The Incredible Evolution of Formula 1 Engines | Track Evolution
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- Опубликовано: 31 мар 2021
- Welcome to a new series, Track Evolution, where we show the incredible innovation from F1 over the years. Showing how F1 engineering, cars and tracks have evolved.
We’re going to walk you through the engines from each decade of F1, as well as pick out the key innovations that have got us to today - where F1 has some of the most efficient engines on the planet.
So, how have F1 engines changed over the years? Which of them was the most powerful? And what breakthroughs have made it into today’s engines?
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The 1950s F1 cars used all sorts of engines, from custom-built inline 4s, to pre-war v8s. The only regulations were a limit on engine displacement, 4.5L if it were Naturally Aspirated and 1.5L if you fitted a supercharger.
They produced around 425 horsepower, meaning they produced 94 horsepower per litre. Oh, and keep an eye on that number throughout this video.
In 1954, they tightened restrictions and only allowed 2.5 litres, naturally aspirated engines - cutting power to 290 horsepower. However, the teams got creative with engine layouts - keeping efficiency comparatively high. [116HP/L]
These were some of the best years for variety in F1, if you looked through the grid, they were running inline 4s and 8s, V12s and 16s and even a huge V-twin!
However, all of them were incredibly heavy, meaning the cars produced huge understeer - forcing the drivers to neutralise this by mostly drifting around corners.
This was also the decade when F1 first used mid-mounted engines with the Cooper T43. This got rid of the massive understeer the front-mounted engines produced, as they placed the centre of gravity further back in the car - naturally creating a more oversteery balance.
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What do you think to the new series? I was blown away by that H16 engine!
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Thanks for covering the H16. BRM had revolutionary engines and this was a marvel. The 1950's BRM V16 engine was ahead of its time. "The potential of the engine was illustrated in 1968 when Graham Hill drove the car in a demonstration in South Africa, the car being fitted with the original, larger, Rolls-Royce supercharger inlet. Hill revved the engine to 13,000rpm, at which point Rudd thought the engine would have been producing around 780 bhp."
Think this series will be very popular
Lovely job!
Also fingers crossed for the 24h race 🏎
Hope the 24 hours goes well and you don't get an itchy nose during a hairpin! Ideas for videos : alternate racing engineering like trucks, bikes, hill climbers etc etc
Excellent video. I still long for the days when F1 sounded like it should with the NA V10. I understand why they have gone back to turbos but it's the Pinnacle of motorsport so it should sound extreme .
@@JohnnyWednesday Thanks Johnny, these are on the radar!
The 1989 shift to natural aspirated engines made a huge discussion at school in my teens. Naturally, we kids were experts on F1 - and the teams knew nothing about cars. Oh - we were also experts at driving. That one went out the window the second anyone of us started to train for a driving license. Apparently a Volvo 740 or something like that are way harder to drive then we thought.
Being an expert on a subject while simultaneously getting even the simplest details wrong still lives on in internet culture.
@@repapeti98 True. And isn’t it worse? In those days you faced your own inadequacies. Today?
@@FEARYOYOYO Today you casually ruin people's carreers from the comfort of your room without them being proven guilty.
@@repapeti98 it's actually a Hallmark of the internet now lmao
Turbo era was best ... very uneven cars and engine characteristics. And hard to keep the perfect route, every corner was an opportunity for overtake. And immense amount of power, even taking bad route, but getting on power early could win you a corner.
90's were still pretty good, I sort of lost interest after death of Ayrton Senna. I occasaionally watched Schumacher's perfection in late 90's. But then it became really boring sport with very little action.
The iPad is the coolest thing I've seen in a while mate great integration
Thank you sir!
Yeah, great drawings. What's the app name? Tnx.
@@tduic would like to know aswell
@@samedman1 Its called Concepts
In all honesty, it’s cool but it takes you away from the video for that short while. Illustrated images or a screen recording of the iPad would have been way better.
This is turning into the channel that i hoped WTF1 would be
Precise
Ikr lol
WTF1 is meant as a more casual, comedic resource for people who are new to f1 or want a break from the technical stuff. There is room in the sport for both of these archetypes to exist
@@Jimbo7 fax
Wtf1 is for fun, people.
The V10 engines of the 2000's were the best ever, the sound they made when they revved to 20k rpm was just stunning
Were?! Made?! Revved?! Uhhh, they *STILL* are and they *STILL* do because they *STILL* exist because their engines are *STILL* in there and they *STILL* work perfectly!
