The F1 Car That Shouldn’t Have Existed

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This is a jet-powered Formula 1 car.
It’s one of the most outrageous race cars ever built-it didn’t have a normal engine; it used a jet. So when I heard it was at the Silverstone Museum, I had to go and see it.
The Lotus 56 wasn’t just an experiment; it challenged the limits of what race cars could be, powered by a jet engine that nearly won the Indy 500, and shook up Formula 1.
But how did they end up using a jet engine, how did it all work, and why was this radical car ultimately banned? Let’s dive into the story of the Lotus 56, a car so ahead of its time that racing couldn’t handle it.
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@jansz1589 23 часа назад

The variety of F1 cars from that time was absolutely unmatched... It's a shame we will never see such creativity again.

@CriticoolHit 18 часов назад

And what did we trade it for? -- Now you can't use a wind tunnel as much as other teams depending on your standing! ooooo so exciting. peak F1. ::sigh::

@Chuck59ish 23 часа назад

The 56 developed into the 72 and became a world beater and McLaren took the concept in the MP series.

@Thats_Mr_Random_Person_to_you 15 часов назад

@3:16 "its made of Lexan so it'll survive a 200MPH hit" Proceeds to kick it to demonstrate a 200MPH hit 😂😂 just made me laugh

@richardbrooks-lightning 4 часа назад

Me too. Quality that right there! whack!

@GrandPrixDecals 10 часов назад

I thought that you may have mentioned that this car influences the shape and layout of F1 cars to this day. When Lotus went back to normal engines Chapman wanted to keep the wedge nose for optimal aero, so split the radiators and shoved them on the sides. Equaling the hugely successful Lotus 72 and the layout used by everyone to this day.

@josephkeith9506 22 часа назад

What if a gas turbine mated with a cvt where the turbine is at a near constant speed and just change the ratio as needed?

@Sir_Cactus 20 часов назад

Another benefit is that this engine is impossible to stall, as the compressor turbine and the power turbine are seperated. To launch you just go full throttle and as soon as you release the brake it goes.

@notfunny3397 День назад

Jet engines are still engines, even rocket engines are engines, even a steam engine is an engine. In fact a jet engine is more similar to a piston engine than it is to a rocket engine. You could theoretically replace just about any piston engine in a car or plane with a turboshaft or turboprop jet engine.

@TimRobertsen 23 часа назад

A turbo-powered piston engine is like a turbine/jet engine with a piston engine between the compressor section and the turbine section :p

@notfunny3397 23 часа назад

@@TimRobertsen yeah the 2nd set of turbines in a regular turbjet engine is a bit like supercharger turbocharger hybrid It powers another set of turbines to compress and suck in more air, but the interesting thing is that it's powered by what is essentially exhaust gases but it still saps power because (in a regular turbojet engine) the exhaust gases are what push the plane forward essentially. So it's powered by exhaust gases but saps power. But obviously like a supercharger it helps the engine make more power to begin with.

@therrydicule 9 часов назад

As long as nobody tries to replace a turboprop in a plane with a steam engine...

@rolandmdill 6 часов назад

I wish there was a racing series today where we could see that level of creative engineering. Want to use an all electric drivetrain, but you have to swap batteries every 10 laps? Go for it. Want to use a gas turbine? Go for it. Want to build a fan car? Go for it. Want to use hypergolic fuel? Well make sure you don't kill anyone or set the pits on fire, but then go for it. Want to spend 5 billion to develop your car? Go for it. I would love to see the outcome of a minimum rules racing series!

@lanceboyle4255 17 часов назад

😅I miss the creativity in F1 engines. Why do they all have to be V6 with prescribed V angle, bore and stroke. Just set the fuel flow limit and let the engineers go nuts.

@therrydicule 10 часов назад

Because they want the engine to be a weight bearing part of the car to help in case of violent crashes. An inline 4 cylinder would ask a frame to do that weight bearing support, and the FIA and racing teams don't want that... So they went with a V6 instead. I like the idea you have, though. And I think that maybe any V-engine would work as a weight bearing part of the chassis; albeit, don't quote me on that last bit. So maybe the FIA and the racing team could have just written "any V engine is legal, inline are not." But that's speculation on my part.

@MoistGrundl3.0 20 часов назад

$6 in 1967 is about $55 today. Not a cheap bearing. But to a race team? Might as well be pennies.

@vizsla54 12 часов назад

Even in period it was considered a cheap part that cost them the race.

