Big ups to @Driver61 who we grabbed clips and team footage from to put together this video while in Montreal drinking too much beer. Also seen in the pits and/or shown on screen here: DeWalt DCF601 12V Screwdriver Metabo 12V Drill DeWALT DCBL722 20V Leaf Blower (for brakes) Bondhus T-handles Wera screwdrivers Maxiflex Gloves Husqvarna gas Leaf Blower (When it rains, for the pit box, so it's dry where they quickly stop) Beta, wrenches and storage
I would love to see you two collab and test the torque performance of all of his sim racing wheelbases. They might be the most expensive tools you'll ever test on your channel! I always wonder if the 20nm claims are accurate, and what actually is experienced during driving at the end of the steering wheel.
Glad you went over the tools! I've been keeping a eye out on battery packs, lots of Makita. Aston Martin has a custom top air inlet which iirc uses 2x Makita 5AH or 4x 5AH. Regardless, its cool to see Milwaukee 1in being used
Regarding that cross threaded center nut it's quite interesting how those work. Now I'm not a racing nut, and I had no idea up until a week or so back when another channel posted a video about the wheel nuts used in F1. So there may be some things I forgot or misunderstood. First of all is the material used. They are made of aluminium (I'm from Europe, deal with the spelling :) instead of steel or some other high strength alloy. This is done to keep the unsprung weight as low as possible. Further they are not using a hex nut as they want both a more positive engagement and having to turn less before engaging fully. The exact design differs between the stables, or at least it used to. I might be wrong but I think F1 standardized the wheel nut recently for safety and cost reassons. And the cost reason should not be scoffed at as they can cost $5000 each, and they are swapped out for a fresh nut every time they swap wheels. So swapping all four wheels can cost $20,000, and that's the wheel nuts and you still have to add the wheels and tires to this figure. The high cost is partly because the extremely small series made so they are basically custom made on a piece by piece basis. But they are also all x-rayed to ensure there are no defects in the material. But that's not where the weird stopps. There's also a automatic retention mechanism that stopps the nut from turning unless a the tool first unlocks it. This was introduced after some bad crashes were caused by a wheel nut working lose in the middle of a race. This mechanism increases complexity of the nut and increases the cost further.
We also use Aluminum nuts on the LMP3 cars, and it's actually specified in the homologation so we can't make our own out of titanium or something stronger. I'm not 100% sure but I believe the nuts on our LMP2 are also Aluminum. While the unsprung mass is lower, the weight of the 4 nuts on an endurance car matters a lot less than something like an F1 car. So I don't know why they won't let us make our own, but oh well.
Very cool, thank you. When the World Rally Championship came to town we learned an incredible amount just watching them set up and how they worked. The 555/Prodrive Subaru team looked like they had standardized a lot of their fasteners so they had really small toolkits for each mechanic, and they were very fast and efficient.
this was awesome. Id love to see a breakdown of the tool spotting on this years 24h nurburgring. so much action in the pits over night, lots of tools to see from a wide range of teams at various funding levels, from factory down to amateur garages. subraru team was particularly impressive.. 2 guys above engine, 3 guys around engine, 2 guys below engine and another two doing axles. absolute madness
Formula 2 also switched to DC wheel guns this year for the pitstops.. It's a semi bespoke Paoli gun, based on the Typhoon (Plus?) model, with some customised features developed in collaboration with FIA/Formula 2 teams.
pretty rad to see so many brands be represented. i wonder how muvh effort is really put into making some of those custom cooler setups some teams were running.
@@ryu-ken I'm glad channels like TTC exist to disprove the brand bias out there that leads to comments like yours. To say teams are at a disadvantage because they aren't running Milwaukee tools is naïve. Note: I use Milwaukee tools, but I would prefer different brands for different tools based on their performance, but the disadvantage of multiple batteries and chargers outweighs this.
@@ryanokeefe12 Agree that tool bias is a losing strategy. Best tool for the job regardless of brand. I do differ on owning multiple platforms, batteries and chargers. It's not an issue if the tools stay in one location as I have three brands and it works. When mobile that's a different story.
Really great video! I’ve always wondered what those blacked out blowers were. Very interesting with the Milwaukee trend. And no surprise with the SnapOn ratchets. Thanks for putting this together!
Absolutely loved this video. Would be amazing to see what's used in the pits at other events (particularly of interest to me would be rally events). Regardless, really loved that you could turn a fun adventure in to beneficial content for your channel! Thanks for sharing the insight!
