Differential 

Suddenly the F1 games differential settings makes sense. Thanks!

Great explanation! I thought I knew how diffs worked but you have a way of making complicated things very clear :)

These animations are insane. Good job Chain Bear!

I understood everything and I'm now off to design my own F1 car

"A solid rear axle becomes a problem when you hit a corner" NASCAR: *"Not in this house it dont"*

As good as this was, nothing beats the old 1930's black and white video from GM when It comes to explaining the basic principle of a diff.

your after effects game took a big step in this one. I use AE almost daily at my job and don't know how you did most of this. really great stuff and I finally get how a diff works

Your channel is much differential from other RU-vidrs. I love it! ☺️

Great content as always. Could you make a video why the F1 and motorsport in general use RWD and not AWD?

You possess a remarkable talent for explaining complicated things in easy to understand terms. Well done, I love your videos (and I don't even follow F1)

Can You Talk About The Alfa's Penalty ?

Wow, what a fantastic video. I understand differential fully and can appreciate the complexity the f1 teams have to deal with.

Best explanation of how a diff works. For the first time I feel like I truly understand it. Thank you! :)

I've never watched an F1 race in my life yet for reason this is currently my favourite channel on youtube

The best video you have done!! The animations made it so easy to understand. I'm just realizing how much I did not know that I thought I do. So hyped to see more content like that ;)

Dude this animation quality!!!! love it

It's great how you keep explaining concepts that you have already covered in previous videos! Makes understanding so much easier!

So simple, so nice to watch, youre videos are just always so informative and I love them. Great work youre doing

This is by far THE best video I have ever seen describing key mechanical parts of not just an f1 car, but cars in general. The visuals, the clear and deliberate explanations, and calm tone help describe in very clean and precise details the basic logic of how a differential works. I hope your videos end up in a classroom because this is a PERFECT primer for how car systems work. Thank you.

It's awesome to see you learning and growing in your video production! Can't wait to see where this takes your channel in the future

Im so happy you made this video! I asked for some more light on this a while ago. Loving the 3D

I'd always struggled with how differentials worked this is the best explanation I've seen, great work!

I absolutely love these videos. I learn more in these videos than I ever did in tech school. I can take a car completely apart and put it back together with nothing but torque specs. But anyone can put legos together, right? These videos make it all come full circle and make what I am doing make sense. Especially in performance. You can slap on whatever expansive parts you want and the guy with the stock car still pass you on every pull/turn. Building a car that is actually fast, takes a full understanding of what you are doing to the car. I already know how these things work but you make it go farther than that.

ChainBear, you deserve everything good in life that happens to you. Well done!

Yay! another video. Always something new to learn. Keep em coming mr. Chain Bear

I’ve watched a ton of videos and read pages of explanations on the working principles of differentials but understood nothing. This is my eureka moment. Thank you sir, nice job.

Love the way you explained such a complex topic in a simple manner... Please please make more of these videos talking about technical components

New to F1 this season - your videos are great and the production values are so professional. Thank you

Absolutely phenomenal, diffs totally make sense now & thank you Love these vids 👌🏻

Brilliant explanation, I have struggled with how diffs work for a long time, despite watching other explanations. This one however made it all very clear and easy to understand thanks to your slow and methodical pace.

It's stunning that the drivers, whilst flinging their car around tight corners, overtaking etc., can be adjusting their diffs, increasing power, moving the brakes forward or backwards... So much for them just being the 5th nut attached to a wheel! They must have brains like PhD engineers to know exactly how to compensate for a given situation, and within the tiniest of timespans. As ever, a fantastic video, CB. It doesn't matter how many GPs I've seen (since long before you were born, I'm sure!), I continue to learn with every video you put out. Thank you so much. And I love the 3D graphics!

Love these videos cuz u can really tell that you do your research and fully understand the topic. It makes your explanations quick and clear👌, keep up the high quality vids

Amazing Explanation, clear and easy to understand yet enough detail given to apply to situations. Amazing video

Thanks for the explanation, differential and limited slip is the hardest thing to understand in racing games, but now im understanding alot.

Thank you so much for making this video, you’ve explained it better than anywhere else I’ve tried to get the information from!

Soo clear and simple! GREAT VIDEO 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Wonderful video. I knew the first part about how the diff converts the torque 90 degrees, but as soon as we added the spider gear, all that was new to me. Thanks!

I've always wondered how the differential worked and this video made it very easy to understand! Thank you!

I learned a lot. Thank you. Project cars setup taught me some too.. with the way the differential behaved under off throttle, or on throttle. In one race it allowed me to almost steer the car with throttle.. ok not steer but it helped.

Awesome @chainbearf1. Great animation, great explanation!

The new 3D graphics looked sweet, keep on the good work!

What an excellent presentation on the subject!