@Just_Stop День назад

Yo when you and redbull driving upside down again?

@rnts08 11 часов назад

Need to yap in more money for the nose beers 😂

@derekhawley9660 3 часа назад

Great video. I saw the 56B at the 1971 Race of Champions (Brands Hatch) in my last year at school. It was great to hear the ''whistle" as it went passed and all that heat coming out of the back.

@Hunt-tq7ks День назад

Josh Revell made a video on this 5 days ago, it spread like wildfire

@PozzaPizz День назад

something tells me mr mansell knew

@rohitchandran4471 23 часа назад

Well, since this guy got up close to the car, this might be a more detailed explanation of the josh revell video

@Driver61 23 часа назад

Pure coincidence, actually. There's no way we can turn a video around in that time.

@PozzaPizz 23 часа назад

Absolutely I'm just busting your balls:-) love your content!! @@Driver61

@samuelgarrod8327 23 часа назад

Rosh Jevell doesn't hold a lap record at Brands Hatch though.

@pnw_jordan День назад

Scott- you seem to have found the most pedantic audience on YT. Congratulations and condolences.

@JohnCompton1 15 часов назад

Differing opinions have and always will be part of the comments. Why would you offer condolences?

@somenygaard 11 часов назад

16:48 looks like the typical Boy Scout pinewood derby car!

@coletrickle-km7cl 9 часов назад

9:25-- I remember someone on parnelli's team that built that turbine car that they were warning some other teamate that if they built part of the car a certain way it would mess up those bearings. But they didn't listen. And fittapadi said that turbine F1 car scared the crap out of him and he said it was the worst F1 Car he ever drove.

@johnandan1594 18 часов назад

Huh, i wonder why no clutch was used if you had to hold the brake against the throttle. You can literally be in idle revs clutch up and brake, turn the car and at apex slowly find the friction and be home free. Its probably best if its a wet multiplate clutch to keep diameter small and use the oil to cool the clutch. There's probably a million reasons why they wouldn't use one but it escapes me since im not an expert

@JohnnyDoeDoeDoe 13 часов назад

I wondered the same thing, and it would resolve the issue with the turbine needing to spool up. I would be curious what F1 engineers of the time would say

@laurean5998 7 часов назад

Well you have to keep the compressor spooled up, so there will still be a lot of combustion. I think if you take the load off the drive turbine shaft it will very quickly start to overspin and disassemble itself. Maybe if you had a freewheel mechanism between the shafts to lock them together when you clutch in.

@patrick247two 13 часов назад

Project Cars 2 has a Lotus 56 included. Mad car to drive, huge lag, crazy gauges, all wrapped up in a 60's chassis. Well worth the fun.

@413TomaccoRoad 22 часа назад

I made my Pinewood Derby car in Cub Scouts to look like the Lotus 56. I didn't paint it orange though. I didn't get past the 2nd round, not enough weight.

@S85B50Engine 22 часа назад

It's technically a turboshaft, the type of engine they use in turboprops and most modern helicopters.

@shoutykat 8 часов назад

Lightweight, all wheel drive, they should have raised it 5", given it dirt tyres and taken it to Pike's Peak.

@TaisinViper 23 часа назад

Turbine engines are still the main power source for the H1 Unlimited Hydroplane racing series

@michaelgautreaux3168 13 часов назад

Many thanx Scott. The turbines were GR8 & I'm both glad & thankful for the vid. Enjoy the week. 👍👍

@batboy-xf3ki Час назад

I love that you put subtitles under the man you're interviewing, as if he's harder to understand than you. It reminds me of the skit of the lady interviewing the terrorists and suddenly "wait, what are those!?! I'M SPEAKING ENGLISH!"

@YeahJulius День назад

Im tuning my guitar rn

@LorenzoCorrado19 День назад

Does this have to do with the video?

@tandersen25 День назад

@@LorenzoCorrado19 I think so

@scottyo64 20 часов назад

Wait what key?

@UmVtCg 20 часов назад

nr?

@CorndogSandwich 10 часов назад

Did you win?

@Hammerhead547 22 часа назад

Gas turbine engines would go on to significant use in indoor motorsports like truck/tractor pulling and mud racing during the 80's. Art Arfons's legendary Green Monster 9200 pound unlimited tractor became so dominant that he voluntarily moved to the USHRA'S exhibition class after winning the championship in the 9200 pound class several times in a row.

@chicobicalho5621 19 часов назад

I have been following the sport since 1966, and the 1970s were something special, with turbine engines six wheels, totally wacky aero designs, one does wonder sometimes if some designers, were experimenting with psychedelic drugs like everyone else...