@@MDDeGrande1994 STILL
Still inefficient when compared to the cars since 2014
@@Roxor.Z D.R.E.
using infinite fuel and insane consumpion is normal they were porwerfull and changing motor each race xD
1:47 pretty insane when you realize this is Eau-Rouge at Spa and 1:54 is Kemmel Straight
0:47 is Eau-Rouge too
thats raidillon actually
@@WETiLAMBY it's getting old and boring
Spa is my fav circuit 😀😀
@@kyrpousin It's still correct and no one cares if you got bored of the so-called "joke".
I like the more technical format. I would like to see even more detail though.
It won't get views
I would also like more technical details. Chainbear’s channel does a good job of making modern F1 technology easy to understand. It would be great to have the same thing for previous decades.
@@arnoldmbuthia2687 - plenty of people here seem interested - I'm sure they'll do all kinds of topics but there's an audience for the more technical too
@@arnoldmbuthia2687 but I'll view
We’ll be bits never hurt , progression of rpm and compression ratio v fuel over time
That clip of the Renault engine playing songs is what got me interested in cars as a kid. It was awe inspiring at the time and always brings a smile when I'm reminded of it. Thank you
French engine playing god save the queen.
@@UberAlphaSirus it’s the brits pisstaking. Comes naturally to them.
And then they banned it. 👎👎👎
@@UberAlphaSirus 'French engine' built by Brits
@@MrCTruck They didn't ban it, the regs simply changed to employ a different format of engine, as it has always done... as shown throughout this very video.
2:09 didn’t know they provide on-track shower for the driver lol
Imagine having the time to chill for 5 seconds and then drive away again.
No, Kimi, you will not have the drink
That was the refueling.
@@Redskies453 LOL! 🤣🤣
@@liamcalpine guess this is liquid cooling but not in the engine yet
1:36 First era to use Mid engine F1 cars
1:39 First mid engine F1 car
2:36 First Era that started using the engine as a stress member
2:44 First car to use engine as a stress member
3:39 Era where engine started to become flat
4:15 First Turbo F1 car and rye starting if the First Turbo era
4:43 Started to use water injection to cool the engine more evenly
4:51 Started to use toluene
5:03 Ramp up boost and replace the engine for the race
5:25 F1 becoming turbo free
5:46 First era to be slower than the last era
6:47 When F1 started using regulations to slow the cars down
6:52 Starting of the V10 era
7:12 Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) was introduced
7:29 Starting of the Modern F1 era
So no V8s from 2006-2013?
Really miss the sound of the roaring v10's - So nostalgic
I have a huge amount of respect for the century of engineering that culminated in the 1000+ HP from a miniature engine we have today. Still, the more emotional part of my brain misses the larger displacement, amount of cylinders, and higher revs of times gone by.
I think it would dull the pain for me if they allowed teams to have a separate engine, of the same exact configuration, that they are allowed to blow up for each qualifying session. Allowing teams to go full 'balls to the wall' and really push/understand the limits of the motors, while still maintaining the whole lasting 1/3rd of the season requirement for the race engines.
It would be cool to see what they could do, but without the risk of running them wheel to wheel like that. Plus I dont think their speeds would be that much beyond what they already are, given they would still have to maintain all the other power-inhibiting restrictions besides keeping the motor alive.
@@von... You would probably be needing some new tires too, I have seen F1 engines turned up to 1,400+ and would think with some of those other fuel types 2,000 isnt out of the question. Which is getting more into dragster territory than precision handling.
I think it was Porsche who took an F1 engine and bumped up the boost a little and the electrical side to hit 1,400 or so. Just missing the rocket fuel!
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@@brandonhoffman4712 I remember when toyota cranked up the engine to hit 400 kmh on the salt flats
@@alunesh12345what on earth does that have to do with the subject?
How many new series related to F1 do you want ?
Driver61 : yes
This is what happens when you have to wait THREE weeks between races ! lol
@@FRPlayerOne There's always Nascar!
I feel like the old times were more like marathons, where you could stop and have water splashed on you, crack a joke, and then carry on.
Stop off at the pits for a refuel and a smoke (at the same time)
@@MScotty90 Dude!
@DESTROY WHITE SUPREMACY BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY THE CURRENT RACES ARE 300KM!?
As the drivers from the Golden Era of Motorsports have said "when men were men."
@@liamcalpine The actual rule is "the race ends after the first lap that breaks the 305km threshold." So in practice they tend to be anywhere from 305km to 309km. Obviously a different rule is in place for Monaco. That race is only 260km, otherwise they wouldn't finish within the allotted 2 hours.