Nice video… this reminds me of a story the president of the Scuderia Ferrari Club of Montreal told me when he was running the Minardi Club. It was Thursday before free practice and the team had just realized they had no blowers or carts to wheel the cars into the garage. Mr. Minardi being good friends with the club president knew he would be in the paddock on Friday for free practice. The team didn’t have time nor did the know where to get the special blowers needed. So, he called the club president to run this important errand, the hardware store opened at 8 and free practice was at 12. So the president runs into the store demanding specific parts and custom casters be installed on their shop carts, when asked why it had to be so detail and specific he responded “it’s for Minardi F1!” Funny how a professional racing team can forget such simple and vital things. He saved their weekend and cemented his relationship with Mr. Minardi
Great information and very insightful-thank you for sharing. Actually more brands and models in use than I might have guessed. Hadn't seven considered the use of cordless blowers.
Can’t say I’ve ever really watched a video on tools or ever taken much interest in them. However, this video was great. It’s amazing to see such a different video relating to F1. Nice work 👌
Idk if this would be possible but image going next year with a portable dyno capable of handling the toque of those center lock guns and doing in-the-garage- dyno tests. THAT, would be insane to see 😂
The guns are designed to apply the desired wheel nut torque as quickly as possible (fractions of a second)... while they are capable of large-ish peak torque numbers, it's not what they're designed for. Meaning the performance characteristics are extremely specific and the gun would likely perform poorly in a standard use case test or a peak torque test, when factoring in the other metrics like price, weight, size etc. The teams also won't let their multi-thousand dollar wheel guns get used and strained by members of the public for the sake of a torque test graph. The guns are standard for each team and it would provide no benefit to the teams to see what the peak torque numbers are.
I would say that the use of the clips in this video sit within Formula 1's fair use of the footage for commentary/education, they may take issue with the fact that the videos are cropped to remove the F1 graphics and logos.
Thanks for making this video 🎉 I’ve been looking out for what tools they’ve been using in F1 for years and up until recently. I almost always seen just Makita and Bosch power tools. This was such a fun video to watch 😁👍
Awesome video, man! But be aware that the FIA is very jealous about others using their F1 images. Many RUclips channels in my country have received strikes from them, unfortunately. Best regards from Brazil
Cool vid I am glad you put this out. I am suprised by basically all of it. I didn't have any expectations but seeing them using the tools the way you captured was really interesting. Gives those milwaukee die grinders some clout I guess haha
F2 the junior series to F1.they began this year to only use cordless impacts for pit stops. Pit stops are a lot slower with only one person per wheel, but it is still pretty cool
Thank you for this video. I love seeing Behind The Scenes content. I dislike how celebrity driven F-1 has become, this is the kind of content I wish F-1 and the networks would actually do.
Eyyyyy! Had no idea you guys were at the GP! You guys should do the pit stop challenge and post your time! Would love to shake hands with you guys if I see you around the grandstands!
I have shop space 10 minutes from downtown where they close streets for F1 celebrations. I was planning to drive down tonight but the weather has been crappy all day. Now I regret not going. Thanks.
Cordless impact guns are becoming more & more common across motorsport now especially in the garages. They are also used in F2 for pit stops now & V8 supercars in Australia were planning to use them from 2024 onwards in pit stops
This is very awesome footage on how everything works in a pit stop. Very cool. I never would have thought they used leaf blowers lol. Who would have known? Thank you for sharing. Pretty awesome video! 🤜🔥🤛
I’m a white-collar worker, and I’m pretty sure I saw more of brands for the the tools I use in my day-to-day than I did of mechanical tools. Fascinating expose and thanks for sharing 🤣
@@TorqueTestChannel I've been watching F1 since 1994 and the 2011 Canadian Grand Prix is the most incredible I've ever watched precisely because the rain shook things up. What a race!
They explain in the video why Makita is used. It's the most commonly available/stocked product throughout the world. It's simply an ease of access situation.
@@luisprieto4589 It's not about stock. It's about exactly what I just said. They have a maximum allotted cargo volume. Why use that space for something when you got just utilise a product that you know you can purchase throughout the world? You would be naive to do that - you'd use that space for spare parts for the car where it actually matters.
This was great! I have a question, it looks like the blower McLaren is using is the DeWalt 20v DCBL722, the one shown in the video doesn't appear to have the "gap" (for lack of a better term) is the intake that the DCBL772 has.
