Formula 1: A Short History of the Pinnacle of Racing 

Do WRC , Dakar rally/Kenyan Safari Rally & maybe the History of Offshore power boat racing

It was FISA back then

F1 fans hate drive to survive F1 "fans" you guys have a very basic knowledge of the sport and history and with that you basically just follow the Netflix narrative without forming your own opinion which brings a lot of new toxicity into the sport

Actually the fast motorsport is drag racing(NHRA) 340 mph in 1000ft

Lewis Hamilton won hist last four Championships because he had a car which was a LOT faster than any other car on the circuit. Just look at what a Russel did with the same car, when Hamilton had Corona. "Unfortunately" the Pit crew fucked up ONE stop in five years. Any further questions? No? I rest my case. Come on Hamilton fanboys! Bring the Heat!

Sam of Wendover has already covered the logistics side of F1

@@johannessamuelsson6578 lots of folks have if you know where to look

@@DavidHyman031 I think even DHL might have aa video on it.

Or even a fucking race lol

Could technically be about any high profile race car from 1990's. DTM in the mid 90's were running allsorts of crazy tech.

Enzo very reluctantly allowed the undeserving dilletantes with enough disposable income to buy cars with his name on them to subsidize his racing team. If he had another way to finance his true passion he wouldn't have bothered making consumer cars.

@@Adiscretefirm scuderia Ferrari was formed in 1929, as a racing team using alfa romeo customer cars. The first car ferrari built themselves was in 1947, 18 years after they started racing. Now, you could argue that F1 didn't start until 1950 therefore they were a manufacturer before F1 started, but that woudl be pedantic as they were clearly a Grand Prix team, like McLaren, that moved into manufacturing on the back of on-track racing success. Edit, I think I originally mistook your meaning as disagreeing with what I said, but 2nd read says you're agreeing with me and adding a little bit more info, so rather than delete my rebuttal, I left the info up there for any others interested. I love F1, wish Simon would do a biographic on some of the old greats, especially Brabham and his 66 title win in a car of his own design, a feat never repeated before or since.

@@M1ggins a video on Lauda would be awesome as well.

@@adenkyramud5005 yeah, one of the most under-rated multiple WDC's, rarelconsidered a contender for GOAT, but if it wasn't for Nords in 76 he would've probably won at least 5.

@@M1ggins Did you men to say four WDC's ? I cannot understand where the fifth would have come from. Obviously agree with 1976.

I wouldn't specifically call America independant, i hope they will try to intervene with the sport as little as possible.

As an American, I'm glad we got F1. Nascar sucks.

@@NexNecis2001 Especially after they added the leg/phase thing. No real pit strategy now

Same here, really enjoyed this "layman's view" of F1 ... well done video, good job to include all the history

I'm glad Drive to Survive exists. Can't say I'm a fan myself but anything to get more people into motor racing and F1 in particular is a good thing.

It’s not a sport, it’s an event :)

@@ajnracing6034 you got me

@@ajnracing6034 yeah, but show me another road race (except the Manx) that has the same format. It's less of a race and more of a time trial.

@@LiamNI yes more than a race. That’s why I said “event”. But for it to be considered as a sport it needs to have multiple different events like in f1.

Be a good Side Projects topic.

Ericsson drove for 2 years without a bottle 😑

You don’t need a drink to complete a race

@@TinyBearTim Depends on the person, how hot the track is, etc.

Hamilton hasn't used a water bottle for years

Easily, its insane. The dirt oval guys lose 8-10 pounds of water in a race, since short ovals don't provide much ventilation in the car since the speeds are fairly low.

You're not entirely wrong, but the quoted fatality count was the people who died on the scene.

Combat sports aren't games but I'd agree otherwise

I think Bullfighting falls under that moniker😊

@@THIS---GUY they are games

@@ElMirageRacer4763 no

@@sit-insforsithis1568 anything done under competition can be defined as a game so what point are you trying to make? There is a chance of death during every climb, every bullfight, every race and every fight. They are still games but with much higher risk and sacrifice.

That also made the general reaction to the Le Mans disaster so stunted - dead bodies in the French countryside was still just Tuesday.

