MP328 - Recognition For Hamilton, 2021 Wings, Mclaren's Fuel Problem & more F1 Q's Answered 

I remember when he announced his switch to Mercedes, everyone was questioning his decision. Can you imagine what would of happened if he had stayed at McLaren?

Regarding the difficulties of driving modern vs antique machinery, a number of things should be considered. Today's drivers are not only required to drive on the limit but still have enough spare capacity to manage the various systems. Another key difference is the pirelli rubber which is notoriously difficult and sensitive. Then there's the aero-dynamics which is more sophisticated and sensitive than ever before. Current cars are undoubtedly far more difficult to driver than ever before. Added to the fact that the grid is more professional, well trained, and more talented than ever. Then there's the traveling, media, sponsors and in lewis's case extracurricular activities. All these sap mental/physical energies - distract from the driving and doesn't allow the freedom to let lose without social media exploding. One can only imagine what the like's of Clark, Hill, Stewart, Senna and co got up to before twitter/IG/Facebook became a thing. Lets not forget the daily media cycle. The questions about form, contracts, rivalries or an innocuous racing incident. Everything is blown up, everything is dissected, everything is microscopically analysed. Hard to know if driving an H-pattern, inferior braking, death machine is harder than a sophisticated modern downforce monster but what is for certain is the circus has grown to monstrous levels requiring much more from the driver.

Another fantastic video. Really enjoyed the show shots and always love your interval music. Keep up the good work as always.

F1 has to be as challenging as ever now for 1 simple reason: the top drivers are always trying their best and it's your opponents you're racing, so the quality of opposition is what's important and the lower formulas now give more opportunities than ever before to get into F1, ergo the average quality is higher so the competition is harder. The imbalance of cars over the last few years balances that a bit but it's not like in any previous era all the cars were equal either.

Wow. Congratulations, MP, so proud of you. Please, reach out to The Joe Rogan experience and get on there. It would be a great place to promote your show, this channel and also F1. Keep at it, Elvis!

Since the honor is a British one, Lewis should have received the knighthood right after passing Sir Jackie Stewart on the all time F1 British Championship list.

Hi Marc, Can you explain what procedures teams go through when dissecting fresh technical regulations to find potential loopholes, especially with such a huge change coming in 2021? Love your videos! Keep them coming.

Thanks for your work and beeing responsive/answering our questions

Hi Marc, discovered your channel only today, and I am truly impressed. Great video, thanks.

Thank you Marc, glad to see that you are doing so well ...

Mike promoted you to race engineer!

Regarding Hamilton having the fastest car, it’s important to note every single champion has had a car at least capable of winning races. For example Senna, he didn’t win by having a midfield car.

LH’s race engineer? Someone got promoted :)

Best of luck with the new show, Marc!👍🏼

Great video again Marc! Plus we got back backstage access 👍🏻

Was at the show on Friday, that trio of Mercs were stunning, particularly the light blue one.

Red Bull's suggestion on the delay of technical regulations is a great idea!

you make its looks so easy, just casual taping a video in mids of the crowd and not feeling silly (i already do when i talk on the phone with my wife), but anyway thanks for a great video again hope to see that show you do on discovery

Totally agree with your budget cap remarks.

Lewis can't help what era he drives in !!!!!!!!

The differences in the cars and the rules over the years make comparing drivers difficult. When teams had unlimited fuel and tires there was much less for a driver to manage. They just drove every lap as hard as possible. With limited tires, having to use 2 different tire compounds, having to start on the Q2 tires and no fueling during the race, the driver has to manage things much more carefully. Lewis is able to drive so steadily without ruining his tires or crashing the car. It makes him a great driver in my mind.

Hi Marc, do u think heads will roll due to the budget cap, esp in the top teams?

Great analysis by Mark as ever. Lets not go back to multiple tyre suppliers - I remember those days. At times if your car was tied to the 'wrong' manufacturer's tyre you might as well not race. The tyre would hugely dictate what you could possibly achieve. Do we want tyres to be one of the major deciding factors on how well you would do - surely not.

