I think the F1 teams are more interested in looking at synthetic fuels than going electric. I know the fans would rather it go that way, for the engine noise.
Understandable but there will be a time where they might not have a choice but to change. But all that they have giving with they technology they have gain is pretty awesome.
@@RealFansSportsI love the French approach at Le Mans they used the waste products from Wine production to create high octane biofuels for race cars. I am an Englishman but got to give one French for that idea. These biofuels made from waste products from other sources will keep internal combustion engines for racing going a long time to come.
@@RealFansSports ive been McLaren fan since 1995. Full electric requires more batteries which are heavier, we all know this, but F1 requires the car to be light, you put more weight only adds pressure to have more power but it lacks top speed(not in science, but the races), the problem ends up with top speed, as the weight ends up disturbing the Aerodynamics. As the rule changes, the light version of F1 cars are much easier to design than a heavy car. Batteries needs its next light weight form, and lithium is extremely dangerous for f1 that keeps pushing the envelope. So they won't be using eletric engines for the next few decades.
The engineers and their teams from Teams like Redbull and Mercedes Produced also medical breathing machines in the Covid time. Hospitals hadn’t enough machines so the teams started the projects to create those machines to help the victims of covid in the hospital. Those guys are allround and so highly skilled engineers. Love what they did.
Also F1 teams are highly experienced at getting things turned around quickly due to the time constraints between races, so they went from 'we need this thing' to 'we have a working prototype of this thing and it's ready for testing' in literal days.
F1 teams usually have a remote (off track) team of dozens of people in their headquarters analysing real-time data to make sure the car doesn't die and to help calculate the best race strategy given the situation on the track, tyre deg, brake deg/heat fuel load, opposition situation etc etc etc etc...
The cap in my opinion was less about fairness and more about Making sure the sport foes not become insanely expensive which would disuade Smaller teams and limit them. The main purpose of f1 is to push both drivers AND the cars and teams to the absolute limit. Driving innovation. Its not really "unfair" for a team to spend more money because if you have bad engineers it doesnt matter how much you pay them.
Maybe the intent wasn't leveling the playing field. But it surely has that effect. You can't really argue about the cost cap working. It is. The gaps are closer than a long long long time. And the gap between first and last is just way smaller. That is not just the reg changes, those are costcap and cfd time regulations. The fact that red bull overspend shows how detailed these regs are and are for sure impacting performance.
The cost cap is needed but IMO it doesn't bring the pack together my example Is when merc an RB spent 400 mill and 350 mill in 1 year haas spent 19 mill lol . I do believe in cost cap but I hope it also forces other teams to actually spend that same money. Just so we are all on the same page the actually car cost around 2 mill a car it's the R&D that takes the funding.
There actually already is an electric version of Formula 1: Formula E. So I personally think as long as we have fuel-reliant cars (wheather that be fossil fuels or new alternatives) we'll have f1 as we know it and fe as its own, sperate thing I've really enjoyed your f1 reactions so far; some videos on crashes or (overtake)highlights would probably be really interesting to watch but I'd also love to see you guys react to more of the memes/ funny moments/ drivers roasting each other
Thank you for checking out the reactions and we appreciate you and your comments. We definitely get what you are saying but there will be a time where electric may be the only choice you know. But we totally get where you are coming from with your comment.
@@RealFansSports Cleo Abrams is already out with a Formula E episode just check it out!. And in 25 yrs. of watching the sport at age 37 F1 is the sickest but the most entertaining and strategic motorsport of all time. FYI: it's not about the front runners of the race but also the back markers where we see new faces arrive future champions like Mika Hakkinen "The Flying Finn", Michael Schumacher, Max Verstappen, The Iceman - Kimi Raikkonen and more
There are so many elements that contribute to being able to win a race. - Car design - Car setup - Driver performance - Pit stop strategy - Pit stop crews - Weather - Surface temperature - Track surface - Communication - Team strategy - Budget Each team has two drivers, and there's almost always a dominant driver that consistently performs better. Sometimes to the extreme. So it's definitely a competition between drivers as much as it's a competition between teams. Right now, Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris are very close performers for McLaren, and George Russell and Louis Hamilton are very close for Mercedes. But there is a huge gap between Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez for Red Bull. Of course the drivers can't compete if the car doesn't perform, but drivers can sign contracts with different manufacturers if they perform well, and improve their chances of winning by signing with a more competitive team.
Fun fact... In the salary cap aren't counted few things, like the first 5 top salaries... That probably are as much as the cap itself... Hamilton and Verstappen are taking more than 50mil
The cap is great and honestly it makes for having the most optimum engineering solution. The driver salaries do not come into this cap. It is just building the car. And compared to Indy, the fact that each team can design their own car and improve within the regulations, pushes a whole team rather than just the car. So human complexity is much more involved because you have more minds cooking the soup called F1 car and within a team there are two drivers who have their own preferences which makes for two different cars from the same team. Indy makes the driver super valuable, F1 makes the driver and paddock team, engineers, strategist and the how everyone interacts, every inch of it extremely valuable. You can have the best car in F1 and if you cannot have the competency as your teammate can really show up bad. Just check this years F1 season. The drivers champion won 19/22 races, and his team won 21/22. His teammate was the second in the drivers championship list, but the champ had more double the points of the runner-up from the same team. So that does explain how important the driver is and the team around him which he gets his own team of engineers, strategist who are different from his teammate. Only the top management is the same who care more on the Team Championship. F1 is complex and a couple of videos do not make justice for it, but kudos that you guys are receptive.
Paddle shifters, active suspension, carbon fibre chassis, Kinetic energy recovery system (kers), steering wheel control buttons, onboard diagnostics and telematics, traction control system, Anti-lock braking system (abs), dual clutch auto gearboxes, hybrid power trains, disc brakes, turbocharging - all of these technologies we see on road cars (and so many more I haven't listed) were all either pioneered in F1 or further developed to point where their benefits become advantageous enough to warrant mass usage
Dunno if you guys already jumped off of the F1 train, but one of the best ways to compare what F1 cars do on track, is to watch the drivers train their neck muscles, to handle G forces around a track. Then watch Indy drivers, test drive F1 cars and their reactions, how they were physically incapable of holding their head up, to see properly in turns. Another would be to watch GT3 race cars take the corner Eau Rouge, at Spa, and then watch F1 cars take the same corner. The live footage of the racing doesn't often translate how bonkers this sport is.
13:50 about tax write offs. Some people think tax write offs will net you a profit or make you money but it won't. The only thing tax write offs would get you is no tax on the money spent. So you aren't saving money because that 430 million is still being spent but you won't get taxed on it for income but you still pay sales tax for whatever you buy. If the team makes 1.2 million from operating a F1 team then that 1.2 million still gets taxed so now you are out 430 million AND you pay tax on the 1.2 million you did make so the write off only serves to not pay tax on the 430 million you spent but doesn't "earn" you any money. Businesses will very rarely "write off" projects JUST for the tax benefit as you still need to earn money.
