F1 Pedals | How It Works 🔧 

The Amount of effort and dedication this team puts into it’s fans is unspoken, Thank You Mercedes and lets have a wonderful 2023 Season

I'm not a Mercedes fan, but no other team puts this much effort into breaking down every little thing about the cars for the fans. Huge respect

Would love to see more pedal cams in the future! I think a lot of fans don’t know it’s the feet where the magic happens.

Mercedes absolutely always on point with these videos.

I’m absolutely begging for an in-depth discussion of software at some point. How much compute power does the car have? How do you write and deploy new code to the car? That’s what I really want to learn more about!

Yeah, I could tell they were holding back some (probably key) information haha, but still- much better than any other team that didn't say anything at all! Love the transparency and the technical insight that Mercedes gives to the fans- I feel like I'm learning as if I'm brought into the team.

Just when I thought you had given us everything with the debriefs , jobs in 60 seconds and all that content you find a way to outdo yourselves. I'm hoping this is a series that's here to stay!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I am in AWE. F1 pedals is something I always wanted to discover how they look like and work, but it was such a niche subject that I couldn't find any info on it! Thank you Mercedes for showing us!

I feel like they had to hold back quite a lot on this one. I know what a pedal is, but I still don't know how they work precisely or what would differentiate these from my car. Also, carbon sounds pretty good. Stiff, light, strong, ... so why the aluminium one? Also also, 100kg pressure seems really small? You hear people say that under have braking drivers will almost litterally stand on the brake. That's 70kg at 4-5G or 280-350kg of pressure. I love Mercedes, I love these videos, but this one just leaves me with more questions than I had before.

Great Vid for Sim Racers to see. #1. you don't need more than 100kg load Cell. #2. The Brake Pedal has More Range of Motion and Travel it's NOT a Stiff Pedal

I don't think this video answered the question it's title would suggest.

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I love the idea of this video but it doesn’t tell us “how” it works. Showing us a sensor and saying “this is what they mean by fly by wire throttle pedal” tells us nothing about how it works. If you’re going to make videos for the anoraks amongst us; then indulge us and fully commit. A much longer video with details about how these systems work would be much better. I learnt nothing about how these pedals work and only some superficial differences between drivers.

As an automotive engineer, I love these videos by Merc breaking down F1 tech for us. But really wanted more technical stuff in this video. Guess it was confidential beyond this point 😅

Love these kinds of videos, thanks!

Wait, so why is the throttle pedal aluminum versus making it out of CF?

Thank you Mercedes! This is amazing info to share with your fans! ❤❤❤

Very interesting the difference in makes for each pedal. understand the increased force on the brake pedal means you'd want it to be carbon fiber, but why not make the throttle out of it as well? I'd think aluminum is heavier than carbon, right? Something to do with the damper/spring setup?

Name another team that creates videos explaining things to their fans. ONLY MERCEDES.

This is awesome! Can’t wait for the rest of the series.

Fly by wire, you don't need to really press it hard, the computer know what to do, apply some AI abilities, track information, they will do it fo u.

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This deserves a 45 min in-depth explanation showing the damping curve and whatnot

You push 'em in and they either go vroom vroom or squeak squeak.

The day i stop watching F1 👀 is the day Mercedes AMG stop racing.. thank you Team for all the work you guys put in day in day out. 🙌

Super video. ☺

I can just see the Fanatec designers screengrabbing this video and come 2024, we'll see a proper "formula 1" pedal set.

That's an incredible amount of force applied to the brake pedal by the drivers.

First, it was Red Bull with the informative videos, but now its Mercedes is going up a notch. Love it, keep them coming!

Floor mounted pedals, that's how it's supposed to be 😄.

yeah but does it have a load cell brake like HE sprints?

So why aluminum for the throttle pedal, since carbon is stiffer and lighter? Is it a 'feel' thing - does the driver need that little bit of extra mass to let him better modulate the throttle?

My brother made George Russell's brake pedals for 2022!

The phrase "immediately I can SEE there's a lot more going on than meets the EYE"

I wonder what every new sim racing pedal set is going to look like next year 🤔

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Stuff like this is always suuuuper interesting! Would love to see more videos like that about other parts of the car!

Wow amazing. I actually just found out that F1 cars only have 2 pedals. 😮 I think there are 3 pedals. Well you know, real men use 3 pedals.😅 but that means f1 cars don't have a clutch pedal??😮

Deep dive, hardly. How does it work? By wire. There, everything explained. Why does it go forward and backwards? Why pivot in the middle? Why have two assemblies on the brake, one with damper and spring, the other just a rod, and why do they go back to a single rod? Why is the animation so different than the model, with all the parts missing? How does fly by wire work? How does the feedback loop work? How is the pressure created to feel like brakes? How does the pedal work????

0:20 Which software is this

Toto: you press this and you go fast and you win us Titles , Lewis Weeeeeeee!!! ( 2021 2022 2023 I don’t know man I think this thing is broken ) 2024 tis fast again .

