After years following F1, this is the first time I’ve seen a real explanation of aero details from someone who knows what they’re talking about. Please continue that analysis as the season progresses, I’m sure many people will appreciate the information. Now all we need is a real engine expert!
@@FirstName69 Yep. Most people just utter a few words about ‘vortices’, and then hastily move on to talking about the livery. This is real, in-depth stuff.
Yeah, I can't think of any launch season I've been more excited about, and it's been way more amplified since Kyle did his Haas video. The analysis on this one is even better than the last. I especially love the exploration of how much they are or aren't pushing the legality!
I feel spoiled, I found the channel this morning and loved the Haas analysis, and now a couple hours later this gem. Great work. I loved the visualisation of the legality boxes.
This car seems to be extremely focused on the floor which considering who dominated the blown diffuser era and is driving for them, kind of makes sense.
Yep, he lost it a few times 2021 in surprising circumstances. Many ex-MB Staff/engineers moved across to AM in the last month or 2. MB maybe wanting a stronger 2 team attack at the 2 championship trophies that RBR/AlphaTauri were able to present in 2021?
I'm still trying to work out how exactly to cleanly legalise that double t-tray! If you've got ideas on how to do it within the rules please leave a comment below!
KYLE GET IN THERE!!! You're the only channel worth listening to regarding a complete analysis of the car design!!! Watched a dozen others so far but they say nothing of anything informative!! Just rambling opinions based on not knowing anything about the technical side of the sport!! Being an F1 NUT Thank you so much!! Where have you been these past 20yrs of my addiction?? ;-}
Very naughty indeed Kyle the Double T strut. Well spotted. Do the teams have to hand over to the FIA all aspects of their car design?? If so wouldn't they have told Aston Martin if they had stepped over the mark?? Can't wait to see the other teams struts and if they complain about each others design elements! Its going to be hand bags at dawn for the first few races! Masi will be thankful he was sacked! Hahaha Great show Kyle!
The engierring war amongst the teams this generation is going to be awesome to watch. Thanks for your analysis! Your videos do so much for us non engineers. It really helps distinguish the cars.
I think the high centre of the nose, and front wing flaps is being very clever, using almost a ground effect for downforce, but keeping the critical smooth fast air to scoop this cleanly under the nose, but a groundforce effect to pull the nose down. This gives a consistent unimpeded airflow under the suspension and directly under the main floor. And the cleaner the direct airflow from under the front wing to the floor means the underfloor venturi's will work more efficiently and harder. I think the sharkfins ontop the sidepods venting hot, less dense air means their is in effect less heavy dense air for the ground effect to pull against, again making the venturi's work much more effectively in generating downforce. The deep aero undercut is pulling cold dense air into it, and channelling that away from the sidepods hot air stream along with activating the rear floor downforce. I think its so clever using almost 2 separate aero systems at once, and the groundeffect boost could be a huge jump on the rest.
Perfect stuff man! It is super informative for a wannabe F1 engineer like me! Cool to see what they come up with, in comparison to my expectations and own designs
As an engineering student who would love to get into an F1 team one day, these analyses of the new cars are very informative. Hopefully I’ll be able to understand it a bit more when I finally do fluid dynamics next trimester.
Just what I've been looking for after watching various fan channel vids who are lost on these car launches beyond colour scheme choices. Really interesting for someone who doesn't know aero but wants to know more. Thanks.
Exactly. People obsessing over liveries and saying "the car is the same" really pisses me off. Childish thing to get irked over, but as someone who knows a little engineering, it's a bit irritating to see
This is incredible for us fans who are interested in the aero. Don't think I can go back to watching half assed analysis referring to everything as "sticky uppy bits". I won't be surprised if f1 comes knocking to put you in the main program!
looking at their runs from today at silverstone, it does look like they are without the wing flap on the floor :O so they must be really wanting to hide it if there is anything there to be found
This analysis is next level. Really appreciate you taking the time to do this, it helps massively to understand the little details and differences between the cars.
I just want them to shorten the wheelbase. The new cars that have been shown so far look great especially the Aston Martin but damn they are still HUGE. I want to see the 90s-early 2000s wheelbases come back
Excellent analysis, as ever! Then again, it's par for the course for a man that was part of a history-making team. Free content directly from a triple world champion is rare indeed. Thank you for this unique treat of a channel!
How far would you guys go into analyzing the cars from the other teams as they are released? Did you often change aerodynamics before testing because of this?
I read somewhere that some teams have a separate team just to analyze other teams concepts. Once they spot one concept they immediately try it out in CFDs. During the Schumi era some teams have dedicated photographers just to take spy shots from rivals, or they pay extra for the other photographers.
I imagine they wont do it much as you have to provide proof that you actually thought of he design yourself. Aston Martin/Racing Point got a hefty fine for being „inspired“ by MBs car back in 2020. I imagine theyll analyse it but its not a lot they can do about it really. Also those designs are part of a whole design philosophy- you couldnt just bolt a merc frontwing onto a RB and expect it to have the same performance.
This season really limits how copying front-runner teams can do, because they are limited in wind tunnel times and CFD analysis ran. This is why there might be a team or two that makes a huge jump in the ranks.
@@patrickr4762 Back then F1 was kinda crazy..I remember a pretty famous story about Ron Dennis and how he ordered helicopters to fly closely above the track to dry it out faster...
