"I'm just at my father's workshop where he has a number of F1 cars" you just said that so casually as if it's a normal thing for a father to have lol. It's so cool to see.
@@xissburg well that rubber heave spring they showed, up untill a couple years ago they had front and rear interconnected hydraulic setups to control heave and squat. Even just a 'basic' heave spring now looks 100x more complicated than the one in this video lol
It looks different, but not cutting edge. It's still dampers and pivots and arms. Nowadays road cars have active dampers while race cars have something called Inerters.
Williams got a slower development than other F1 teams, from completely dominating in the 90’s and contending in the 00’s and having a decent car in mid 10’s, they went to dead last in just a couple of years, while using a top Mercedes engine. And the tech has certainly advanced. It would be amazing if the UK were able to bring this kind of expertise to something commercial. They would be making the best bicycles, motorcycles, cars and airplanes in the world.
Especially considering how expensive even the smallest pieces are if you want to buy something that was actually a piece on an F1 car. I've never had the chance to see or hear an F1 car in real life so having a piece from one would be the next best thing, but dang, can't afford it on a regular worker's pay.
Maybe Im just stupid, but the constant switching of views while he explains things makes it quite confusing. Would be better if things were shown just on the car IMO.
I know you try and keep your videos snappy because "all hail the TH-cam algorithm" but I could listen to your dad talk about those parts for hours. My father is a motorcycle mechanic and in another life could have raced professionally and I've spent many hours listing to him do the same with what he knows.
I wish I had a dad like him! I wanted to ask, Scott. Where could we learn more about advanced suspension setup tuning? Like rake, fast bump, etc. I'm just curious to learn tuning for simracing and be able to create my own tunings that adapt better to my own style
Really enjoy you videos , I have learned a lot watching them and now have a much better understanding of F1 especially. I raced F F 1600 for many years before all these videos and U Tube oh how helpful it would have been when racing in the 80s.
Is the load-cell instaled on the car during the race, or just for car tunning period? And how it actualy measure the force, is it comoressed inbetween 2 parts or is it measuring "the bending of the part"? Thanks a lot to anyone who answer my questions.
It's a strain gauge. Works by measuring changes in electrical resistance as a thin snaking wire is pulled or compressed. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strain_gauge
Since the power consumption of such a sensor is minimal and their form factor very small the keep all of them pretty much all the time since it valuable data. For your second question the push rod act as a linkage so either it is under tension or compression. In that case it is compression and with trigonometry and the geometry of the suspension assembly they are able to precisely determine what's the normal load seen by the tire (normal = perpendicular to the road)
It's just incredible how light everything on an F1 car is! I would have never thought that the pushrods just weigh half a kilogram... The engineering behind all of the components is just outstanding. Great video mate :D
453.5 grams = 16oz or 1lb. for the Americans that enjoy watching your channel. That part at 2:34 looks to be Welded with an Electron-Beam, it's done In an inert filled chamber under Vacuum.. I love the pronunciation of Titanium.
Very interesting, I just wish you could demonstrate the mechanism of the suspension better. It would be awesome if you could move the suspension through its positions without springs to show its movement.
Thank you so much for showing us this. It's just absolutely wonderfully beautiful engineering. (Also, who in the hell downvotes this video?! Bunch of morons.)
Another great video Scott. Thank you! I’d like to know why Brawn got the diffuser so right and nobody else could that whole season. Was it just too expensive? Would the other teams have needed to completely redesign their cars to get the diffuser to work as well? Always wondered why nobody else did it.
This is great! I would like to see more of the suspension. I didn't quite understand how it all worked together. Does your Dad's workshop have a website?
I am from the U.S so I'm not too familiar with the metric system but I absolutely love Formula 1 so I've been trying to learn those measurements better. When you weighed the piece I knew it'd be light but once you compared it visually with the coffee cup (something more referable) my jaw literally dropped. I love your channel, been subbed for a while now and I never get bored from them !!
The fact that a man is working with these amazing stuff and his son is so interested and passionate too about them is brilliant. This a dream for a lot men in this world. Thank you for these videos. We, your viewers are loving these technical details in Motorsport vehicles.
arrows, circles and question marks in thumbnail pictures are incredibly lame and denote a feeling of low quality clickbait. They really don’t fit with the quality of your videos. i suggest dropping them. your topics are intriguing enough to entice new viewers and your presentation is strong enough to keep them watching.
