word yes, but I enjoyed it anyway
How were you able to complete a 8 minute video in 2 minutes? This video was uploaded 47 minutes ago and you comment was made 45 minutes ago😂😂😂
@@Firebolt1729 what’s most impressive about this entire video. Is what this man has accomplished
@@Firebolt1729 he's the secret technical director at Mercedes and can bend time, also explaining how Hamilton's car was so fast at the end of the season
@@Firebolt1729 somehow he's able to watch it at 4x playback speed, I guess?😆
I love how he says "they got the power unit right" when talking about merc, ignoring the massive lobbying they'd been doing in advance of the rules being announced/changed
Pls explain
@@MahatmaWinkler in 2011 brawn had been lobbying while being at mercedes
@@MahatmaWinkler merc had a 4cyl 1.6 hybrid running in +/- 2010 with an MGUh system in advance of the rules, of which they sat on the FIA board in charge of making the rules.
Renault and Ferrari asked for V6 engines, and merc begrudgingly voted for it, but demanded on the MGUh which Merc parent had already spent several hundred million dollars developing. They had the v6 developed by 2011. And all the other manufacturers had to start that V6/MGUh project from scratch, after the rules were finalized at the very tail end of 2012.
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With F1 squeezing teams so hard, I can't help but wonder if we will ever again see significant advancements in design.
Even more so with the cost cap they will become ever more inventive in new ways I’d say.
Limitation breeds innovation
@@finnodriscoll7134 Or looking at it another way you no longer have the budget to try risky stuff so you play it safe, you also can't fix stuff you've tried as easily during the season
They want the series to be more spec-like without becoming a full spec series. I'm interested to see how it will work out. I love F1 but I grew up watching Indycars and sometimes the Indycar series is more interesting from a purely racing perspective because the cars are so similar. You don't have one team and/or driver running away with the season.
Regs are right up Redbulls street. Adrian will be loving it
i despise how over controlled and limited f1 car design has become. It’s supposed to be the pinnacle of automotive technology, but they keep adding restrictions to slow the cars down from their true potential limit.
that's because the true limit results in
1) people dying
2) nobody is able to overtake without a massive horsepower advantage or the leading car screwing up.
3) teams giving up from running out of money
4) suppliers leaving because racing is also a tech development center, and suppliers need to justify how spending money on F1 will improve their commercial product. F1 doesn't exist in a vacuum.
5) Did i mention that humans' limit is a lot lower than cars' limit? This kills people; unless you're fine with driverless racing, this is always going to be a problem.
Adrian Newey came up with RedBull X2010, but they can't produce it because it would literally kill the driver while driving lol
Agree. I would love to see them go back to the V12 era with none of this green hybrid rubbish.
@@Appletank8 Please show us where he said F1 should have zero regulations.
@@jtfoto1 You want slower, less reliable cars?
1:28 I’m beginning to think everyone forgot about the SF70h. It was faster at a considerable amount of circuits (mainly hot ones) Singapore and a few other late races makes it look worse on the stat sheets than it really was.
Yeah, that's the point, they got outdeveloped by Mercedes that's why it looked worse in the later races, because it was
@@Panda-xx4hs Obviously yes. But to say that Red Bull were the only ones to catch Mercedes at all is false. Vettel ended up finishing less than 50 points behind. He lost 25 in Singapore from the crash. And a further 25 in Japan. This was the fault of Vettel underperforming. But the car had the pace to win the World Drivers championship at the very least.
@@KayJblue no I disagree, Japan was reliability, faulty sparkplug, again in Malaysia qualifying and then Raikkonen not even being able to start in Malaysia. Singapore was a race incident, no one can see anything in the spray and covering off your opponent is a normal and acceptable manoeuvre. And then at tracks in the second half of the season, the mercedes was just plain faster, abu dhabi, USA, Italy, Belgium. Vettel outperformed the SF70, he did his best, but reliability and development was not good enough by ferrari.