@heartofdawn2341 7 часов назад

I'd love to see a series where you are restricted on the the budget and body (for safety, weight and aero reasons) but when it comes to the drivetrain anything goes.

@heartofdawn2341 7 часов назад

A gas turbine is basically a giant turbocharger with the fuel being burnt inside it. Lag was always going to be an issue

@Natethecarnerdwantstodesigncar 18 часов назад

It would be really cool if there was formula type race series that had a super low budget cap and open rules other than engine size and safety. So that you could get a bunch of people from everywhere inventing ways to go faster. Kinda formula student for people not in school with out space age tech

@MariaTyler-gj1ll 23 часа назад

Can't wait for your next upload!

@greigsanderson 22 часа назад

I would

@NiclasHorn 2 часа назад

and as a RC Jet Turbine flyer and hobbyist, i wonder, why dont we have Jet Turbine engine´s in F1 for the 2026 season, i mean, you can run those turbines on anything almost. Sure i use A1 Jet Fuel but i can use th "Green fuel" HVO 100, problem with that is HVO 100 is more "dirty" and lacks a bit of power compared to real jet fuel. but it still work with fuel made of pine tree oil.

@queden1841 20 часов назад

I sadly chose the wrong major myself but I deeply respect engineers and their creativity to create unfathomable solutions

@filipstefan9384 7 часов назад

that kick into lexan gets me every time 😂

@greigsanderson 22 часа назад

Imagine the fuel consumption?

@vizsla54 12 часов назад

It sold a lot of STP. Telling the story of the turbine at Indy without including Andy Granatelli isn’t telling the whole story.

@pandemik0 3 часа назад

We need a racing series with turbine powered cars ONLY it would be awesome and sound unreal.

@owenjones506 22 часа назад

Much better then as you did not have cars that looked like clones, although the safety was not there , but with materials today it would have been a lot better and more entertaining .

@AnonyDave 10 часов назад

Colin in the 60's: Why attach a turbo when I can just make the whole engine a turbo...

@stijill 12 часов назад

It may have been handful back then, but with today's technology and even off the shelf components for engine management, how much improvement and practicality would it be compared back then. I know it wouldn't make sense with EV being the future.

@deeacosta2734 18 часов назад

That Turd Ferguson is dope.

@leerogers6423 4 часа назад

The 56 was an Indy cay . Not a lot there that relates to F1 . Like comparing cart horses with thoroughbreds .

@Tacko14 23 часа назад

But it dóes generate thrust, doesn't it? It's still a jet engine. That Ferguson must've created some confusion of late. A Ferguson system was called FF, as in the Jensen. But us gamers, what we call an FF is front engined, frontwheel driven. Hm.

@karlbassett8485 22 часа назад

Not really. A piston engine generates thrust if you count what comes out of the exhaust. It's just a tiny amount of thrust. A gas turbine engine powers a driveshaft, like turboprop planes, and the thrust from the exhaust is tiny.

@Saintjackoftrades 19 часов назад

A jet engine uses a"jet" of compressed and heated air to generate propulsion by a direct application of the first law. If it doesn't use the turbine to throw air out the back to accelerate you via that mechanism, it isn't a jet engine.

@GaryBickford 19 часов назад

The transition to tightly controlled equalization of everything in F1 was a major failure. A better solution would have been to require cars to remain the same on all tracks for the whole season. Thus a car that did well on a street course would do less well on a high speed circuit. Car makers would be forced to compromise designs and make tradeoffs, and creativity could be returned to the track. Requiring all the cars to be exactly the same performance in a given race is ultimately boring and antithetical to innovation.

@SPMinerva 22 часа назад

I wondering in race with BOP or spec part car what make a team can go fast compare to the other. It would be an interesting topic

@AmsZero 18 часов назад

Where/when updates on the reverse drive challenge

@edwardhammock24 4 часа назад

An excellent video as ever Scott. Many thanks.

@justluke8730 19 часов назад

1:45 "explained why it was so impressive. But he wouldn't let me sit in the car." ?

@jonhartley7238 20 часов назад

Scott I swear mate, maybe it's the years of racing killing your hearing. Pick a mic sound, and stick with it! (EQ the highs a bit louder while you're at it)

@wrangazz 22 часа назад

Any updates on the driving upside down experiment?????

