Exactly what I'm thinking. It's a little petty to make those people look at every single milligram while the drivers either gain muscles because they want to look cool or gain a little weight once in a while (both probably way more than 500 grams).
@@Nanorisk Really? And you think Hamilton eating and training like he does might not have a bigger impact on his weight than the 3 grams saved by the suit manufacturer? 😅
isi598 wait what? You don’t know the weight regulations? Okay I though that’s common knowledge. And regarding LH eating and training. A driver will lose a few kilos of body weight due to dehydration and energy consumption, so they eat and train to store energy in their bodies in order to function, hence their weight gain absolutely necessary, to a certain level. However, the weight of the racing overall contributes nothing to driver functionality, so it has to be as light as possible.
There is something amazing about it. You can ridicule Italians about their raunchy politics, their stagnant economy, their overemotional lifestyle. But when you watch their craftmanship, be it apparel, automoto, furnitures and decor etc., it always keeps you in awe.
Honestly you could have made this an hour long video and I would have happily watched it all the way through! Please do helmets too in the future! It's so interesting to see behind the scenes!
hey wtf1, can you do a video about how race cars are timed around the F1 tracks? we've seen so many examples of more than 3 or 4 drivers being separated by a few tenths of a second.. I wonder how accurate the timing/ clocks should be for that accuracy.. wonder how these clocks are calibrated.. where do the sensors that measure the timing sit on the cars? Id love to know, Im sure many others would too!
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h15uCjSXr8w.html, this is a video from Sauber F1, where the position is briefly explained (the corresponding series is pretty cool, even though a bit older)
Fascinating. The race suit isn’t something that we usually think about. The focus is usually on the car but to know the lengths they will go to just save some weight is really interesting.
I've been watching F1 for thirty years and I have never seen a spot on this subject. So good job! I did see a helmet special years ago but I bet it's a lot different now, that would be cool.
My company wrote the software to drive big embroidery machines for the Japanese manufacturer in the 80's, the big company with very deep pockets was NASA
On the F1 suits, the logos aren't Embroidered, but it looks like they have a transfer (for weight reduction I imagine) but embroidered looks soooo much better!
Love these behind the scenes videos, Matt! I always wondered what went into a F1 race suit. Nice to see 7 time World Champion, Lewis Hamilton's 2019 race suit. #WeRaceAsOne
Embroidered suits in 10 years out of date, F1 has had vinyl printed since 2009/10 (saves on weight and a better fireproof) as you can see on the Hamilton at the end
I noticed that Lewis's sponsor logos are printed on the fabric and not embroidered. How is that done? I'm surprised you didn't go into that. I've always wondered about this.
Mathew can you get to see about the new F1 helmets, I also saw on Nico R's channel that his black helmet big parts of it had no paint it was just carbon fiber with clear on top to save weight.
could you imagine watching 2015 youtuber championship and you kind of lose touch with what matt was doing and coming and seeing him get his own race suit made by puma
its because they use fire proof cotton stitching, they can't use any printing methods for a number of reasons. first of all they don't breath at all, second they are also very heavy, third they melt and catch fire. so stitching is the better option all round.
@@callumhowarth8057 Don't they use printed logos in F1 at the moment? I think it does save a lot of weight compared to embroidery. And given the small amount of space the logos cover in relation to the entire surface area of the suit I would've thought breathability shouldn't be an issue.