I’m a pretty recent F1 fan (this is only my second season) but I am absolutely obsessed and this is probably the most interesting video related to F1 that I’ve watched in a while
nicely noted. I want to mention that although Bosch and Mercedes have there own partnership outside or the F1, I've notices that they are present in most F1 factories and occasionally randomly in F1 garages without any sponsorship...
Bosch is to Europe (and a lot of the world) what snap-on and Milwaukee Fuel is to us in the USA. Meaning, they're perceived as the benchmark in quality/design and Bosch is way more global than our US brands with maybe only Makita coming close.
In regards to 12v tools being used where one might also use a larger tool: the logistics of F1 are run by F1 and the teams are charged for freight by the kg. As a result, they have a huge incentive to make EVERYTHING in the paddock lightweight because it pays back in freight savings every week. Take a look around the paddock and you'll note that even things like the jacks and flight cases holding spare parts are all carbon fiber. I'd suspect that they found the 12v tools do the job and weigh several hundred grams less.
I find it ironic that a F1 team would use and American tool set like Snap-On in their tool boxes when F1 is mainly a European sport. You would think it would be a more common European brand as they could advertise it.
Completely different category of vehicles but I'm the finance manager for a company that owns a big fleet of trucks, and of course depots with workshops and fabrication stations for parts. The company used to own the tools (mostly Makita, Dewalt, snapon, various German hand tools etc) but I changed that because of some misappropriations that were happening, and instead I gave the mechanics a pretty good allowance to buy their own tools. They all went cheap and kept the difference, all I can see these days is Ryobi everywhere. 6 years later the quality of the work as measured by service intervals, parts costs, frequency of breakdowns, longevity of the vehicles etc did not drop in any way that I can see. I'm a bit of a weekend warrior / amateur craftsman myself, and I try to buy the best tools I can afford because I always thought it makes a difference in the result, but I'm starting to question if it does past a certain point. As long as you don't get the cheapest, most tools seem good enough these days. Companies that make tools have definitely cheapened their products in some ways, but they've also made tremendous strides in design, technology, materials, accuracy and quality of their tooling and machines.
Nothing wrong with Ryobi for the home DIY. On social media, some people are going crazy for their cordless vacuum cleaner and say it is better than Dyson's cordless version. I knew a tractor mechanic who would own cheap tools. I ask him why and he said the expensive tools are too dear to be losing.
@@tomnewham1269 Yeah those guys I'm talking about are definitely not home DIY guys, it's their livelihood on the line. But they're also pragmatic, they're not gonna spend more on a tool than they have to.
Manufacturing is so consolidated to less and less big factories that brand means less and less, especially in segments like power tools and hand tools to a slightly lesser extent. Ryobi/Ridgid cordless tools are sold by the same company that owns DeWalt (and others), and share most if not all parts, usually from a generation ago depending on how powerful it is. Crucially, Ryobi cordless tools use the same quality housing/bearings/motors and electronics as the 'premium' brands, and often the only difference is using a less powerful motor on the cheapest models from DeWalt's slightly older or entry-level models. Nobody makes their own parts anymore, in any market outside industrial, and even brands like Makita that aren't owned by the same company use nearly identical or identical components from the same one or two suppliers. If you go looking for parts and diagrams for different brands it becomes very apparent that they all use the same stuff from the same manufacturers. 120v Air Compressors, for example, basically are all identical inside the clamshell with every brand using the same pumps/motors (if they specs are similar, it's because they're the same) and now days even Laptops of most brands are all made by some anonymous factory with no real difference in design to differentiate brands. With no one making their own parts, there's been a massive drop in innovation and engineering better stuff with 'name brands' being bought out by investors to squeeze out 'brand equity' with higher prices until consumers figure out they're paying more for nothing. While I find this depressing and symptomatic of terrible economic policies, you can take advantage of this with a little research to find the OEM products for way less than what they sell for branded. A good rule of thumb is that tools/parts (including auto parts) made in Taiwan are usually high quality/good designs while mainland China has a way higher quality variance.
@@Demoralized88 Maybe it's not necessarily a bad thing, sure we lost some useful variability, but we also got rid of a lot of useless one, and we certainly brought the cost down. And yea those tools are more fragile than they used to be, but the old ones were too overengineered and unnecessarily heavy
In Europe, Dewalt collaborates with Mclaren. You can buy dewalt 18v tools right now that have mclaren scheme/theme on them. There's currently a promotion that if you buy and register a tool you can win a trip to Italy to watch grand prix.
