Richard drives a F1 car round Silverstone - Top Gear 

They rev so fast that they can do that. Heck they rev so fast that the ignition and valve system is completely different to a car

@@petrosdimitriospilichos9195 you mean road car?

@@nielsleenknegt5839 yes andmost race cars.

Niels Leenknegt if normal (non f1) engines reached 18,000 rpm they would literally explode. F1 engines were specially made to reach those rpm

@@hydraz1443 Many Japanese sports bikes do that, even higher.. recently launched zx25r also doing 17500rpm.. !

Why no replies here???

LMAO

@@kenkenn9034 because the mechanic said it all.

Timestamp pls pal. Cheers

@@antony9384 @7:03

You could do it too. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nfh-Essrs9Q.html

Renault would have benn paid incredible amounts of money. Probably more then a million to cover any potential damages

Yeah pretty sure Renault was well compensated.

@@corentin8634 IDK somehow I doubt I or most of us can lol I mean if Richard Hammond, who jokes aside isn't exactly just some guy, struggled at first with a Formula Renault car...

@@alexproud4974 or you know it is top Gear so renault might have done that as a sponsoring for the advertisement

"but driving a Grand Prix car as my colleague Richard Hammond would attest, is not easy. He once said: 《Nothing could prepare your mind for the assault》.. for once, he wasn't talking nonsense." - Jeremy Clarkson

Bom mais o cara pegou o carro pela primeira vez fala para ele ficar treinando uns 30 dias se não pega o jeito

+Wooden Spoon I can't imagine what goes through their head in Monaco amoung other tracks but Monaco.... no straights

Stress level is that if a fighter pilot

Indeed

On par with fighter pilots

I know they have a different skill set but there are FAR FAR more fighter pilots in the world than F1 drivers.

*F1 THEME INTENSIFIES*

@@FarmYardGaming ddddddddduuuuu dduuu dddd

@@lelouchvibritannia1788 *BIDIBIDIBIDIBIDIBIDIBIDI*

May,Bad Luck.

Let clarkson by

I thought he said GOAT.

yeah and he was still shouting and shitting his pants in a f1 car! my heart would explode if i was him!

Not in 2007, which is when this took place. Infact, the hypercar were barely invented.

@@Orcawhale1the first hypercar was the Lamborghini Miura in 1963

@@ttuori8592 *supercar.

@@Orcawhale1 the first supercar was the 300sl gullwing. first hypercar was the mac f1

Kimi thinks about tha drincc!

yeah, it's only reflex. no thinking. REFLEX !

Maybe a weird comparison, but it makes me think of playing videogames. After a while you get really familiar with the controls of a specific game and you just do whatever has to be done. Suddenly you just automatically press defend without thinking, while before you had to think ''hey where's the defend button''.

@@Hieillua Not a weird comparison at all. Anything one does very well in life is through practice and experience, obviously in extreme cases talent comes into play. For the most part all it takes is an extreme desire to succeed and be the best. So your assessment is very much on point.

Mike Usherwood Which is why drivers are always practicing racing when they can, whether in the simulator, test track or even video games. Can never get too fast in terms of reaction time and F1 drivers especially need to be the best. Mad respect for Formula drivers in general.

Or V12... Or V8 for that matter. Let's just take a moment of silence for the high revving engines.

Why tho? they were only V8+ because turbos weren't allowed.. Small engines = less weight and V6 + turbo = V8+

Small low revving engines < High revving V8s.

dont you mean 4 years?

.......

Richard Hammond can't be called normal. He is much better than a normal driver and still he is suffering. Mad respect for F1 drivers

When im going karting I feel like the acceleration is pretty crazy.. i cant imagine myself in an actual F1 car😂

He is deff far from being just “a normal driver” after all the things he has been driving throughout the years.....

@@vladimird5280 lol Karting scares you? Are you 12?

@@nutcase4.4 they’re talking about racing karts I imagine, where you’re doing 0-60 in around 4 seconds in a 350lb machine a few inches off the ground. Not like go-karts. I’ve never done it but it looks like a hell of a time, it’s usually what people start on before going to race cars.

I'm here after Alonso drove that car.

Me too

Yo mama

Me haha

me

Congratulations you've completed RU-vid

Hah, got it today also!

same bro

Same

Same

Jimmy Rustler I could easily stall that.

***** ok this might be weird to mention but I've seen you on almost very video I've seen the comments section of.

Parker Barandon Haha, I've been getting that a lot! Where'd you see me?

***** top gear, lots of other automotive channels, I think some funny stuff, I can't think of all of it. It's almost everything I watch.