AWESOME vid and top notch explanation. Top bloke Kevin (aka Father) must be a wealth of knowledge and information. I just REALLY enjoy this channel. 👍🏁👍🏁 THANKS for what you do.
TBH....i dont enjoy ur video ....because im thinking as hard as i can understanding how stuff you explain works.....and at the end of the video i can only understand about 70% of how this stuff works LMAO....but you do have an amazing video about how these car works....i love it...
Fascinating. I've long wondered how front suspension was packaged. That pivot is expensive stuff, carved from two solid blocks of titanium. Quite an art in just machining that metal. Thanks.
So that rubber bit in the thumbnail is essentially a bump stop that comes into play when both sides of the suspension are loaded up equally like on a straight.
One thing I've never understood, why use a push rod? Heavy cars have torsion bars mechanically linked to control arms, could you not put a rocker on such a torsion bar and eliminate the push or pull rod altogether? I speak from ignorance, I understand if it could be done it would be done, I'd just like to know why it's not feasible?
Why mostly old F1 chassis are equipped with Judd engines? (I've seen Jaguar, Danka Arrows and this one with that engine) Is it a very adaptable engine or every engine is made for the purposed chassis? Thank you!
Cost no object technology whatever era or age is always beautiful. Why usually because every thing has been considered and taken care of the best way they knew how. Weather it be a 270 year old automated doll th-cam.com/video/laJX0txJc6M/w-d-xo.html The 1913 Indy car winning Peugeot revsinstitute.org/the-collection/1913-peugeot/ Or a Williams FW15C en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_FW15C All out tech built money no object is great to look at and intersting to know about.
@Driver61 i've a question, how happen during a crash, when the F1 hit the wall and the wheel flow out, how it's possible the monocoque can be re-used. So the suspension system, have some "tricks" to save the monocoque when the tyre it gone? thank you
I really liked seeing the composition of pushrod! titanium and then hallow CF! Production of such things are so expensive even tpday and this was technology of 20 years ago! Mind blowing...
Looking at the two CNC Titanium components welded together, would have to be Laser welded to get the weld that uniform and consistent. The whole assembly is Aerospace technology. I would like to see more how these cars are designed and built in the workshop. Ooh, Aah, fascinating..
That is some beautiful hardware, those suspension parts. I appreciate the machine work on the titanium. Titanium has a difficult reputation, but it is actually very machinable. It takes sharp edge positive rake tooling, the correct surface speeds and positive feed rates, and no bullsh*t work holding. Replace tooling that shows any wear at all. And it machines just fine.
Front wing ( angle of attack control , sensors , spliiters )and steering (how tierods are actuating ) This kind of discussion at component level is actually good and new in youtube. Most videos explain the overall functioning but they don't cover component intricacies. nice work mate
Machined Titanium ? I was expecting him to say Aluminium lol, figured it was powdercoated or something, damn thats gotta be expensive. Titanium doesn't come cheap, even in small amounts, the fact that these need to be big enough blocks to mill those out of, then there is the specialized tooling and programming those CNC machines need and it really shows you why these cars quickly start to go up in cost. I mean thinking on it now, it makes sense, Titanium alloys are the only materials strong enough to be able to withstand all those forces, while still being that lightweight. You definetly would not be able to get away with a hollow suspension rocker like that if it was made out of something like Aluminium, it would need to be far more chunkier to withstand the same forces, structural ribbing or not. To think that the engine itself may actually be one of the cheaper parts of these cars, is mind boggling.
Love the clip from your fathers shop. I work as engineer at Volvo and my area is suspension. So please as much F1 suspension clip as possible. Thanks and stay safe. 😊❤️
Scott, when you talk about how the change in rake angle effects the chassis balance, it’s not exactly true that the weight moves forward. The roll axis has a higher inclination (relative toll center heights of the f/r suspension) which causes the change in lateral load distribution. If you were to put the car on scales and look at the front weight, and then change the rake, the front weight would stay within 0.01% of the original value. To change the weight bias, you need to move the center of gravity, which cannot be done within the limited range of adjustment of ride height.