Happy for you and looking forward for the new show when it comes out. We don't get to see you Wit the dog's much anymore like we use to when you first started doing you video's miss seen you out wit them as you talk to us.🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁

Hi Marc would active suspension be better for the ground effect and could you explain how active suspension would effect ground effect? Keep up the good work and your the closest most of us will ever get to F1 👍👍👌

I get your point, but imperfect skinny tyres had to be more difficult than being a steering column technician. that being said, Lewis is one BAMF, he doesn't fail on his own very often

Marc, if an amount of downforce is removed from the upper body of the vehicle, yet a roughly equivalent downforce is applied to the undercarriage and diffuser, does that change the dynamic of adhesion, therefore affecting the safety considerations for the sport? Long winded, but thanks for your commentary!

Can teams use different fuel mixtures for qualifying and the race? Do they? Does FIA monitor fuel mixtures?

Hey Marc, great video! what is the song name that starts around 1.00?

Hi Marc, I just wanted to add to your comments and point out to the Lewis haters. There are a lot of drivers that have had cars capable of winning championships, Bottas, Leclerc, Barrichello, Massa, Coulthard, Irvine, Webber that have never won a single championship and many more, Rosberg, Button, Raikkonen, Hill (Damon), Villeneuve that only managed a single Championship. Add to that drivers from runners up cars like, Perez (McLaren), Schumacher (Ralf)(Williams), Montoya (Williams), Verstappen (Red Bull), To get in the best car in the first place you need to prove you are good enough, but to stay there you need to perform at the very top level to stay ahead of the best of the rest. So if Lewis has won more championships than all the Men mentioned in the list above put together (and I would add that it is a list of some fairly descent drivers, I.M.O.) the argument that he is just lucky really doesn't add up. He may have been lucky in 2006 to get the 2007 McLaren drive but it is his greatness that has given him 6 World Championships.

Hey mark, I heard somewhere that Petrobras wasn't ever able to develop an actual fuel that was a benefit for McLaren so they were actually just a branding partnership like TAG engines but was still Renualt normal fuel. Have you heard anything about that or how often do partners like Dell technology really influence a teams performance.

Looks like LEWIS made some fashion impact with his"CAMO"cap.....!!!!!

Do teams deliberately create dirty air to slow the following cars down?

Excellent discussion and perspective of the 2021 regulations in particular the rear wing aerodynamic downforce when in turbulent air of the car in front, I would greatly appreciate please to know if their could be a different shape configuration of the MGU-K. This would be excellent Marc, thank you.

What the heck is going on with the Porsche booth? A primered 914?

Lucky you got that take just right with Mike leading an intro for you :-)

i think your editing has got a lot better tbh

Maybe next year they should require all 3 compounds be used during a dry race?

I see you, Marc. Reppin' the bootleg Lewis US hat!

Hi Marc, my name is Henry, I’m a Brit that moved to the US at the age of 13 I think it’s absolutely absurd that f1 is not free on regular tele. Luckily f1 is free to watch on espn in the US. A sport like the UFC or boxing is something you have to pay for it’s frustrating, but I think it’s crazy f1 has honestly ruined the sport by charging pay per view. However it’s pointless as well cause there are websites you can go on where you get streams showing the races live for free.

Monaco in opposite direction would be interesting.

Here we go again. It's time people admit that they quite frankly don't want Lewis Hamilton to be their world champion. Being honest about it would be much sooner understood than the spurious nonsense they ramble about. Forget about winning a championship, a race even, which driver has qualified on pole without being in one of top three teams on the grid? That has only happened when some unsuspecting circumstance, such as rain or a crash, opened the door to a podium outsider. Juan Manuel Fangio, Jim Clark, Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, Ayerton Senna, Michael Schumacher, all these drivers enjoyed success at a time when their teams dominated the sport. Now, the idea that the British public or people anywhere for that matter, might be less appreciative of Lewis' success due to the sport not being televised is simply laughable. I mean seriously, in 2019 who gets their sports updates on tv?? I'm not even going to waste any more time on that point. The fact is, Lewis Hamilton can win 10 more championships and that wouldn't be nearly enough to appease those who cling to their obvious bias.

Since 2021 Cars will rely on the ground effect, how will rain be affecting the amount of down force produced?

Mey Marc, the news just came out that Red Bull and Toro Rosso will keep their driver lineup for next year, I think Alex deserves if you look at his performance considering it's his first year, any thought? #askelvis Thanks for answering so much of our questions!

