NITRO VS ELECTRIC (RC FORMULA 1 COMPARISION) 4K 

My family have worked with Renault F1 team since they was called United colours of Benetton. And my uncle is an engineer. And he built in 1995 a remote control version of the F1 car of that year with a petrol engine. It was so massive, from spoiler to nose cone was around 5/6 feet. We used to race it up the starting straight at Silverstone on F1 test days and it was so fast

Omg the way you can hear the nitro f1 car changing gears that sounds absolutely incredible, I would absolutely love to own one 🥹! Great stuff man you’ve earned a sub

Just as in full scale racing, nothing beats the sound of an internal combustion engine.

Electric out of the box is easier and usually always faster. But it will never be as much fun as a Nitro, never make the noise and smell of a nitro either. Electric to me is a good time, but nitro is a great time!

NITRO forever and ever.

Just imagine if that nitro had a close ratio 10 speed transmission. That awesome sound going through the gears.

Best part about nitro is how much your neighbors will love you, lol.

What man dosent see these cars and think... man thouse are sooo cool!

Love the nitro❤

There was something fantastic about my all 100% aluminum 1/8 scale savage with a 3 speed transmission and it just get that feeling with a well tuned Nitro engine .

That nitro F1 sounds awesome. I love to run my nitro RC touring cars.

That nitro sounds nice. Loving that shifting noise. :)

Forget the RC cars, I love your real-world ride! LOL. Great video. Thank you.

Brushless is what my kids & wife drive. I have the ability to adjust and tune take temps.... this is why I love Nitro

Nitro one is WAY cooler tho.

If you like smells, try a burrito heavy on the onions and a six pack of PBR. After a half hour you senses will be overwhelmed. ! ! !

Hearing the Kyosho Nitro F1 shirt change sounds so frikken AWESOME!!!!

The nitro any day of the week.

I got bored with electric cars, but my nitro always got way more attention.

I agree the nitro sounds more realistic. However, a big advantage with electric is “dial up power”. Motor selection (size and Kv) can yield phenomenal power. The major weight component is the battery. With nitro the major weight component is the engine, and its energy output is a function of cubic capacity. Want more power? Not so easy to fit in a bigger engine.

Love the sounds when that nitro changes gears sounds more like a real f1

that Hummer :O

I remember when I used to waste all my money on these things I used to get so mad at myself lol

The nitro f1 car is perfect in terms of car type with the high engine revs, then the 2 speed shift. I may have to get one just because of this

#7 is BEAUTIFUL!!

I can almost smell the nitro car ! Lovely !

That fuel car definitely gives the better F1 experience- would love to try someday- but not gonna happen for me- $$ and neighbors. So it's electric for me...

the Nitro sounds like my stihl chainsaw 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Man I agree, it kinda sounds like the real f-1 cars.

I really like the nitro F1 !!!!!

Nitro is my wet dream But it is very expensive for here (Latin America) like the basic is 500 to 600 USD car only, it's like say 3000USD for an American (comparing purchasing power obviously )

I prefer nitro for continued running like in racing, versus electric for precision fun driving

Cool stuff . Nice footage .Glad you decided to run it . I have the same Tam Ferrari F201. Since 2007 Ithink, One of the nicest RCs I've ever driven . Its in excellent condition as it only comes out once or twice a yr to run on a clean surface . I actually just run a lipo batt on the tuned brushed stock motor and find the speed is sufficient. Got back into nitro last yr too . Missed the realism and performance . And smell . LOL

I use to race them indoor I had a Tamiya 2wd but with an convention kit I think it was called exo tech or something I can’t remember

Is the actual Formula One car that it's modeled after have four-wheel drive? I never thought they did, I thought it was all rear wheel drive. it could be four-wheel drive or all-wheel drive, do you know? I guess I could go research it.

I always found nitro way more exhilarating, I no longer own one but I am with you on nitro!