With 3D printing being able to be used with metals I'm thinking it may add another technological advancement for race car design. Not like the weights of parts are already outrageously light.
Oh boy, I wish the Benetton got rebuild from scratch and we would get explained everything in detail like this. It really let's you appreciatie the eye for detail and accuracy even in the 90s when CAD development was still in its infancy. I want an encore to this... so interesting.
This is really intresting. But how about if you lower or raise a car? I mean if the rate stays the Same with front and back (let's say 5mm on both ends) does it affect the overall aerodynamics or just make the car slower/faster overall if potentyally someone could drive it as fast as possible?
Yeah I had something similar in my acura when I changed dampers and springs, one of the stops was rotten, so I just removed them and said "ahh, it'll never bottom ot anyway it doesn't matter ".. It very much mattered and I have to pull it back apart. The exhaust now has holes in it where it hits the highway so often
Can you explain the economics of how your father is able to spend his time and resources on working on these machines? Is there an interesting variety of people who want to race old F1 cars? Would also be very interested to see how he goes about replacing a totally knackered bespoke component given they were one-offs themselves made 25 years ago.
Wow, the weight reduction on the parts and the resulting shape almost reminds me of aerospace, wonder if soon they will look like in the orthogrids/isogrids on the inside of spacex rockets! Someone tell Williams to get on that xD edit: also this reminds me how sad it is that moveable aero is banned, could use suction induced flexible dimples along sidepods, like on the new bugatti, to keep the air tight to the car after turbulence from the front aero/suspension, would be so cool.
Machined from blocks of titanium and then welded together. I don't even want to know how much that cost. A suggestion, I would ike to see more about the safety systems / safety structures of the car . Perhaps they're not as exciting as the drivetrain or suspension , but I'd argue that driver safety is more relevant than ever.
It blows my mind that with all this technology they're still using a plain old bump rubber. Is this because the tires have so much sidewall that they can be expected to act as a more of a part of the suspension system than we expect with road cars equipped with really low profile tires and microcellular urethane bumpstops? If this is true, I imagine even the smallest of air pressure adjustments makes a massive difference with these cars because even in my road car on the track I can feel the difference when I add or remove 1 psi from a tire.
As a mech eng, hard to dislike this video Alot of thoughts and time were put to optimize functionality and weight ! every component in the F1 is art work! great stuff !
Increasing the rake angle doesn't increase the weight on the front tyres statically. There are other elements at play which adding rake changes. You can see this in iRacing if you change the front or rear ride height, the front-to-rear weight split remains the same. In a high functioning aero based car, changing rake will probably affect the downforce of the car more than anything else.
no wonder F1 is so expensive, works of engineering art that 99.9999999999999% of F1 fans won't ever see, I pause the tv when it shows the cars undressed, aching to glimpse the engineering.
Changing the rake does alot more than that. Without adjusting the wings it changes the AOA of the wing increasing downforce and drag from both wings by adding nose down rake. Unless the wings are re adjusted to compensate for that effect
What do you think to this system? What systems in the car would you like to hear about next? Drop a suggestion in the comments!
An in-depth talk about:
Diffusers
Airbox/side pods
Gearbox
All could be interesting, heck any topic is interesting.
Bose
flexion joints would be first of its kind
Everything about your dads workshop would be fantastic to see Scott. Keep up the good work!
The cooling system is also an interesting topic
"I'm just at my father's workshop where he has a number of F1 cars" you just said that so casually as if it's a normal thing for a father to have lol. It's so cool to see.
My kids will be like “here’s my father’s f1 cars”
don’t have kids but my nieces and nephews will be - here’s my Uncle’s RC car collection 😂😂
I love your channel. Its the closest Ill get to hands on learning with true racing parts
Remember, this is 25 year old technology, and it still looks cutting edge.
Imagine what it must be like in current F1 cars then 😱
@@xissburg well that rubber heave spring they showed, up untill a couple years ago they had front and rear interconnected hydraulic setups to control heave and squat. Even just a 'basic' heave spring now looks 100x more complicated than the one in this video lol
It looks different, but not cutting edge. It's still dampers and pivots and arms.