Thank you, could never understand what it did. THANK YOU

There's a great 1940s GM video explaining very meticulously how a differential works. I feel a key part to explaining how a limited slip differential works was left out. They use a system of clutches. Electronically controlled ones simply press the clutches more or less depending on the electronic control input. There are mechanical ones that react to the body roll of the car and the ones that have a preset limit where they'll always send a minimum ammount of power to either axle. Good for dirt racing. Differentials are also used to split the power between the front and back axles in 4WD cars. They're called "split differentials" and are are usually of the preset limit kind, generally send significantly more power to one of the axles. Send more power to the front axles and you get an FF car minus the the understeer tendency if properly tuned. Send it to the ones in the back and you get an FR car minus the oversteer. Setting up a split differential can greatly improve or greatly harm a car's stability. F1 are all MR, so they don't have that kind of thing. But they are pretty much standard in Turismo, Endurance and Rally cars.

I’m a truck driver and wondered how the differentials in my truck worked. This helped me understand it a bit better

Impressed with the quality of your videos as usual

You truly have a way of explaining things in layman terms. Awesome video. Keep it up!! 👏👏👏

Awesome video, also 3D animations really helps to understand the concept. Well done!

An absolutely outstanding video! Good on you for trying out 3D animation for this video. It genuinely helped a bunch :)

Excellent video, well explained and fantastic use of 3D animations

Chain Bear's lessons are giving us time to better understand all things F1 through this no-F1 Corona period! Thanks a lot for the Education.

This is the best channel that explains cars and anything of the sorts

Thank you for a well put explanation Chain Bear F1.

I never understood differential settings in F1 game but your this one made me realise now what actually unlocked % and locked % means...Great to have this kinda F1 stuffs

Thanks for your time to create this 👍

This is just brilliant! Please keep up the good work.

I love your vids. I watch them all the time

A year ago when I discovered your channel, I commented on one of your videos with 2 video requests: this is one of them so thank you! The second one is Braking Bias. You can do it Chain Bear. You can realize my dream.

These videos are absolutely amazing! Keep them coming ;)

Amazingly well explained!

Great job on the animations, Stuart!

thanks for the explanation for limited slip diffs, I've seen plenty of stuff about open diffs but never limited slip

really nice video, nice animations and explained well. Good job man!

great stuff man! I have a better grasp of diff for both the f1 game I'll be playing and real life! also good job on your after effects animations! Seeing the visuals helped a lot in understanding this!! thanks for the video!

Dont know why this was in my recommended, but love this stuff. I was really in some confusion over this. And here comes an awesome video, explained it beautifully. Thanks man.!!!

love watching these keep it up

Chain bear F1: Simple or nothing!! Every video till now has the most simple understanding of all the videos present on RU-vid, hats off Stuart 😁

I don't know how you manage to succeed in getting these things across in such an easy to understand way while others fail miserably. I've never even really understood what the hell differentials were about until now.

I use this video to explain diffs now. Thank you!!! Very well made

Quality animations! Really helpful!

Great videos. Very well explained for the layman.

Wow, a big step up in your animation skills. Good work!

Very interesting as always. I wonder where you have all this F1 knowledge from, its amazing.

I know very little about engineering and the like, but watching these videos makes everything so much more understandable! Thank you so much! :)

Very informative video, now I finally understand diffs.

And here I was thinking it was literal magic at work. Incredibly great explanation!

Man this is an amazing explanation, thank you

These videos are so good. Unreal

This really helps me understanding my car's AYC principles, thanks

Keep giving us videos like this

Solid explanation as always!

This is the first time I've actually understood an a basic dummed down level of how a differential mechanically functions. I always knew why they were there; but conceptually understanding how a basic differential works was for some reason always hard for me. You should do a video on all different type of diffs. Like the ones used in rock crawling and how they can change this kind of stuff from the drivers seat with some simple knobs or other type of easy control. Thanks for the vid again! I always understood what they do, but not HOW they do what they do. To anyone who comments back saying just read a textbook, I'm a mechanically inclined nut I'm an M.D. who shamelessly lost the ability pick up certain concepts without good visualization. Keep the videos coming! I love the work you do.

Amazing work. As usual. Thanks!!

Excelent video as always!

Wow! Thank you for an amazing explanation! Next time I hear this, I'll know what they're talking about.

Best explanation ever. Well done.

WOW, i loved your explanation, thanks

Great explanation, keep up the good work!

Fascinating insight. Thank you for sharing. 👍🏻

Great video. Finally someone explains it in simple terms

I'd love to hear more about the history of these developments over the timeline of F1

Unbelievable content, great stuff

once again, great explanation.

It really had a meaning at the very end. Thanks

Thanks Stuart. That explained a lot.

Missed these vids!

This may be the very best video you've ever put out for us. Thank you. Do front-wheel drive cars have this feature? I know there are series where they race. I've heard the term 'torque steer'.

Never understood how diffs worked, but this was an excellent way of explaining it. Ten out of ten! - In Scott's voice ;)

Excellent explanation

This is stellar content.