@@kaitoanderson2845 you can’t outperform a car. It’s all about extracting the highest potential of a car by adjusting driving style and just being plain good. Don’t get me wrong, Vettel drove amazingly in 2017, and would have been just as deserving as Lewis for the WDC. But, you cannot outperform a car, and people need to stop pretending like you can
@@ia303 my Lord, forgive me for my insolence. May my souls be cleansed by your touch and everlasting Love
Amen.
Meanwhile, the engineers proof-reading and cross-checking the new regulations:
- Do you think the wording "any" here could result in a loophole?
- Naaah, it's pretty obvious that in this context, it means "every".....
Imagine some teams build their car specially rigid, so when wheelbanging they have a better chance of getting away with less damage while having a higher chance to damage the other car. woah, that would be weird haha. But protecting your venturi tunnel entrances will be really important for not loosing loads of downforce!
Rigid will be more likely to break without adding extra material and weight, so that strategy would have the opposite of the intention.
@@glike2 yeah i didn't meant ridgit, english is not my native tounge haha. I meant robust i guess? ^^
No need to do that if you’re Mercedes… Hamiltons aim towards the rear wheel of an opponents car is flawless overall 🌚 just joking guys
@@myhomie94 especially albon 😂 poor guy. I just watched season reviews from 2014 - 2020. A lot things happend diffrently as i remember. Hamilton just gets luckier and luckier, but probably because he puts himself in these positions where he can maximise this. How long it has been he was spun or crashed without his fault? I think raikönen silverstone and vettel in mexico 🤔 Thats not much.
@@Marco-xz7rf yeah i'd say it's more tactic driving and skill of HAM to put himself in these positions in the first place. Well I guess one shouldn't include an incident at the start of a race into these situations, because he can't control what the other 20 guys behind him do at the first corner. So there are even less incidents, where he got taken out like this ;) but speaking of luck: remember Hungary '21 where literally everyone 2 meters behind him got taken out by stroll and bottas :D
Wouldn’t the FIA want to leave room for interpretation in the rules? Unique cars are what sets F1 apart from Indycar and other series
I think the FIA will relax the rules if there is a backlash because all the cars are the same.
There is already A LOT of room for intepretation, I mean the cars look similar at first glance but they really are not, otherwise there wouldn't be dominance of one team
*Ferrari fuel flow*
Are you sure they want to
1:36 the way the guy describes how Mercedes got the advantage compared to Brawn GP is very wrong because Brawn GP did it the same way Mercedes did in 2014.
In 2008 Honda stopped the development of the 2008 car very early and had the full focus on the 2009 car as soon as May 2008, with Alex Wurz as their test and development driver. This eventually lead to a superb 2009 car which Honda was not able to capitalize on because they withdrew from F1 after the 2008 season in light of of the global financial crisis and sold the team to its management, which rebranded it to Brawn GP.
Aaaaand that's exactly what Haas did in 2021....
MSC WDC 2022
@@williamcoleman8731 At the very least I certainly hope that Haas will be more competitive in 2022 because that 2021 car was a joke.
@@MrReese Actually, Honda began working on the 09 car in 07. They spent close to a billion in RnD.
@@Bahamuttiamat I never said they didn't, just that they stopped work on the 2008 car very early in the season to focus solely on the 2009 car :). That being said, do you have a source for when they actually started work on the 2009 car?
@@MrReese Ross Brawn and the brackley boys. Check the f1 podcast "brackley boys". It's the same people that head of mercedes' trackside operation. They began work in 07.
Enzo would’ve hated Ferrari in the early 2000s, all that bloody aerodynamics
3 mini diffusers inside the 2 diffusers inside the left diffuser.
Thank you for using Williams as the thumbnail. We Williams fans are hoping for a Brawn moment next season. 😭
Great video, you talked about the changes, and not about the end of last season. Thanks.
I can’t wait to see the cars, hopefully clean in design and visually appealing. I don't worry about Speed, because it's the pinnacle of motorsport
I was waiting for Scarbs to pick up some drum sticks and sing, 'In the air tonight'
Dude telling F1 secret history in 2022@160p...
Great Explanation
Very good video; thanks!
