1:03 It's so intense that Bottas mistakenly set BMIG to 2. Fortunately he soon realized and changed it to 1. 1:24 Bottas pressed the DRS button before the DRS line, realized it wasn't activated, so he pressed it a 2nd time. I left out DAS because only 2020 Mercedes had it, and this video is about a F1 quali lap, not "a 2020 Mercedes quali lap." The Brake Warming button is basically Lewis' Brake Magic, except Brake Magic also sets the on/off between the current ERS mode and Strat 1 mode (charge mode). So after a quali lap, Lewis just presses the Magic button, while Bottas has to press the Warming button and dial the Strat mode rotary to 1.
For those who wonder what "Brake Migration" is,it's being used to control the gradual shift of brake bias towards the rear tyres as the car slows down Edit:changed front to rear
@@parsamousavi5260 Actually it's towards the rear because the weight shifts from the front to the rear as the car slows down. Ferrari calls this "Brake Shape" and you can see Carlos' explanation on this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F06VFDc6T-E.html
@@Route765 It's legal and it's been there since 2014 when they introduced brake by wire. Every team has this. I think Renault 2019 in Suzuka got themselves an auto-BMIG, meaning BMIG changing without driver's physical input, and that was the illegal part.
We often take for granted how fucking incredible these guys are... the amount of input changes, steering movements, and g forces... yet we criticize from our couch or chair.
@@hazikaiyan5903 you get criticized by either your peers or bosses, not by some random fan 5000 miles away that's only ever been driven as a passenger in a citreon c1
@@Jaytalise true! Yeah I actually never thought of that, they already get shit by Team principals, but at the end of the day, those are costs you have to pay when you drive in the top level of motorsport
@@hazikaiyan5903 I don't agree because who said it has to? why do fans need to be so illogical in their devotion to a team/driver? the only ''criticism'' they get is If you're Ham: ''oh wow such a cry baby, maybe you shouldn't try to kill someone'' or Max: ''Arrogant prick, just divebombs everyone and doesn't care'' Neither of these are good for anyone, Ham is emotional behind the wheel - much like Gasly. Max is aggressive, it's a high risk/reward style and has been/will be punished much like early Ham.
In a perfect world, F1 would give you free reign of all their footage with no restrictions and no fear of copyright infringements, just so you could make any video you wanted because of how well you make them. Knocked it out of the park again, Yelistener. Great vid.
@@Spyker8921 yeah, exactly. It’s A FORM of intellectual property. You just made my point. It is not the same thing as intellectual property. Google intellectual property vs copyright and read up for yourself.
I always beat this dead horse: F1 is insane. Drivers are under constant G-forces. The forces in the corners are wild. Their necks have to be trained to withstand it all. Then you also need concentration during a whole GP. While constantly inputting adjustments into your steeringwheel. While also communicating constantly with your engineer. You aren't just thinking about braking and cornering at the right moment for 50+ laps in often extreme heat.. you also need to be aware of the drivers around you, what they are doing and possible debris on track. While also losing lots of water weight because you are sweating your ass off in your hot car. While still maintaining top focus. Then you also have to deal with strategy, tyre temps, engine temps, power saving, fuel management etc. Oh yeah. While also thinking about when and how you make your next overtake while anticipating the movements of the other car or cars. 1 small mistake could be a fatal crash. And some people dare to day F1 drivers arent athletes.
Yea their neck muscles need to be that strong so that while driving the car at 200 kph in a corner at 4G's they can read the shoddy documentation manual ( written by overworked engineers with no technical writing experience) so the driver can debug why the brakes aren't working.
I told my cousin last week F1 is the toughest sport for an athlete. He always said Tennis is the toughest but I made him understand in tennis you still get breaks, get chance to have a good sip of your chilled beverage, get a towel to wipe your face and arms off. You get plenty of time to think. In soccer as well, goalkeepers are mostly at rest and regardless of your position, you don’t have to always run hard towards the ball, when the football is at forward, defense players sort get chance to relax here and there. In F1 it’s straight 1.5 hours straight focus and very tough physical circumstances plus you do get sips of water but it’s hot too and I don’t know how it hits your tongue at 200km speeds. F1 drivers are by far face toughest conditions more than the wrestlers, even wrestlers get breaks and time to think. They jump in fight for few minutes only.
Gentlemen, a short view back to the past: Thirty years ago, Niki Lauda told us: "Take a trained monkey, place him into the cockpit and he is able to drive the car." Thirty years later, Sebastian told us: "I had to start my car like a computer: it's very complicated." And Nico, Rosbeg, said, he pressed during the race - I don't remember what race - the wrong button on the wheel. Question for you two both: is formula 1 driving today too complicated with 20 and more buttons on the wheel? Are you too much under effort, under pressure? What are your wishes for the future, concerning the technical program during the race? Less buttons, more? Or less and more comunication with your engineers.
During Lauda times they had H pattern gearbox, 3 pedals with the need of rev matching every reduction, cars where more slippery because of less grip, so they had to correct it every turn, if you watch old footage they where almost drifting every turn. Now they have milion buttons to press every lap. I dunno which is more complicated, but I know it used to be more about controlling the car, for me that's always better then just pressing buttons.
Thanks for clearing up that this is in Bahrain, I also thought for the first minute that this was at Bahrain, but I was confused since he didn't drive like even half of the track I can remember. Also, those insane Adjustments really make your jaw drop, especially at the Monoco, Singapore and Japanese GP, those tracks really set drivers and cars apart.
This was the shortest ever circuit in F1. Imagine how much more stuff there is on the longer circuits or in Monaco where you have barriers on every corner.
