After people wanted better sounds they started experimenting with mics being put closer to the exhaust on some cars. The honda PU in particular had a very beautiful idle & downshift sound.
Omg, just realised that cars in this era just sound so nice. No porpoising, no weird sounds at the end of straights. the acceleation at corner exists is so smooth and satisfying for the audience.
They were so amazing, I don't know why the FIA keep changing them, think of how close the racing was. And Ferrari and McLaren were getting close to RedBull and Mercedes. It would have been a four way fight.
@@adrrodw4975what is interesting is that he really improved on that in his last season for some reason. He gained positions on the 1st lap in almost every race in 2021
@@illogicallylogic9805people need to understand that ferrari is his retirement plan unless you want more depression 1.he will be adjusting to new car in 2025 so no contention 2. 2026 ferrari is not known to deliver under huge regulation changes recently and they adjust pretty slowly and he will be 41, i doubt how much tank will he have by then
No man. To me 2021 was the biggest in how F1 has lost its identity and it’s rigged. Some of the drivers especially from the new generation were just banging their cars, throwing them around like Max did in Brazil and FIA was saying “racing incident”. Unfortunately, for the sake of more viewers and Netflix drama that they wanted to create the destroyed the elite racing sport that it was. As for the rigged part I won’t comment so many mistakes that were made in many races. The back and forth talks between RB and Massi where they were negotiating what to do. Only the last race was enough to show that it was, regardless if it was in favour of Max or if things were opposite and they would do it in favour of Lewis, having again the FIA negotiating with a team and then taking a decision together which obviously favours a lot the one side is ridiculous. To me that showed that F1 chooses the champion they want from time to time to have.
@@519achilles the only thing I’ll comment is that it wasn’t just RB talking to massi through the year, all teams did it, and Mercedes did it such ways of redbull. So it’s not like rb were the only ones. That’s all I say.
agreed, magic mode on the Mercedes is litterely designed for heating tire temps by being full front brake bias. also been proven zig zags don't produce as much heat as braking does
i started watching in 2020 and i can tell you its not.2021 was the best season I've watched but the premise of 2012 is much better tbh(i've only watched a few races but it was a whole lot more competitive). When you have time you should go watch that season.
@@nicotine_twoshotyes and i think it was pretty clear that i was just presenting mine. You can respect it and move on or try to be a smartass for a few likes. Cant even give someone a viewing recc. w/o mfs coming outta nowhere to hate. FOH.
He’s not braking to use brake heat for the tires, he’s braking and using the throttle at the same time to create negative torque on the front tire carcass and positive torque on the rear tire carcass, this warms up the tires and he doesn’t have to weave into dirty parts of the race track. This is very common in indycar where the tracks will have tons of rubber marbles as the race goes on
I feel like the new regs made it easier to follow but the overtaking has also gotten worse... it's just drive-by DRS passes on the straights, hardly any battles in the corners
Why!? New cars allow for far better racing. Like the 2022 season was terrible from a competitive standpoint, but the racing between cars was the best I've seen. And I've been watching since 2008/2009 ish.
IMO, it’s situational. On a SC restart, most of the time you don’t see P2 weaving because they’re trying to react to the moment the leader decides to go full throttle
I mean he did show an example of Lewis doing it from P3... Also I think maybe this is a somewhat of a predetermined approach decided between lewis and his team on how to conduct restart, perhaps as a result of specific traits of the car... All of this while knowing that merc has relied on their brake magic to more gently fireup the tires so the stint isn't affected by yet another heat cycle of a safety car restart.
Can we just appreciate how quickly these guys can react to the guy in front dropping the hammer? You don’t even notice it happening and Hamilton is immediately on it.
The most amount of grip on rubber actually comes from the inside of the tyre. Doesnt mean hamilton's way is better; just different methods for different needs.
a safety car reduces fuel requirement compared to a full race without safety car, burning (more) fuel is probably more often than not a good thing during a SC
It's because that car had something specific they called it "the magic button" to heat up his tires, the same button he switched back on by accident at Baku that made him go straight in the 1st corner.
Kimi used to do the same. It also has the benefit of warming the brakes. Coarbon disks work better when hot. It doesn't mean that drivers who dance don't brake as well. Usually they do.
Yea, Kimi used to do it as well. Its pretty common. And its not using hot air, its using the literal heat from the 1000° brakes to heat the rim and inner part of the tyre. Heat from inside out vs outside in. In addition to all of that, Max had the restart whenever he wanted to go. Lewis was just making sure he wasnt caught out of position.
It’s a wicked way to do any rolling start. It’s much easier and quicker to release the car via the brake pedal plus you’re driving along with the back end squatted and ready to pounce (assuming you’re in a RWD car).
The real reason he’s using the braking is not necessarily for the tire heat it’s more so he can apply more throttle while braking to spool up the turbo more for the restart to chase down the car in front.