Mercedes as always giving us good 👍🏾 content ❤!!

Love these videos Mercedes, really makes me glad I support such a great team.

Well… that told me nothing….

The video goes over why the brake pedal is made of carbon fiber, but why isn't the throttle also made of carbon fiber? I would imagine the weight differences would be meaningful.

Am I just dreaming or did Mercedes just show its new car in the first 20 seconds of the video? Looks like they have flipped the side pod inlets horizontally…

So I get why they made the brake from carbon fiber. But why would you use a heavier material like an alloy on the accelerator? Wouldn't carbon fiber also safe weight?

I must say that even though my favourite driver is Sergio Perez, my favourite constructor is Mercedes-AMG-Petronas

I've tried braking a manual car using my left foot and I find it really difficult to put precise pressure on the pedal, how F1 drivers do this a thousand times during a race is amazing

Awesome video! What is the name of the track playing the background? anyone pleasE?

Why do they build the braking System in a way that they need that much force to break? What's the point of that, if it's controlled with electronics anyways?

Never clicked so fast on a video!

Wow you see there's bearings and a pivot point is actually on the arch of the foot not the ball of the foot like in most/all other cars.. I'd imagine that gives more finesse to braking..

Why does the brake pedal require 100kg of force if its a power breaking setup? Wouldn't it be better to make it easier for the driver to press, like in a road car?

First of all great video. I would love to hear an engine noise when the pedals are being operated. To get an acoustic feel 😅 Or is it too much? 🤣

i want to see some f1 team to do partnership with simgear manufacturer to get replicas for simracing. Would be pretty cool

Why isn‘t the gaspedal also from carbonfiber? Wouldn‘t you also safe some extra grams

That all looks Fascinating But PLEASE JUST WIN A RACE!!😭

"You put your foot down on the right one and you don't go quite as fast as Aston Martin, Ferrari or Red Bull."

Look how simple this pedals compare to simracing pedals 😅

Why, if the brakes are fly by wire, would you need 100kg force to depress the pedal?

NEED TO tell to WOKE "only marketing lifes matters" he need press the right one (and not on the knee )

You would think the brake assembly would be aluminum and the throttle carbon fiber

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George is as tall as George!😎

Fly by wire is used in Airplanes as well. Great example is the airbus A320

Sim racers had a heart attack seeing that the brake pedal actually moves more than 2 centimeters 🤣

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The one on the right makes you go fast and the one on the left makes you go slower there safer you time

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Aside from mentioning that there is a damper connected to a wire and 100kg of pressure top end, they was no mention on how F1 pedals actually work. i.e: how the position of the pedal communicates with the engine, the distance of travel of the break pedal and how it communicates with the brakes etc. Just a lot of talk about how there is 'Alot going on...all very different...have to press it hard'

Great video series idea, and what I'm seeing is well done. However I only wish for... longer content (I don't think it's short because of ip reasons there's surely more general knowledge about f1 pedals not shown here)

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Considering how stiff race car brakes are, I wonder if anyone has a wider brake so you can use both feet to step on the brake for those hard brake moments? If you ever drove some formula cars the brake moves very very little and you get used to that sensitive brake. I drove several formula cars and that was what I noticed.

Hey i want these for my simrig. What's the price? ;)

brake pedal up to 100kg of force, simracers hold me beer

I love F1 and the technology and mechanics even more so! Is there an apprenticeship program I could get involved with Mercedes F1 team? Thanks so much :)

Go to the gym and lift 100KG with your left leg!!! I've done it.. it's insane to think, that's every breaking zone.

So yeah, a little more complicated than my Logitech pedals. 😂

Does ant need a child seat to sit in that beautiful w13😂😂😂

So technically, they're still just pedal cars?

I absolutely love this kind of content! Keep it up. I thought it was a nice touch that you added your own captions so that people who need them wouldn't have to rely on the auto generated captions... until they were wrong that is. If the brake pedal were actually to experience a loss of force I think that would be a bad thing, certainly from an engineer's perspective.

Big up mercedes for delivering these insights on tech and structure of the car. Keep it up AMG🙌🏻🙌🏻

can't wait for next episode

I need a set of these for my dragster

Keep up tbe good work team. I love how you're de-mystifying F1 and giving us laypeople an insight into what goes on behind the scenes

who put anakin skywalker in a mercedes video ?

Didnt really explain how it works but okay

How Lewis pedal works according to people who hate him: it has AI cause they say its just the car LOL

I'm not really a Mercedes F1 fan, but I think this channel is really awesome! Thanks for it.

My guy George looks a bit like Theo Pourchaire

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You know Merc, sell these as sim racing gear, mabey that extra money can bribe lewis even more to race longer 😂

i still want to know why the trottle is made of aluminum

It's amazing so much designing goes into this. Hatsoff to team mercedes for providing these simple explanations.

You push one for go, one for stop , 5 second video.

Content is king. Content this satisfying is everything. Thank you Merc we appreciate this content

how did you know I had this question in mind?😠

Pedals probably cost more than my car.