What I especially like about floodlit sessions is how readable steering wheel displays are versus daylight running. I also like how more or less, every car has a specific display outlook that appears when crossing a timing line before eventually returning to the standard view. (Alonso's difference is mainly a different sized gear number.) Additionally, Merc drivers have a different outlook for slow laps, including formation & race neutralization ones, etc. Others, such as Mclaren & Alpha Tauri, have a different view when in the garage/pit lane fast lane and/or only when driving in the pit lane.
Exactly, I can finally read the delta on Mercedes cars to see how much quicker they are going, same for other cars. Like in Qatar I knew how much faster Gasly was going on his 2nd lap just before the puncture, and it would’ve been enough for at least P3 for the time being, which is impressive.
I think the displays are similar because the screen is a standardised part? Supplied by mclaren applied, saw a Peter Windsor video on it a while back :)
The thing most of us will never fully appreciate is the G-forces. Similar to watching fast jets doing aerobatics, it just looks so graceful. There's simply no way to communicate the utterly brutal physical and sensory overload of being effectively tackled and crushed by a rugby player twice your size with every change in speed or direction.
i have been going karting occasionally with my cousin we were doing a 7h race, half hour per driver, then we'd go into the pits and swap i, for some reason (in the zone) missed my box call for about 10 laps. i did 40 laps. about 43 mins of racing. in a fucking go kart at the end i was LITERALLY nauseous, had to lay down for like 20 mins, and if i kept going i'd just barf and pass out on the kart cannot even begin to fathom what these guys go through, for 1h30 non stop, on like 20 times the g forces i had insane
What’s kinda odd though, is that we see him engage DAS at about 5 seconds in, disengage DAS about 11-12 seconds in, then once he actually starts his hot lap, does not use it at all. Interesting
@@musicaddicted777 I think you should watch it again. He only used it once the entire video, between second 5 and second 11 at the very beginning (which was at the end of his warmup lap) he never used it at all on his hot lap…even on the straights. Also, from everything I have read, DAS was specifically designed to keep the front tire temps more even, by not scrubbing them on the straights. When DAS is engaged on the straights, it removes (dials out) the front toe, allowing the car to go faster and not scrub the tires, at the end of the straight, DAS is disengaged and the front reverts to static toe out, to give more bite to the front. Basically, there is no reason to use DAS on a warmup lap, and every reason to use it on a lap that actually counts. That’s why in 2020, Merc used it every single lap of every race.
I have Bottas' Q3 lap and that in fact wasn't as intense as this. A more comple circuit doesn't necessarily mean more intense. I've mentioned this under another comment, that 2020 Lewis Spa pole lap actually was less intense than this, despite Spa being a much more complex track.
@@yelistener it would be fun to see a similar video for Monaco. I reckon that would be a bit intense with these BB changes & all those attention required on the barriers.
Great video, fella. Congrats! So many little details I wasn't aware of. One of them being the Brake Migration function, I didn't know there is dynamic brake bias available throughout a braking event. So cool!
If anyone says that the current F1 cars are easier to drive than the old ones, show them this video. Not only you have to adjust the settings on the fly for each corner, you also have to endure insane amount of G force. It's basically like flying a fighter jet on the ground.
Fun fact : That was the single quickest lap ever in Formula 1 history. Valtteri's Sakhir 2020 Pole time of 53.377 is the quickest pole lap to have ever been recorded. Also he managed to sneak a 77 into his pole time what a chad
Money shifting without money shifting I've always wanted to know why those gearboxes could withstand those sort of downshifts and not get severely damaged
@@dafarrow2692 f1 cars have shorter gear ratios than road cars so every down shift goes up through the rev range less. they also decelerate so fast that the moment the engine tries to rev up from the downshift, the engine is already winding down
It gets to the point where there’s so much going on that the driving part is the bit that everyone knows the drivers can do. It just comes down to getting the car in the right window
@@nikmat but he is also a Williams driver. So he will have much less amount of running than a typical test driver plus he would have be used to a different car.
Awesome video. How come we don’t see that left graphic anymore? I prefer it far more than the integrated one we see in the halo during races, qualifying etc.
This has made me realise just how few of these changes and tweaks you can make in the F1 games. You would think that we should see things like Brake Migration, Strats, Brake Warming etc while driving
I would want so much that any simulator takes this into consediration, like charge modes, quali modes, agressive deployment, conservative deployment... Not like Assetto corsa, but like IRL where your deployment is computer managed for each mode.
people are massively overestimating how difficult this stuff is. You can practice simracing for a few days and nail all of these strats and setup changes in real time. Matching the pro lap times and racing skills is the real hard part
You said it yourself « simracing » , you have no idea how difficult it is to drive those cars in real life with that much pace when thinking about all the setups , mate your life literally flashes in front of your eyes on those fast corners but they are used to it and its not easy as you said. If you crash in a simracing while driving the nuts out of the car so be it whats the problem ? When you drive it in real life you know its gonna cost a lot of 💵 and maybe your life also
Could you explain what rotary makes on steering wheel? What means “exit, init, trq, cruz, mag… etc” on the multi and which modes are on 1-16 on Strat and HPP? 🙏
Remember seeing Jackie Stewart give a talk from the cockpit of maybe Derrick Warwick? Car. Literally had gauges, a radio button, couple of turning knobs for brakes and suspension and that's It I think. I wish it went back to that, then Russell wouldn't be looking down and spinning off so much. I'd love to see the drivers just hanging onto the car and not a PlayStation controller.
Just like in real life, when I played the f1 2020 game with the merc I threw everything at it and it just would not let go no matter what, it’s like it was on rails or something.