@Jemand-jh1li 19 часов назад

One single 8. Place finish is still better than stake right now 😂😂😂

@McLarenMercedes 18 часов назад

Gas turbine. In a jet engine the gas turbine powers the fans and compressor and the high speed jet exhaust provides thrust to the airplane. In this F1 car the gas turbine powers the WHEELS. How is that a JET??

@SachiGortchi 16 часов назад

GREAT MACHINE ! [the on-screen info at 05:20 is imprecise as Graham Hill won in a Lola-Ford : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Indianapolis_500#Race ]

@treszenrv9401 5 часов назад

Pilot safety wasn't a priority in that era. Particularly for Chapman.

@NiclasHorn 2 часа назад

22:00 that was the reason i fell in love with F1, sure there rules in 1991 then i started watching, but it was not even close to what it is today. Thing is people who like F1, they have their drivers, but they have their teams also. cuz the technology development is a BIG part of F1. its not like IndyCar or NASCAR there you watch for the driver more or less all drives the same car. i am not interested in having a "levelled plane field" so we can pick out the best and most pure driver on the grid. i hear oft Americans just talking and comparing drivers only.. and they want the cars to be the same... well that´s not my cup of tea for sure. they can have it, i respect it. but i dont want it.

@youerny 12 часов назад

The golden age of F1. We are watching something so different we should consider to adopt a different name

@PlittHD 13 часов назад

What happened to the project upside down? If it is just canceled tell us please.

@YT_WTML 23 часа назад

May be if allowed, the turbine engine would gone through a similar set of innovations as the ICE over the course of history.

@Full-tilt-Marco 21 час назад

No idea why Silverstone man needed subtitles 🤣

@Amg670 17 часов назад

Wondering that myself, bit insulting to the man...

@johnpeterson9152 17 часов назад

Strong British accent, not easy to be understood by everyone.

@thesunnynationg 22 часа назад

But why a reverse gear? I'm pretty sure reversing while a race got you Disqualified back in the days.

@therrydicule 9 часов назад

Usually, it's mandated to help to get the car off the track if it crashed. And I know of one team in IMSA that managed to cheat with that and race GTP cars without reverse gears...

@pauliusjanusas9652 8 часов назад

Just remember Chrysler turbine car.😊 M1 Abrams tank also use gas turbine engine..

@PGRPW 18 часов назад

Imagine a modern F1-car with a gas turbine AND hybrid systems…

@guatf1 19 часов назад

Wouldn't I'd be more fun when f1 dropped all engine rules, only limit the amount of fuel used during a race and see what engineers come up with

@patepulkkinenvtec2403 17 часов назад

They can't because then f1 wouldn't look as woke

@pazsion 11 часов назад

how did it not stall while holding the brakes? no clutch?!

@treecrusher 4 часа назад

The rule makers have ruined so much in Motorsport! Leave the engineers and drivers alone and we’d have exciting racing again.

@greigsanderson 22 часа назад

An unreliable Lotus?

@ssvis2 18 часов назад

So the Lotus 56 suffered from turbo lag.

@ZainulAbideenImtiaz 22 часа назад

Sir, I have a Question for you for my Career. I want to be in Motorsports and Doing my Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering in Pakistan. Since my Country doesn't give facility to Motorsports or Something. Can you tell me What should I learn or do in order to get Internship and Jobs in Motorsports. Its been a month since I started my BS. So, I really want to take Precautionary steps from the start. Also I looked for Fluid Jobs and saw McLaren internship there. Can you please tell me what should I do to avail an offer like this after 2 years.

@Mountain-Man-3000 12 часов назад

Kerosene has a higher density yet gasoline has slightly more energy in it? Can you just go ahread and circle that square for us script writer? As written these are contradictory statements.

@davidcummings2020 6 часов назад

Exciting racing naturally happens when there is diversity of machines that fight with there strengths and weakness this is what racing of most categories have missed for far to long. Now we are watching DRS trains and cars and drivers that won't or can't overtake unless they are on a straightening a DRS advantage.. Then Drivers crying when someone does snuff it up the inside and they call it dive bombing . PFFT🙄

@bbbenj 6 часов назад

Thanks.

@agentsuperdave2191 9 часов назад

It didn't have an engine, it had a jet, and yet the video is called Jet Engine. Not the brightest of channels. Maybe focus on what words mean.