Nice video, but you glossed over the 2.4L non-KERS V8s from 2006-2008
Yeah those were the greatest v8s in F1. 19k rpm v8s , cosworth one could even rev upto 20k. From 2009 and onwards their rev limiter was around 18k
Because they weren't that amazing. They were a pure cost saving, power-limiting initiative - especially from 2009
noticed that too. the 2.4 V8 although now loved for it's sound, was never as powerful or beautifully sounding than the V10 that came before it. the hybrid turbo PUs of today in turn are more powerful and more sophisticated. in my opinion they pale in comparison to what came before and after. some people just like them because they enjoy their noisy sound
...and no mention of the glorious V12’s from Ferrari, Lamborghini and Honda the last of Senna’ world championships ion 1991
That’s what the FIA wanted at the time because they thought the V10s were too powerful and too costly. A huge mistake. FIA basically lopped off two cylinders and ultimately rev limited them, set the bore size, eve angle and mandated it weigh 95 kg. They were massively underwhelming and painful to watch having come from the V10 era. A big mistake but they got the costs down to probably a third of the current hybrid power plants, which were a huge mistake too given none of that tech has made it to road cars,
Make these guys reach a million!
Totally deserving and more! studying racing from the engineering perspective - the evolution of the technology? appeals to racing fans and the technically curious alike :)
This looks like the start to an amazing series!!! Awesome job!!!!
2009 KERS systems didn't take energy from the actual brakes to charge the batteries but from the crankshaft. When the car brakes a proportion of the rotational force is captured by a electric motor / generator (MGU) mounted at one end of the engines crankshaft. This MGU converts the kinetic energy into electrical energy which is then stored in batteries
Not to forget that William's used a flywheel to store the energy at first.
This channel keeps getting better and better! Hats off to you and the production staff.
Great video! Enjoying the content that Scott, Callum, and the Driver 61 team keep creating!
AMAZING JOB! Very interesting.
Those interactions between MGUK, battery and engine during the lap and whole race is really interesting to dig deeper.
I think F1 should allow more freedom when it comes to the engine and transmission.
As long as it is competitive and fits a set of requirements the teams should be allowed to race it.
and bring back refueling.
Yesss I have been dying for a video like this. I’ve wanted to learn more about all the different engines.
Great video! Incredibly informative and I love how you condensed the F1 engine development!
Great series! Please do more. I've never had this explained better.
The new format is great, I too would like a little more detail as to what drove the changes in technology that we saw over the history of F1. Overall great content.
Looking forward to this :) I don't really enjoy watching racing myself but the engineering battles? oh yes please!
Here here...I hear you...
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Super interesting as always, thank you!
I really enjoyed this video. I only started watching F1 a couple years ago and didn’t know much about the history. I can’t wait to hear more about the track histories!
Love it! Can you make the same video on Rally/WRC engines?
That is a great idea.
I enjoyed this new series equally to the previous ones. Always quality content from Driver61.
I LOVE this video! Love the format, history of F1 is my favorite, you did it very well here!
So glad this channel popped up in my suggested watch list. Great work.
I always enjoy the evolution of F1 videos.
This was sick. I'd love to see addition parts focusing in on specific engine types, particularly the modern engine. 8 - 12 mins is the perfect sweet spot in length for me.
I could watch 8-12, 8-12 min videos on the current engine! Like how both redbull and mercedes are making the air more dense by pre cooling the air, but one is doing air to air cooling and the other is liquid to air cooling. redbull's recent switch to a mercedes like split-turbo. I have also heard these engines might be twin turbo, with one being electrically driven? However that might work?
The development over time brings it all together. Excellent video!
Great job here. Lovely footage and visuals
I really like the use of the ipad for visuals. great video
The new show format is awesome!
Loved this format! What a great video!
Very nice new series format and very interesting! I hope to see more.
My favorite motoring channel! Great video
Your channel is the best F1 channel, more technical nerdy details wouldn't hurt I bet :) Keep it going!
This channel has helped a casual learn a lot and understand a lot more about F1
G'day lads ✌
Dude your channel rocks man... Your little drawings are the best explanations I've seen of all the forces that go on 4 wheels
I love it. Get as nerdy as you can explaining the evolution of the technology!
Really cool series!!!