I think the reason they Introduced formula E, it started the first season with all the same base car but gave manufacturers freedom to modify for later seasons. Essentially developing better batteries, motors, recharging etc.
yeah, pre cost cap the difference between big teams and smaller less wealthy teams was huge. (For example Mercedes one season spent more than 400 million USD, while Williams spent less than 100 million). The cost cap evend it out a little bit. But R&D tokens are the biggest news. Each team receives the same amount of r&d tokens after a season ends which they use to develop and improve specific parts of their cars. Except when there is a new big technical regulations change (like two years ago with the new front and rear wing design etc). Teams then decide if they want to spend all the tokens right away or use most of them immediately, and then use the rest for mid-season developments. And each part costs a certain numbert of tokens. Here's the weird part - sometimes changing one thing (spending a token or two on a specific part) can mean that you don't have to spend tokens on developing other parts which have to be changed because they are in some way connected with the original part. For example Ferrari (a few seasons ago) redesigned their transmission and gearbox spending two tokens which then caused them to be allowed to completely redesign rear aerodynamics without spending additional tokens. Now new regulations are preventing that. They are not even allowed to develop new cars for 2025 season before the next (2024) season ends. And yes safety regulations are constantly improving. For example, an accident during Canadian GP in 2007 almost killed Robert Kubica, but he returned two races later. Similar accident in the following seasons after that were much safer because HANS was invented protecting the driver's neck. Then after that tragedy when Justin Wilson was killed by that piece of another car in indycar race in Pocono 2015 FIA started the rules change to give frontal head protection to the drivers. While Indy chose that framed windscreen, F1 and other FIA governed open-wheel racing competitions decided to go with HALO already proving itself as a life saving device - from Guanyu Zhou's crash in Silverstone to that terribly looking fireball crash of Romain Grosjean. Even that Monza 2021 crash between Hamilton and Verstappen proved HALO a worthy invention.
One massive thing F1 is trying to solve is creating a fully sustainable fuel source for combustion engines. Now this will be revolutionary if they can solve it
So much goes into F1 that people don’t usually think about. For example, drivers have to be a specific weight because of how they’ve designed the cars. Their teams have built this machine to a certain weight for optimum handling/speed. If a driver goes into a race 5lbs over weight then it can make a huge difference to times and handling.
First you have to define what a sport is. Some people define sport only on the physical aspect. Some define it also in the mental aspect. (Chess). I define sport as everything where a person or a team complete for glory. F1 is a teamsport: Drivers, Cardesign, Pitcrew, Strategists work together for the win of glory.
With the best teams, the cars are built around the driver to suit style, attitude and capability. It's usually that 'Formula' that wins most often. Prime example Schumacher. But the difference from Indy isn't that one is better than the other, Indy is good for that level playing field to test drivers, F1 is about the whole package, but certain constructors will be ahead due to new innovation from an area of their camp and it's up to the others to figure out how to keep up. It's sooo interesting, once you see that they all use the same size powerplants and that there IS still a fundamental level field for the base car specs and that everything else is the teams design input. It's mindboggling.
While people usually latch on to the World Driver's Championship, F1 is innately a constructor's sport. Not that the driver's championship is not important (to the public eye it's more important) but the main focus is about who can build the best car within a set of rules. Which is also why I think the cost cap was neccessary.
About F1 cars seemingly falling apart easily in a crash you could concider this to be a safety feature that protects the driver. It looks dramatic but every part that breaks loose from a car means less kinetic energy will be transfered to the driver at impact. That can make a huge difference at 200 mph. The cockpit on the other hand is designed to stay in one piece under all circumstances.
I will say i live in Miami FL and the F1 Grand Prix is a spectacle to watch, I was lucky enough to go to the race last year in 2023 but tickets for Miami GP are ridiculously expensive. I paid 450 for a 3 day pass which to me was a relatively good price and in my budget to attend. This year in 2024 the same tickets were 645 and just out of my budget.
In general i would say the cost cap is a good thing. A couple years back mercedes spent like a hundred million more on their car than any other team (450 million) while the lowest spender was 80 million
Formula 1 is such a strategic motorsport that its not just about the driver that wins. It appreciates not only their skilled driver but the team behind the construction of the car itself. The reason you may think that it would be unfair for drivers to swap positions is also cause of their points individually. If one driver from their team has more points than their teammate (due to the total of past races in the season with higher race positions) they are likely to be their first priority to win with a higher grand prix finish. Its so strategic that the races are not just about the drivers but they have to think of the type of wheels in pit stops, where they plan to do DRS and whether they should defend a teams driver or attack their position,… during a span of the 90 mins of racing in a 200mph/323kmph circuit.
F1's NETZERO goal for the car won't be electric. The aim is to develop a sustainable fuel that can eliminate carbon emissions. This will provide an option for car owners worldwide who may prefer not to transition to electric vehicles. With this fuel, car owners can continue using their existing vehicles and engines, making the transition to sustainable transportation more convenient and accessible. Once this fuel is made available to the public, it will provide a viable and eco-friendly alternative for car owners who want to reduce their carbon footprint.
Formula-E already exists since many years. And they were smart, they reserved the exclusive rights to be the only pure electric Formula racing series within the FIA family. Which means, seeing Formula 1 evolving to pure electric is highly unlikely alone from a legal standpoint.
F1 is a competition between constructors in origin. They needed drivers to test and race their cars. So a driver is part of a team and also part of the development of the car. The constructors champignionship is most important, second is drivers champignionship. Because of the constructors you see F1 tech in road cars and you see roadcar tech being developped in F1 cars.
EVERYTIME an F1 car is running, the sensors are sending Gb's of information per second (ok, maybe per minute) to the engineers. Remember.. "The sport of nerds!" Thst's why comms are heavily used between pilot and engineer. The engineer has a ton of data on how each component of the car is running (or how it needs to be driven in order to perform).
Fun fact on the data that F1 cars produce, yes, they produce data all the time, An F1 cars have over 300 sensors which collect up to 10,000 individual data points every second! Each car collects over 1.5 TERABYTES of data over the course of a single race, they measure track temperature, tire degradation, aerodynamic performance, brake temps, airflow, engine performance, brake and throttle usage and even things like driver responsiveness. They use all of this data during the race so they can decide when to change tires, which compound of tire to choose (there are multiple tire softness choices) and team strategies are very dynamic and can change from lap to lap.
I definitely say there’s a lot of science that goes into the races, but just to put it into perspective the difference between a fast car and a slow car is measured in not in seconds but tenths of a second. It’s up to the individual drivers to extract as much from the package they are given as they can. Once the driver is able to extract the cars maximum potential, that’s when the cars natural characteristics on certain track layouts (i.e. tracks with longer straights and low speed corners versus tracks wi shorter straights and high/medium speed corners) make the difference. But at the end of the day that’s what makes Formula One a team sport and so interesting. Just like in football where franchises try and draft the best players, coaches and staff; manufacturers do the same in Formula One when filling out their individual teams. The cost cap was mainly just to encourage new entries into Formula 1 instead of just being limited to the same old 10 teams forever.
In Europe Universities have something similar named Formula student. Each University build their own car and compete in one great event for the best car
Indy is more competitive for the drivers, F1 is more competitive for the teams. It's very much an engineering series first and foremost, but these cars are so on edge they need the best pilots to drive them.
Teams have dozens of people at their headquarters analysing all the data coming live from the cars during the race and can help the team in the pits at the race come up with strategies and solutions
4:00 *Formula 1* is "Car Racing" which makes part of "Motor Sports". The importance of a driver is roughly 25% of the total package, while the remaining percentages are 25% chassis, 25% engine, and probably the most important part is 25% tires (also known as the black art) since it's the only component of the car that makes contact with the tarmac. Otherwise it would be called "Race Driver Sport" or "Pilot Race Sport". The difference of a good drivers and great drivers does not only involve around winning. A great driver has more to do with how smooth they drive the race line. Velocity does not win races, but smoothness does. Is their driving style to drive hard, break hard, and drive hard again, or drive slower before the entry of a curve and hit the apex at a higher speed? Drivers are also judged how they negotiate passing a car ahead of them or defend their position without causing any accidents. Great drivers has more to do with tire management, and are they a wet weather master or a rain master.
4:02 yes, in that meaning yes, it's better. Progress has been made in recent years to make it closer, but it's still very much a competition between the drivers AND the constructors at the same time. The rule of max $140mil was put in place, as at the end of 2020s, the poorest team (williams) was spending around $120 mil, meanwhile mercedes was spending more than 4 times that since 2015 until 2019. Is it better? Idk, I'm used to this format and at the end of the day, I just wanna see some cool cars go astronomically fast, even if the rules are completely made up and make no sense, since it's still just plain fun. And yes, it's very much a nerds' sport, it's not uncommon for top people in the teams to hold PhDs in their areas of expertise.
