This is 1/3 videos for today, stay tuned for the others! They'll be a little shorter than usual as there's a bit less to talk about on the cars that we are dealing with.
Thank you for another amazing analysis video! Especially considering how little you have to go on from these images. Can't wait for the other videos today, and also looking forward to more videos throughout the year following the development of the cars throughout the year!
Mate, your channel is amazing. Came across it a few days ago and cannot stop watching. Your knowledge is incredible but I particularly appreciate your willingness to say “I dont know” when faced with a confounding design element - it gives you a very respectable air of legitimacy to be so honest. Your videos on suspension setups are also incredible and very understandable for those without a technical background. Keep it up!!
Nothing about the potential blown through upper section of the sidepods? Looks like they're maybe not using the air for cooling and passing it straight through and out of louvres from the upper portion of the sidepods in order to keep the airflow attached down the sharp ramping of the sidepods
If that were true, it would likely be in violation of 3.7.6, which covers apertures. A bypass exit in the region you propose would not be 'for the sole purpose of allowing cooling exits', so the only way they could do it would be to pipe it through something that needs cooling. I wouldn't be prepared to look into the legality of that any more until we have some shots from the rear confirming it is true and not just speculation. Hope that explains it!
@@KYLEENGINEERS there are some other angles on f1technical and some twitter profiles that I won't link to without your permission. It's nothing concrete and I respect that you wouldn't mislead people watching your videos, but I appreciate your extremely qualified opinion on this topic nonetheless there are some still frames towards the end of the following youtube video that might convince you a little more? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RSkvJPZRnh0.html If you look at the brightened photo of the williams front view you can essentially see daylight through the sidepod with what looks like an opening shape that matches up fairly well with the "outlet" AKA dark undefined area on that low definition video that can "potentially" be seen in the video I linked. at 0:58 you can seee the same dark "Outlet" on the right sidepod, so it seems its visually similar on both sides It's all conjecture but I like speculation of this nature
@@Jon-cw8bb Very interesting indeed, that video does certainly show geometry that could be a bypass! When we have better shots of it I'll have to take a deeper dive into the legalities and do an extra analysis. I do hope they don't do what they did a few years ago, where they rocked up to testing with an illegal 6th suspension arm!
I'd love for you to rank each car at the end of your videos on where you think they will be performance wise. Who do you think has the best overall aero/package?
@@deliberation6022 I was thinking as the new cars come out he just adjusts a table on where he thinks they would be in relation to each other. Would be interesting to compare once preseason testing starts
That's so much for doing these. Basically just commenting to help the algorithm. I'd love if you did updates about car aero during the first race or tests. But I'm guessing that'd take a decent amount of time. Anyways, enjoying the tidbits I can get without trying to get a full blown engineering degree on my own. Definitely adds enjoyment to the races for me. 👍
Definitely super super interested and glad you're making videos! As a kid looking to one day get into Formula SAE, and wanting to learn more about engineering, having someone like you explain all of the details is exactly what I've been looking for.
Would be awesome to hear more about your f1 life. For example, how many people on the team usually read the whole rulebook? Does the team print them out for everyone at the beginning of the season? How did the CFD limits impact your job? Did you have to log time on an honor system or was CFD work submitted to the FIA? What about winter break. If you got an idea for a concept on your break could you whip out the laptop and do a quick 1d study to see if the concept was viable or to test a theory? How might teams "cheat the system". What's a typical timeline for design cycles? Did you work on 2021's car before you left? Did they keep stuff away from you after you put in your notice. How many people were " technical experts" versus motorsports fans. For example someone might be the best in the world at FEA and just view it as a job they could care less about where someone else might be not quite as good but live and breath f1. I could continue... haha
Kyle another great analysis well impressed with the insights! Best F1 content found anywhere! KYLE KYLE KYLE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do a comparison of all the cars once we have the images of the cars after first practice. Only then can we be sure we're seeing the whole car. Thank you. Great stuff
Kyle, if you ever have some free time (and the 2022 f1 craze dies down) it´d be great if you could do an analysis of koenigsegg, stuff like the jesko or the one:one
You're simply the *best* aerodynamicist on TY when it comes to explaining what you believe an F1 teams aero is doing. Unlike other so called aerodynamicists on YT that say silly things like "that a team has got it wrong and they should have done it like" this just from looking at photos 😲. You actually take the time to 1. Read and understand the current F1 aero regulations (legality boxes etc) and 2. You have said in previous videos you might not fully understand how a team is getting away with something, but you are just one guy and they have a whole team of aerodynamicists working on a solution, so I have absolutely nothing but 100% respect for your views. Other so called TY aerodynamicists that work for certain well known TY Auto or F1 channels that get lots of views and they just say that teams are doing their designs wrong (without seeing any airflow analysis) and not even going as far as you do in your F1 car aerodynamics analysis should really be ashamed of themselves. All those guys should actually watch your videos as they *would* learn a thing of two. Okay your advantage is that you not only worked for the current F1 champions in the last era of F1 car designs, but you also fully understand the in and out of the current F1 aerodynamic regulations and you actually try to understand why each team are doing what they are doing 👍. BTW Brackley is a nice place to live with plenty of walks and surrounding areas, it's a shame that both your wife and yourself didn't like the area 😢. Oh well each to their own and you're 100% happier now and that's all that really matter. The weather is rubbish compared to Australia though lol 🤣🤣🤣 Great channel and videos, keep it up 👍👍👍
Kyle, I have to say these videos have been great. I'd love to hear your thoughts on to what extent do you think the new cars will produce cleaner air compared to last year (Perhaps after testing when we've seen more of the cars) and maybe point out some spots that the FIA could decide to clamp down on if they wanted to clean up the air flow even more.
