The Budget cap wasn’t increased at all - Redbull demanded an increase in exchange for the 6 sprint races going ahead in 2022 even though both the drop by 5m to 135m and the increase of the sprint races had been agreed on before the 2021 season by all teams 135m budget cap and 6 sprint races was the plan for 2022 (with the budget cap dropping further over the next few seasons) After Redbull’s championship fight with Mercedes’ got further along during the 2021 season they realised they hadn’t allocated the financial detail correctly - as proven by Mercedes not backing them and dealing with the financial like they always do , you can’t spend what you don’t have Under the cost cap Mercedes would have gained from the increase of the cost cap as under the terms of the cost cap Mercedes’ then Redbull would have the least to spend Also to bare in mind is at the opening race of the 2022 season Redbull had both its cars retire from the race - they pretty quickly (with no evidence) claimed it was a fuel pump issue in one of the two components supplied by the FIA When it comes to the fuel and the systems involved it is never Redbull’s fault it is always someone else They got the extra cost cap cash yes but it didn’t rise like they hoped it would , the decrease got delayed and that was it
Honestly this sustainable fuel is nice and all but the cars produce probably less than 1% from F1's emissions. Instead they should focus on sustainable ways for moving the circus around the world.
You mean like not going from Middle East to Australia then back to Europe, then go to US, then back to Europe again, then go to Canada all for one race and finally back again to Europe until the summer break
The thing is that a lot of the revolutionary ideas in the automobile industry have been created or spread by Formula 1. If F1 manages to run on fuel that is 100% sustainable, the rest of the world is likely gonna follow. While it is true that most emissions happen outside of the track, switching to a sustainable fuel would play a significant role in preserving the environment as well as the internal combustion engine
exactly. but the reality of F1 is that the sport is basically run by the Carbon-Combustion Complex (Oil Companies, Automobile companies, middle eastern nations). They are using motorsport as a way to control the pace of the transition away from fossil fuels. These green initiatives are for motorsport what the Jeddah Grand Prix is for Saudi Arabia
Corn squeeze isnt sustainable, the numbers that are touted by EPA were incorrect. Latest independent studies show that ethanol production generates 20% more carbon than petroleum use. Might as well use the fuel that is already there seeping out of the earths crust.
Trucks and other logistical operations will what makes the difference to the environment, it feels a bit like the biofuel rule is only for press. Not great.
Not going to lie... The title and thumbnail are almost the opposite of clickbait. I expected a simple video of fuel goes in, goes boom, engine goes wooooo and wheels spin What we got instead was a very nice in depth explanation of the whole process and the R&D Really great video 👍🏻
@@dr.vishantpriyadarshi7050 fue is actually a nice alternative to normal fuel. the missing letter makes it ca. 25% cheaper, i‘d try it out, especially with the surge in gas prices😎👍🏻👍🏻
Having worked in a petrochemical lab for 16 years, the specs at 1:46 are really interesting. They are indeed essentially the same as what you get for your regular car, but what you get at the pump is usually the cheapest fuel that can be made to just barely pass the specs while I can imagine that cost is less of an issue for the F1 teams. Some things I can imagine they tweak for different fuel mixes could be the DVPE for cold/hot/high altitude races, Final Boiling point for optimal engine performance and Ron+Mon obviously as these are essential for performance and an engine is usually tweaked to work with an optimal octane number. Also cool to see the same instruments I'm used to such as the Anton Paar densiometer and what looks like a PAC/AC gc of some sort, possibly a reformulyzer.
@@fakeplayer9088 I'm sorry, but I dont understand the question. Could you please rephrase it? To be clear, I dont know anything about F1 fuel specifically and have only analyzed race fuel on a few occations. The main difference between regular gasoline and race fuel was the octane number. The common gasoline here in Europe have a RON of 95 and a MON of 85-86 ish (sold as an octane number of 95). In America they report the octane number as (RON+MON)/2 so an octane number of 90 would be a rough equivalent. The race fuel I tested had a RON of 105 and MON of 93 ish (cant quite remember as it was a decade ago).