Indycar depends indeed more on the skill of the drivers, BUT if the indycar drivers really are better drivers..... they'd probably end up in F1. To end up in F1 you need all the things a top athlete has , talent, resisliance, mental and physical strength, a lot of luck, ... but more than in any other sport it depends on what your parents can and are willing to invest in terms of time and money, in a very uncertain future. As far as i know, from recent drivers, only Kimi Raikonen had really humble background, with quite poor parents that worked themselves to death to give their sons a future in the sport. All the others were born wealthy. Some may pretend they had it rough, but i call that fishing for sympathy, most of them really have no clue what hardship is. So are they the best, most talented drivers in the world? Hard to say. The current Champion, Max Verstappen , both parents are racers, his dad in F1 ( not very succesfull tho), so he has good genetics. They also had plenty of cash. His dad devoted all his time to get max to F1, from the age of 4. Oh and Michael Schumacher is Max his godfather. 😂, ..... just saying he was Bred for becoming an F1 champion. And currently there is no one even close to him, but he also has the best car. This beeing said, put these guys in a rally car and they will perform OK but will be far from the winner, they admit that themselves. But Are rally drivers more skilled ( and a bit crazy😂) ? I like the sport, have been an F1 fan for decades, but just for the tech and the racing , couldnt care less about the show aspect. F1 would ve been fine on the classic tracks, without Liberty media ruining it. It does not belong in Vegas, Miami , Abu Dhabi,...... . I am Sorry for the rant. Let myself go a bit 😂. Take care 🤘❤️
Check out Lewis Hamilton’s humble beginnings, his father had multiple jobs to fund his son’s racing, also an old legend Nigel mansell remortgaged his home to keep racing,
@@margaretpattison7533thanks Margaret, ... that is why i usually say " as far as i know..." 😂. I was in doubt about Hamilton ( didnt check, i like him as a youngster, not as a star, nevertheless one of the greats) , but i did know about Nigel Mansel, but i dont consider him a recent driver. But you gotta admit , those are the rare exceptions to the rule. 🤘❤️
McLaren has an Indy Driver in their reserve role, Pato O'Ward, and there was discussion on Colton Herta also doing F1 and there is also the Alex Palou situation that happened too, Im sure that someday we will have an indy driver end up doing F1. F1 is just very hard to get into recently, like next season of F1 will have all the same previous drivers its just very very difficult to get an F1 seat at the moment. Hopefully Andretti can get accepted to be a new F1 team.
@@CobraChicken101 The brazilian Rubens Barrichello was also from a humble background as far as i know. I also heard a lot that Ocon is from the same boat but not sure if it's true.
Well f1 drivers that dont cut it go to indy car and generally do well. But indy car drivers dont really get into f1 and when they get a shot there is a huge learning curve. As the driver has a bunch of changes to break balance and engine modes and what not during the race.
The way this video plays out anybody would think Formula One was something invented last year. It has been around in its present form since the 1950's. It has gone through changes, originally based on manufacturer teams such as Mercedes and Ferrari but evolving into a mix of private and manufacture teams and sponsors.
You have to see F1 vs road cars as an exchange in knowledge. You can see that brands that are competing in F1 (also in WRC btw) are so much more reliable then brands that don't. You also notice that ergonomics are better, such as placement of dials, levers, mirrors,... Simply said, a brand that races will ask more for their cars and that allows them to do more R&D. Some technologies come from regular production, are perfected in F1 and then trickle back down to road cars. AMG is a very good example of tMB cars also profit from that. I've driven numerous brands and it seems to come down to that. The Merc I have is a 2,2L diesel, consumes 49mpg at 90mph and 60mpg at 75mph , has an excellent warning system, dito for drive assistance. It will auto break if needed, independently on all four wheels, shifts or limits power to the right wheel. This is all thanks to decent R&D. They have driven it that far that I will get an email with a quote if the car decides it needs maintenance and you'll get an app that will give you all detailed data about the car. Dont' get me wrong: these developments are popping up everywhere but hardly as practical and to the point as this.
One make series like Indycar don't have the design and manufacture of the car as a pivotal point that effects the performance of the car . F1 also has the ability to improve your average road car by the constant development of things on the race car . The Indycar is only on the performance of the drivers against each other . Being an Australian who has been a fan of F1 since the 70's the most amazing thing about F1 is the winning 1966 Brabham car but also the F1 Champion Jack Brabham . He designed built and raced the car into the record books as the only Driver , Designer & Manufacturer to win the F1 clean sweep . It has never been done since and because of the new rules will never happen as its impossible for the driver to be involved with the cars design due to skill levels being spread over so many persons abilities .
the cost cap is the only way to bring the designers and engineers back to the front of this sports. Yes in Formula 1 it needs a great driver, even more so than in indy car. Because the driver is not just driving, he is also developing the setup and the direction of the car. Formula 1 is a Team sport not only a driver sport. it is bad for drivers in less great cars but sometimes they can shine. Like Frentzen in 99 or Senna in 1991 or the brawn team in 2009. And we do have a lot of great things thanks to F1.
The pinnacle of motor sport with many technical innovations trickling down to the everyday road cars we drive.Whilst top speeds may be similar an F1 car would absolutely obliterate an Indycar on a typical F1 circuit.
This is Europe, the limit was not because of "fair competition". That's really an American thing. The reason is more to keep it sustainable. To win a lot of teams in all sports in Europe, might want to overspend what they can handle.(/cough, championship clubs spending tens of millions on players in a second division to get a shot to get in the prem) It's a league security thing, not a "fairness" thing.
Although I really enjoyed this video, it was all the probably more boring, sciency-technical bit of F1. I think it would be a great idea to watch a F1 explained video, all about the races and the rules, the history, etc. Keep up the great work guys!
Boys, you have to check Formula 1 from the Golden Era - 1995-2008. Absolutely out of this world thing. Produced the best sound and the fastest F1 car EVER - the F2004, which even today when given the same tires as the modern cars, laps 2, 3 to 5 seconds faster depending on the track. And if you think $400 mil is a lot, back in the ultimate domination years of Ferrari, they were calculated to be spending between 1.2 and $1.5 Billion (that's with a B) on their F1 program. That was back in the early 2000s. Adjusted for inflation today that's more than $2.3 Billion.
The designe of the car is done around the drive. If you like a tight front or a grippy backend you can get that. if the shasy is off the shelf and all the same it has more to do with if you drive well with that type of car. Verstappen loves his car His team mate hate it and wonts to go back to last years car. They wont let him
I feel it misses some key rules, such as for each race there a 3 types of tyre - soft, medium and hard, and every car has to use at least 2 of those types or they'll be disqualified....
To be fair, Verstappen is such an extraordinary talent I have full confidence he can be a world class driver in any format he chooses, be it Indy, Endurance, Rally, Soapbox.... the man is unstoppable.
Even though im late to answering your question…. If kinda does/doesn’t affect the playing field. This past season there were a total of two teams who started to show improvement (it being McLaren and Mercedes) but however like you said the CAP but sort of a limit bc for instance (Red Bull). They had such a successful season that if they were to develop their car even more they practically would’ve already one the championship in just a matter of time. Now it being better than Indy is a stretch not gonna lie. This is because Indy like she said share the same chassis design and it’s up to the driver to showcase that power rather it being how it is in formula one. The teams are responsible for setting up their own chassis which we all should know by now but the performance of the driver and the car itself what makes formula 1 interesting. Hopefully this somewhat answered your question even though I’m late to the party.