One big reason why one team went to the Milwaukee 1" was saving cost in shipping. Instead of sending more air bottles and compressors and leaving hoses all over the garage. It was cheaper to buy 60 of them with batteries and ship them via sea freight to overseas races and in the lorries for European races.
The drivers with the clutches, particularly the bosch but the dewalt are ok tend to be much better for installing small sensitive fasteners that aren't very impact friendly. Construction screws and bolts often have shear resistance, but machine thread ones do not and snapping an aluminum or titanium bolt off is a pain. I've not really been happy with Milwaukee's clutches in this regard, they're often too high torque; Electronic clutches also tend to follow this trend and I worry about their ability to not over-torque fasteners. I'm sure other tools work too.
Electronic 'clutches' are literally useless for delicate fasteners and can't do less than like 10 lb/ft (a ton for anything smaller than an 8mm head bolt). Mechanical clutches like the Bosch driver and lots of drills adjust down to
F1 & power tools w/ cameo by Milwaukee 1"er.. getting dangerously close to nirvana here brother.. you had me at penlight spike testing. Keep it up boss! 🤠
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Big ups to @Driver61 who we grabbed clips and team footage from to put together this video while in Montreal drinking too much beer.
Also seen in the pits and/or shown on screen here:
DeWalt DCF601 12V Screwdriver
Metabo 12V Drill
DeWALT DCBL722 20V Leaf Blower (for brakes)
Bondhus T-handles
Wera screwdrivers
Maxiflex Gloves
Husqvarna gas Leaf Blower (When it rains, for the pit box, so it's dry where they quickly stop)
Beta, wrenches and storage
I would love to see you two collab and test the torque performance of all of his sim racing wheelbases. They might be the most expensive tools you'll ever test on your channel! I always wonder if the 20nm claims are accurate, and what actually is experienced during driving at the end of the steering wheel.
Can't drink too much, it just comes out the overflow.
@@TheOfficialOriginalChad Different countries may be an issue, think Tony Kannan has a Simucube Ultimate if memory serves.
This is the most fantastic thing in the world that you have a connection to driver61. Two of my favourite RUclips channels in existence.
Out of all the collabs, TTC and Driver61 is probably the least expected, but most perfect
I've been an F1 fan for many decades. Never saw a video like this. Really enjoyed it. It will actually make my race viewing more fun thanks!
the crossover we didn't know we needed
Glad you went over the tools! I've been keeping a eye out on battery packs, lots of Makita. Aston Martin has a custom top air inlet which iirc uses 2x Makita 5AH or 4x 5AH. Regardless, its cool to see Milwaukee 1in being used
This is an absolutely unexpected intersection of my interests, and even the channels I watch. I love it.
A full day at the races and still time to get such a well-done video out? Kudos.
Excellent way to deduct a trip to the races as a business expense! Thanks for the details.
Regarding that cross threaded center nut it's quite interesting how those work. Now I'm not a racing nut, and I had no idea up until a week or so back when another channel posted a video about the wheel nuts used in F1. So there may be some things I forgot or misunderstood.
First of all is the material used. They are made of aluminium (I'm from Europe, deal with the spelling :) instead of steel or some other high strength alloy. This is done to keep the unsprung weight as low as possible. Further they are not using a hex nut as they want both a more positive engagement and having to turn less before engaging fully. The exact design differs between the stables, or at least it used to. I might be wrong but I think F1 standardized the wheel nut recently for safety and cost reassons.
And the cost reason should not be scoffed at as they can cost $5000 each, and they are swapped out for a fresh nut every time they swap wheels. So swapping all four wheels can cost $20,000, and that's the wheel nuts and you still have to add the wheels and tires to this figure.
The high cost is partly because the extremely small series made so they are basically custom made on a piece by piece basis. But they are also all x-rayed to ensure there are no defects in the material.
But that's not where the weird stopps. There's also a automatic retention mechanism that stopps the nut from turning unless a the tool first unlocks it. This was introduced after some bad crashes were caused by a wheel nut working lose in the middle of a race. This mechanism increases complexity of the nut and increases the cost further.
From what I have seen. They are titanium.
@@FarmerFpvthe tool is titanium nut is aluminium. Or the nut wouldnt get machined your wrist would come off.