Nowadays road cars have active dampers while race cars have something called Inerters.
Williams got a slower development than other F1 teams, from completely dominating in the 90’s and contending in the 00’s and having a decent car in mid 10’s, they went to dead last in just a couple of years, while using a top Mercedes engine.
And the tech has certainly advanced. It would be amazing if the UK were able to bring this kind of expertise to something commercial.
They would be making the best bicycles, motorcycles, cars and airplanes in the world.
@@xissburg if its anything like current body style and lines, its ugly af.
f1 tech is too advanced, when he lifted the engine cover 1:49,
me: That looks soo B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L
can't wait for the 2021 season
ngl i got a chub
And that is from a 25 year old F1 car. Current cars are even more advanced.
More content with your father please, there's so much untapped potential!
This pleases the weightweenie inside of me. Not interested in cars or racing, but clever engineering your videos showcase is absolutely fascinating.
News flash,if you like the tech you love the car.😉
Clever engineering is what cars are. Especially racing cars with F1 being arguably the pinnacle of automotive engineering
Fun fact: He has beard
Fun fact: FBI is watching F1 suspension videos.
@@faxepl Fun fact: I enjoyed the video
Cool, thanks fbi
Thanks, I'm blind.
Thats the level of surveillance the fbi is capable of with a measly budget of a couple hundred billion
Videos like this make me wish I had a father.
I feel ya.
I wish you the very best man🤝
Right with you man. I’m 16 and have never met him.
Same feeling! 😔
@@ouuo69 I'm on the other side of the coin, and feel deeply traumatised, two years on.
"like father like son" your father so cool btw, respect to your entire familly.
my dad has beer bottles in his workshop
And, just like the titanium rocker, they're hollow too.
Well, some are.
Man, I love how you dive deep in these f1 tech videos.
More of these workshop videos!
AHA! SO THAT'S WHERE HE KEEPS GETTING THIS F1 PARTS. I've always been wondering where the heck he keeps getting them
Especially considering how expensive even the smallest pieces are if you want to buy something that was actually a piece on an F1 car. I've never had the chance to see or hear an F1 car in real life so having a piece from one would be the next best thing, but dang, can't afford it on a regular worker's pay.
Maybe Im just stupid, but the constant switching of views while he explains things makes it quite confusing. Would be better if things were shown just on the car IMO.
To think someone sat down and thought of all this tech. Just wow
Hundreds of very educated people all specialists in their field working together. It's beautiful actually
I came in to say pretty much what@@austinthomaswoolerysaid lol
I know you try and keep your videos snappy because "all hail the TH-cam algorithm" but I could listen to your dad talk about those parts for hours. My father is a motorcycle mechanic and in another life could have raced professionally and I've spent many hours listing to him do the same with what he knows.
I wish I had a dad like him!
I wanted to ask, Scott. Where could we learn more about advanced suspension setup tuning? Like rake, fast bump, etc. I'm just curious to learn tuning for simracing and be able to create my own tunings that adapt better to my own style
Really enjoy you videos , I have learned a lot watching them and now have a much better understanding of F1 especially. I raced F F 1600 for many years before all these videos and U Tube oh how helpful it would have been when racing in the 80s.
thanks for the content man
Love this. More videos from the shop with your dad please
Is the load-cell instaled on the car during the race, or just for car tunning period? And how it actualy measure the force, is it comoressed inbetween 2 parts or is it measuring "the bending of the part"? Thanks a lot to anyone who answer my questions.
It's a strain gauge. Works by measuring changes in electrical resistance as a thin snaking wire is pulled or compressed. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strain_gauge
Since the power consumption of such a sensor is minimal and their form factor very small the keep all of them pretty much all the time since it valuable data. For your second question the push rod act as a linkage so either it is under tension or compression. In that case it is compression and with trigonometry and the geometry of the suspension assembly they are able to precisely determine what's the normal load seen by the tire (normal = perpendicular to the road)
Great to see that the part of an F1 car I'm most interested on gets a dedicated video.
It's just incredible how light everything on an F1 car is! I would have never thought that the pushrods just weigh half a kilogram... The engineering behind all of the components is just outstanding. Great video mate :D
Amazing what you can do with cubic $$$....