I haven't been keeping up at all with the channel because I don't recognize Callum! Great video though, props
DUDE!!! Can't wait to have a look at TESTING!!
Even if Haas somehow did come up with the best concept, Haas being Haas would somehow find a way of fucking it up
to my knowledge ferrari had to keep the wider nose because they spent their development tokens on other regions of the car
I'm dying for the release of team photos of the 2022 cars!!!
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Great video as usual, not really taken by the look of these new cars tho paired with the hybrid engine (please bring back the V10's). However if it brings more teams into be competitive it has to be a good thing
The interesting thing an I think u guy brought this up is the ground effects cars are something they the teams are familiar with....so that should help its application
I have to say with certainty YES. There always is. Heck every year they seem to find something lol.
The loophole can be an aero setup that does NOT result in cleaner air behind the car, thus making it more difficult to follow closely. Since the FIA said they will not make rule changes mid-season, this intentional aero ‘flaw’ can last throughout the entire season, and get regulated out for the 2023 season. Definitely a loophole!
This is exactly what im expecting tbh :)
Amazes me how clever these engineers are.
So it's literally the nose, front wing and the floor itself that are open to development with the leading edge of the floor and diffuser more tightly regulated? Is that all they can develop on the cars aside from suspension and presumably limited braking solutions? Just trying to make sure I understand that correctly. What about the coke bottle area and the side pod inlet areas? Are they completely locked out of those or are they just severely limited in those area? Presumably no flick ups and winglets but I'm thinking just in terms of general shaping or contouring.
@The Swordsman teams can develop in all areas but some are very prescriptive meaning the difference across teams is minimal. As ever in f1, it's the details that make the difference.
Great analysis. Serious question: what is the brand of the sweater you're wearing?
got a feeling Redbull has managed to disguise a rocket by putting wheels on it.
In the upcoming livery releases, will teams be showing their actual new car, or just the new livery in the generic 2022 car model?
Actual. But as it draw closer to race 1 in Australia especially after pre season there will definitely be changes to the body work/shape.
THis will be a very interesting year as the teams jockey to find the perfect car for their drivers.
That at the end should be the one approach for banning solutions in Motorsport. If it's not potentially or immediately dangerous or unsportsmanlike, ban it at the end of the current or following year, so competitors will have the chance to catch up
I would be delighted to see Mick Schumacer on the podium.
Great video, if Haas had the fastest car they'd still struggle with hitting the top 3 consistently just based on Nakita and Mick's current experience compared to the others around them which are all gunning for top 3 finishes. That being said I would love to see all the teams within half a second
Most drivers struggle to hit top 3 consistently, regardless of how much experience they have. I doubt Mick would have many issues getting points positions if they had actually competitive cars
@@aeneum6724 Merc and Red Bull close enough that's Max and Lewis with a consistent top 3 fight but other teams close as well that's a lot of drivers who would bring the fight to them, Not saying Mick or Nakita are terrible and Mick is definitely the better of the two at the moment but I think a front row fight constantly after 1 season in a terrible car is a hard jump but who knows maybe these cars could favour a certain style.
I love this in depth stuff
juice your lemons like this channel is juicing the zoom call with Craig. :)
When the precursor to the FIA, FISA, tried to ban the initial breed of Ground Effect aerodynamics in the 1980's, it brought a bigger effort from the teams to find a way round it. For example, when they mandated the side skirts be a set distance between the bottom of the car and the track, Gordon Murray of Brabham found a loophole in seeing that it was measured when the car was stationary and not when it was out on track. So, he fitted a device to lower the skirts when sessions and races started
With how important the floors are going to be this year a simple shove off the track can cause a driver to damage the floor thus ending their race
I don't think the design will matter as much as the car setup at each venue. From the early sound bites it feels that even with the same design, there could be large variation from one track to the next performance wise. I guess certain designs will help define performance Windows but getting the car in the right part of the window could be what separates the teams at the end of the season
One thing I was think is the under body ground affect cars are going to have to keep them off curbs and high curbs at speeds where there are counting on the suction of the floor boards...so that should make for smoother an safer driving....more cautious car placement on a line choice
@Kellie Brooks Your comment is a reaccuring theme that holds no merit in reality. All previous f1 cars are in fact ground effect cars and they do not lose chucks of downforce over curbs. So it's fair to say the 22' spec cars won't be adversely affected by curbs either. In fact, I'd argue it would be ever easier.