The cap is more to prevent someone from getting a team dropping billions into a car and winning everything.And the driver is still the one that steers the car.
There is already a formula for electric car racing- its called "Formula E"!! Going by the state of EV's at the moment, I think that F1 is looking towards other fuels including synthetic. As to the speed of these vehicles, the logo on the cars are NOT stickers, thats actually painted on. the slight ridge of the sticker is considered a drag!! Thats how far these guys go!
@04:40 well thats a fair point... so we all can run racecars from 80s.. right? only skill.. 0 improvement... GOT YA! F1 is the BlackSmith of Car stuff!
Hi loved the video! You guys mentioned that there is a lot more to the sport than fast car and fast driver which is true. Here is a link to a behind the scenes of what happens during a race which you don’t usually see on any feeds. Hope you enjoy! 🥳
Back in the day F1 had some influence on developing tech for the normal road car. But that was decades ago. Today anything "new" they come up with would be totally useless on a normal car. And that's because they are not trying to do that. They are only trying to build the fastest car they can. So everything they invent is specifically geared toward that. An evolution that makes a stupid fast car 1% faster has no place on the road but can win you a championship in this sport.
You're not wrong about the team orders thing. There's some pretty famous instances; like the Belgian Grand Prix in '98, where Jordan's cars were leading in first and second, and the driver in second (Ralf Schumacher, Michael Schumacher's rather less successful brother) was ordered by the team not to attempt to pass his teammate (the Brit, Damon Hill) ahead of him, and instead focus on fending off the car in third place. Ralf was not happy and ended up leaving Jordan under a cloud- basically walked away from that race declaring he'd never drive for them again. Has to rankle pretty hard to be told you're basically your teammate's palanquin bearer... but when one driver is a dominant force and the other is... not so much, it's almost inevitable. Not the case for Hill and Ralf Schumacher admittedly, I liked Hill- a lot- but he really doesn't make anyone's GOAT shortlist.
and that evolution has changed modern day cars more safe, more fuel consumption, aerodynamics...well except tesla. Materials were used 1st in space travel and so on but down force is the key. In late 80 they had crazy raw power engines with wings that suck you to track. When you lose it like going over (i don't know it in english but anyways) break that downforce...you were fucked. crazy enough it was pretty much same with rally cars.
So the problem with the video that it is a lot more complicated than she explains. Every 4 years we get new car regulations and within those regulations teams built their cars. You are allowed to spend ca 135 million dollars (adjust for inflation) for the car. But what does that mean? Alle personel and departments that have an impact on the performance, development, transport, maintenance of the car except the top 5 personel including drivers. But it is really hard to discover which personel have an impact on this so the teams do clever accounting. Updating you facility is not directly related to the car or is it? So running an f1 team costs way more than 135 million but the top team cant do the following tactick: built 20 front wings or 20 differnt cars and pick which one works the best for which track or season. So far the cost cap helps the midfield is closer together within second. And it is a hinderence because teams don't development very vast. So you can't rectify mistakes.
Guys..a crash video? Do y'all realize that to a racer, that would be like a football video with nothing but fumbles & dropped passes? Seriously though, nice reaction. And I think lil' girl was right about "Drive to Survive" bringing more fans to the sport here in the US. I've been a fan since I was a child in the late 1960s, and I've never heard so much chat about F1 until this last couple of years. Oh, and look into Lewis Hamilton's career. When he was first hired by McLaren, many folks thought it was a publicity stunt. "First black Formula One driver?!?" It didn't take him long to prove them wrong. My friends from the UK (I was also a flagman before & after I raced as an amateur, met other flaggers from all over the world at things like the 24hrs of Daytona & 12hrs of Sebring) who'd seen him as a kid in a kart knew he was the real deal. We all hoisted a beer in Lewis' honor when he brought it home in 2008.
"Does it mean indycar is better" well, yes and no. Like you said indycar is more about the drivers. F1 is about teams making the fastest car they can and develop through the season. Personally, i like f1 better. It brings out the geek in me
In my opinion, Formula 1 is more interesting than Indy. In Formula 1, it's true that the focus is more on the car. However, the driver must also be able to provide the right feedback to further develop the car. Max Verstappen, as an example, excels in all areas. Through his loyalty to the team, the team as a whole is able to perform exceptionally well.
F1 is a laboratory for the car industry. If it's an adrenalin fueled and HIGHLY entertaining laboratory .... why not merchandise the living crap out of it?
To give you an idea on how it sells, before they started winning in F1 Mercedes was basically irrelevant. The association that Mercedes has with extreme performance started when they started winning.
One thing to note is, the best drivers will get picked up by the best teams. And the cars are actually really close to each other in performance, even if certain teams tend to build faster cars. Shitty drivers don’t win championships
Electric is not THE future. It’s the future we chose. The future can go in the direction we want. So the industry can choose to go somewhere else. It all depend on them
the CAP is meh, in the past you had a group of guys designing parts for the engines, where the company put that expence into the RACING budget, which I'm sure had a different tax than the car manufacturing division part of the company. Now the Race team just puts down, PURCHASE of that part from the company instead of the cost of designing it, lowering the CAP but not really. The same amount is being spent but how its broken down is now different.
Electric via batteries is not going to last. Production (shortage) and waste (pollution) are major issues. Hydrogen generating electricity and or another source will replace the batteries. Combined with the 0 emission fuels to develop over the years it is going to be a lot different that most suspect.
At any given time there are around 10 000 airplanes in the air. Every single one of them burn around 2-3 tons of fuel every hour or around 30 000 tons per hour / ~750 000 tons of fuel every single day!!! EVERY DAY!!! But the question is when F1 will go electrical !?!?!? Answer: ..... NEVER
The answer for both then is probably sustainable synthetic fuels, only a couple of weeks the first transatlantic commercial flight with 100% sustainable fuel took place so it is already possible.
I think the F1 teams are more interested in looking at synthetic fuels than going electric. I know the fans would rather it go that way, for the engine noise.
Understandable but there will be a time where they might not have a choice but to change. But all that they have giving with they technology they have gain is pretty awesome.
@@RealFansSports as far as i know F1 isn't allowed to go fully electric, since that would make Formula E useless
@@RealFansSportsI love the French approach at Le Mans they used the waste products from Wine production to create high octane biofuels for race cars.
I am an Englishman but got to give one French for that idea.
These biofuels made from waste products from other sources will keep internal combustion engines for racing going a long time to come.
@@RealFansSports Well, we do already have Formula E as its own racing series.
@@RealFansSports ive been McLaren fan since 1995. Full electric requires more batteries which are heavier, we all know this, but F1 requires the car to be light, you put more weight only adds pressure to have more power but it lacks top speed(not in science, but the races), the problem ends up with top speed, as the weight ends up disturbing the Aerodynamics. As the rule changes, the light version of F1 cars are much easier to design than a heavy car. Batteries needs its next light weight form, and lithium is extremely dangerous for f1 that keeps pushing the envelope. So they won't be using eletric engines for the next few decades.
The engineers and their teams from Teams like Redbull and Mercedes
Produced also medical breathing machines in the Covid time. Hospitals hadn’t enough machines so the teams started the projects to create those machines to help the victims of covid in the hospital.
Those guys are allround and so highly skilled engineers. Love what they did.
Also F1 teams are highly experienced at getting things turned around quickly due to the time constraints between races, so they went from 'we need this thing' to 'we have a working prototype of this thing and it's ready for testing' in literal days.
F1 teams usually have a remote (off track) team of dozens of people in their headquarters analysing real-time data to make sure the car doesn't die and to help calculate the best race strategy given the situation on the track, tyre deg, brake deg/heat fuel load, opposition situation etc etc etc etc...
The cap in my opinion was less about fairness and more about Making sure the sport foes not become insanely expensive which would disuade Smaller teams and limit them.