We also use Aluminum nuts on the LMP3 cars, and it's actually specified in the homologation so we can't make our own out of titanium or something stronger. I'm not 100% sure but I believe the nuts on our LMP2 are also Aluminum. While the unsprung mass is lower, the weight of the 4 nuts on an endurance car matters a lot less than something like an F1 car. So I don't know why they won't let us make our own, but oh well.
Very cool, thank you. When the World Rally Championship came to town we learned an incredible amount just watching them set up and how they worked. The 555/Prodrive Subaru team looked like they had standardized a lot of their fasteners so they had really small toolkits for each mechanic, and they were very fast and efficient.
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this was awesome. Id love to see a breakdown of the tool spotting on this years 24h nurburgring. so much action in the pits over night, lots of tools to see from a wide range of teams at various funding levels, from factory down to amateur garages. subraru team was particularly impressive.. 2 guys above engine, 3 guys around engine, 2 guys below engine and another two doing axles. absolute madness
Formula 2 also switched to DC wheel guns this year for the pitstops.. It's a semi bespoke Paoli gun, based on the Typhoon (Plus?) model, with some customised features developed in collaboration with FIA/Formula 2 teams.
I want 😅
@@rkan2 Get one - They're only 3,700euros.
@@ryanokeefe12 Yeah, I still kind of want one but for that money I'd like an impact with accurate torque function!
pretty rad to see so many brands be represented. i wonder how muvh effort is really put into making some of those custom cooler setups some teams were running.
Probably reflects the smallest effort - cooling is probably a "good enough" effort - as long as you can get enough air moving long enough then, great!
Teams that aren't using Milwaukee are at a disadvantage
@@ryu-ken I'm glad channels like TTC exist to disprove the brand bias out there that leads to comments like yours.
To say teams are at a disadvantage because they aren't running Milwaukee tools is naïve.
Note: I use Milwaukee tools, but I would prefer different brands for different tools based on their performance, but the disadvantage of multiple batteries and chargers outweighs this.
@@ryanokeefe12 Agree that tool bias is a losing strategy. Best tool for the job regardless of brand. I do differ on owning multiple platforms, batteries and chargers. It's not an issue if the tools stay in one location as I have three brands and it works. When mobile that's a different story.
Uhhh, it's not really a lot of brands. Milwaukee, Snap-on and 2 or 3 others. That sounds like the opposite of 'many".
I like this type of industry analysis. It would be interesting to see what tools are seen in a variety of competitive sports.
agreed!
OMG I was just looking this stuff up yesterday after watching your vids, thanks!
What a crazy weekend so far! I bet it's something else being right there. Hope you're staying dry. Impressive to be teaming up with Scott as well!
Really great video! I’ve always wondered what those blacked out blowers were. Very interesting with the Milwaukee trend. And no surprise with the SnapOn ratchets. Thanks for putting this together!
I didn't know I wanted to know this much about paddock tooling but I'm glad I know as much as I do now. Thanks so much!
Absolutely loved this video. Would be amazing to see what's used in the pits at other events (particularly of interest to me would be rally events). Regardless, really loved that you could turn a fun adventure in to beneficial content for your channel! Thanks for sharing the insight!
This was such a good video thank you!! Would love to see more like this about other popular race series or industries.
Nice video… this reminds me of a story the president of the Scuderia Ferrari Club of Montreal told me when he was running the Minardi Club. It was Thursday before free practice and the team had just realized they had no blowers or carts to wheel the cars into the garage. Mr. Minardi being good friends with the club president knew he would be in the paddock on Friday for free practice. The team didn’t have time nor did the know where to get the special blowers needed. So, he called the club president to run this important errand, the hardware store opened at 8 and free practice was at 12. So the president runs into the store demanding specific parts and custom casters be installed on their shop carts, when asked why it had to be so detail and specific he responded “it’s for Minardi F1!”
Funny how a professional racing team can forget such simple and vital things. He saved their weekend and cemented his relationship with Mr. Minardi
Great information and very insightful-thank you for sharing. Actually more brands and models in use than I might have guessed. Hadn't seven considered the use of cordless blowers.
This is a video I was very excited to see show up! Combining my love for F1 with cool tools!
Thumbs up!!
Great look outside of the lab, thank you for this!
Excellent analysis of the tools used in F1.
You need to get one of those wheel guns on your test bench😁
Can’t say I’ve ever really watched a video on tools or ever taken much interest in them. However, this video was great.