@@thirdwheel1985au if anything its what made the reaction so extreme, Merc pulled out of racing until the '90's, Switerzland still has a ban on racing and that race is by far the most infamous

First+second WDC, Cooper-Climax, third WDC Brabham-Repco. Mine favourite GOAT.

I think Rob Tauranact (?) Who was the 'T' in the Brabham vehicle type (e.g.BT46) numbering had a fair bit to do with the design. After Brabham he had the RALT vehicles. The car that 'Black Jack' won in was definitely the last time a car won with the name of the driver.

The triple crown is also unlikely. Only one to ever do it was Graham Hill. Indy 500, 24h of Le Mans, and Monaco GP. Alonso and Montoya are close, but Montoya doesn't have Le Mans and Alonso missing the Indy 500.

Only 1 was, and it was made very clear why they should not copy that team when it caught fire

Giggety..

Prob no more than any other video. Myself I'm not into sports in general, but watching cars run in circles wasting fuel just for some stupid bragging right to me is boring as fuck. It only gets interesting when there's a wreck and people die, which doesn't happen often enough anymore to keep watching and waiting for those events.

@@valerierodger7700 eh tomato tomahto

Videos that blow up are ones about Nazis, Soviets and Cold War tech.

That’s what Romain said. Sorry, sorry, in poor taste, I know, I know. Desolé Romain.

I was thinking the same thing when he said that! 😂

Fair enough....drive to survive would provide plenty of that 🤣

Reading a script well is an "in the eyes, out the mouth" exercise. Researching is a different story.

True. But I still enjoy reading them :)

Including how he doesn't remember saying that :P

Ah I see you a man of focus as well You are Arcade kid like me

Im an American. I started watching f1 during the 2020 lock down. I don't know anyone else that cares about the sport. It seems most Americans care about * F1 the same way they care about European football. It only becomes popular when the usa is involved in a major way or its a huge match for one reason or another.

@@vjsoeifi as an American F1 fan I feel your pain. I’m not much into sports other than motor racing with F1 being my favorite, yet I don’t know anyone else personally that watches or follows the sport.

@@vjsoeifi & @Oxibase So sad you don't know many people. Try going on the f1 forums, and you'll find plenty of other U.S. F1 fans, likely some in your own area!

@@Oxibase Only 1.2 million people watched the Grand Prix in the US last week. That's better than 10 years ago, but still very low. That's 0.4% of the population. In the UK, it's like close to 10% of the population, and in newer F1 interested countries, you have some +15% per year, like Poland. Overall, 400 million people watch F1 in the world, which is enormous, and surprising when you see how little the media talk about it. But in the US, people tend to prefer their national sports like American Eggball, baseball, Indycar and Nascar and others. The exception is Basketball, the only international sport they love, but once again, in other countries it is a minor sport.

@@hugolouessard3914 Ignorance in America is the problem. We think all racing is just turning left for hours and refuse to look into it any more than that

Love the added optics D2S brought. Been watching since the mid 80's. Do you have a team/driver you root for yet?

Don't get used to it being this close. Unless the actual new regs next year really help. But I doubt they will.

@@feartheamish9183 Definitely a Seb fan he was the only driver I knew about before watching D2S. As far as the younger drivers go I like Lando, Gasly, And Russel. I hope Mario Andretti buys Alfa because as someone who lives in states its hard to support Haas when they’re so bad haha

It has been the best season since 2016 when it comes to who is going to win the WDC.

@@nukers1234 that was just between merc though.... 2012 was the better season.

Sir Jackie Stewart was instrumental in forcing the FIA to increase safety. No mention though.

@@deltanovember1672 Jackie Stewart lost françois Cevert that he loved, that must have pushed him into being that involded in safety.

@@zepedrofd No, Cevert was killed right at the end of Stewart's career (1973). Stewart had an accident at Spa in '65 or '66 that really started his safety crusade because of how pathetic the safety facilities were.

@@rkentwenger5095 Plus, Stewart was tired and fed up with losing close friends.

Thanks, wish the guy would get to the fucking point

How can you do a vid about F1 and leave out the 1960's & 70's entirely? At least there was a view of Niki Lauda, albeit a very brief one.