It's really cool that your dad is an F1 mechanic. Really enjoying having him share his insight in these kinds of videos!
453.5 grams = 16oz or 1lb. for the Americans that enjoy watching your channel. That part at 2:34 looks to be Welded with an Electron-Beam, it's done In an inert filled chamber under Vacuum.. I love the pronunciation of Titanium.
"my dad has a couple f1 cars"
WHAT.
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH! YOU ROCK BRO..IM IN MY 60s AND BEEN WATCHING F1 SINCE I WAS 8 YO..FANTASTIC CHANNEL,,STAY WELL
Insane engineering. Weighs less than a cup of coffee. Amazing to see what really goes on under the covers. Thanks!
& that's why, no cup holder!?
"There's thousands of components..." sounds like we'll be getting thousands of videos then! ;)
To be honest I really don't follow F1 for the racing. But I absolutely love the technology.
This is a fascinating topic. But is there an actually good video that explains the concept better?
Негода смотрит, а мне ютуб советует)
Im glad to see someone who shares my infatuation with cleanly machined and welded metal
Very interesting, I just wish you could demonstrate the mechanism of the suspension better. It would be awesome if you could move the suspension through its positions without springs to show its movement.
Yes, that is what I wanted to see. The suspension cycle without the springs while it was attached to the car!
Great to see these beautiful components.
I really like these technical videos, great work.
Thank you so much for showing us this. It's just absolutely wonderfully beautiful engineering.
(Also, who in the hell downvotes this video?! Bunch of morons.)
Loved the information, hope I could get an opportunity to meet and get all the knowledge u guys have
Love seeing that JUDD engine
Great video man!
Another great video Scott. Thank you! I’d like to know why Brawn got the diffuser so right and nobody else could that whole season. Was it just too expensive? Would the other teams have needed to completely redesign their cars to get the diffuser to work as well? Always wondered why nobody else did it.
" my father's workshop where he has a number of formula 1 cars"
If only we all were so lucky
How much does it cost to have one?
@@yLLiDanGodspellxD depends on the year i suppose. I'd wager that for a working one 10mil minimum. But i have no honest idea.
This is great! I would like to see more of the suspension. I didn't quite understand how it all worked together.
Does your Dad's workshop have a website?
I am from the U.S so I'm not too familiar with the metric system but I absolutely love Formula 1 so I've been trying to learn those measurements better. When you weighed the piece I knew it'd be light but once you compared it visually with the coffee cup (something more referable) my jaw literally dropped. I love your channel, been subbed for a while now and I never get bored from them !!
Great videos. Your dad has a great shop. Does he give tours? ✌🙋🏻♂️🤣
The fact that a man is working with these amazing stuff and his son is so interested and passionate too about them is brilliant. This a dream for a lot men in this world.
Thank you for these videos. We, your viewers are loving these technical details in Motorsport vehicles.
Wish i could casually say “Im in my dads workshop where he has a couple of formula 1 cars” 😲
I’ve been looking forward to a video like this for so long. Next summer I’m building my
Own open seater and wanted true F1 like suspension
Would All Wheel Drive F1 be faster at hairpins and take them drifting like a rally car?
Waiting for you to explore DAS.
arrows, circles and question marks in thumbnail pictures are incredibly lame and denote a feeling of low quality clickbait. They really don’t fit with the quality of your videos. i suggest dropping them. your topics are intriguing enough to entice new viewers and your presentation is strong enough to keep them watching.
If I read that correctly. Spring rate for a single spring is 156N/mm or 890lb/in or 16kg/mm spring.
I wish F1 was bigger in America, well where I live at least (PNW). Great content, love the channel.
Same!! Watching from Seattle
I love these style videos. Keep these coming.
SUGGESTIONS:
-Rear and undercarriage diffuser
-MGU-H
-Cockpit-fuel cell-chassis physical connections, with associated commentary on Romain’s incident
Interesting, in normal Truck suspension what you call damper or pitch control, for us is a Bump Stop
I bloody love this channel!!!
It's really informative and explains things in a way, that even an idiot like me can understand!