Incredible in-depth analysis that can't be found anywhere on the web as of right now. Especially with the massive rules overhaul, it is refreshing to see such minute and precise explanation of what the teams are doing. Most F1 youtube channels try to appeal to a very casual audience, explaining very basic details over and over. Here it is just nice to nerd out over the smallest of detail like a curl or a cut. Keep it up, those who care about this will love you for it. Can't wait for the next vid.
Great analysis Kyle. Love this stuff. I'm an aircraft engineer and have a very good understanding of aerodynamics. The one thing I have always wanted to ask someone like you is regarding turning vanes/vortices/vortex generators. When on an F1 car is it a turning vane (knowing you will always get tumbling airflow) and when is it a vortex generator? As in when do you steer the air and when/why would you just create a vortex/vortices? Thanks, Simon, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Mate I’ve been waiting for this analysis all day. Thank you so much for posting it. Like others have said your videos are by far the most informative and interesting on F1 aerodynamics.
Never thought I'd watch a 20 minute video about a topic I'm not familiar with at all, but this was just too fascinating and informative. Good job mate!
I found your channel five years ago when I was in the aerodynamics department of my university’s Formula Student Team and loved your videos 🙂 I remember seeing your video announcement that you are not going to continue the RU-vid channel for a while as you will be working for a formula 1 team, which I found really exiciting! I was hoping for you to return and spread more aero knowledge enhanced with formula 1 experience. The waiting paid off! 😃 I am glad you are doing well!
This is what I like about F1. I for one appreciate people like you sharing your knowledge so freely. Growing up I didn't know I would be this interested in fluid dynamics and design until Mercs channel came along. Then now more experts like you sharing your knowledge. Really appreciate it. I think in my next life I want to be a fluid dynamics engineer.
I would LOVE (after all the ‘22s have been released of course) maybe an analysis comparing design from let’s say the 90s vs what has just been released this year. Fascinating!
I can tell that this explanation is suuuuper detailed. I'm not aware of any aerodynamics concepts. It would be nice if you could shortly explain some important concepts as you breakdown the car in layman for us new F1 fans so we can understand too.
But it would be quite funny if the Merc looks similar..... I agree, this is not a lazy design, would be interesting to see how the side pods are packaged.
If you could do an analysis of the RB6-8 that would be interesting on how they used blown diffuser, f-ducts, nose reg changes, etc… and still managed to stay on top for 4 consecutive years
Great video. Clear explanation for a non native tongue English speakers! Scarbs usually looses me with his way of speaking. Two tips:1) you seem to work with a mouse when drawing? Maybe use a digital pen 2) your mouse pointer is white and small. It’s very hard to see (on a phone). Maybe make it bigger/other colour.
First of all thanks for the detailed information. I'm just a fan, but understand nothing of aerodynamics. But still I like your explanations a lot. So what do you think of this car? In my ingenuity it seems like this car has a lot of downforce. In Last year car, Seb said that the car had a lot of drag. It seems to me that Haas has less downforce than Aston Martin. Tell me your thoughts please. And thanks a lot for the video
Aston martin has learned that from Mercedes, we saw how they was able to stall the diffuser last year, due to their secret on their suspension, I wouldn’t be surprised if aston martin know since they share almost the same suspension due to the gear box, if they get that diffuser going they will be very fast, that’s saying expect Mercedes to be a monster this year, they have something in the back of their car alot of teams won’t have
Your analysis is really great i like the content so much ! Its really amazing how much i am learning for these new cars from you vids and compared to the other yt channels this looks like a documentary ! Keep up !
First of all, what a video video mate, absolutely MEGA. Loved it from start to finish, I like that me, a simpleton, can understand what you're saying. Now I do wonder, where did one find these absolute stunning images of the AMR22? And I must also mention that I can't wait for more breakdowns such as this one and the Haas, simply lovely.
Absolute brilliant work. I am always interested in aero. Amazing to here from a former aero specialist who worked at Mercedes. Love the video. Keep up those analysis. Love it 😁
You can tell you've served on Aero in F1 in recent seasons. There are some good channels on RU-vid covering aero but you're going to another level here. We're literally able to go over every visible component with you vortex by vortex, and look at exactly where the dirty and clean flow areas are. I feel like I could build a car with reasonable performance with this video 😂
Very very interesting analysis, as usual. It's great to have a good engineering view from someone who has real world experience of this. Thanks a lot ! On a side note, when you point stuff out sometimes it is hard to see, maybe the colors aren't flashy enough. The bright red is very visible but the darker blue and magenta are harder to spot initially. I often found myself looking harder to find which spot you were pointing to.
The races videos analyzing the amr22 has very clear ouline to point out the area if you want some ideas of how to make it clearer. Just a constructive suggestion, not a criticism
I just found your channel and it‘s everything I‘ve ever wished in aerodynamic analysis of the cars. One point of critic I would voice is that your thumbnails look a bit daunting.
It used to grate, watching the old wheels flex sideways so much during bends, due to the high sidewalls. But suspension has more work to do now. Though airflow under the cars will be more controlled as the new tyres will "give" less in the vertical plane?? (Guessing... Not an engineer).
Amazing analysis, I was waiting for something like this, thank you!! Looking forward to the other teams analysis, as long as they present a real car and not just the livery.