It’s amazing to see such a different video relating to F1. Nice work 👌
Idk if this would be possible but image going next year with a portable dyno capable of handling the toque of those center lock guns and doing in-the-garage- dyno tests. THAT, would be insane to see 😂
He could do it at the Texas or Nevada race.
The guns are designed to apply the desired wheel nut torque as quickly as possible (fractions of a second)... while they are capable of large-ish peak torque numbers, it's not what they're designed for. Meaning the performance characteristics are extremely specific and the gun would likely perform poorly in a standard use case test or a peak torque test, when factoring in the other metrics like price, weight, size etc.
The teams also won't let their multi-thousand dollar wheel guns get used and strained by members of the public for the sake of a torque test graph.
The guns are standard for each team and it would provide no benefit to the teams to see what the peak torque numbers are.
I would say that the use of the clips in this video sit within Formula 1's fair use of the footage for commentary/education, they may take issue with the fact that the videos are cropped to remove the F1 graphics and logos.
haha Fabrega would be down for a tech talk with it maybe
Thanks for making this video 🎉
I’ve been looking out for what tools they’ve been using in F1 for years and up until recently. I almost always seen just Makita and Bosch power tools.
This was such a fun video to watch 😁👍
Very cool! Thanks for sharing!
Awesome video, man! But be aware that the FIA is very jealous about others using their F1 images. Many RUclips channels in my country have received strikes from them, unfortunately. Best regards from Brazil
We'll be demonitized. but oh well
Einhell is a European tool brand sponsoring Mercedes this year. But I haven't seen their tools used in the garages.
Thank you for sharing all these! Surprising to know that my team share a lot of tools with the F1 big boys.
Cool vid I am glad you put this out. I am suprised by basically all of it. I didn't have any expectations but seeing them using the tools the way you captured was really interesting. Gives those milwaukee die grinders some clout I guess haha
Very nice to know this, thanks for the video 😊
Actually thought this was the best video you’ve done to date since it involved Formula One. I’ve always wondering about the exact info you discussed.
been an F1 fan for years and never have I seen this type of content. Amazing!!! great video
I did not know I would enjoy either until I watched your video. Thanks for youtube and their suggestions! Cool video.
awesome video and awesome idea for a video too. Thanks for sharing and enjoy the event
This is actually really interesting to see. Never really looked at what they were using, as I always just presumed it was non consumer stuff. 😀 👍
Been waiting for someone to do a video about F1 tools! Awesome content I love it.
Great idea for a video...Enjoyed it very much!
F2 the junior series to F1.they began this year to only use cordless impacts for pit stops. Pit stops are a lot slower with only one person per wheel, but it is still pretty cool
0:32 Pretty sure that’s a Bondhus hex or torx key wrench. I have that exact set if it’s hex key. Made in the USA and quite nice.
Very cool, thanks for doing this.
Very interesting video, thank you very much!
I love seeing the OneKey call-out in this vid! The torque modes are legit 🔥
Thank you for this video. I love seeing Behind The Scenes content. I dislike how celebrity driven F-1 has become, this is the kind of content I wish F-1 and the networks would actually do.
Eyyyyy! Had no idea you guys were at the GP! You guys should do the pit stop challenge and post your time! Would love to shake hands with you guys if I see you around the grandstands!
Really interesting video.
I really didn't expect the leaf blowers.
Great video, really appreciate it!
Thank you so much...
I have shop space 10 minutes from downtown where they close streets for F1 celebrations. I was planning to drive down tonight but the weather has been crappy all day. Now I regret not going. Thanks.
Excellent video, enjoyed it!
This channel combined with F1 was unexpected and incredible!
Cordless impact guns are becoming more & more common across motorsport now especially in the garages. They are also used in F2 for pit stops now & V8 supercars in Australia were planning to use them from 2024 onwards in pit stops
Very cool idea. I love to see what brands they use when they're not sponsored by them.
Always wanted to see a video like this!
Congrats boys!
That Bosch 12V is a beast. Never broke down on me yet at work
This is very awesome footage on how everything works in a pit stop. Very cool. I never would have thought they used leaf blowers lol. Who would have known? Thank you for sharing. Pretty awesome video! 🤜🔥🤛
I’m a white-collar worker, and I’m pretty sure I saw more of brands for the the tools I use in my day-to-day than I did of mechanical tools. Fascinating expose and thanks for sharing 🤣
Loved the tool break down hope there is more pro sports tool break downs in the future
Awesome to have you guys in our area. Sorry for the weather. That race is cursed. It always hot and beautiful before and after the race weekend lol.