The three I thought of too. I did catch the glimpse of Niki Lauda. There were several relatively successful American drivers such as Dan Gurney, Phil Hill, and Mario Andretti.

@@oddshot60 Yes, and never mind the fact, I guess, that in many fans' opinions, the '60's formula cars were probably the most beautiful ever to turn a wheel.

@@oldenweery7510 So was the driving. It was an art in those days. Its been all electronics for such a long time now.

@@oddshot60 Yeah, paddle-shifting? I remember the trial I went through with my own little production sports car to to downshift into the synchronized first. Double-clutching wasn't a problem, but for some reason, I took me a while to get the hang of matching RPM's in first without a muffler in the system. Now these guys don't have the satisfaction of hearing the revs match as you double-clutch down into a corner. Where's the artistry in just touching a paddle and letting the electronics and hydraulics or pneumatics, whatever it is, make the sift? Ah, well, just call me a dinosaur, 'cuz I think they look like hydroplane racing boats powered by oversized air wrenches....

Hey dear how are you doin?

Simon missed this opportunity to notice that F1 is a team sport. The pit crew is important to the race success, and they also train like creazy

No it wasn't F1 but the crash is a watershed moment in auto racing history. Many countries banned auto racing. Some of those bans persist to this day. Many more manufacturers, including America's Big Three automakers, agreed to discontinue auto racing. Albeit briefly for the Americans. Safety began to be seen as a necessity, instead of an inconvenience, and research into safety improvements became a standard practice. Race courses, including LeMans, were redesigned to better handle modern cars and racetrack condition gained more importance. And all of these changes and shifts in mindset towards safety lead to improvements for roads and road cars that the consumers used every day. LeMans '55 has a lasting legacy on motorsports and it's nearly impossible to talk about the history of racing without discussing that disaster.

They shouldve put Wolffang von Trips's accident as example

All so it still under FIA if I am correct

@@Andrewza1 Le Mans wasn't under FIA. Never was and never will be. It's under the ACO.

@@aydankhaliq2967 they do work with the fia though as the series that races the 24 hrs of le mans is an fia sanctioned series

Blaze Be

1 week later....lewis "hold my beer"

@@samuelroque5373 my post aged so badly

@@Didymus69 yes, but it will be an amazing rest of the season 👌

@@Didymus69 Did it?

@@stijn4771 Yes, especially if you're reffering to AD 21, no matter how you cut it, Lewis dominated that race

Same thing

I agree with you on so many of your points in your comment. I have watched F1 since I was a kid, McLaren is my team but.... As a British black man LH has been my favourite driver since he entered the sport, F1 is my favourite sport by far.

LANDO LETS GOOOOOOO!

Just realized I am wearing my Gulf throwback McLaren tshirt.

Netflix Is an artificial show, I love F1, wouldn't watch drive to survive even in the off season

Goooooo McLaren

I think it was for the UK WW2 had just ended and there were a lot of airfields suitable for racing cars, Silverstone ended up being the main one - F1 got too fast for brands hatch, Aintree was pre WW2 and Goodwood still runs classic events, I forget most of the other tracks - Donnington and the ones used for BTCC, Crystal Palace was useful after the building had burned down but again too small for faster cars and bikes.

Yeah, just a tiny slip up I think. Saying WW1 I mean. Not the war itself.

Didn't stop Grosjean from having to escape from a blaze. He's so lucky to be alive. He literally went through the barrier. And then was stuck, on fire. For like... two minutes? That must have felt like an eternity.

@@PiousMoltar in Grojeans case one of the ports on the fuel tank that was blocked off with a plate broke open with the pressure of the car breaking in half. So the tank/bag itself wasn't the weak point.

@@PiousMoltar 2minutes he'd have died, more like 15seconds.

I second this comment ^

Importantly: keeping the fuel tank I'm the center of gravity means this doesn't move as the fuel is consumed.

The fuel tank is behind the driver, not under.

In a f1 car it's not under the driver at all. It's under the air box behind the driver.

Is that the one where they let Jackie Stewart say the numerically incorrect claim that within a five year period drivers had a one in three chance of dying, and do not challenge it ? The stat is simply and grossly incorrect, and a quick trawl of wiki and a few minutes use of a calculator with prove it to be so.