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Gotta love those cheeky 'solutions'! 😊👍
Very tight regulations this time though
Brits just can't make a single video or speech without roasting Mazepin. I hope both he and Mick will get a decent car to drive and I also hope for somebody crasching into russel at every GP
Did RedBull(rb6) ever use the F-duct if so where did they locate theirs
Maybe tyres and suspension will keep breaking, imagine slamming low profile tyres over curbs at high speed.
The cars now have proper suspension though.
You’d have to put your money in the aerodynamic king Adrian newey to absolutely nail this seasons regulations
I'm doing/taking the "Driver 61 - technical regulations course for the new F1 2022 cars"
remotly via youtube video.
My made up course needs a better name, but the point is I'm watching all of his video's on the new cars technical changes and regulations, what they mean and how the teams will try to deal with them all.
I can bet they would be looking at how to deliberately create vortices at the tip of the diffuser to make it hard for cars behind to follow.
I also think the venture tunnel entry will be the "new barge boards"
i think it was said that the fia will be on the look out for anything that deliberately tries to generate more dirty air
@@Appletank8 I think that might prove hard to govern, unless there are specific metrics for the air coming out of the diffuser
@@tamerhafez3160
Considering teams have regularly caught and reported teams for cheating, real or not, a disgruntled team might be able to start an investigation over it, and force the accused team to show CFD results. Hell, Red bull figured out how Ferrari was likely superboosting their engine that one time.
Your thumbnail game is very strong.
Floor pan damage in the area just ahead of the rears is going to be a huge deal, this year.
what I find missing in all these analysis is what's the difference under rainy conditions especially in case of standing water and heavy rain conditions that were acceptable with earlier chassis.
Aston coming in with a double T tray... already the first hole discovered...
His hairstyle lol...!!!!!! I can't stop laughing
Hey @driver61, With the new regs I am assuming a low rake car would be best to keep close contact with the ground? Does this immediately give the likes of Merc, McLaren, Williams and Aston an advantage over Red Bull as far as RB will need to totally change their high-rake philosophy to low?
Dont know abbut the advantage but yep, all cars going to be low rake this season, so yeah new for RB
Thank you!
I have a feeling there won’t be silver bullets but silver arrows.
How many minutes into the season before Karen Horner starts complaining about something on someone else's car?
I didn’t know Phil Collins was so knowledgeable in F1 history
Scarbs can feel it coming in the aero-fight (oh lo-ord)
A concern I have is with ground effects cars, tracks such as Monaco will be hell with how bumpy it is causing the cars to become very unstable, I predict a massive accident this year
yep that could happen
You predict there's gonna be a pileup at turn 1 and a surprise race winner?
If a loophole is found the other teams will either copy it or with appeal it with the fia so the original team will probably only have an advantage for a few taces
I think that the sidepods will be key, the old ground effects era both in F1, le mans, imsa & in indycar lead to primarily flat-topped bodywork.
First year of new rules = loophole city baby
I don’t like how a big theme of the rule changes is “how can we limit teams ability to be creative and gain an advantage”. F1 becomes more and more of a spec series every year and there is going to come a point where I don’t care anymore and will just watch indycar, because it’s at least not dominated by corporate board rooms posing as teams manipulating the rules. (We can’t have small cars you can easily pass with because it’s too expensive to ship refueling gear to each race, yet each team showing up to each race with a club and dance hall that takes 6 articulated trucks to transport is perfectly ok, despite adding nothing to the sport itself)
I kinda want there to be so we get more opportunities for a constructor order shuffle
Thanks
"The pinnacle of motorsport"...... in an extremely narrow window that the FIA say you can develop in :(
Would it be possible to have a "reverse S-duct" in the nose that channels air from above a wide nose, through the nose down and towards the sides. That could divert air towards the tunnels and, as a bonus, relieve pressure in front of the windscreen and helmet.