I could easily be arrested if I stepped foot near one of those

I has also a lot to do with the fact that you're so close to the road, the sensation of speed is magnified. Even smaller single seaters like the Griiip, which is centered on an Aprilia motorcycle engine, give this impression. Motorcyclists often are shocked when driving it.

Maniac... yobbo... yobbo... maniac...

Is that what he said? I thought he said: "Why did you go into second?" As in: why did you go in to a gear where you would get more wheelspin?

you're not a fan of the three idiots then

You're deaf.

Kevin Ale Oh just wait till third

Yes, that's why the F1 grid consists of 20 cars.

Tsutarja495 24 when this car raced since you’re trying to be a smartass

@@mrping4182 There still weren't 30 cars in the grid in 2005, so he's right

lisciatoredimele89 well the max on the grid for a race is 26

lisciatoredimele89 no he said 20 trying to be clever and he is still wrong

Hammond was the only one that would fit in it

@@Brandon-cv9uh hahahahah

I know

he killed richard there hahahaha

That's not even what he said

@@HotCacahuete 'It's absolutely the most glorious machine, in the world' 'Wait until you get into second'

@@HotCacahuete if you're going to quote something atleast get it fucking right you tosser...

@@HotCacahuete Sorry pal, wasn't meant for you but the poster, getting a quote wrong word for word is like saying, 'Smoke weed everyday' - Winston Churchill

I laughed my arse off when he said that 😂 😂😂

I swear the mechanics probably like "yep lets fuck him even more"

how did you manage to get in that car?

@@leolego2 I assume a lot of money was involved

@@Jannl98 alot of anal

Where did the test drive take place, and what event (if there was one)?

Yeah, it was in Finland. The original seat was removed and there was some kind of foam. I'm 186 cm tall so my entire head was bobbing out of the cockpit. They actually have these events occasionally here. The owner of the company has two Williams (Wurz and Nico), BAR Honda from 2004 and nowadays Jordan.

It took 11 years to pop up...

*Did we complete the RU-vid playlist?!*

not supercomputers, planes with amazing handing

Average Alien last I checked planes usually aren’t on the ground

@@DanC8111_ Ok then upside down planes

*_Hyperlethal cars is the term_*

wait, u talking about the hybrid era right?

True, except that he almost died at drag race. But I know what you mean

+sahiblindberg Lucky that he survived that crash

the engine is from a folland gnat trainer

Some might say that's still lucky lol

James may flew as high as is possible in a U2 plane, which imo is cooler than an f1 car

@@TheCoolCucumber I mean to say that he was more afraid of the F-1 car than of any of the other stuff I mentioned

@@SHDW-nf2ki its not the driving itself that intimidates him but the g force cars like this can speed from 0 to max speed in under 10 seconds at this speed your brain will have a hard time trying to deal with whats going on and your thinking ability will be cut short (which is why he slipped in some corners) it explains why f1 drivers get so much training

He was driving a Toyota Land Cruiser but still he balls of titanium doing that.

@@SharpAsABricc I don't care what your driving when the steering fails its going to become a ride from hell

@@SharpAsABricc but the fact that he drove on bolivia death road using a land cruiser with almost no steering and brakes and its their first time there. You got to give the hamster credit. Yes i come back here often

Austin Osborne Holy fuck...

Cosworth did once produce an F1 engine that could rev to 20,000 RPM.

They should have all beginner drivers learn to drive F1 cars first.

@@Sovereign01 That was in the V8 era, when the other engines were limited to 18.000rpm for reliability, Cosworth managed to create a 20.000rpm V8 that was quite reliable.

@@zaphodbogdan33 wasn't this the 04 v10?

Maybe 5

Well yeah, that huge even in a GT3... drive sims and check the telemetry, everything above even 0.1 of a second is completely killing your time

That's big when you are travelling 250km/h (average speed in F1) then you are travelling 73-75 m/s. A delay of .5 second means that you are already travelling 36-37.5 meter in that .5 second gap. That's a 2.5 city bus length in .5 seconds (average length is 14 meter), you can imagine what kind of gap it is then with that delay... That's just mind boggling, these machines are just a beast....

Turn on a metronome to 120 BPM, and each beat is exactly half a second it sounds minor when he says it, but if you count it out loud it’s a hell of a lot more than it seems even to an amateur, let alone a professional driver, especially considering you’re supposed to immediately press the brake when you lift, like he also said

half a second is quite a big gap in racing

The 2008- 2009 cars are the best

2009 was right on. The new look and shorter wheelbase made them look like so cool. Also the double and triple decker diffusers as well as the blown diffuser concepts.