That, and it's origins in bootlegging is also fascinating.

The logistics of it are just as insane as F1 If not more, they race every weekend

@@nicholas8237 Wendover Productions did a video about the Insane Logistic of Formula 1, which was an INCREDIBLE eye-opener for just how much happens that we don't see in order to put on what we do see. Also, Aiden Millward did a video a week or so ago about the difference between F1 and NASCAR logistics. And you should find in one of the top comments one from an actual NASCAR mechanic who points out what was right and what was somewhat off.

NASCAR's schedule is insane. This season started in the 2nd week of February, with some weeks (that first week in Daytona, the All-Star Weekend, and the back-to-back Pocono races) having multiple races in a week just for the top series, and it goes until next week (first Sunday of November for future readers), and they have just TWO weekends off: One in April, and one in August, IIRC, Plus, the races are much longer in both time and distance. F1 races are 305km with a time limit of 2 hours of race time over a 3 hour period, while the shortest NASCAR Monster Energy Cup race (the top tier of the sport) are the Martinsville races which are 263 miles or 423.25km. Many of the races are over double the F1 race length too, and there's no maximum time. In fact, there's even overtime in the races because they don't want races to end under a yellow flag. So it's got the speed of F1 (although not the acceleration) but with much greater endurance in the mix, plus almost no weekends off to relax.

@@JimTheFly Foot Down, turn left (generally)

he didn't talk about the car at all. this the first video about the Formula 1 racing without mentioning the damn car

Where those cars the ones that where death traps that had invisble fire and stuff?

@@Andrewza1 Most racecars back then were just that

Invisible fire was prevalent in that era until the 1980s or so due to the fuel. There is a famous video of Rick Mears at the Indy 500, early 1980s, where his car catches fire, he gets out and looks like he is dancing. He was on fire but no one could see it. Everyone in the nearby pits started dousing him with water, to include Roger Penske. The different racing series later put in an additive to make the flames visable before switching to newer fuels.

Check out the movie "Senna".

Serious racing fans also tend to really like Rush. The story it covers could be told as a simple documentary and still be incredible. Interesting note: Niki Lauda passed away a couple of years ago, and he was a VIP at Mercedes. The last two seasons they've made sure to work a red element into the car as a remembrance of Niki (for example, the 2020 car had a bunch of silver Mercedes arrows on the livery, except for one red one)

@@michaelb1761 it’s more of a movie doc than a movie

Lemans 66 although not f1 related is another great racing movie

Time limitations. Personally, I was a little bit disappointed that Sir Jackie Stewart didn't get a nod for being the driving force behind the focus on safety, but I recognize there's only so much that can be said in 20min

That moment was literally insane. Is still cannot believe he’s alive. Much less that he literally walked away from that carnage.

He ain't called the Phoenix for nothing.

Too recent and horrific probably.

@@Journey22405 I mean. Horrific in a way but somehow he walked out with minor burns. Not exactly the same thing as waiting to talk about like senna who died on the track

You're right, yes, wrong Lotus

Hey dear how are you doin?

*Weeps in Hoosier*

Penske go back to IndyCar and put Grosjean in that seat. You cant let Andretti take him!

@@duke3987 Penske focuses on championships. Grosjean will crash too often for that.

I always loved Indycar, the Cars were sick looking. Edit: Yea, so what. The Livery’s were Tobacco Ads. 😐

@@Len_M. Same for Formula 1 Until FIA banned it due to public pressure...

When Lotus started, ALL British cars were painted in "British Racing Green", not just Lotus.

@@EricIrl I think he was talking about the 2010 debacle, not the origins of Lotus

@@sloppynyuszi The Lotus story got very messy in recent years. It's easy to get confused.

It is when you don’t already know f1. They fake a lot of things and use quotes when they are out of context etc. it is a good show though and has done a lot for the sport but isn’t exactly perfect

@@lewdyson4744 exactly. They've done a great job in creating viewership and bringing new fans in, unfortunately those new fans don't always realize that what they have "learned" from DTS isn't always true

@@valerierodger7700 and there’s nothing wrong with that some people are just casual watchers but it shouldn’t be so made up on Netflix’s part

@@valerierodger7700 exactly, the reason max refused to be part of it.