I can barely control my Tamiya Rally Beatle. Can't see myself doing this unless I had a paved space the size of a football field. 😒

Boy I love me some nitro!! Beautiful cars buddy

So let me see if I got this, Honda vs Ferrari. Awesome I also have a stinger and a Corvette ZR1 from the 80's. vintage stuff

should have been cutting the lines,every one or skip top speed is easy. Built grasshoppers with bigger motors, taller gears,+2 batteries.

Comparing different models from different manufacturers is simply meaningless. An accurate comparison would be of the same model from the same manufacturer, one in nitro and one in electric.

The rear differential became loose from the torque of the brushless motor. You either need to use Loctite on the center screw and tension nut, or you’ll need to find the hop-up lightweight differential for it.

I've always lliked rc cars but never really knew what to do with them, If they go really fast its not long before you cant see where it is and theres hardly any surfaces for most of these. Yeah you can use cameras ut i dunno. Never really owned any apart from kids ones for these reasons.

It would have made way more sense to use a F103 or F104. Not a F201. Both the rear drive chassis would have been 50% quicker than the f201 with the same power train, they also feel scary to drive, unlike the f201 which is just like driving a regular touring car. The F103/104 are just far more exciting to drive than the F201 by a large margin. The feeling you should get driving a scale F1. There is a reason the f201 never took off. That being said the F201 is a great piece of tamiya history and are great shelf queens.

The shifting on the Nitro sounds pretty damn cool when it shifts from 1st to 2nd, imagine if it had more gears in the transmissions lol.

Does anyone know where I could purchase either/both of these items?

Prefer electric no mess no fuss just pure power

Which one wins in a race though??

Don’t know if I can get one of these but you gave me an idea of taking a Arrma limitless roller and a nitro set up for it

The nitro car is running super rich!

I had an older losi 5T but in the UK it’s finding places to run without someone calling the police because of the noise so I switched to an X max and infraction etc although I do miss the fun of a real engine