+Sh1mbo nah the real balls of steel f1 cars were in the Senna's era when he had that 1400hp lotus!.. or the Mclaren era back in the 90's... where there was no eletronics and you had to shift without paddles. No TCS or ABS. Pure driving, pure skill! F1 died the day Senna left us.

+DaCensored sorry men i start watching the F1 just from 2002-2001 aprox, but i ended folow the F1 due to all the limitations and restrictions, i miss the old hokenheim track and so on, yeah is saw some videos from senna good driver even he save a drivers life in spa

Sh1mbo ;)

They actually did it, and today&#39;s F1 cars sound like kittens.

Chakib Tsouli you are so right!

I was wondering what Renault think of the car playing an English national anthem?

technically, God save the Queen is not the British national anthem.

@@andmos1001 I'd love to hear details of this ? ,It's the only one I've ever known.

I think even the worst F1 drivers like Latifi and Mazepin are still among the tiny percentile of the top drivers in the world. There are approximately 1.4 billion drivers in the world and while they might not be top 20, they are top 50, or top 100 at the very least. Top 100 out of 1.4 billion is around 0.00000007%

and within millimeters of each other without colliding

😁😁not even 1 sec?

What episode in top gear is it? I wanna watch it full

@@Luis-cr1tw you can't na engines had an instant response

*doubt*

And arguably the best one out of the three hosts.

@@thelambsauce7307 You would hit the first wall. =)

Robin no need to get salty bro 😂

@@thelambsauce7307 How were my comment salty. 😂😂

As Sterling Moss put it, if you feel you still have control of the car, you're not going fast enough.

@@Christopher_TG i see, so to tackle those turns the answer is quite a bit counterintuitive, go so fast into the turns (fast enough to where you'll feel like you'll lose traction and slide off into the grass) and there the tires will be hot enough to keep the car stuck to the track

Drs isnt on this car, it was only introduced in 2011. But I get your point.

haha

k

Press KERS .. flys out of car

Mark Chen lol!

Nikola Genchev most underrated comment of the year 😂😂😂😂😂

@@anonymousmafia6973 thx! 😀

😂😂😂

Bottom gear Bo’’om gear (said in posh accent and with a big W H E E Z E at the end)

Not even close, it was "not even first gear because the engine is already stalled"

Go search for Tom Cruise driving the Red Bull car.... that dude is literally flying down the track as if he’s been doing it since he was a child. And when he’s done, he gets in a helicopter and starts doing loops. Absolute fucking madness. Tom Cruise is the coolest dude alive.

​@@niftygrower2745 Tom is probably way more fit than any of the guys from top gear.

Muddassir Habib Massa is like 2010: Fernando is faster than you 2014: Valtteri is faster than you

Aslamnur Fikri 2018: Valtteri, it’s James.

Willy Lamb Australia 2019: James, it’s Valtteri

Richard Vail Valtteri, it’s Valtteri

@@richardvail May 2019: James and Valterri, it's Lewis (again) :-)

In a go kart after the first year I owned a proper one I wasn't able to floor the gas paddle because it terifys you even with half of it

Thats why I race its the terror pushing you further. I now have alot of experience in karting and when I first drove a formula car it was pretty easy but if you drive in a formula car without racing experience its nearly impossible.

Rick Bouthoorn Racing you have to to get used to get out of your comfort zone many times in order to consider yourself a racing driver.And it's all a learning curve I guess after 4 years into karting my reflections got better in difficult situations inside a racetrack, learning to stay calm,and not terrified.Unfortunately I didn't have the opportunity to get into any kind of formula car but there is time for anything

vaggelis dogas Driving a formula car with 4 years experience is quite easy. Not stalling the car is the hardest part

vaggelis dogas Oh trust me, I know. Either its my autism going "nope, can't let you go fast" or just genuine fear. By the time I start pushing its the end of the session...great. Even then I can't go round corners without breaking like a coward. 6 seconds slower than everyone else. The reason I have to contend with sim/league racing. Now that's somewhere where I shine. That if no one turns assists off then help everyone other than me.

Let alone a French one

Now top gear theme

Welcome to old good Top Gear

400th like woot woot

people are replying to a 3 year old comment now.

Equal parts AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH and AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

But it's Mick, in a haas

Schumacher wasn't exactly a title contender in 2005, and I think the only occasion when he was really fighting Alonso was in Imola, and that was mainly because Fernando's car very low on power. 2006 is another story though

You'd be sleeping well that night.

The sheer pressure and weight you’d have on your shoulders, would be crazy!

Hes also one of the bravest. You need guts to get in an F1 car and drive it that fast.