@cpanic1153 14 часов назад

A turbo JET engine is not the same thing as a turbo SHAFT or a turbo FAN

@Mountain-Man-3000 11 часов назад

A planetary gearbox that is only a 1-1 dribe rario makes no sense. I feel like you missed something or didn't understand what it was for... Surely it was there to allow decoupling of wheel speed and engine speed. Turbines run at insanely high RPM. You didn't really explain how it works or why it was needed. Lazy.

@MayumiTheKimura 22 часа назад

Of course it had to be a Lotus, lmao

@wanglydiaplt 12 часов назад

Wouldn't turboelectric be interesting??

@godsinbox 8 часов назад

Im not mad, but he wouldnt let me sit in the car!

@WacKEDmaN 22 часа назад

WTF is with the subtitles ...like yas are speaking a different language? ....

@scottyo64 20 часов назад

Love Lotus!

@steelcityspeedshopj.r6942 21 час назад

really? wouldnt let you sit in the thing for a moment? i mean honest to god man. you cant take it with you.

@jbrown7403 13 часов назад

Were Colin Chapman and David Niven ever seen together? think not. I contend that they are the same person. 😉 🤔 😮

@djpalindrome 11 часов назад

Turbine. Not a jet

@chgzf1 23 часа назад

but whats the difference between the lotus 56b and the lotus 56

@SimonBauer7 22 часа назад

the 56b is the 56 but with Wings fitted for f1 to gain downforce.

@chgzf1 22 часа назад

@@SimonBauer7 oh ok

@PerfectTangent 23 часа назад

Those subtitles are kind of insulting.

@weevilinabox 23 часа назад

Entirely unnecessary and occasionally misspelt. 11:08 - litres 14:11 - braking I'd expect better from an engineering-focused motorsport channel. For me, it detracts from the informative content.

@PerfectTangent 22 часа назад

@@weevilinabox I was talking about the subtitles being on just the one guy; I wasn't reading them because I could understand him just fine. *edit - liters isn't misspelled for an American, but yes, that's the wrong use of breaking vs braking.

@weevilinabox 22 часа назад

@@PerfectTangent I was agreeing that they were unnecessary. I could understand subtitling someone with a heavy accent that non-Brits might struggle to understand, but that was absolutely not the case here. As for "litre", the I've never understood why US spelling of this particular word differs from that used by the rest of the world. I think I understand some reasons for the differences in the spelling of words which pre-date the European colonisation of north America, but surely "litre" post-dates that, so why not spell this new word the same way as everyone else? I'm not being snarky, btw: I'm genuinely intrigued. Was it done simply to align with similar, pre-existing words, e.g. fiber (which Brits spell "fibre"). Does American spelling include any "-re" endings?

@wdowa94 17 часов назад

It's not a jet engine...

@giocharro3338 8 часов назад

Mea plane lebanon 🇱🇧

@crunchyfrog555 20 часов назад

fastest piece of cheese ever

@PPL820 8 часов назад

so the jet car has jet lag?

@7.59PM День назад

fascinating

@TheRealJesusChristus 5 часов назад

Will he ever drive Upside down?

@tobyfoord1614 23 часа назад

What happened to project invention

@jouhannaudjeanfrancois891 19 часов назад

seriously, subtitles for the dude? come on...

@Johnwalter1044 21 час назад

How is the upside down tunnel car project going along?

@Johnwalter1044 21 час назад

Has Redbull contacted you yet? :D

@Nivola1953 8 часов назад

I just don’t understand the need of sensationalising something, already sensational! Why repeatedly say jet engine when you know it’s not?🤔🙄

@deeacosta2734 18 часов назад

Man Scott looks turrible. He’s aged like 10 years.

@Pastronomer69 День назад

Are jets not engines?

@peteredes9998 День назад

It had a jet engine*

@jasonhoffman892 18 часов назад

Was designed as an Indycar first for the Indy 500 with usac rules and modified to be an f1 car.

@mridiot654 День назад

@ModelAaliyahAustin-r3j 22 часа назад

NOT a jet engine! The car wasn't powered by the exhaust from the turbine, but by a mechanical connection to the drive wheels, with the exhaust expelled from the large vent at the top of the engine - just like on a turboprop aircraft.

@LocPH. 22 часа назад

He literally said that within the first minute. But yeah, it sure is clickbait.

@dieselscartalk4146 21 час назад

Didn't it work like a torque converter?

@bhvvlogs7814 21 час назад

I'm pretty sure it qualifies as a jet engine in name even if it is turbine - not thrust - driven. Like, my family races jet-powered cars - thrust driven - but the engines would still be called GE J-85 "jets" even if the wheels were driven by the turbine.