The main purpose of f1 is to push both drivers AND the cars and teams to the absolute limit. Driving innovation. Its not really "unfair" for a team to spend more money because if you have bad engineers it doesnt matter how much you pay them.
Maybe the intent wasn't leveling the playing field. But it surely has that effect. You can't really argue about the cost cap working. It is. The gaps are closer than a long long long time. And the gap between first and last is just way smaller. That is not just the reg changes, those are costcap and cfd time regulations. The fact that red bull overspend shows how detailed these regs are and are for sure impacting performance.
The cost cap is needed but IMO it doesn't bring the pack together my example Is when merc an RB spent 400 mill and 350 mill in 1 year haas spent 19 mill lol . I do believe in cost cap but I hope it also forces other teams to actually spend that same money. Just so we are all on the same page the actually car cost around 2 mill a car it's the R&D that takes the funding.
There actually already is an electric version of Formula 1: Formula E. So I personally think as long as we have fuel-reliant cars (wheather that be fossil fuels or new alternatives) we'll have f1 as we know it and fe as its own, sperate thing
I've really enjoyed your f1 reactions so far; some videos on crashes or (overtake)highlights would probably be really interesting to watch but I'd also love to see you guys react to more of the memes/ funny moments/ drivers roasting each other
Electric cars are a bit of a joke, environmentally speaking, anyway.
Thank you for checking out the reactions and we appreciate you and your comments. We definitely get what you are saying but there will be a time where electric may be the only choice you know. But we totally get where you are coming from with your comment.
@@RealFansSports Cleo Abrams is already out with a Formula E episode just check it out!. And in 25 yrs. of watching the sport at age 37 F1 is the sickest but the most entertaining and strategic motorsport of all time. FYI: it's not about the front runners of the race but also the back markers where we see new faces arrive future champions like Mika Hakkinen "The Flying Finn", Michael Schumacher, Max Verstappen, The Iceman - Kimi Raikkonen and more
At the 2000's F1 was at it is technology pike in engines: they had 3.0 liters V10 with 800hp, engines were literally made just for 2 hours of race.
There are so many elements that contribute to being able to win a race.
- Car design
- Car setup
- Driver performance
- Pit stop strategy
- Pit stop crews
- Weather
- Surface temperature
- Track surface
- Communication
- Team strategy
- Budget
Each team has two drivers, and there's almost always a dominant driver that consistently performs better. Sometimes to the extreme. So it's definitely a competition between drivers as much as it's a competition between teams. Right now, Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris are very close performers for McLaren, and George Russell and Louis Hamilton are very close for Mercedes. But there is a huge gap between Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez for Red Bull. Of course the drivers can't compete if the car doesn't perform, but drivers can sign contracts with different manufacturers if they perform well, and improve their chances of winning by signing with a more competitive team.
Fun fact... In the salary cap aren't counted few things, like the first 5 top salaries... That probably are as much as the cap itself... Hamilton and Verstappen are taking more than 50mil
In English please?
@@lordoftheidiots8866There are many things that are excluded from the Cost Cap like driver salaries
@@RipePan Like it says in the OG video?
The cap is great and honestly it makes for having the most optimum engineering solution. The driver salaries do not come into this cap. It is just building the car. And compared to Indy, the fact that each team can design their own car and improve within the regulations, pushes a whole team rather than just the car. So human complexity is much more involved because you have more minds cooking the soup called F1 car and within a team there are two drivers who have their own preferences which makes for two different cars from the same team. Indy makes the driver super valuable, F1 makes the driver and paddock team, engineers, strategist and the how everyone interacts, every inch of it extremely valuable. You can have the best car in F1 and if you cannot have the competency as your teammate can really show up bad. Just check this years F1 season. The drivers champion won 19/22 races, and his team won 21/22. His teammate was the second in the drivers championship list, but the champ had more double the points of the runner-up from the same team. So that does explain how important the driver is and the team around him which he gets his own team of engineers, strategist who are different from his teammate. Only the top management is the same who care more on the Team Championship. F1 is complex and a couple of videos do not make justice for it, but kudos that you guys are receptive.
"...each team can design their own car..." is not 100% correct. They are required to do so.
Upgrades can be done between races. A front wing etc any 10th of a second can be crucial!
Paddle shifters, active suspension, carbon fibre chassis, Kinetic energy recovery system (kers), steering wheel control buttons, onboard diagnostics and telematics, traction control system, Anti-lock braking system (abs), dual clutch auto gearboxes, hybrid power trains, disc brakes, turbocharging - all of these technologies we see on road cars (and so many more I haven't listed) were all either pioneered in
F1 or further developed to point where their benefits become advantageous enough to warrant mass usage
Dunno if you guys already jumped off of the F1 train, but one of the best ways to compare what F1 cars do on track, is to watch the drivers train their neck muscles, to handle G forces around a track. Then watch Indy drivers, test drive F1 cars and their reactions, how they were physically incapable of holding their head up, to see properly in turns. Another would be to watch GT3 race cars take the corner Eau Rouge, at Spa, and then watch F1 cars take the same corner. The live footage of the racing doesn't often translate how bonkers this sport is.
13:50 about tax write offs. Some people think tax write offs will net you a profit or make you money but it won't. The only thing tax write offs would get you is no tax on the money spent. So you aren't saving money because that 430 million is still being spent but you won't get taxed on it for income but you still pay sales tax for whatever you buy. If the team makes 1.2 million from operating a F1 team then that 1.2 million still gets taxed so now you are out 430 million AND you pay tax on the 1.2 million you did make so the write off only serves to not pay tax on the 430 million you spent but doesn't "earn" you any money. Businesses will very rarely "write off" projects JUST for the tax benefit as you still need to earn money.
I think the reason they Introduced formula E, it started the first season with all the same base car but gave manufacturers freedom to modify for later seasons. Essentially developing better batteries, motors, recharging etc.
Next should be "entire history of f1, i guess" i think you guys would love it
Is that different from the history of deadly crashes in f1.
You read about pre 90s crashes but watching them is shocking.
yeah, pre cost cap the difference between big teams and smaller less wealthy teams was huge. (For example Mercedes one season spent more than 400 million USD, while Williams spent less than 100 million). The cost cap evend it out a little bit. But R&D tokens are the biggest news. Each team receives the same amount of r&d tokens after a season ends which they use to develop and improve specific parts of their cars. Except when there is a new big technical regulations change (like two years ago with the new front and rear wing design etc). Teams then decide if they want to spend all the tokens right away or use most of them immediately, and then use the rest for mid-season developments. And each part costs a certain numbert of tokens. Here's the weird part - sometimes changing one thing (spending a token or two on a specific part) can mean that you don't have to spend tokens on developing other parts which have to be changed because they are in some way connected with the original part. For example Ferrari (a few seasons ago) redesigned their transmission and gearbox spending two tokens which then caused them to be allowed to completely redesign rear aerodynamics without spending additional tokens. Now new regulations are preventing that. They are not even allowed to develop new cars for 2025 season before the next (2024) season ends. And yes safety regulations are constantly improving. For example, an accident during Canadian GP in 2007 almost killed Robert Kubica, but he returned two races later. Similar accident in the following seasons after that were much safer because HANS was invented protecting the driver's neck. Then after that tragedy when Justin Wilson was killed by that piece of another car in indycar race in Pocono 2015 FIA started the rules change to give frontal head protection to the drivers. While Indy chose that framed windscreen, F1 and other FIA governed open-wheel racing competitions decided to go with HALO already proving itself as a life saving device - from Guanyu Zhou's crash in Silverstone to that terribly looking fireball crash of Romain Grosjean. Even that Monza 2021 crash between Hamilton and Verstappen proved HALO a worthy invention.