True, but not fast enough apparently! lol

Jeff N True that! XD

Eternal Darkus you dont need guts to get in an F1 Car and drive it fast, it's designed and build by the best mechanics. It's fairly safe. But you need to be a complete lunatic to get in a car designed to go at very high speed in a straight line made by some unknown people just to set a land record. ... I wonder who would be that crazy ...

DiZh0 The guy who does it, thats who.

Imagine an RWD car with a 1000hp, which weights 800kg, has no traction control, no ABS, no stability control of any kind, which can do 0-300km/h in less than 10 seconds and brake 300-0 twice as fast, which has so much grip that lateral force can be up to 5-6g and which you have to drive at its limit for 1.5 hours straight while also being aware of other cars around you and while also monitoring a dozen things about the car on your dashboard and talking to your engineer. That's modern F1. The R25 in the video weights less than 700kg and also has traction control at least.

@@antonkirilenko3116 modern f1 cars dont have any assistance at all? Just curious

@@GOLDENEYEAL Power steering, that's it.

What made my jaw really drop is that they get from 200 mph to 0 in just 4 seconds. People driven around in one of the F1 2-seaters claim that you just get ragdolled around and things are happening way too fast to comprehend what's going on.

Yep, the passion these guys showed for cars, what they can do, where they can take you, has hardly been seen before on TV.

he has a international class A racers license just like a formula 1 driver has you also can get one just got to pay $lots and have connections to borrow these powerful cars to do the observation test

Yessir!

Me

YES!!!!!

Me

You mean Alpine Racing?

alla alla

Linus Cleveland new ringtone

no tears herr

And bleed ears

*COULD*

Except the staff mostly are wearing headphones -- to block the sound?

I know rigut, those F1 drivers who are like 17 must be so gifted.

+SolidShark100 Max was also taught alot by his dad and has been racing since he was 4, so yeah theres talent but also alot of experience

+tankmaster1018 F1 drivers start in karts when most kids their age are still watching cartoons. By the time they are teenagers, they need to have made the transition to GP3, GP2, Formula Renault, etc. to have a shot at F1. Even if you make it to a competitive spot in GP2, you might not make it in F1.

+tankmaster1018 More than anything it's just about reaction times and experience. Regular people, even people like Hammond who drives ludicrously fast cars for his living, have never remotely experienced the raw speed and acceleration even a little racing car like a Formula 3000 provides and can't think or react quick enough at the speed that car needs to be driven at. An F1 car must be like a different plane of existence entirely, especially the monstrously powerful cars from this era of F1.

+Sam Heaton Exactly. 99.9% of human beings simply do not have the reaction times, mental agility and clarity of vision to race these cars, or even coax one round the track a couple of times without crashing.

At least they didn't start a war

I thought that was my country tis of thee

yeah right good enough for us to have a good laugh at a stiff upper lip. Sir.

Nick Shumar Nope. I'm afraid, like the us national anthem, it uses British music.

konrad4212 Merci beaucoup.

This is such a good comment 👍

Yeah I've been driving just over a decade, never had a proper crash and pushed plenty of cars, and I'm certain I wouldn't be able to even take off in that thing

Its hard enough to get one of those damn things off the line in an Assetto Corsa. I know if I don't LAUNCH off the line, I would have stalled it. I can't even imagine doing it in real life, with a hand operated clutch and thick gloves. Its incredibly easy to spin them out in the simulators too. And once again, the real one has to be worse. People really do not understand how ridiculous it is to drive an F1 car. After driving normal cars all your life, your brain is hard wired to think "cars can go around this kind of corner about this fast" but in an F1 car, you have to drive way faster than that around the corner or you spin out. Sims will emulate that, but they won't emulate your raw instinct that completely fights the logic needed to drive an F1 car properly.

You know, I just debated with someone on Instagram who only drive gokarts, saying to me that some F1 drivers are not talented 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@@sergeygeorgiy9154 i mean he's right if you count me as an f1 driver LMAO

@@Crash_Knight LMAO 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@@sergeygeorgiy9154 let me guess, the armchair expert was shitting on the following Lewis Hamilton (which doesn't even make sense) Lance Stroll (who got a poll it shit weather and track pavement) Sebastain Vettel (while not how he used to, still doesn't make any sense) Ocon (still don't know why he gets shit for Mazepin (I know why he gets shit on, but still pretty skillful as a driver). I can tell its one of those four because 4 out of 5 of them get non warranted shit.

Some Random Guy - me. Feb 23, 2020.

Me March 15th

^

March 16th

March 17th boys the margin is getting closer :D

I mean...it's true. F1 is one of the few motorsports in which if you go slow, you actually risk dying MORE than if you're going fast.