Did that after market company that made/makes parts for that Tamiya F-1 series chassis's, ever finish or release to the public the front end hydro differential like a torque converter. They claimed to be offering two versions, one was just a basic hydro-torque converter differential and the other unit, had a inertia counter-weighted pendulum that controlled a left or right traction bias to one or the other front wheels... The way I understand it to supposedly to work, was if you are in a corner, turning towards the right, the pendulum would throw to the left, via inertia and the hydro fluid with-in the front diff, would divert more fluid away from the one side, and basically starve that side, while the other side of the diff, got more fluid, to have that front wheel pull... Please note, I do not know what direction or which side for that above example got more pass-thru power/torque...as the article kinda didn't explain it all that well.... I would assume that if you are turning right, and the diverter inside, being controlled by the weighted pendulum, now being thrown towards the left, would in what I think should happen (I could be wrong) that you would want that front left wheel getting the power and torque, beings there is more down pressure being applied to that front corner due from turning right. While the right wheel is kinda barely getting any power and torque, I would assume still enough to over come the drag factor and possibly slowing the car a little bit or causing it to spin out.. I just think both are still suppose to pull hard, just, one side pulls harder, to steer / pull it through the corner. Please note, I do not know if this would help or hinder the over all car/chassis systems performance? Does this kit add more weight? Is the pendulum counter weight adjustable in how hard it is allowed to divert from a 50/50 or neutral straight forwards pull, to turning left of right at what ever percentage, then allowing a 90/10 or a 10/90? Is the pendulum spring loaded to automatically return to center or neutral point when the chassis is rolling straight? or is the pendulum centered, based on what gravity is doing to it? As you can see, I have questions..lol... Can other fluids be used to allow for more adjustments? They only showed one poor black & white photo of that (work-in-progress) front hydro differential torque converter and is was very grainy. But, you could kinda tell, that there was three rotors or straight vain fans, samwitched together, kinda like a typical ball differential, the center bladed fan, had the gear sprocket and the two outer bladed fans, one on each side, those two, attached to the half-shafts/drive-shafts to drive the front wheels, of course.. On the front of the differential case halves, the mechanism seemed to have a wiper that pivoted, assuming to scoop the rotating fluid to both, or left or right side, pending how much the level was swung/pivoted. The pendulum kinda looked like the tic toc arm of an upside down musician's metrodrone. Which is why I question if it is adjustable, like on one of those tic tok frequency generators are. by sliding the counter weight up or down, to create more thrown weight to force the fluid to one side or the other or possibly to over come the hydro forces with-in? I don't know, but have been waiting to see somebody play with one of those for a few years now... and if anybody would be playing with one of those after market hop-up parts/kits, I can only assume you would be the one, simply due to how well you convey the details of things. There was a few off-road and I think only a few pan car chassis's that ran a REAR hydro system, but had nothing to do with left to right side traction control or biasing. Those units where purely just a dampening system or torque converter as we know them to be in most of today's automobiles, as these series of RC chassis's only ran those on the spur gear, if I remember correctly? Please feel free to correct me on that note. They were a hit, once they were dialed in for the launch and mashed throttle, for traction control. But, was a nightmare to get to the point, as they were messy during that learning curve. Fluid viscosity allowed for many adjustments. The amount you put in, allowed for adjustment, tolerance of how close the blade/fans/vanes were to each other, also was an adjustment, of course, on top of gear sizes, etc.. .But, this front unit, they talked about only once, that I know of, been waiting a long time.. For all I know, it was a flop, and caused more issues, they it could have helped? or, maybe, it just didn't work at all, LOL... The idea, for what little bit of info that was covered in that small article, was really intriguing to me. If it did work, could something like this, then be implemented into both the front, and rear diff's, and possible the center diff? Sure, this opens up a whole mess of junk to go wrong in the heat of a race, but, I do like tinkering with silly stuff too. It does remind me of the era of the famed, RC-10, and one private manufacturer that talked allot of stuff, about a bolt on kit, to make the RC-10 4WD/belt driven... and, years went by, and nothing...lol... I speculate, that was due from the massive flood of the RC industry dropping bunches of AWD & 4WD chassis's none stop, so, why bother with a bolt on kit that might have been more problematic then what it was worth? I don't know if they ever even released a single kit to the public? Still woulda been neat to see an AWD/4WD belt driven old school gold pan RC-10... Pardon the novel.. I am sorry, just seeing this, brought up these thoughts and was curious is all.

i love nitros, remind me of father's chainsaw.

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Nitro, all day, every day ❤👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Yea nitro sounds cool gives you a more scale experience but that being said the problem is you spend more time tuning and fixing and even just trying to get those damn things to start youcan skip arm day at the gym if you own nitro you spend more time pulling the starter than actually driving it😂 And this day and age brushless and lipos make rc so much more fun driving a rc should be relaxing lol.. Can you tell my experiences that I have had with nitro 😂😅

Solution: Combining _nitro_ and _electric_ cars will make one better than either alone. NITRO + ELECTRIC = _NITRIC_ A nitric car will make for an _acid trip._ (Er, sorry for the bad pun).

Been doing this since 1987. No comparison when it comes to realism!!

You sure can't beat the sound of the nitro

Love the nitro!

Would love a link to a nitro f1 rc car for sale!

oooh vroom vrooms go fast hmmm :D

Schumacher chassis all the way

I love my Tamiya F103 (f189) and other electric cars but you are so right nothing beats the nitro's, I'm currently restoring a vintage PB Alpha IS 1981 1/8th scale. Just so much fun not only driving but working on them.

the nitro sounds more f1 like

Thanks for sharing. Sound and smell of nitro are second to none but your neighbors will hate you at 7 in the morning or at 10pm and does require more maintenance. Nitro is fine dining to your senses. Electric is silent but deadly. Last part, your brushless maybe too much for the 201.