One massive thing F1 is trying to solve is creating a fully sustainable fuel source for combustion engines. Now this will be revolutionary if they can solve it
So much goes into F1 that people don’t usually think about. For example, drivers have to be a specific weight because of how they’ve designed the cars. Their teams have built this machine to a certain weight for optimum handling/speed. If a driver goes into a race 5lbs over weight then it can make a huge difference to times and handling.
Lots of things like ABS, etc came out of F1
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First you have to define what a sport is. Some people define sport only on the physical aspect. Some define it also in the mental aspect. (Chess). I define sport as everything where a person or a team complete for glory. F1 is a teamsport: Drivers, Cardesign, Pitcrew, Strategists work together for the win of glory.
Electric F1 championship already exist and it's amazing, the technology used is incredible.
With the best teams, the cars are built around the driver to suit style, attitude and capability. It's usually that 'Formula' that wins most often. Prime example Schumacher. But the difference from Indy isn't that one is better than the other, Indy is good for that level playing field to test drivers, F1 is about the whole package, but certain constructors will be ahead due to new innovation from an area of their camp and it's up to the others to figure out how to keep up. It's sooo interesting, once you see that they all use the same size powerplants and that there IS still a fundamental level field for the base car specs and that everything else is the teams design input. It's mindboggling.
While people usually latch on to the World Driver's Championship, F1 is innately a constructor's sport. Not that the driver's championship is not important (to the public eye it's more important) but the main focus is about who can build the best car within a set of rules. Which is also why I think the cost cap was neccessary.
About F1 cars seemingly falling apart easily in a crash you could concider this to be a safety feature that protects the driver. It looks dramatic but every part that breaks loose from a car means less kinetic energy will be transfered to the driver at impact. That can make a huge difference at 200 mph. The cockpit on the other hand is designed to stay in one piece under all circumstances.
I will say i live in Miami FL and the F1 Grand Prix is a spectacle to watch, I was lucky enough to go to the race last year in 2023 but tickets for Miami GP are ridiculously expensive. I paid 450 for a 3 day pass which to me was a relatively good price and in my budget to attend. This year in 2024 the same tickets were 645 and just out of my budget.
Damn! I would love to attend all kind of different sporting events! That’s the dream
In general i would say the cost cap is a good thing. A couple years back mercedes spent like a hundred million more on their car than any other team (450 million) while the lowest spender was 80 million
Formula 1 is such a strategic motorsport that its not just about the driver that wins. It appreciates not only their skilled driver but the team behind the construction of the car itself. The reason you may think that it would be unfair for drivers to swap positions is also cause of their points individually. If one driver from their team has more points than their teammate (due to the total of past races in the season with higher race positions) they are likely to be their first priority to win with a higher grand prix finish. Its so strategic that the races are not just about the drivers but they have to think of the type of wheels in pit stops, where they plan to do DRS and whether they should defend a teams driver or attack their position,… during a span of the 90 mins of racing in a 200mph/323kmph circuit.
F1's NETZERO goal for the car won't be electric. The aim is to develop a sustainable fuel that can eliminate carbon emissions. This will provide an option for car owners worldwide who may prefer not to transition to electric vehicles. With this fuel, car owners can continue using their existing vehicles and engines, making the transition to sustainable transportation more convenient and accessible. Once this fuel is made available to the public, it will provide a viable and eco-friendly alternative for car owners who want to reduce their carbon footprint.
Formula-E already exists since many years. And they were smart, they reserved the exclusive rights to be the only pure electric Formula racing series within the FIA family. Which means, seeing Formula 1 evolving to pure electric is highly unlikely alone from a legal standpoint.
F1 is a competition between constructors in origin. They needed drivers to test and race their cars. So a driver is part of a team and also part of the development of the car. The constructors champignionship is most important, second is drivers champignionship. Because of the constructors you see F1 tech in road cars and you see roadcar tech being developped in F1 cars.
EVERYTIME an F1 car is running, the sensors are sending Gb's of information per second (ok, maybe per minute) to the engineers.
Remember.. "The sport of nerds!"
Thst's why comms are heavily used between pilot and engineer. The engineer has a ton of data on how each component of the car is running (or how it needs to be driven in order to perform).
Guys 2021 season was so insane u guys should check it out
Fun fact on the data that F1 cars produce, yes, they produce data all the time, An F1 cars have over 300 sensors which collect up to 10,000 individual data points every second! Each car collects over 1.5 TERABYTES of data over the course of a single race, they measure track temperature, tire degradation, aerodynamic performance, brake temps, airflow, engine performance, brake and throttle usage and even things like driver responsiveness. They use all of this data during the race so they can decide when to change tires, which compound of tire to choose (there are multiple tire softness choices) and team strategies are very dynamic and can change from lap to lap.
I definitely say there’s a lot of science that goes into the races, but just to put it into perspective the difference between a fast car and a slow car is measured in not in seconds but tenths of a second. It’s up to the individual drivers to extract as much from the package they are given as they can. Once the driver is able to extract the cars maximum potential, that’s when the cars natural characteristics on certain track layouts (i.e. tracks with longer straights and low speed corners versus tracks wi shorter straights and high/medium speed corners) make the difference. But at the end of the day that’s what makes Formula One a team sport and so interesting. Just like in football where franchises try and draft the best players, coaches and staff; manufacturers do the same in Formula One when filling out their individual teams. The cost cap was mainly just to encourage new entries into Formula 1 instead of just being limited to the same old 10 teams forever.
you can also check out "The Main Differences Between F1 & IndyCar Racing!" by romain grosjean
In Europe Universities have something similar named Formula student. Each University build their own car and compete in one great event for the best car
Indy is more competitive for the drivers, F1 is more competitive for the teams.
It's very much an engineering series first and foremost, but these cars are so on edge they need the best pilots to drive them.
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Teams have dozens of people at their headquarters analysing all the data coming live from the cars during the race and can help the team in the pits at the race come up with strategies and solutions
4:00 *Formula 1* is "Car Racing" which makes part of "Motor Sports". The importance of a driver is roughly 25% of the total package, while the remaining percentages are 25% chassis, 25% engine, and probably the most important part is 25% tires (also known as the black art) since it's the only component of the car that makes contact with the tarmac. Otherwise it would be called "Race Driver Sport" or "Pilot Race Sport". The difference of a good drivers and great drivers does not only involve around winning. A great driver has more to do with how smooth they drive the race line. Velocity does not win races, but smoothness does. Is their driving style to drive hard, break hard, and drive hard again, or drive slower before the entry of a curve and hit the apex at a higher speed? Drivers are also judged how they negotiate passing a car ahead of them or defend their position without causing any accidents. Great drivers has more to do with tire management, and are they a wet weather master or a rain master.
The future of Cars is not Electric
4:02 yes, in that meaning yes, it's better. Progress has been made in recent years to make it closer, but it's still very much a competition between the drivers AND the constructors at the same time. The rule of max $140mil was put in place, as at the end of 2020s, the poorest team (williams) was spending around $120 mil, meanwhile mercedes was spending more than 4 times that since 2015 until 2019. Is it better? Idk, I'm used to this format and at the end of the day, I just wanna see some cool cars go astronomically fast, even if the rules are completely made up and make no sense, since it's still just plain fun. And yes, it's very much a nerds' sport, it's not uncommon for top people in the teams to hold PhDs in their areas of expertise.