You know a lot of people act like Jenson and Brawn dominated that entire year which they did the first 7 races which Jenson won 6 outta 7 but after that Jenson only had 2 more podiums the rest of the year…In fact Red Bull caught up and had a goods shot if not for some bad luck but that’s racing…
Button was not performing as well as he could have in the second half.
That's the truth. Jenson used one chassis for almost the entire season. I think he used a second chassis starting in Brazil, but the one he used most had a lot of wear (and even some cracks in the tub), towards the end of it's use. I believe only three total chassis were built, because they didn't have the money to build more, or do any development. It's still one of the most fascinating cars in modern F1, though, if you ask me. It's a good thing Ross had two smooth, consistent drivers in Jenson and Rubens, because they couldn't afford to destroy any of their cars. If they had, the season might have turned out differently...
@@Firebolt1729 well his car was worn out, since he only had one chassis for most of the season. Red Bull, and the other teams, were developing their cars, while Jenson was stuck in the chassis he started the season with, and towards the end of its use, it was worn out, and lacking pace compared to the other teams' cars. There is good reason teams build so many cars throughout the season... They continually develop their chassis, and they have to replace chassis that are worn out or wrecked. Brawn GP didn't have that luxury. They just had a Mercedes engine, a double diffuser, and only three total chassis. That was it.
I'd be interest to see what goes into constructing a wind tunnel. The timelines we hear about seem quite lengthy. There's no doubt about the importance of a wind tunnel in relation to aerodynamics, but what makes it so costly and why does it take so long to build one? Cheers from the US!
Well, it really doesn’t matter if a team builds their own wind tunnel, or buys wind tunnel time from someone else, because the number of hours of wind tunnel testing for the actual vehicle are limited by the FIA. I think that they can do unlimited wind tunnel of test scale models of their cars, but not for the actual race cars.
@@RbNetEngr Cool, yeah thats makes sense. Does that mean testing a scale model doesn't correlate effectively enough to warrent additional time?
There is no way Haas built by Dallara will be at the sharp end of the grid.
You never know...........😁
@@hangingchad_ I'm not clever, I'm just going on past events. Dallara only do well in one make series like IndyCars.
@@davidbrown8517 Yeah, they only did so well with Haas in 2018 because they were able to use Ferrari's designs from 2017. In 2019, when the regulations and tires changed, they fell off the map. If F1 was going to be a spec-series in 2022 (like some people say it is, even though it isn't), they would probably be a great team. Anyway, Haas only need their car to have a solid enough foundation that they can build on it over the coming seasons, so, for their sake, I hope they come out with a decent enough foundation. In reality, they'll almost definitely be at the back for 2022, though.
I think it is much harder these days to find a silver bullet that nobody else has found because of sims. Teams can run sims to find results before putting the car into development.
didn't they say sim time is also limited?
How do they control wind tunnel development? What stops a loaded team, like merc, from building another chassis, testing it in their private headquarters and claiming that they got all those ideas from official testing?
Exactly mate. And this 100% happens with the bigger teams.
Endurance racing has been more free overall to innovative imo. F1 just has the most intelligent aerodynamics.
We won't hear the phrase "sticky uppy bits" anymore
Scarbs wearing a rich energy polo? 👀😂
Vettel: did somebody say *double diffuser*
Since wind tunnel time and cfd simulations are limited, what if they want to design some kind of component and by testing it they find out it is useless, will they get that time back since they are not using the component?
Like in the last season with the cost cap, where materials for the car that weren't used, didn't have to be calculated into the cap.
Great video and overview of the new rules. I still think that the FIA is going in the wrong direction with these new rules over the past few years, it's killing what used to be a beautiful sport for the benefit of entertainment.
Honestly, the picture I have of a very restricted car with little areas that have freedom is only one: Bargeboard arms race 2.0 with something else.
I wonder if they are able to use golf ball like dimples in aero parts?