Small question: given the F1 cars have different gas mixtures they use, could that be the same for the general public? I’m guessing this due to when I had a scooter, I had a bad time with BP gas but had a much better feel with Exon Mobile’s gas and much smoother ride for more premium fuel. Mine was DongFang SRT50 49cc.
@@TheoCynical I can't say for sure as I'm unaware of how it works where you live. There could be some minor differences, but no matter where you fill up, the fuel must comply with the ISO or ASTM standards set for that specification of fuel. The exact mix you need to have to vomply with the specification depends on the refinery and the crude oil they use. It could be that your motorcycle just liked a certain combo, or it could be like it is where I live and all stations get their fuel from the same fuel depot and therefore sell the same fuel in all stations. In short, could be a placebo effect. But, whatever works, go with that!
I’m all for F1 pushing for sustainable fuels cause changing most road cars to it will make a bigger difference in the short term than producing a bunch of electric cars. Plus it means I can still drive my v8 without getting taxed into oblivion.
At 03:24 you say "..as chilled fuel can store more power..." There may be some gain in power by the cooler charge. The cooler fuel makes for a cooler (=mored dense) air-fuel mixture. The energy content of the fuel (Joule/kg) is not changed.
genuine question: if they are able to produce 100% sustainable fuel, what's stopping F1 from going back to V8s with the sound everyone loves and misses? Since it wouldn't be polluting at all
@@e2rqey but if cars are going electric in the near future, what are these engines being developed for? iirc mercedes has more or less stopped work on developing new ICEs for road cars in order to switch to electric. if companies DO go electric, then i hope we can go back to older engine layouts like 8s 10s 12s and all that
Great video, just one little inaccuracy: the fuel needed for a full season is 1200 liters per team per weekend x 10 x 23 =276.000 liters. A jumbo jet can fly London to NY with about 80.000 liters. Still puts a perspective on things, but a season is mor like 3 transatlantic jumbo-jet journeys.
The new fuel seems to be the difference maker this year there’s no coincidence all Mercedes power teams are struggling mightily with overheating it’s nice to see the midfield so close with the new regs but if Ferrari is just the new dominant car as it looks it’ll be somewhat disappointing to me hopefully red bull and merc can sort their issues if not leclerc is going to run away with the next 5 titles just like Lewis did last regs
Octane 87 and 10% ethanol is the exact fuel we use in the USA. I know the race performance F1 fuel is a little different from that but it's cool to see they're using E10.
I don't recall that being part of their deal. I only remember it being said that Ferrari would help the FIA figure out how to stop teams from cheating the rules related to fuel.
Though refueling is band now but in old days strategies were based refueling n tyres thus creating more excitement in F1 ... best example is French GP 2004 where Michael Schumacher won d race even after making 4 planned pitstops...
I am happy to see F1 change to the same types and sizes our road cars use. Running on 18" wheels and moving towards more sustainable fuels as we use will just help develop the tires and gas road cars use.
I can't believe fuel isn't 1 for all. It must play such a massive roll in engine performance and lubricating the moving parts. It's like fuelling up at a supermarket and ruining your engine cause it's cheaper or puting in high performance unleaded. Nice video.
I really think the 1 litre sample the FIA requires is quite out of date. Back when I was doing ground school, the fuel samples we took from our planes were usually around 0.3 litres. And that was more than enough to run any checks of the fuel’s condition
5:00 Exxon branding Replaces Esso Branding on the Red Bull cars when they Race in the United States. Everybody else, It's the Same Branding for every race. There was talks back around 2010 after their Gulf Of Mexico Disaster Involving British Petroleum (BP) on rebranding all of their Operations in the USA to the AMOCO (AMerican Oil COmpany) Brand. While that Did not happen, for some reason, since 2017, Both BP and AMOCO are used in The States.