Indycar depends indeed more on the skill of the drivers, BUT if the indycar drivers really are better drivers..... they'd probably end up in F1. To end up in F1 you need all the things a top athlete has , talent, resisliance, mental and physical strength, a lot of luck, ... but more than in any other sport it depends on what your parents can and are willing to invest in terms of time and money, in a very uncertain future. As far as i know, from recent drivers, only Kimi Raikonen had really humble background, with quite poor parents that worked themselves to death to give their sons a future in the sport. All the others were born wealthy. Some may pretend they had it rough, but i call that fishing for sympathy, most of them really have no clue what hardship is. So are they the best, most talented drivers in the world? Hard to say. The current Champion, Max Verstappen , both parents are racers, his dad in F1 ( not very succesfull tho), so he has good genetics. They also had plenty of cash. His dad devoted all his time to get max to F1, from the age of 4. Oh and Michael Schumacher is Max his godfather. 😂, ..... just saying he was Bred for becoming an F1 champion. And currently there is no one even close to him, but he also has the best car. This beeing said, put these guys in a rally car and they will perform OK but will be far from the winner, they admit that themselves. But Are rally drivers more skilled ( and a bit crazy😂) ?
I like the sport, have been an F1 fan for decades, but just for the tech and the racing , couldnt care less about the show aspect. F1 would ve been fine on the classic tracks, without Liberty media ruining it. It does not belong in Vegas, Miami , Abu Dhabi,...... . I am Sorry for the rant. Let myself go a bit 😂. Take care 🤘❤️
Check out Lewis Hamilton’s humble beginnings, his father had multiple jobs to fund his son’s racing, also an old legend Nigel mansell remortgaged his home to keep racing,
@@margaretpattison7533thanks Margaret, ... that is why i usually say " as far as i know..." 😂. I was in doubt about Hamilton ( didnt check, i like him as a youngster, not as a star, nevertheless one of the greats) , but i did know about Nigel Mansel, but i dont consider him a recent driver. But you gotta admit , those are the rare exceptions to the rule. 🤘❤️
I too liked Lewis when he first started but not a fan now, a lot will disagree but we all have our favourites mine is Max, have a Merry Xmas...❤
McLaren has an Indy Driver in their reserve role, Pato O'Ward, and there was discussion on Colton Herta also doing F1 and there is also the Alex Palou situation that happened too, Im sure that someday we will have an indy driver end up doing F1. F1 is just very hard to get into recently, like next season of F1 will have all the same previous drivers its just very very difficult to get an F1 seat at the moment. Hopefully Andretti can get accepted to be a new F1 team.
@@CobraChicken101 The brazilian Rubens Barrichello was also from a humble background as far as i know. I also heard a lot that Ocon is from the same boat but not sure if it's true.
Prewatched af, dayumn !
On Disney+ there's a f1 mini doc series by Keane Reeves called BRAWN the impossible f1 story about a team bought for a pound.. very entertaining watch
Well f1 drivers that dont cut it go to indy car and generally do well. But indy car drivers dont really get into f1 and when they get a shot there is a huge learning curve. As the driver has a bunch of changes to break balance and engine modes and what not during the race.
The way this video plays out anybody would think Formula One was something invented last year. It has been around in its present form since the 1950's. It has gone through changes, originally based on manufacturer teams such as Mercedes and Ferrari but evolving into a mix of private and manufacture teams and sponsors.
@@photoisca7386 so we need to find a video of the history then?!
You have to see F1 vs road cars as an exchange in knowledge. You can see that brands that are competing in F1 (also in WRC btw) are so much more reliable then brands that don't. You also notice that ergonomics are better, such as placement of dials, levers, mirrors,... Simply said, a brand that races will ask more for their cars and that allows them to do more R&D. Some technologies come from regular production, are perfected in F1 and then trickle back down to road cars. AMG is a very good example of tMB cars also profit from that. I've driven numerous brands and it seems to come down to that.
The Merc I have is a 2,2L diesel, consumes 49mpg at 90mph and 60mpg at 75mph , has an excellent warning system, dito for drive assistance. It will auto break if needed, independently on all four wheels, shifts or limits power to the right wheel. This is all thanks to decent R&D.
They have driven it that far that I will get an email with a quote if the car decides it needs maintenance and you'll get an app that will give you all detailed data about the car.
Dont' get me wrong: these developments are popping up everywhere but hardly as practical and to the point as this.
One make series like Indycar don't have the design and manufacture of the car as a pivotal point that effects the performance of the car . F1 also has the ability to improve your average road car by the constant development of things on the race car . The Indycar is only on the performance of the drivers against each other .
Being an Australian who has been a fan of F1 since the 70's the most amazing thing about F1 is the winning 1966 Brabham car but also the F1 Champion Jack Brabham . He designed built and raced the car into the record books as the only Driver , Designer & Manufacturer to win the F1 clean sweep . It has never been done since and because of the new rules will never happen as its impossible for the driver to be involved with the cars design due to skill levels being spread over so many persons abilities .
the cost cap is the only way to bring the designers and engineers back to the front of this sports.
Yes in Formula 1 it needs a great driver, even more so than in indy car. Because the driver is not just driving, he is also developing the setup and the direction of the car.
Formula 1 is a Team sport not only a driver sport. it is bad for drivers in less great cars but sometimes they can shine. Like Frentzen in 99 or Senna in 1991 or the brawn team in 2009.
And we do have a lot of great things thanks to F1.
The pinnacle of motor sport with many technical innovations trickling down to the everyday road cars we drive.Whilst top speeds may be similar an F1 car would absolutely obliterate an Indycar on a typical F1 circuit.
This is Europe, the limit was not because of "fair competition". That's really an American thing.
The reason is more to keep it sustainable.
To win a lot of teams in all sports in Europe, might want to overspend what they can handle.(/cough, championship clubs spending tens of millions on players in a second division to get a shot to get in the prem)
It's a league security thing, not a "fairness" thing.
Although I really enjoyed this video, it was all the probably more boring, sciency-technical bit of F1. I think it would be a great idea to watch a F1 explained video, all about the races and the rules, the history, etc. Keep up the great work guys!
Boys, you have to check Formula 1 from the Golden Era - 1995-2008. Absolutely out of this world thing. Produced the best sound and the fastest F1 car EVER - the F2004, which even today when given the same tires as the modern cars, laps 2, 3 to 5 seconds faster depending on the track. And if you think $400 mil is a lot, back in the ultimate domination years of Ferrari, they were calculated to be spending between 1.2 and $1.5 Billion (that's with a B) on their F1 program. That was back in the early 2000s. Adjusted for inflation today that's more than $2.3 Billion.
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About the teams championship each point means 15 million more até the end of the year when splitting the whole cake.
The designe of the car is done around the drive. If you like a tight front or a grippy backend you can get that. if the shasy is off the shelf and all the same it has more to do with if you drive well with that type of car. Verstappen loves his car His team mate hate it and wonts to go back to last years car. They wont let him
I feel it misses some key rules, such as for each race there a 3 types of tyre - soft, medium and hard, and every car has to use at least 2 of those types or they'll be disqualified....
disc brakes, seat belts, active suspensions
In F1 there is even an award for the engineering Team...best innovative and so on...
Oh wow! Thats really cool!
4:20 indy is more on the driver, in f1 its a real team sport there are at some teams 700 people working
Verstappen!! ❤️🇳🇱❤️ I don't think a class of racing is better, just different. Its fair, everyone has the same rules.
To be fair, Verstappen is such an extraordinary talent I have full confidence he can be a world class driver in any format he chooses, be it Indy, Endurance, Rally, Soapbox.... the man is unstoppable.
F1 has already been Hybrids for years. They’re also running a Kinetic Energy Recovery System that stores unused energy under braking.
NFL salary cap is something north of $200m? $140m to build the car, race it, repair isn't nearly as big of a sticker shock
Even though im late to answering your question….