AWESOME vid and top notch explanation. Top bloke Kevin (aka Father) must be a wealth of knowledge and information.
I just REALLY enjoy this channel.
👍🏁👍🏁 THANKS for what you do.
TBH....i dont enjoy ur video ....because im thinking as hard as i can understanding how stuff you explain works.....and at the end of the video i can only understand about 70% of how this stuff works LMAO....but you do have an amazing video about how these car works....i love it...
Fascinating. I've long wondered how front suspension was packaged. That pivot is expensive stuff, carved from two solid blocks of titanium. Quite an art in just machining that metal. Thanks.
I like my coffee STRONG... BUT NOT AERO TITANIUM CONTROL ARM STRONG... cool share, thanks
So that rubber bit in the thumbnail is essentially a bump stop that comes into play when both sides of the suspension are loaded up equally like on a straight.
One thing I've never understood, why use a push rod? Heavy cars have torsion bars mechanically linked to control arms, could you not put a rocker on such a torsion bar and eliminate the push or pull rod altogether? I speak from ignorance, I understand if it could be done it would be done, I'd just like to know why it's not feasible?
Why mostly old F1 chassis are equipped with Judd engines? (I've seen Jaguar, Danka Arrows and this one with that engine) Is it a very adaptable engine or every engine is made for the purposed chassis? Thank you!
Cost no object technology whatever era or age is always beautiful. Why usually because every thing has been considered and taken care of the best way they knew how.
Weather it be a 270 year old automated doll th-cam.com/video/laJX0txJc6M/w-d-xo.html
The 1913 Indy car winning Peugeot revsinstitute.org/the-collection/1913-peugeot/
Or a Williams FW15C en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_FW15C
All out tech built money no object is great to look at and intersting to know about.
@Driver61 i've a question, how happen during a crash, when the F1 hit the wall and the wheel flow out, how it's possible the monocoque can be re-used. So the suspension system, have some "tricks" to save the monocoque when the tyre it gone? thank you
More of these please! Fascinating stuff
I really liked seeing the composition of pushrod! titanium and then hallow CF! Production of such things are so expensive even tpday and this was technology of 20 years ago! Mind blowing...
I'm so jelly...
"Just at me dad's shop. He has several f1 cars about. Join us for a cuppa."
Great video. Thanks Pops. 8/8
Looking at the two CNC Titanium components welded together, would have to be Laser welded to get the weld that uniform and consistent. The whole assembly is Aerospace technology. I would like to see more how these cars are designed and built in the workshop. Ooh, Aah, fascinating..
That is some beautiful hardware, those suspension parts. I appreciate the machine work on the titanium. Titanium has a difficult reputation, but it is actually very machinable. It takes sharp edge positive rake tooling, the correct surface speeds and positive feed rates, and no bullsh*t work holding. Replace tooling that shows any wear at all. And it machines just fine.
Front wing ( angle of attack control , sensors , spliiters )and steering (how tierods are actuating )
This kind of discussion at component level is actually good and new in youtube. Most videos explain the overall functioning but they don't cover component intricacies. nice work mate
Machined Titanium ? I was expecting him to say Aluminium lol, figured it was powdercoated or something, damn thats gotta be expensive. Titanium doesn't come cheap, even in small amounts, the fact that these need to be big enough blocks to mill those out of, then there is the specialized tooling and programming those CNC machines need and it really shows you why these cars quickly start to go up in cost. I mean thinking on it now, it makes sense, Titanium alloys are the only materials strong enough to be able to withstand all those forces, while still being that lightweight. You definetly would not be able to get away with a hollow suspension rocker like that if it was made out of something like Aluminium, it would need to be far more chunkier to withstand the same forces, structural ribbing or not. To think that the engine itself may actually be one of the cheaper parts of these cars, is mind boggling.
Love the clip from your fathers shop. I work as engineer at Volvo and my area is suspension. So please as much F1 suspension clip as possible. Thanks and stay safe. 😊❤️
Scott, when you talk about how the change in rake angle effects the chassis balance, it’s not exactly true that the weight moves forward. The roll axis has a higher inclination (relative toll center heights of the f/r suspension) which causes the change in lateral load distribution. If you were to put the car on scales and look at the front weight, and then change the rake, the front weight would stay within 0.01% of the original value. To change the weight bias, you need to move the center of gravity, which cannot be done within the limited range of adjustment of ride height.