TBF this is more of him having to do this for the restart - if Hamilton had been zig-zagging, max could suddenly take off while he's facing the wrong way and get a huge jump. That's the advantage of being able to set the pace in p1, you can try to warm up your tyres better and psych out the ones behind ya. For some interesting tyre warming, I would look at the maneuver alonso sometimes does, which goes all the way back to his renault days when it was way more common - having the tyres break traction, literally throwing the car sideways back and forth on the X axis, like a little slide almost. Watching some old 2006 races, everyone seemed to do it (at least on some tracks) during the parade lap. Now Alonso is the only one I've seen do it in years, it's an interesting thing to watch now that I know where it came from.
@@wibblywobbly99Indeed, leaving the track and gaining an advantage should've been a penalty. Mercedes got a lot of decisions handed to them that year.
Especially on public roads it's far easier and efficient to warm your tires with heavy breaking and strong accelerating than trying to somehow zigzag in your own lane
Por isso que a Mercedes aquele ano tava rápida que só a peste, motor v6,motor elétrico e um motor de caminhão 1113 escondido cantando em baixa, tá explicado kkkkk
This is necessary. It's an SC restart and swerving to heat up tyres will compromise you when the leader goes as they control the field.. If Hamilton used the zig zag technique, verstappen could have taken off mid zig zag and Hamilton would have lost time. This method is to ensure the car is straight when verstappen does go. It's not just hamilton that will do this under these conditions, a lot of other drivers will do the same
@@pollenzx lol Lewis made difference in 2017-19. Mercedes was not even better than Ferrari in 2018 And I just mentioned 2009 where he won races in a midfield car.
@@alexlacl8730 so when lewis wins 2 races in a "midfield" (top 3) car he's the best driver of the season and the goat but when verstappen wins 10 before having a competitive season he's a fraud and a cheater? you bums need a consistent logic 💀 ferrari 2018-2019 were only competitive because of top speed and failed to do anything else as seen with hamilton being 80 and 90 points clear of them bud lest we forget hamilton only had one competitor prior to 2021 and he lost to him 💀💀💀 and if it wasn't enough it was his own teammate
Unless we have the full data from his car to compare, then I cant really say that he is warming the tyres from the rim. For me it looks more small controlled braking as to keep close to the car in front, but not too close as to risk stewards giving him a punishment. I cant be sure
Many drivers have done that, most recent and notable was Raikkonen a few seasons ago, people thought he was driving in a straightline while everyone else zig zagged but it wasn't the case.
I assume that he already heated his tyres to the point where they only needed to be held at temperature. If he'd zigzag too then he'd overheat the tyres. It's also why in that famous clip of kimi not heating his tyres in Abu Dhabi 2017 when everyone else was, he also likely already had the tyres up to temp and didn't want to overheat them.
I am not joking -- I actually do this same type of heating in sim racing games but it's not because it'll heat up the tires. I actually never thought of that. I do it so that I can have my brakes at optimal temperature, so I can be aggressive with my corner passing attempts and brake slightly late. Of course, it comes at the cost of less grip I think.
You're forgetting how much better the RB was from Monaco up until Silverstone, these two cars were as close to equal as you could get tbh with RB maybe being slightly better over the season
@achiraorayrid Bottas was as quick as Max in Monaco. You can tell me the Merc was not quick around there. If Bottas is matching Max the car is likely quicker. Over the season the Mercedes was 0.18s faster over a lap. The advantage was likely larger in races as they had better tyre management.
Weaving alone doesn't do enough to warm up the tires like most games will have you believe. It's actually better to warm up tires through braking because it can generate more temps than weaving ever could. These guys do a combination of both anyway, unless you're Kimi Raikkonen lol
Only if you can decelerate from 200km/h to 50km/h. But if you are rolling 100km/h at the main straight seconds before the restart, your tires are getting stone-cold.
Ok let’s clear the reason for this. Hamilton likes a car on the rear end. Hence, he doesn’t need to move the front tires a lot to generate temperature. Because of the good rear end, you get more friction for the front tires to heat them up fast. The breaking method he is using is not to heat up the front tire, but to heat up the rears. Max’s is a little different. He uses a very front heavy car. This makes the front end really sharp and puts more tension on the loose rear end. When this happens, due to the sharp nature of the car, he needs to put more effort to heat up the fronts and hence requires more zig zagging. Hope, this helps. You can actually see this characterstic while playing the f1 game. You urself might follow this automatically to get temperature to the apt window .
2:26 That swing that Verstappen's car gave was impressive... when he did it in the penultimate corner of Monaco 21 and the last corner of Abu Dhabi 21 I thought he was going to crash That swing that Verstappen's car gave was impressive... when he did it in the penultimate corner of Monaco 21 and the last corner of Abu Dhabi 21 I thought he was going to crash badly😂
bro wtf i saw that too??? i will NEVER forget that, it's so memorable, him coming 2021 on the last corner of abu dhabi, with that little tail whip at the end and you're right we can see the exact same tail shake in this clip. very interesting. max is one with the car
@@yurilopes420 Exactly, he has an absurd aggressiveness and control. That overtaking on Rosberg in 2016 in Brazil was also impressive when he passes he moves the steering wheel super aggressively to hold the car, I'm impressed, in the simulator it's almost impossible to do that, the car just slips away with no chance of recovering, either you have the perfect set-up and a good sense of what's going to happen, or it's over...