Have to say I much prefer a longer and more detailed video rather than the short ones which sometimes miss information and aren’t as engaging, you get into it and then it ends, loving the content though as always 👌
Exotic fuels was an interesting choice in the past. The idea of pushing what ever is science and engineering cutting edge has become much more constrained and i understand some of why. But our world of motorsport really needs something that has very little regulation and lots of room for creativity and competition. Not banning competitors ideas because they were too good to catch up to that year.
well a 100 liters of gas is about 25 gallons of gas, and if this gas has a similar density to water, which 7.6 gallons of water equals 1 cubic ft, then the tank would be somewhere around 3.5 cubic ft. Which approximating would mean the gas tank would be about 1.15 or 1.2 ft. in every direction.
Small question: given the F1 cars have different gas mixtures they use, could that be the same for the general public? I’m guessing this due to when I had a scooter, I had a bad time with BP gas but had a much better feel with Exon Mobile’s gas and much smoother ride for more premium fuel. Mine was DongFang SRT50 49cc.
Just wondering how much fuel is used during a Grand Prix for all the teams including transportation and races, just because formula 1 cars are using less fuel that will not reduce impact on environment
Was going to mention the same thing, not even getting into manufacture of parts and transportation of the materials for them and then the end results. If a single jumbo jet uses more fuel than all of the cars over a season, then you can assume the environmental impact of using any "green" fuel is a drop in the bucket compared to transportation impact.
Some of the drivers fly private jets, some of the stuff required for the weekend comes in cargo planes, some in cargo ships. The fuel consumption by these far outweigh the fuel consumption by the cars during the races. That is correct. But what we should also consider is that F1 is at the heart of lot of innovations for automobile industry. So, if F1 and other moto sports can prove the utility of 100% bio fuel, the mass road industry could follow. This would be a really sustainable change as EV cannot scale due to scarcity of copper, lithium, cobalt and other rare earth metals.
@@Sepi-bx5qd just not many that are much better. Everything sucks and we as a species must consume to continue. It's an objective reality that we've gotta come to terms with cause lying to ourselves isn't gonna make it better
@@azreenklose7976 stating the fact doesn't mean that iam a hater(I'm no fan either) . Cheaters are cheaters and are need to be mentioned especially when other drivers and teams were mentioned regarding same thing
it's good to see them try and go sustainable in the cars, but the fact that the cars use less fuel than a plane from London to New York or whatever the line was, and that each team takes a plane to every single race, there's a long way to go before they can truly boast about how environmentally friendly they are
The value refueling could bring back to races would far outweigh the cost and I dont buy that it cant be done safely, plus a refueling rig would be such a small portion of what they spend. I used to love the late 90s and early 2000s watching strategies play out. Light loads vs heavy loads and how they affected tyre performance and how it really mixed up strategy variety over a race with pit stop lengths varying by whole seconds instead of tenths. The urgency of a splash and dash for track position. Dancing on the line with lighter loads. There's no good reason we cant have all that back again.
No because like you said all the cars over all the sessions over all the race weekends consume less fuel than one cross Atlantic flight so why bother. Bring back V10s and make the behind the scenes transportation more efficient.
So I heard now several times there is still a max of 110 kg fuel per race but German f1 chanel motorsport Magazin reported, that in the new 22 regulations is noticed that there will be NO limit furthermore and teams are allowed to use much fuel as they want. Please check your information again.
Why they don't use E85 is beyond me. You can make it out of biowaste, it's over 100 octane and available to use on normal cars on normal petrol stations.
It's only sustainable if the initial source of fuel can be produced naturally without hindering essential processes like food production in the same time it is used. So for example about 1500 liter of fuel per can per week. Anything else may be in the right direction but not sustainable.
Can a team test fuel on practice sessions? Like "We do not want to use this under race (at the moment), but just test how it behaves with the card?" In the video it was said all fuels are tested (even randomly), but are they allowed to test new fuels before parc ferme?