2:07 It's not even summer yet and I want someone to do that to me
Pneumatic „valve springs“ doesnt mean there is no camshaft. Freevalve has nothing to do with traditional pneumatic valve springs used in f1 and motogp. Look up bmw e41/4 gear drive on google you ll see its a dohc engine and how the camshafts are driven by internal gears without any belts or chains
He only said “traditional system” he didn’t say they didn’t have the parts still,
@@damedusa5107 they worded it very poorly „timing of this can be much harder with a traditional camshaft system“ and then giving freevalve as an example right after saying that applies that they got rid of the camshafts. maybe they didnt mean that but with that wording it basically implies getting rid of camshafts. Theres few more other typos and mistakes in the video as well so i guess its due to garbage wording of the sentence
@@timothyscherer9163 fair enough
EXCELLENT, Scott! PLEASE continue with this!
Great program - thanks.
I would like if these videos were longer, feels like you're speeding through the info.
Well done. Lots of racing knowledge passed along-I learned a thing or two. Thanks
Amazing video very well documented
🤣the dude chucking a bucket of water on the driver at 2:08
Imagine they did that in this day and age 😄
golden shower
Woah is this your voice Scott? Sounds very different from your usual voice, new microphone maybe?
I think he's not Scott, probably the other guy that was in the stories some times ago.
James Baldwin I believe.
Haha it's me, Callum. I'm a producer at Driver61, but did the VO for this one
@@callummcintyre9409 I didn't see the channel name when i clicked the video then was shocked to hear your voice 😆
Awesome to learn the history like this def would love to see more!
The best video seen in long time. Cheers!
Man how could a driver with real F1experience miss 2.4l V8 in this list?
2:07 Man they had a really weird way of doing fuel stops back in the day...
very cool video! its really comprehensive
This is tremendously enjoyable...Keep it up!
When he was talking about the turbo hybrid era, the next clip was Lewis going outside turn 4 in bahrain 😂
Wtf happened to your voice?!
8:36 BTW The ending of this video was God save the queen lol!!!! 😂😂
You know your stuff man! Thank you for all the vids love them. Has anyone ever made and engine with electrically controlled valves?
Love the channel, and the new format. More please!
I feel like skipping over the V8s is a cruel April fools joke.
They were the last of the best engine before we have what we have now
Fucking vacuums
WEC uses the same fucking Tech as F1 yes sounds way better, WTF?!
@DESTROY WHITE SUPREMACY BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY "gutless trash" doesn't sound accurate. They had great reliability and performance and a good soundtrack.
@@tony_5156 "way better" is a stretch. Having watched both modern F1 and WEC in person, F1 cars have PLENTY of volume while the only WEC prototypes that sounded good were the toyotas. Audi's were virtually silent thanks to the diesel tech.
Agreed; they were the highest revving engines in their introduction in 2006. Running over 20k revs is insane
Just wait, the thumbnail will change 3 times lmao:)
I loved this video, really enjoyed this format
Your videos are amazing! Simples and complete. also very interesting. Thank you
HAHA JK April fools!!! all facts included are actually untrue!
_gasp_
lol right? F1 switched to a hole in the floor where you run your feet like the flintstones in 1997!
Love the format keep it up!
Thank you for the video!
Love the new format!!!!! More of that please!!!!!
Absolutely riveting information! Love this channel!
really informative video, really enjoyed it. I thought I knew more than I actually did. Thanks.
love the format!!!!
keep going, I like it you explain rules and the philosophy behind them💪🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you. Very enlightening!
Yeah really liked this format. Keep it up thanks.
Excellent stuff, more please!
Love it, brilliant format
Wonderful video. Thank you.
Very interesting, great video 👏👍
I lo d the technical side of things. This was fantastic, thank you!
Personally, I like technical videos like this, they give the few hint on what to read/search for if you want to know more about a specific era, but still manage to give a rapid history of F1 from its birth to present days. I'll wait for more!
Love the format!
Great video!
Fascinating video! 🤩
Love these type videos, extremely interesting
Great information :) thank-you!
great diagrams and illustrations, friend!
Super cool that Fuel! Dug the video. A topic I was always interested in. Thank you.
great vid as always
Love your new format, BIG UP
I’ve watched this video like 10 times! So cool
Wonderful stuff!!
This series is by far the best ive watch in terms of content, but missin bits like, what are the engines names, when and what they powered, the championship winning cars it got into like i was wating to hear how the ford v8's were the powerhouse in the 60's and 70's, but i know your content and video quality will continue to get better, cheers mate!!! Looking forward for more contents from this amazing channel
Please do make more of these type of evolution videos really helps from an engineering point of view and to really understand where f1 stands today
Indeed!