@@lewdyson4744 But documentaries are usually like that and almost always have a slant. Even if the director wanted to tell a whole story he may not have access to some things and that creates an unintentional bias. "The Last Dance" should have said "Produced by Michael Jordan himself" because of how pro-Jordan it was and it was still entertaining. I knew almost nothing about F1 prior to the show and I loved the cinematography and drama.

Hey its only cheating if it is 100% forbidden in the rule book, and they get caught

@@skodass1 The ultimate sign of motorsports development achievement, is when a rule gets added or changed due to something you did on a car/team.

@@skodass1 Alonso USA 2021 Oct ! OK not for a win but just great attitude

And if he limited it to on the GROUND races I think the NHRA would like to have a word with Simon about speed. Now admittedly that's only a quarter mile at a time but even so.

That’s an airsport isn’t it

@@michiganengineer8621 and that’s straightline speed. F1 is the fastest around a racetrack.

It would make sense if it’s an air sport, but I’m not sure. It’s officially a Motorsport with top speeds of over 525 mph.

@@Shinyworldwide Airsport and Motorsport are not mutually exclusive terms. Airsport refers to any sport that takes place in the air. That also includes things like gliders and skydiving that have no motors. Motorsport refers to any sport that uses engines or motors for power regardless of where it takes place. So powered cars, planes, boats etc. all count as long as they use a motor of some sort. It is possible for something to be both an airsport as well as a motorsport at the same time. In other words, the Reno Air Races are a motorsport that takes place in the air, hence it holds the title of fastest motorsport while also being an airsport.

I'd love a really deep dive into the logistics of F1, from teardown at one track to setup at another. I wonder how the speeds would be if someone did and Indy Oval setup on an f1 car. Low downforce, longer gearing.

Have you seen the Ent-wives?

Prost > Senna

@@duke3987 or just every rivalry every year

Goulash.

Was there not a split in both the admin of car racing in the USA and the safety / promotion with one promotor not allowing tracks to take anothers series race ?

@@highpath4776 Yes there was. Many years ago. I went to a couple of the CART races at Road America in Wisconsin. I’m not sure exactly when the reconciliation took place, but it was prior to the “Centennial Era” which was the several year period Between the 100th year anniversary of the first running of the Indy 500, and the running of the 100th Indy 500.

Also, if you do do something on endurance racing, please make a business blaze on it as well

Think F1 has more driver deaths, that Lemans accident was mostly bystanders.

@@feartheamish9183 f1 has more driver deaths yeah, but bystanders are still deaths

Also the cannonball run and the peking to paris rally

He covered the '55 crash, please still do endurance racing

Lots of spectators and drivers killed in Group B rally. Group B was banned.

Yes and they wiped the memories of everyone who witnessed it, Men in Black style. 🤔🤭 Definitely worse than the Le Mans disaster. 😒

It was in N. Carolina in the '90s... While being passed on the straightaway, the first car moved left, interlocking his wheels with the passing car which went air born sideways into a chain-link fence while still having forward momentum for about 100 yards. He was grated to his torso and track workers were struck by debris, killing them. They recovered the drivers body using a bucket to scoop his remains from the cockpit.

The worst loss of life in a formula one event was at the 1961 Italian grand prix where Wolfgang Von Trips car went into the crowd and 15 spectators were killed along with von trips

@@StreetLugeNetwork What I meant to say was the F1 crash with the world's most gruesome camera footage... I think you are right about the worst loss of life.

@@campbellpaul In a "some crash" the graphic images of Senna's body after the crash are stored by their photographer until today and the cockipt images all the way until the crash (the TV cuts the feed seconds before) may still exist in F1 HQ.

I think they know lol

I can see Max achieving alot in the future, whether he'll top Lulu though is open to question. I never thought Michaels records would've been beaten so soon.

Fastest circuit cars

Until they have to farther then 1/4th of a mile or turn.

I hate to be the guy to say the guy that doesn't wanna be that guy is right but...

@Jemarc... That would also be false. A oval is also considered a circuit and I believe the closed course record is still held by a CART driver at Fontana... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DF8GTL0_rMA.html

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