With 3D printing being able to be used with metals I'm thinking it may add another technological advancement for race car design.
Not like the weights of parts are already outrageously light.
A pathetic system when self levelling tech is available....just another example of Rules holding back tech.
Oh boy, I wish the Benetton got rebuild from scratch and we would get explained everything in detail like this.
It really let's you appreciatie the eye for detail and accuracy even in the 90s when CAD development was still in its infancy.
I want an encore to this... so interesting.
This is really intresting. But how about if you lower or raise a car? I mean if the rate stays the Same with front and back (let's say 5mm on both ends) does it affect the overall aerodynamics or just make the car slower/faster overall if potentyally someone could drive it as fast as possible?
Yeah I had something similar in my acura when I changed dampers and springs, one of the stops was rotten, so I just removed them and said "ahh, it'll never bottom ot anyway it doesn't matter ".. It very much mattered and I have to pull it back apart. The exhaust now has holes in it where it hits the highway so often
Can you explain the economics of how your father is able to spend his time and resources on working on these machines? Is there an interesting variety of people who want to race old F1 cars? Would also be very interested to see how he goes about replacing a totally knackered bespoke component given they were one-offs themselves made 25 years ago.
FUN FACT:
If he cleans up the main titanium part from dirt and sand, it probably only weighs half!!
Wow, the weight reduction on the parts and the resulting shape almost reminds me of aerospace, wonder if soon they will look like in the orthogrids/isogrids on the inside of spacex rockets! Someone tell Williams to get on that xD
edit: also this reminds me how sad it is that moveable aero is banned, could use suction induced flexible dimples along sidepods, like on the new bugatti, to keep the air tight to the car after turbulence from the front aero/suspension, would be so cool.
MORE VIDEOS WITH YOUR DAD!!
Machined from blocks of titanium and then welded together. I don't even want to know how much that cost.
A suggestion, I would ike to see more about the safety systems / safety structures of the car . Perhaps they're not as exciting as the drivetrain or suspension , but I'd argue that driver safety is more relevant than ever.
It blows my mind that with all this technology they're still using a plain old bump rubber. Is this because the tires have so much sidewall that they can be expected to act as a more of a part of the suspension system than we expect with road cars equipped with really low profile tires and microcellular urethane bumpstops?
If this is true, I imagine even the smallest of air pressure adjustments makes a massive difference with these cars because even in my road car on the track I can feel the difference when I add or remove 1 psi from a tire.
Just realized i have Formula 1 parts on my longboard :D
Only a spherical bearing though, but still! ;)
The same part would only weigh half in nowadays F1 car. Considering much bigger car with around the same overall weight.
I love these work shop videos 👍👍 Your old man is tops 👍 And you yourself knowing what your talking about makes for a great video team 👍
Its pure beauty to learn with this intimacy those cars.
THANKS FOR SHARING!!
As a mech eng, hard to dislike this video
Alot of thoughts and time were put to optimize functionality and weight ! every component in the F1 is art work!
great stuff !
Is this about how F1 Suspension Works, or about how Benetton suspension worked 25-30 years ago?
Increasing the rake angle doesn't increase the weight on the front tyres statically. There are other elements at play which adding rake changes.
You can see this in iRacing if you change the front or rear ride height, the front-to-rear weight split remains the same.
In a high functioning aero based car, changing rake will probably affect the downforce of the car more than anything else.
no wonder F1 is so expensive, works of engineering art that 99.9999999999999% of F1 fans won't ever see, I pause the tv when it shows the cars undressed, aching to glimpse the engineering.
Wtf1
Can you do a video on why f1 cars have got bigger?
Changing the rake does alot more than that. Without adjusting the wings it changes the AOA of the wing increasing downforce and drag from both wings by adding nose down rake. Unless the wings are re adjusted to compensate for that effect
Wise fathers buy F1 cars so that their son will visit them more often. :)
Wait so you aren’t Nigel Mansell’s son
I thought so!
Really exciting, only place you can see this on YT