If kinda does/doesn’t affect the playing field. This past season there were a total of two teams who started to show improvement (it being McLaren and Mercedes) but however like you said the CAP but sort of a limit bc for instance (Red Bull). They had such a successful season that if they were to develop their car even more they practically would’ve already one the championship in just a matter of time. Now it being better than Indy is a stretch not gonna lie. This is because Indy like she said share the same chassis design and it’s up to the driver to showcase that power rather it being how it is in formula one. The teams are responsible for setting up their own chassis which we all should know by now but the performance of the driver and the car itself what makes formula 1 interesting.
Hopefully this somewhat answered your question even though I’m late to the party.
The cap is more to prevent someone from getting a team dropping billions into a car and winning everything.And the driver is still the one that steers the car.
Hey Zach you look exactly like a youtuber Davidsbeenhere, I think you both are twin, He's from America too running a food channel.
lmao funny enough someone else has said the same thing so it must be true
You should watch a Vid on the jlhistory of f1 it's very old,, I remember the cars from the 90s good times
There is already a formula for electric car racing- its called "Formula E"!! Going by the state of EV's at the moment, I think that F1 is looking towards other fuels including synthetic.
As to the speed of these vehicles, the logo on the cars are NOT stickers, thats actually painted on. the slight ridge of the sticker is considered a drag!! Thats how far these guys go!
Cleo’s videos are sick keep on top of her drops
you guys should see another "F1 for rookies" too. she made video again but with RedBull team, i think it's more specific and easy to learn.
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We just finished editing it! Should be up sometime today or tomorrow!
@RealFansSports woww thank you
Hey guy are you still doing the reaction video's for F1? I would like a reaction vid for the Miami race please
Disc brakes and radial tyres both come from f1
Disc brakes 1953 Jaguar in LeMans
Radial tyres 1948 Citröen
Both not F1
@04:40 well thats a fair point... so we all can run racecars from 80s.. right? only skill.. 0 improvement... GOT YA!
F1 is the BlackSmith of Car stuff!
Hi loved the video! You guys mentioned that there is a lot more to the sport than fast car and fast driver which is true. Here is a link to a behind the scenes of what happens during a race which you don’t usually see on any feeds. Hope you enjoy! 🥳
Back in the day F1 had some influence on developing tech for the normal road car. But that was decades ago. Today anything "new" they come up with would be totally useless on a normal car. And that's because they are not trying to do that. They are only trying to build the fastest car they can. So everything they invent is specifically geared toward that. An evolution that makes a stupid fast car 1% faster has no place on the road but can win you a championship in this sport.
You're not wrong about the team orders thing. There's some pretty famous instances; like the Belgian Grand Prix in '98, where Jordan's cars were leading in first and second, and the driver in second (Ralf Schumacher, Michael Schumacher's rather less successful brother) was ordered by the team not to attempt to pass his teammate (the Brit, Damon Hill) ahead of him, and instead focus on fending off the car in third place. Ralf was not happy and ended up leaving Jordan under a cloud- basically walked away from that race declaring he'd never drive for them again. Has to rankle pretty hard to be told you're basically your teammate's palanquin bearer... but when one driver is a dominant force and the other is... not so much, it's almost inevitable. Not the case for Hill and Ralf Schumacher admittedly, I liked Hill- a lot- but he really doesn't make anyone's GOAT shortlist.
and that evolution has changed modern day cars more safe, more fuel consumption, aerodynamics...well except tesla. Materials were used 1st in space travel and so on but down force is the key. In late 80 they had crazy raw power engines with wings that suck you to track. When you lose it like going over (i don't know it in english but anyways) break that downforce...you were fucked. crazy enough it was pretty much same with rally cars.
tech from indy racing doesnt come to future roadcars.
tech in F1 is invented for F1 and trickles down to all other cars eventually in some form.
So the problem with the video that it is a lot more complicated than she explains. Every 4 years we get new car regulations and within those regulations teams built their cars. You are allowed to spend ca 135 million dollars (adjust for inflation) for the car. But what does that mean? Alle personel and departments that have an impact on the performance, development, transport, maintenance of the car except the top 5 personel including drivers. But it is really hard to discover which personel have an impact on this so the teams do clever accounting. Updating you facility is not directly related to the car or is it? So running an f1 team costs way more than 135 million but the top team cant do the following tactick: built 20 front wings or 20 differnt cars and pick which one works the best for which track or season. So far the cost cap helps the midfield is closer together within second. And it is a hinderence because teams don't development very vast. So you can't rectify mistakes.
Guys..a crash video? Do y'all realize that to a racer, that would be like a football video with nothing but fumbles & dropped passes? Seriously though, nice reaction. And I think lil' girl was right about "Drive to Survive" bringing more fans to the sport here in the US. I've been a fan since I was a child in the late 1960s, and I've never heard so much chat about F1 until this last couple of years. Oh, and look into Lewis Hamilton's career. When he was first hired by McLaren, many folks thought it was a publicity stunt. "First black Formula One driver?!?" It didn't take him long to prove them wrong. My friends from the UK (I was also a flagman before & after I raced as an amateur, met other flaggers from all over the world at things like the 24hrs of Daytona & 12hrs of Sebring) who'd seen him as a kid in a kart knew he was the real deal. We all hoisted a beer in Lewis' honor when he brought it home in 2008.
"Does it mean indycar is better" well, yes and no. Like you said indycar is more about the drivers. F1 is about teams making the fastest car they can and develop through the season. Personally, i like f1 better. It brings out the geek in me
In my opinion, Formula 1 is more interesting than Indy. In Formula 1, it's true that the focus is more on the car. However, the driver must also be able to provide the right feedback to further develop the car. Max Verstappen, as an example, excels in all areas. Through his loyalty to the team, the team as a whole is able to perform exceptionally well.
F1 is a laboratory for the car industry. If it's an adrenalin fueled and HIGHLY entertaining laboratory .... why not merchandise the living crap out of it?
To give you an idea on how it sells, before they started winning in F1 Mercedes was basically irrelevant. The association that Mercedes has with extreme performance started when they started winning.
See all records Max Verstappen did break on becoming wc in 2023 . His 3rd wc btw
One thing to note is, the best drivers will get picked up by the best teams. And the cars are actually really close to each other in performance, even if certain teams tend to build faster cars. Shitty drivers don’t win championships
I love F1, but I even love Cleo more 😍
Formula E has an exclusivity contract to be the only electric race series until 2039, so F1 can't go fully electric until at least after that.
close, competitive racing is the goal
She just put out an updated video.
great video great host
We really enjoyed it as well!
ALL racing sports have a set of parameters that the cars need to be in. ALL of them.
for electrical vehicles there is formula E for that 100% electric
Electric is not THE future. It’s the future we chose. The future can go in the direction we want. So the industry can choose to go somewhere else. It all depend on them
F1 will never go full electric. It may die out over time or use synthetic fuels. Formula E is full electric and it is nowhere near as fast or exciting
F1 drivers are the best in the WORLD, when they leave F1 or don't get a team in F1 they go to Indy
the CAP is meh, in the past you had a group of guys designing parts for the engines, where the company put that expence into the RACING budget, which I'm sure had a different tax than the car manufacturing division part of the company. Now the Race team just puts down, PURCHASE of that part from the company instead of the cost of designing it, lowering the CAP but not really. The same amount is being spent but how its broken down is now different.
Electric via batteries is not going to last.
Production (shortage) and waste (pollution) are major issues.
Hydrogen generating electricity and or another source will replace the batteries.
Combined with the 0 emission fuels to develop over the years it is going to be a lot different that most suspect.
At any given time there are around 10 000 airplanes in the air. Every single one of them burn around 2-3 tons of fuel every hour or around 30 000 tons per hour / ~750 000 tons of fuel every single day!!! EVERY DAY!!!
But the question is when F1 will go electrical !?!?!?
Answer: ..... NEVER
The answer for both then is probably sustainable synthetic fuels, only a couple of weeks the first transatlantic commercial flight with 100% sustainable fuel took place so it is already possible.