I don't mind the rain. Shakes things up
@@TorqueTestChannel I've been watching F1 since 1994 and the 2011 Canadian Grand Prix is the most incredible I've ever watched precisely because the rain shook things up. What a race!
@@beardedchimpnot a bad race in 2024 either!
Awesome insight video!
Much appreciated!
I wonder if Makita has the upperhand in reliability? I mean, this is the pinnacle of autosports, and if theyre using so much Makita, its for a reason.
They explain in the video why Makita is used.
It's the most commonly available/stocked product throughout the world. It's simply an ease of access situation.
@@ryanokeefe12 these teams have HUUUGGEEE budgets. You don't think they can stock plenty of equipment?
@@luisprieto4589 It's not about stock. It's about exactly what I just said.
They have a maximum allotted cargo volume. Why use that space for something when you got just utilise a product that you know you can purchase throughout the world? You would be naive to do that - you'd use that space for spare parts for the car where it actually matters.
@@ryanokeefe12 then why use Milwaukee 1 inch impacts then? I mean, Makita does have some impacts that make the torque they're looking for, too.
@@luisprieto4589 makita doesn't make a 1 inch impact..
Ironically they use 2 stroke leaf blowers over at formula-E.
This was great! I have a question, it looks like the blower McLaren is using is the DeWalt 20v DCBL722, the one shown in the video doesn't appear to have the "gap" (for lack of a better term) is the intake that the DCBL772 has.
I’m a pretty recent F1 fan (this is only my second season) but I am absolutely obsessed and this is probably the most interesting video related to F1 that I’ve watched in a while
It was cool doing the same thing with the Indy car teams at IMS. Lots of custom driver blowers powered with M18 5Ah batteries.
nicely noted. I want to mention that although Bosch and Mercedes have there own partnership outside or the F1, I've notices that they are present in most F1 factories and occasionally randomly in F1 garages without any sponsorship...
Bosch is to Europe (and a lot of the world) what snap-on and Milwaukee Fuel is to us in the USA. Meaning, they're perceived as the benchmark in quality/design and Bosch is way more global than our US brands with maybe only Makita coming close.
In regards to 12v tools being used where one might also use a larger tool: the logistics of F1 are run by F1 and the teams are charged for freight by the kg. As a result, they have a huge incentive to make EVERYTHING in the paddock lightweight because it pays back in freight savings every week. Take a look around the paddock and you'll note that even things like the jacks and flight cases holding spare parts are all carbon fiber. I'd suspect that they found the 12v tools do the job and weigh several hundred grams less.
Thanks. I found this very interesting.
This was awesome to watch
I really want that DeWalt McLaren kit for some dumb reason...
I find it ironic that a F1 team would use and American tool set like Snap-On in their tool boxes when F1 is mainly a European sport. You would think it would be a more common European brand as they could advertise it.
Snap-on Europe is not uncommon
North America tools bought and used in NA for some teams?
Completely different category of vehicles but I'm the finance manager for a company that owns a big fleet of trucks, and of course depots with workshops and fabrication stations for parts. The company used to own the tools (mostly Makita, Dewalt, snapon, various German hand tools etc) but I changed that because of some misappropriations that were happening, and instead I gave the mechanics a pretty good allowance to buy their own tools. They all went cheap and kept the difference, all I can see these days is Ryobi everywhere. 6 years later the quality of the work as measured by service intervals, parts costs, frequency of breakdowns, longevity of the vehicles etc did not drop in any way that I can see. I'm a bit of a weekend warrior / amateur craftsman myself, and I try to buy the best tools I can afford because I always thought it makes a difference in the result, but I'm starting to question if it does past a certain point. As long as you don't get the cheapest, most tools seem good enough these days. Companies that make tools have definitely cheapened their products in some ways, but they've also made tremendous strides in design, technology, materials, accuracy and quality of their tooling and machines.
Nothing wrong with Ryobi for the home DIY. On social media, some people are going crazy for their cordless vacuum cleaner and say it is better than Dyson's cordless version.
I knew a tractor mechanic who would own cheap tools. I ask him why and he said the expensive tools are too dear to be losing.
@@tomnewham1269 Yeah those guys I'm talking about are definitely not home DIY guys, it's their livelihood on the line. But they're also pragmatic, they're not gonna spend more on a tool than they have to.