@@spdcrzy same for boxing...

Going at 50-80% the cars pace is dangerous which is why they weave behind the safety car. Going 98.5-99.9% is also dangerous: and is where F1 pilots live.

@@adampetten5349 No, they live at 100% and above. 98.5-99.9% is reserved for the wet. Lol.

@@spdcrzy You actually only go 100% in qualifying, because qualifying is all about that one-lap magic. Races are more about consistency, you can drive really fast, overtake everyone and crash, or you can just drive fast, but actually finish the race.

Sm00th TV sometimes we can have a stretch of nothing but sunshine, like the last week here have been clear blue skies. but its so changeable! they say in the uk, if you don't like the weather then wait ten minutes =)

Jamie Stirzaker Yeah I was in the US Army stationed in Germany during the 80's. Weather there is pretty much the same I'm told, a lot of cloudy days with drizzle. It's the exact opposite of where I live now in S.Texas. We may get a few days in the Winter where it might get chilly. The spring brings thunderstorms and we seem to get all our rain all at once in massive downpours. Summers are long and are very hot and humid, sometime getting over 100F

A couple of days in June

Yoda on DMT it's funny because i live in Mexico and it's very hot where i live, i always wanted to move to England since i enjoy cold weather and rain more than hot sunny days most part of the year :D

Sm00th TV You know I live in S. Texas, it's hot and humid here 9 months out of the year. But I have livedin colder places like SE Idaho and I HATE the cold, that's why I moved back here.

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@@kaustavkapur5532 v6 has power but still but

@@skmuchina ik it does, i was just saying the meme from donut media

JEMS AR YOU ERE?

Cuz you could do better right?

Well said, not to mention that richard is a practiced racer too, its not like he doesnt know what he is doing.

+Axlr 2706 because we all know Richard is an F1 driver.

I know, me and my dog cried every time, didn't we ;ksdfj[9348[9gjndfgjg[u5htlkkmk ...sorry, he can't type very good still.

Alisa Kroes he's a well practiced sports car racer, much different league from F1 racing

Bullshit, there’s loads of rich boys who’s daddies bought them rides and they learned to be competent without any “natural talent” (whatever that is), not to mention kids of famous drivers who get rides because of their birthright and zero proven genetic correlation.

Uuuh, wat. Since when did anyone bring up "genetics"? He was saying that driving an F1 car flat out is extremely difficult, and it requires a mix of talent and some serious skill from practice to pull off.

Talent is just desire + work. Nothing else. The suggestion that people are somehow innately born with an ability to do something is nonsense bordering on the immoral

@@Motty1066 Hardly. It's the same as how we have different personalities. Some people are gifted from the get go with a creative streak, some people have minds that can crunch numbers or focus on tiny intricate details, etc etc. It's not that this isn't something that needs to be honed to make someone truly great at something of course, but we as human beings all have our strengths and weaknesses, which is why when people come together to work as a well oiled team with everyone working to their strengths awesome things happen.

@mPky1 absolutely not, they have the Corsa experience where they sell you an old f1 car, take care of it, bring it to the track for you, and give you a personal team and test driver to teach you how to drive it. Ferrari is big on selling their old cars.

they locked up cause he pressed too hard after realizing they're too cold. Or it's a mistep in the editing room

they lock up because they're too cold

CrunchyBurrito22 Thought the same, for a beginner this track was too small. He didn't have runoffs and neither did he have the space to test the Holy Grail. He wouldn't have felt like 50% of an F1.

Jim Bobalob Not directly, but for untrained people the G force could send you into unconsciousness, or blacking out like jet fighters. If that happens at 160 and you hit a wall, it is gonna hurt a lot, maybe be fatal as well.

yeah I understand that, but the g forces themselves wont kill him

The G-forces in an F1 car shouldn't cause black-outs. G-forces in plane turns make pilots black black out because usually the g-forces are downwards, pushing blood away from the brain causing unconsciousness. In F1 cars the g-forces are sideways as they turn and forwards/backwards as they accelerate or brake, which doesn't force blood from the brain and therefore wouldn't cause a person to lose consciousness. Injury to the neck or w/e is a different story however.

SMJ That's positive G forces, but the same can occur at at negative G forces, which do the direct oppostie, pushin blood into the head, that again is called a redout but the effects are basically the same. Either way, it doesn't really matter, because it really is enough to move the blood in the head itself arround to faint.

What is the song called? Cheers

i mean i guess it's god save the king now

​@@zacblomqvist3485my country tis of the

Agreed