I like how this channel is racing/F1 focussed, but not on the sport itself, but everything surrounding it. Giving us a wonderful insight in how these processes, which nobody thinks about, run smoothly.
@@twanhams2635 Formula E has much smaller team budgets than F1, and if I'm not mistaken there's more standardized parts. You can probably assume the jobs of the crew and factory staff are less complicated than an F1 team's. 'Easier' is harder to answer - Formula E teams' performance is a lot closer to each other, so driver skills play a bigger part in who comes out on top (as opposed to F1, where a Merc not making it to Q3 is basically impossible). And while the cars are slower, they usually race on street circuits (which have zero margin for error). Strategy is presumably a lot more difficult to develop as a result.
@@twanhams2635 this question can be answered from many perspectives, but there's 2 main angles to look at. 1. The drivers in FE have the same skill as the drivers in F1 as all drivers have the same training and they all usually come from the same junior racing series' such as F2. So, FE is not easier to race in than F1 as in you still need to be better than the drivers around you, and the drivers around you are the some of the best in the world of motorsport. 2. FE is easier than F1 in terms of physicality. F1 is higher top speeds, higher cornering speeds, longer races and longer tracks. FE is 1 hour long, narrower tracks and lower top speed. If you look at it that way, F1 drivers have to be physically fitter than FE drivers and they experience more G-forces than FE drivers. But this is only because E-tech has been in development far shorter than combustion power and F1 has. In the near future F1 and FE will become more and more similar as FE evolves to have better power units and better batteries, and as F1 evolves to become more sustainable. Hope this answered your question. :)
Being able to hear the communication between the drivers and engineers is one of the things I love so much about F1. Without it, it would be a little boring. Such a unique thing to a sport, being able to hear live reaction's and not PR answers in front of a camera after the fact.
Great vid as always, Matt! Really appreciate these behind-the-scenes technical insights. An idea for a future video: how does track timing/transponder systems work? I tried to look into it once and came across some fascinating posts on a forum somewhere, from an engineer who operates the timing systems. Apparently they have to arrive a week in advance to certain F1 circuits, to drill underground timing loops into the road surface…
1:52 Hold up holdup… 1.9 Gigabytes/sec?? Faster than most peoples connections at home? That’s faster than any connection period… that’s 15.2 Gigabits/sec, or 15,200 Megabits/sec… on a good day, I can get 200-300 megabits/sec… the F1 upload speeds are 50-75 TIMES FASTER than my WiFi at it’s best… the fastest WiFi I’ve heard of is gigabit WiFi… so even that is 15 times slower than the F1 car in its garage… absolutely mind boggling
New subscriber here, great content! It's sad that it took YT so long to finally show this to me, totally unfair to creators like you. Best of luck and thanks!
WOW... I'm 2 vides into Matt Amys' collection and I am in LOVE! You deserve hundreds of thousands of Subscribers! great work, keep this up and you will be an F1 RU-vid Giant in no time!
Great video! I got a set made by Ultimate Ear in the UK for motorcycle riding. They are incredible, especially with the Bluetooth connection. Super useful to keep the roaring wind to a minimum and hear the gps without having to look down. Sound like an ad, but they really are that good ^^
you would imagine the race teams/track would just have a tplink wireless base station or cpe aerials all using the same ssid around the track and an aerial on the car so it automatically connected to the highest strength and then just have discord or similar app, just thought that teams would prefer the high bandwidth wifi link for HD camera live feed etc
Hi Matt, first time I have watched this video - very informative. I was wondering if the F1 teams have the ability to talk to the driver in a private conversation mode. In other words that conversation is Digitally Voice Protected (DVP) and anyone scanning that channel whilst in private mode would only receive 'White Noise'. Would be quite an advantage when talking strategy, tyres Pit Stop timings - would prevent other teams knowing what they are going to do next.
Only time the team can speak privately is when they come into the garage and are connected directly - anything out on track needs to be publicly available so no private conversation mode on track :)
Fun fact, Carlos Sainz had to bite a piece of rubber when his earplugs were made... (not really, I know, but singers are recommended to let the silicon set with their mouth slightly open (Smoooth operator ...)😁😁
1.9 gigabyte per second is something in the region of 15 gigabit networking That's not just "faster than most people's Internet" thats straight up faster than any SATA SSD in your pc or laptop and faster that most high speed network connections you find in servers (those are usually 10gigabit)
I wished they went a bit more into the radio standards they use for their two-way radio voice communications system. For example, do they use TETRA or NXDN or DMR? Or do they use another standard
If by "most" ppl you mean 100% of them. 1.5GB/s is a modern nvme speed used primarly for OS, other drives get at best 0.6GB/s INSIDE a computer. Not even best fiber internet is close to that. Let alone they do it wirelessly. DANG!
Bone induction headphones are pretty large, see the Aftershokz range. In-ears are very small so they don't interfere with the helmet, plus they have the edge of sounding better than Bone induction, less loss of lower frequencies.
I don't know how fast your internet is, but 1,9 GB a sec is very, very fast. this is almost 16GBit/sec and I don't think anyone has this connection at least not a normal person.
As always, thanks for the info, the more you know, a? I saw an F1 mechanic a while back stick the ear piece in his mouth and then in his ears, and I thought, odd, but now I know why.
I don't know about radios on this, but every team have some high level cyber security system on their computers. Mclaren's Darktrace sponsor is one of them
Amazing how much tech and attention goes into it all. Is it just me or does audio quality take a third row backseat? Way beyond gigabit wireless transmission but Max still sounds like shit OTA.
