you're the only true passionnate here kym, we're all just trolls commenting at your passion 😂 the little joke you made to norris was epic. i understand why drivers loves you and gives you their best smiles.
Men scramble and shout. Tools crash. Tires knache. The car leaves the pit in a dust heat ball! And the ballet resumes. I wrote that after watching the pits in an endurance race at Watkins Glen in 1973. Smelling the oil and rubber I could never have imagined in my wildest dreams as an erstwhile racer the times F1 achieves now. Thank you Kym for this enlightening video.
I took the bait and when the email showed up for Oscar Piastri prints I snagged #4/50. First one I have purchased so I am anxious to see it. Thanks for your great work Kym!
Another top video Kym. Are you aware of any reason that the Pit Crew carry radios on their belts during a Pit Stop. Some even have two radios. Watching the video it appears that they would be unable to use their radios as both hands are utilised to remove the wheels etc. Stay Passionate.
I love all of thing from you kym! Include the advertiment. They don't bather at all even when i will have to pay to watching each context from you.🎧🏁💚🤗💚💛💚💛💃💃
martin brundle said once, about that little anglular spot, it makes pit-stop supper easier for drivers to park and, because it's just a painting of the floor, it could have been imagined decades ago!
More pit content, please. E.g. the FIA camera in the pit that caught Alpine mechanic touch the car 0.01sec before the permitted time; speed radar that clock Ocon 1kmph above the pit limit etc.
Hello Kym, congratulations on yet another informative article. You do a great job of explaining things that a viewer without extensive experience or knowledge in F1 can understand. You recently gave a short overview on Sponsors of the teams and F1. I have been asking other commentators to do this over a number of years, for some reason my request/suggestion has never gained any traction or reply. Another hobby horse of mine is car and Driver identification when racing. Back in the late 80's and 90's the car numbers were much more visible and Murray Walker could tell one team car and driver from the other. Nigel Mansel had the famous Red Five. Is there any reason why the teams can't paint or wrap the halo a different color so it can be an identification of Driver as well as the tiny little car number?
I know they'll never go back but I would love to see F1 pit stops incorporate taking fuel. It would completely change the game. I believe it could help alleviate the one team dominance that currently is the sport and help make it a little more competitive.
The front tyre operators usually have fluro gloves and hold a hand out to help give the drivers as stopping reference for the front wheel. The wheel gun operator has a seperate gun as a backup that uses a seperate part of the wheel nut in case it's damaged. The tyres all have an FIA barcode and laser etched backup number that is recorded by the FIA (scrutineers) after the tyre is used, its deem used when the tyre crosses the line at the end of pit lane. All tyres are scanned and checked after they are removed from the car. any illegal tyres are impounded for evidence and taken by the FIA (as are any components changed on the car after the start of Qualifying.)
i think the 1.9 record was made before the rule changed and forced teams to wait 0.2 before releasing drivers, as a sefety concern (never understood that weird rule)
@KymIllman I was more curious than anything. I've had friends in the F1 circuit and it's a BEAST of a life on your family. I'm to old for that game. Young man's game lol.
Might be a dumb question but how do the guys on the air lines know the team beside their garage is coming so they can stand out there and move the lines out of their way? I assume, someone is always watching or listening so this isn't an issue to uphold the gentleman's agreement between teams to move the lines.
in free practices, we usually saw journalists on the pitlane, and during race we can hear them when there's a stop, to give us additionnal info that pictures don't provide. i know it is dangerous to cross the pitlane, so i wonder where all journalists, cameramen and photographers are parked during races? they have no such thing like "pitwall".
Very few media get pit lane access in the race, usually FOM camera only, the likes of Ted Kravitz can wall along pit lane but generally you aren't allowed to stand in pit lane, unless its covid times, then extra people who normally can't stand in pit lane and are told to stay in the team garages are told to stand there in pit lane as we can't go in the garage, go figure.
Maybe you could do a video for somebody who's interested in F1 but knows absolutely nothing about it. Start with the very basics and tell them everything they need to know about watching a race.
How do they manage to do 70 laps without refueling? I always wondered that. If someone can explain would appreciate it. I've followed F1 since Michael Schumacher days. But I don't watch it regularly, and even stopped following it for few years. The F1 Drive to Survive brought me back in to F1 again.
there used to be a lollipop man and the the fuel guy....the lollipop man does the signal when to go....it was replaced with the traffic signal....while the fuel guy does the fuel when refueling was still legal....
4 tyres make up a 'set' and sets are allocated to a car, not a team. The team must use the same compound on all corners and the tyres must be for the specific car. The tyres are specific to a corner as well. You can't change left and right etc.
With the 'cost cap' do we really need 4+2+12+2+2 PEOPLE for a pit stop ? I guess we do only IF these are the same people who assemble and fix the cars for the race ?
Aren't there videos of cars crashing into each other in the pit lane, drivers pulling up to the wrong team, drivers completely overshooting their team, drivers leaving too soon, and crew members getting run over by cars? Lots can go wrong.
Hehe, that gentlemen agreement between pit crews to clear the lines, was clearly broken between RedBull and Mercedes in the 2021 season, to the point of even having a person standing with the lines... very petty and idiotic if you ask me!
Yeah I remember that, if Lewis hadn't reacted quickly that guy would've lost his legs and all for what? throwing Lewis off after his pitstop to slow him down and potentially cause him to have a penalty. Such a stupid thing to do.
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