Love that shift. I put a 2 speed into a 5th scale. was so cool. Had a couple 1/5 motorcycles. The nitro was far cooler to me even if the brushless was faster and more torque

Thanks for the video ! Got a new sub 😅 I think nitro engine fits better in a rc F1 car, sounds more like the real thing. 😁😁

I would be scared to run these buetiful models in case I cliped a curb etc...the Nitro just sounds so good...especially the auto shift...its a liveing machine, I started with Tamiya in the 80s then moved to nitro in the 2000s sold all my cars , I wish I never did now...

Thanks for the memories. I've gone to the Tamiya Track in southern California numerous times to race in the TCS. There's nothing like a full grid of F201s at the start. That nitro sounds to be tuned conservative. That motor can be leaned out to sound like a dental drill.

Agreed on all points about the nitro. Old abused nitro are filthy. But change gaskets when they fail, route exhaust and your car will stay clean

Nice sound My Nitro jj

team Nitro all the way baby

Rear ball diff let go. The original threaded pins were useless. Tamiya made a stronger set a while after the f201 was released. We raced these in a class, by far my favourite back in the day. Get some new diff pins.👍🏻👍🏻

F201 has a highly tunable suspension, it deserves a proper setup on an alignment board. Unfortunately the driveline on the F201 isn’t strong enough to take a fast brushless setup. It’s a ticking time bomb with a hot motor sadly.

Where can I purchase the electric Ferrari ready to run? Thank you in advance.

I CANT AGREE MORE.... amazing f1 rc's man but that nitro change gear sounds so satisfying

I like how the Eletric Car runs, but I think the Nitro more faster. 😍

2 speed nitro is so totally cool. I like electric for the convenience and all that, but nitros are super cool.

There has always been that something extra with nitro over electric cars. I love electric but nitro is so much more fun. It's a real working engine with 2 speed transmission, what's not to love about plus you can go and go as long as you have fuel. Batteries need charging so nitro always wins for me.

i have raced both nitro and electrics(i am not very good so don't look for my name on any pro races). The nitro is a better feeling with the motor sounds and smells but the electric is just simple to run. no glow plugs or constant tuning. torque can be better on electrics with less complexity for gearbox. speed is a factor of gearing instead of powerband on a nitro. i vote electric for performance and nitro for fun.

Look into fg. They make killer f1 cars.

Changing Gear at high rpm....F1 Car with realistic Sounds so great.

Yeah, I prefer nitro as well. But you can't deny the fact that electric outperforms nitro in a competitive setting.

i am oldschool. Electric can have insane performance. but Nitro / Petrol is the way to go. and i am a "fly boy" i fly RC planes. its Nitro or gas / petrol instead of Electric. and regarding "Jet´s" EDF = Electric Ducted Fan´s just eat high quality LiPo´s so i rather have real Jet Turbine and run on Jet A1 fuel.

Awesome

I’ve now lived in Germany for 4 years. It’s so sad that I see not one person in nitro hobby. I’m a member of a flying club for rc planes but that’s all electric. The scale realism of a nitro can’t be matched. I was a kid and I had a couple of nitro cars. I loved them. I wish I could have more and enjoy them but in Germany they are very grumpy with loud noises and smoke.

Nice video got to take the RS4 nitro off the shelf and show it some r/c love!

There isn't anything quite like the way Nitro burns your eyes and nose when you catch a whiff of it!

Do so more car driving with the loud exhaust

Instead of the 1% life, it’s all about the 20% life LOL😅

You have 2 f1 please race your f1 must be you are playing f1 been funny congratulations 🎉 you been subscribed thx bro 😊

FPV? It seems like a natural for these cars. 👍👍

I like. 😊

What model is that nitro one? That thing is sweeeeet! Never mind got it at end😅

Do any of the RC F1 cars have DRS?

it's a pity that you Americans don't participate in formula 1. nice video, congratulations

Well said homie I’m all nitro I love it I love engines in real cars and motor cross so these little thing are right up my alley I have a couple electric but it’s more nitro over everything

do you sell rc cars?...

Kyosho really needs to do a re-issue of that car. I'd buy one in a heartbeat!