Have you seen Craig Scarborough's tweet regarding the potential upper section of the inlet to be used as a pass-through duct? I don't see how that's legal but I don't have my head wrapped around the regs as well as you. Great content, love it.
I love your helpful on screen prompts. But try a smaller nib size and or adjust opacity so as not to obscure the very thing that you are trying to explain. Glad I found your channel. Boeing CQE retired
These videos are very good and interested. I only wished a little more explanation on how different types of airflow add performance and not only an explantion how 'losses' and 'vortexes' are being dealed with.
So many cars all coming out all at once! Some intentionally, some not. With a lot of them (Ferrari, Alfa, etc) leaks will you go in-depth on those photos? Or wait till the get ‘officially’ released?
Have a look at scarbs he thinks there is a slit in the top of the side pod fed from the top slot of the side inlet to create a downwash on the steep side pod hence no rear shots of the illusive slit but you can make out a really large bump at the front of the side pod that then drops suddenly from that front 3 quarter ish veiw
Another great video. I have a question. The side pods look quite radical packed up front and than very tight going back. Would Merc not gain some knowledge from this since they are supplying the engines and would Merc not have to change the cooling packing or would Williams change that? The Williams looks so clean and sleek, I hope that is winning combo.
with a lot of the downforce being generated by the floor the cars are a lot less sensitive to the backwash in general. In addition to that the stricter geometry does limit the overall scale of those vorticies
You should do a video once all cars are clearly revealed with in your own words and the experiences you've had at Mercedes a summary of what cars you think will do best based off what concepts you've seen the teams follow.
They won’t be clearly revealed until the first race though. Even at testing, upgrades and true concepts could be held back with early development work being run in testing purely to check correlation data.
Saw an interesting tweet from Craig Scarborough suggesting that the top half of the giant sidepod inlets might've been bypassing the radiators altogether, and channeling the airflow through louvres to provide downwash over the top of the very aggressively downward-sweeping sidepods. Do you think that suggestion holds any water? Obviously we don't have any rear views to confirm this properly
So looking at the willians with hi-vis paint today, can you expalin what is shows, where is the air meant to go on the car in general, and why does the center of the rear wing look clean?
Looks like they have very little room for cooling air outlet at the back of the coke-bottle, it's very slim between the rear wheels. And with no pics from the back, I guess they are hiding outlets on the back/top of the seemingly very short and forward placed sidepods. Maybe a kind of through-flow sidepod design? Could explain the large inlets.
If the rounded nose cone is advantageous that it creates less turbulent for floor and side pods, what’s its disadvantages which made it less popular in other teams?
Not to be rude by Kyle is essentially giving the baseline knowledge of f1 aerodynamicist. Obviously the teams have implemented these things. Once something is invented it’s much easier to look at it and see what it does than to invent it. Adrian Newey is one of the greatest race car engineers of all time. I don’t mean anything against Kyle. I’m sure he could likely innovate too. However, we haven’t seen it on his channel and certainly not to the level of Adrian Newey. The viewers don’t demand he makes videos on his innovations. They want videos on f1 cars they’ll see on track so that’s what Kyle puts out. Furthermore, Kyle knows some about vehicle dynamics, kinematics and tires but he is not on the level to be on an f1 team in those fields. I study those things daily and have been since I was 13(now 28). So I see some gaps but his knowledge is still really good. Kyle is an expert in fluid dynamics and that’s what he mainly sticks to. He doesn’t claim to be an expert in anything else. Adrian Newey knows it all not just fluid dynamics. He nows the material science involved, thermal dynamics, how to optimize engine/downforce/packaging trade offs, how to package complex suspension geometries, how to use suspension geometries to create correct aero platform and he learns stuff new to the entire industry. Kyle could possibly be one of the better f1 aerodynamicist, but comparing him to Andrian Newey is going way too far. I doubt Kyle even wants that comparison. Likely Kyle left f1 so he could make his own aero designs. That’s his passion. Just like the passionate really good software engineers go to startups or start their own so they can build their own software. I imagine if he saw himself being the chief technical director one day he would have stayed. The competition at that level is crazy even for a back marker team.
I'm sure Kyle is subject to a confidentiality NDA from Merc for at least the next 20 years. Whatever he's designed successfully he's hardly going to reveal here. He's a young man thats self made, he's a PHD, he's worked at Merc for three years. He has nothing to prove to anyone I'd wager..
@@OOpSjm yes they were but the Williams sidepod is also shorter than the Alpine and doesn't blend into the body as well. It's like they're using the front of the sidepods as bargeboard to create a strong outwash and just trying to get rid of them further down the car. I hope it's a successful design
Did Mercedes intervene to prevent you from using the pictures of you standing next to the championship winning cars? Noted that difference compared to the other videos. Wouldn't be surprised as they seem to intend to control everything, even if it's none of their business.
Could you do an aerodynamics analysis of the vision 1789 and the Veloqx Fangio? Simply looking at them I would like to see how their aerodynamics truly function. Veloqx says they have been working on the aerodynamics of their car (which they just released today) for the past 3 years, and I want to see if you find evidence of that in its design. The Vision 1789 as these two huge side diffuser, a concept I had never seen taken to this extreme, and wanted to see how efficient it is.
The real problem to solve with these cars is going to be the creation of downforce at the front. There is too much downforce from the diffuser and rear wing and nothing to keep up at the front.
