Right now everyone on RU-vid is milking the start of the 2022 season, and most of the other channels are making videos repeating the same stuff we already know. Your channel is a gem that stands out because you only make videos that are full of knowledge from an expert. I love your approach of making videos only when there is something to talk about and you don't try to add filler material to make it longer to please the algorithm. All I want to say is we appreciate these videos regardless of how often they come out. :)
Really enjoying these breakdowns. While some of the aero makes sense in my mind, there's quite a lot that goes over my head. These videos make it easy to comprehend those wacky curves.
Amazing content. Idea for video: review of the 2021 F1 cars and how they changed throughout the season/what helped make some cars fastest/slower as they progressed
as a life long formula 1 fan ...(Tiffoso Ferrari) , all i can say is : I have been expecting you. This is one of the "percs of internet" that i would dream about as a kid. Top notch stuff mate !!!
Sauber has that absolute Chad of a wind tunnel that makes all the other teams mad with envy. I see them doing something odd, I know it’ll either be a strikeout or a home run. No RBI bunts with them.
Glad youtube recommended your channel. Good stuff. My dream job if I ever had one (which I pretty much gave up on lol). I hope Alfa Romeo does well; I know it's really a Sauber, but I just can't help rooting for an Alfa Romeo.
I for one wouldn't mind seeing a sort of racing aerodynamic history type video, like what cars got it right and what cars got it wrong or how to improve old designs type of thing?
Congratulations on growing your channel! A fun thing you could do for your 150k is have subscribers submit pictures of their car and you could point out what’s wrong/right with them like the hill climb car video.
There have been more photos published of the Williams and the Alfa, and it seems like the Williams has a thorough cutout from the front to the back of the side pod sort of like an air duct. Also, you are right Alfa does have a lot of those Gills same like the Aston Martin. I think someone also posted photos of the rear of that Sauber car, but I'm not sure and would have to look.
So most teams are running push rod at the front, pull rod at the rear Mclaren is pull rod at the front, push rod at the rear Alpha is push rod at the front, push rod at the rear All we need now is for one of the remaining teams to go with pull rod at the front, pull rod at the rear and we will have a full house!
Great video! You are going to do well sir! Honest and a clear heads up on trying to understand what’s going on without stating it as ‘fact’. Thank you for this series, very interesting to hear your thoughts! 👍🏻
Kyle, can you speak to how big of an engineering department is employed at FIA themselves, deciding on the myriad car spec rule sets and annual changes (and deliberating on novel designs that are ban-worthy). I wonder, when they hand down these rules once a year to the teams, what a frantic commotion THAT must be as the other race commences : to re-engineer the car to min/ max to the new rules !
Hey Kyle, speaking of fancy T trays, do you think Aston Martin's double T tray is actually unfeasible in the regulations and is a troll/red herring for other teams to waste their time on trying to figure out? Assuming launch car renders don't actually have to follow regulations, could they added the double T tray just to throw other teams off and waste precious development time trying to chase something that cannot be done?
Seeing these vids on how much of the aero is focused on vortexes and aero management instead of pure downforce and aerodynamics, I’d love to see a top team make a truly unlimited car, free of all restrictions. I know there was the Adrian Newey Gran Turismo car, but I can’t imagine that an open-wheel design would be optimized. Too much turbulence. Also, if teams nowadays made a car with the restrictions they had in the 80s, would it look more like a modern car, or like a refined 80s car? I’d love to hear your thoughts on these.
Cheers dude you have made waiting for the new season to kick off very interesting.. did you no that you were an aerodynamicist for Mercedes in 2018-2019 and 2020
Great videos! I realy enjoy these analysis vids! :D Since you're a professional and have experience in the field: Would this kind of analysis be something that an applicant in this field would be expected to be able to do? :)
Dear Kyle, as former f1 engineer can you give us an insight what happens at the Teams when the new cars getting revealed? Are the aero departments also start to analyse the concepts from the first pictures? Are they even evaluating the competitor concepts right away with some car models etc - or when does this start? Are they doing some kind of „benchmarking“ to their own solutions? Would be curious to know this 😬 Many thanks in advance! BR!
Hi Kyle, thanks for these amazing contents as always. just a quick question here: Cars from the last era seems to like to create as many vortexes as possible, but this year many teams seems to try avoiding that, why is that? what are the differences between these two concept? Thanks again!
I think at least a part of it is that FIA's regulation changes have limited their opportunities for creating vortices quite severely. They have no traditional barge boards anymore, front wings were massively simplified, as were the rear wings, etc. Could just be largely down to that.
All of them were generated up front to help control the outwash and very dirty air from the tires. With the extra additions like covers and winglets for tires, that seems not as important. Instead, having very clean air flow to the undertray for maximum ground effect is the play at the moment.
@@someonewithsomename maybe if it suits the aero package they are going around. But with that large emphasis on downforce from the underbody. Making all the vortexes to push and control tire wake might be taking away clean underfloor flow, which so far seems to be the big thing teams are sticking too
@@EvLSpectre why is that? As I understand vortexes are primary a control tool to separate and manipulate airflow, so you would design the airflow so that all the clean air you need are passed into the tunnels, and all the dirty air from the tires are separated by the vortexes. It's what all the teams did in 2021, it's what every team are doing today. If you've seen all the videos here, you might've noticed that on every car there are still small vortex generation parts on the front spoiler around the tire and on the floor. Which for the most part do the same thing as in 2021 cars. The main difference is that the teams can't do everything they want and are limited by regulations, which do not allow lots of vortex generators. So they try to do smart and cheeky stuff with curvature angles, supporting structures and what not. As you can see that ability to control the airflow with vortexes is still highly desirable for the engineers.
I'm wondering if running the full wet tires will have a bigger downforce penalty on these cars compared to the previous generation? Assuming these cars will be very ride height sensitive due to the increased influence of ground effect, won't the larger diameter wet tires increase ride heights and make sealing the floor more difficult?
Title: "Alfa Romeo C42 Aerodynamics - Analysis and Initial Thoughts" Me asking myself: "Who does this guy thinks he is ? how can you analyze from some spy shots?" 3 seconds later: "I was an aerodynamicist for Mercedes in 2018, 2019, and 2020 Mercedes Formula 1 team" Also me: I better sub to this channel realllllly quickly 😂😂😂😂😂😂 excellent and really nicely explained stuff ... Thank you for sharing your skill and talent with the rest of the world and keep at it
Just saw the Ferrari launch and I noticed that they had the first element of the front wing connected to the nose. Since they’re the only team so far that has not run a disconnected first element iirc, I’m really interested to see what you make of it in your analysis.
Is it just me or is the halo super low? Seems like it won't do much if an incident like in italy happened, where the wheel comes straight from the top.
Are there any F1 cars that run asymmetrical aero? Thinking of tracks like Monza where there's a bias of fast clockwise turns. Or would teams normally compensate with mechanical things such as suspension?
Just found your channel, love the videos! Could you have a look at some GT3 cars? I’d be interested to see how the aero works on the variations between those cars 👍🏻
In the "front wing" part of this video, the angle of the exterior front wheel is intriguing (negative camber) and the rear wheels seem to be sporting a fair amount of toe in. Is this normal ?