With the current ruleset, they can only have a total of 5 different mixtures and bring 2 of those per race. I'm guessing there's mixtures for low air density and rain, while the other 3 are closer together and differ slightly depending on track aspects like acceleration zones and straights. So they probably choose 2 more suited to a track and see which works best. I think you could use either mixture whenever you want, just have to make sure they're identical to what you submitted to the FIA at the start of the season.
Is the one liter of fuel, which must come out of the car after the race, measured by volume at a specific temperature, or is that rule inconsistent with the measurement of fuel by mass before the race?
TBF, source of F1 fuel will have 0 direct impact on "environment" (not running F1 at all would be greenest thing - all cargos, flights, fans moving around, factories etc. - that all thing can use as much as small country/state) but since it has to represent "real world things", one can see how engine makers want it to be as platform for 26-40 (probably?) engine ruleset period (where some good-image hybrids at mid-high to high end gonna make good money for car-makers).
Why do they use mass (110 kg) for max amount of fuel per race, yet use volume (1 L) for the minimum to be submitted after the race? Seems a bit inconsistent, especially given that conditions can be significantly different when you start and end a race.
I am very happy to see the cars switch to sustainable fuels. This change is not only good for the environment, but as seen so far this season, it is also good for the competitive nature of the teams and the advancement of technologies. Get to renewable fuels and then make the cars even faster than ever before? Yes please. And for the argument the traditional fuels are better and stronger... who cares? welcome to the furure, grow up.
What's funny is people keep talking about safety but at the time when Formula 1 made the decision to stop refueling they literally did not mention safety at all they mentioned the cost to run a Formula 1 team that was literally their only reason for stopping refueling. Especially when you consider other racing categories use 100% ethanol which burns almost one hundred percent clear yet they're still able to refuel safely
The total fuel flow limit has been a travesty since it was introduced, as it ensures the engines aren’t revved beyond about 12,000rpm, which is a part of why they sound like leaf blowers. If they removed this limit, then teams would have to work out how to make the most efficient use of the 110kg total, and that would include having engines that could rev out to the 15k limit, helping to bring back some of the proper F1 sound.
Im pretty sure for 2022 there is no limit how much fuel there is on the car, just the fuel flow is regulated. because there just isn't any benefit for a team to have more fuel in them.
Why doesn’t FIA enforce a RON + MON / 2 maximum limit ? RON and MOZ are measures of fuel knock limit and that has an important impact on the engine design. Increasing the octane value of fuel allows a higher compression ratio before knock onset which can lead to improved efficiency and power output. Ethanol based fuels have much lower heating values than gasoline ( you need more of it for the equivalent power ) . The overall carbon footprint of “renewable fuels is much higher than standard gasoline partly because the tilling of soil releases massive amounts of CO2. Part of the massive release of CO2 comes from the transporting of the F1 circus around the world and now we have 22 - 23 races a year so the amount of fuel used has increased. If there is only a small difference between pump and race fuel , why do the teams need to transport and develop with race fuels and why can’t they use the pump fuels available in each country that hold a race event ? Modern engines are fitted with knock sensors so if the RON and MON values change the engine sensors should be able to protect the engine and optimise the performance. That seems more like real life than creating a lot of complex set of artifacts. Just wondering :-)
This is F1, teams are taking paint off parts of their car to save grams, you bet your ass they're gonna squeeze the maximum potential out of the fuel. These engines are built with insanely tight tolerances, so having so much variety will lose a lot of power and I don't think any of the teams would agree to do this.
Haha ...still can't move on from 2019 fuel sensors thing .......😂😂....Come on ....its 2022 now .....I know you..... must be either Mercedes or Red Bull super fans .....Maybe Ferrari's recent performance , makes you hate them even more!!
@@azreenklose7976 I’m a Mclaren/Williams fan actually(yes I root for the lovable loser). I’m just saying that Ferrari’s 2019 engine was a great example of a team trying to bypass fuel sensors, and I felt like that part should’ve been mentioned in a video that brought up fuel sensors.