@@tomnewham1269 Kind of a low bar to set when it comes to Dyson though, seeing how it's all fluff and marketing at that brand.
Manufacturing is so consolidated to less and less big factories that brand means less and less, especially in segments like power tools and hand tools to a slightly lesser extent. Ryobi/Ridgid cordless tools are sold by the same company that owns DeWalt (and others), and share most if not all parts, usually from a generation ago depending on how powerful it is. Crucially, Ryobi cordless tools use the same quality housing/bearings/motors and electronics as the 'premium' brands, and often the only difference is using a less powerful motor on the cheapest models from DeWalt's slightly older or entry-level models. Nobody makes their own parts anymore, in any market outside industrial, and even brands like Makita that aren't owned by the same company use nearly identical or identical components from the same one or two suppliers.
If you go looking for parts and diagrams for different brands it becomes very apparent that they all use the same stuff from the same manufacturers. 120v Air Compressors, for example, basically are all identical inside the clamshell with every brand using the same pumps/motors (if they specs are similar, it's because they're the same) and now days even Laptops of most brands are all made by some anonymous factory with no real difference in design to differentiate brands. With no one making their own parts, there's been a massive drop in innovation and engineering better stuff with 'name brands' being bought out by investors to squeeze out 'brand equity' with higher prices until consumers figure out they're paying more for nothing. While I find this depressing and symptomatic of terrible economic policies, you can take advantage of this with a little research to find the OEM products for way less than what they sell for branded. A good rule of thumb is that tools/parts (including auto parts) made in Taiwan are usually high quality/good designs while mainland China has a way higher quality variance.
@@Demoralized88 Maybe it's not necessarily a bad thing, sure we lost some useful variability, but we also got rid of a lot of useless one, and we certainly brought the cost down. And yea those tools are more fragile than they used to be, but the old ones were too overengineered and unnecessarily heavy
Those Bondhus t handles are the very, very best.
I have seen MotoGP teams use Bosch. I have also seen Aston use the Ego backpack blower.
We use a one key on the gt3 and lmp3 cars. They work very well for our application
This last weekend i saw someone what looked to be one of those dyson hairdryers, but with the heating element removed to cool off one of the drivers
In Europe, Dewalt collaborates with Mclaren. You can buy dewalt 18v tools right now that have mclaren scheme/theme on them. There's currently a promotion that if you buy and register a tool you can win a trip to Italy to watch grand prix.
One big reason why one team went to the Milwaukee 1" was saving cost in shipping. Instead of sending more air bottles and compressors and leaving hoses all over the garage. It was cheaper to buy 60 of them with batteries and ship them via sea freight to overseas races and in the lorries for European races.
I love those little bosch drivers, they will do a lot. They are really 10.8 not 12v. but are really good.
Actually, Bosch rebranded all of their 10.8 V stuff to 12 V. The actual battery voltages are the same.
3S Li-Ion cells for 10.8/12 V, 5S for 18/20/21/whatever V tools.
We have got to get a F1 pit gun on the dyno!!!
That was awesome !!!!!
The drivers with the clutches, particularly the bosch but the dewalt are ok tend to be much better for installing small sensitive fasteners that aren't very impact friendly.
Construction screws and bolts often have shear resistance, but machine thread ones do not and snapping an aluminum or titanium bolt off is a pain. I've not really been happy with Milwaukee's clutches in this regard, they're often too high torque; Electronic clutches also tend to follow this trend and I worry about their ability to not over-torque fasteners. I'm sure other tools work too.
Electronic 'clutches' are literally useless for delicate fasteners and can't do less than like 10 lb/ft (a ton for anything smaller than an 8mm head bolt). Mechanical clutches like the Bosch driver and lots of drills adjust down to
Very interesting and fresh video, thanks
TTC X f1 crossover was not expected, but really interesting
I also spotted what looked like one of the pro line Dyson hair dryers being used as a blower on a driver a few races ago.
Cool, thanks!
Good video! Thank you
This video was a hell of a lot more interesting than F1 has been for the last couple of years
F1 & power tools w/ cameo by Milwaukee 1"er.. getting dangerously close to nirvana here brother.. you had me at penlight spike testing. Keep it up boss! 🤠
Now this is my kinda crossover haha
As a fan of both, this was interesting!
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Interesting! Thanks.
Loved the video, you could do more for other types of racing if you really wanted to put the time into it.
Thank you!