Hey Marc, at the moment there is a lot of talk about female drivers in F1. But what about women in the technical/mechanical/engineering side of F1? For example: Would you say there are enough women involved in pit-stops etc? (Sorry for any mistakes, I'm not a native speaker)

Congrats! and thank you for showing us around!! Quick question: you said through the video that Mercedes still needs improvement; which area in particular, from your view, they need to improve that these 2 races left will benefit them?! 🤔 Thank you! 👍

15:48 This is the question I kept meaning to ask 👍 I always wondered if they had a real race engine or something that was easy to start up like a normal road car engine.

I recently heard the rumour that Petrobras never was able to deliver quality F1 lubricants for McLaren, so the team just used rebranded oil from another manufacturer (elf?). This isn't correct then, according to your sources?

Ross Brawn says they built-in a fail-safe, if a team have discovered a loophole in the rules that gives them a performance advantage then 80% of the team can vote to 'change the rules' ie ban it.

#askelvis do you see era development/deployment regs opening up in next few years? Seems strange to keep limit of 160hp for 23 secs/lap year after year as technology advances. Also a potential way to get back some of the speed lost through 2021 aero regs and provide differentiation between cars needed for overtaking

Hi, I have a question, Formula 1 has announced it will have a net 0 Carbon footprint by 2030 which is ofcourse a good thing. As far as I know the cars may only use materials that are also used in car factury plants how then are they gonna do this? are they forcing car manufacturers to create these materials for their road cars so they are allowed to use them in F1? That sounds like the wrong way around.

Mark u walk pass that green mk1 ford escort 😍

#askelvis Hulk out of a drive... Crazy..!! Williams is struggling but... Wait for it... How's about Hulk in for next year with NL still reserve... Money isn't everything and pay Hulk his agreed fee a year later... Time for Williams to raise the funds and an opportunity for a true comparison to see how good Russell really is ...

Mark, for once you're wrong about Mclaren. They've never used Petrobras products as they couldn't produce good enough product. They've actually been using BP/Castrol instead. The contract with Petrobras was just a branding exercise.

#askelvis hey marc can you explain the time chart on screen during a f1 race showing drivers distance to each other or to the leader,it very confusing to know whether time reference is taken from leader or to position to position

Hey Marc, quick (possibly controversial) question: who do you think gets knighted first and why, Hamilton or Surtees? I think there's a great chance Lewis gets knighted before he retires from F1 just because he's been so successful, but I've only recently become aware of this phenomenon regarding Surtees not getting a knighthood. Surely he is deserving of one winning titles on two and four wheels in possibly racing's greatest era. Love to get your thoughts. Good luck with the new show.

Nice tunes!

have you got your own car project your working on?

When we see the big teams take a massive lead in 21 we will know it’s because the FIA didn’t put a cap on their spending soon enough. And we all know they will then try and bring in new regulations to effect the big teams but it will effect the smaller teams more yet again

Mclaren....go Gulf!!

27:24 "next few years..." so, how many seasons of Dream Car will there be?

I'm hearing the complaints about the 2020 budget. I'm not hearing why they're doing it? Is the FIA covering their butts, for ground effects safety reason , since open source is going to happen? I'd like to know more on that?

#askelvis hey Marc! So with the budget cap coming in for 2021, does that mean the bigger teams will have to start laying off jobs for people at their factories? If yes, doesn't it seem a bit unfair because all said and done, teams like mercedes are empowering people by offering so many jobs.

#AskElvis Hi Marc, Will the Budget cap hurt the engine manufacturers more than the customer teams? Also Honda does not have an F1 team, will they have a separate Budget cap or will they share theirs will RedBull?

Not sure about the lack of free over air play that matters. I think there are a lot more kinds of entertainment vying for everyone's eyes. Even compared to 10 years ago there are multiples more options and so viewers eyes are so much more spread out. I certainly never expected so many view for these big youtubers or e sports plus so many sports that already existed now able to follow more easily, plus general youtube, netflix and the like. Kids have more organized activities than ever before so they and parents have less free time and need to pick how to dedicate it. Edit: that said, i absolutely agree that the more easy it can be made to access the better though amusing so much competition. There should be a way to pay for F1, i live the work they put out but without all the cable bundles i haven't had for 15 years or so. I want to pay for the good work put out but there needs to be a way to do it. The model needs to change and fast.

Do you think the F1 RU-vid channel is doing a good job marketing their product? Would you change anything they are doing to get more views and new subscribers? #AskElvis

Sure you could run Paul Ricard backwards without any real issues or planning as it has 250 different circuit layouts or whatever it is. Sadly all of them are awful :-(

Oh dear! Mike Brewer!!!!

Careful with your new partner. He has a habit of throwing talent under the bus!

No F1 driver has won a world championship driving an inferior car. They may have won a few races here and there on tracks that suited their car or if the weather helped them out but the world championship has always been won by the best car - not always the best driver - but definitely the best car.

In wet races the most talented stand out, the drivers with ability to make micro-second adjustments in car control to stay on track and keep the speed. The arguments for who is best driver will always continue that's normal but for wet race ability I think Lewis Hamilton stands at the top. I'll get shot down now by MSC fans, or Jim Clark & Max Verstappen fans but just opinion.

I don’t think not have Free air tv for F1 has anything to do with it. When I see the huge fanbase Verstappen has already created and in the Netherlands it’s pay-tv as well. I do think Lewis is one of the greatest drivers of F1! Why he hasn’t got a mega fanbase in the UK is just unbelievable

F1 wants to gain a following in the U.S.? They need to get on major network television and off pay/sport channels. Why is there only one tyre manufacturer?

Would four-wheel steering be banned by the FIA? Also, Pole Position! (In qualifying.) Ya'know. Instead of "First"

Marc Elvis...?

wrong you can still watch free on channel 4

But why do we praise the driver like he is great if its the cars make 90% of the difference. Lewis, Senna, Schumi, Seb all had dominant cars and when they had a normal car they look normal amoungst the rest of the grid. In my opinion Fangio was the greatest as the risk to drive cars that fast while drivers were dying like flies each season.

Lewis won’t get SIR as he avoided tax on his jet

yep no free to air TV is bull shit , the amount of money in F1 , free to air TV should be a given , i've only watched race highlights on youtube for a few years now cos i refuse to pay to watch , i won't pay for Kayo sport TV in Australia cos they want you to pay to watch while they sell your info which they tell you they are going to do on there website , to shifty making money at both ends

why is CFD so expensive. To an outsider, it just seems like a computer program 😂

I love your channel Marc but let's be real for a mo, you ain't no Edd China lol.

For FRANCE....Regular Public TV only buys the rights for the Monaco and French GP...but when showing results and footage of any GP, on the National news,it's only a few seconds,because of the rights(Millions).!!!!...Too expansive..!!!!..SHAME......My mum, who is not at all into sports,knows who Usain Bolt is,but has no clue,who Lewis HAMILTON is...!!..That is why,in a previous comment,I said,that it was better for lewis"s World fame, to win his 6th title in the United -States.

when it comes down to physical driving its not as hard now beside all the little noobs on the wheel and setup breaking down and qaully is probably the 110 % risks.. where 1980 1990 they where on it passed the limit 110% all race f1 had more room for invention more loop holes more closer racing exetra .. but to be as dominate as hamilton has been easy in the hard f1 eras like every drive on that grid is a 6 yr old freak that made it to f1 so the talent is deep in f1

its quiet funny hamilton is a freak.. his race win in every year he has raced is insane.. and i mean yeh hes doing it easy in a good car.. but when ferrari started to pole qaully and vettel got robbed he level goes up he always rises to the ocassion. even bottas did bottas had a low point in the season where hamilton didnt hes ever consistant and always a front runner. and posisbly the greatest of all time buy the time he retires hes not the greatest yet but could be i suspect the hunger of leclerc and verstappen maybe even ricciardo and vettel may make this last championship his last we wont know till next year

Completely off-topic of anything talked about recently, but am I the only one who thinks Verstappen is an arrogant, spoiled brat? I get that he is very talented, but the way he drives and the comments he makes seems that he expects other drivers to give him respect that I don't feel he has earned yet. Another reason I don't really care for him is that it seems that the stewards treat him differently than the other drivers. Of course he gets penalties, but it seems that he gets far fewer for more aggressive driving and defending...this worries me as a new F1 fan because the rules should be applied equally across all drivers; perhaps this reveals a deeper issue with stewarding in general...your thoughts?

I don't think I enjoyed this episode. Too noisy and too much distraction all around.

Windbush movement in Britian is why Lewis Hamilton doesn't get the recognition he deserves. Any other reason is to deny the covert racism the permeates European culture. It's worth noting, Lewis will have to be Knighted much the same as Jackie Steward, so y'all going to have a cringe worthy, swallow your arrogant pride moment. It will worsen when Hamilton ties and ultimately passes Schumacher.