Top 10 Cheeky F1 Innovations — Transcript

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1. 0:02there's nothing like adversity to boost
2. 0:05ingenuity Terral proves it several times
3. 0:08one of them in 1997 when they recycled
4. 0:12old wings into mini wings in a desperate
5. 0:15attempt to get more grip at high
6. 0:17downforce tracks they were ugly but
7. 0:20effective even through Rory random but
8. 0:22not everyone fell under the spell and
9. 0:25neat designer like Adrian Newey
10. 0:26was having none of it for his elegant
11. 0:28and clarin finally the FIA deemed them
12. 0:31illegal to being unsafe after the 1998
13. 0:34season when one takes into consideration
14. 0:36the efforts that were made by a team of
15. 0:39course it's disappointing but we were
16. 0:41one of the peoples who've got some real
17. 0:43advantage out of these side wings I
18. 0:45think to be truthful about it there was
19. 0:47a impairing a vision from a driver's
20. 0:50point of view in terms of what he could
21. 0:51actually see and if there is a question
22. 0:53ever of safety you have decide on the on
23. 0:55the safety aspect in late 2005 Renault
24. 1:02developed a simple mechanical device
25. 1:04fitted in the nose of the car that
26. 1:06comprised a weight mounted in a spring
27. 1:08they named it a tuned mass damper and it
28. 1:12improved the car's performance by
29. 1:13dampening out tire bouncing frequencies
30. 1:15throughout corners and therefore keeping
31. 1:18grip levels more consistent look how
32. 1:20much the Ferrari vibrates over the curve
33. 1:22and here's the Renault going completely
34. 1:26off track as you can see the car itself
35. 1:28would stay almost flat as the suspension
36. 1:30absorbed the tyre bounce for 2006 and
37. 1:34with FIA approval the French team also
38. 1:37fitted the system in the rear of the car
39. 1:39of course other teams tried to copy it
40. 1:41but they didn't get nearly as much of a
41. 1:43benefit with the use of mass dampers
42. 1:45growing however the FIA stepped in and
43. 1:47outlawed them completely following the
44. 1:50summer break
45. 1:53f1 engineers hate onboard cameras they
46. 1:57add weight to the cars and they affect
47. 1:59its aerodynamic efficiency because of
48. 2:02that in 2014 redbull hid the camera in
49. 2:05the cars nose instead of using the
50. 2:07manometric camera mountings but as you
51. 2:10can see actually as you can't see the
52. 2:13change was far from seamless the rules
53. 2:16say the mounting must not be located
54. 2:18inside the carbon structure itself but a
55. 2:20dream use loophole was that the camera
56. 2:23was in fact inside the non-structural
57. 2:25vanity panel the trick didn't work
58. 2:27though and they had to revert to the
59. 2:29traditional solution after five races
60. 2:34McLaren were the adventurous ones in
61. 2:372010 when they pioneered this snorkel
62. 2:40baptized the f-duct it channelled
63. 2:43airflow and allowed their car to go up
64. 2:45to 6 miles faster on straights how the
65. 2:48system worked was both rudimentary and
66. 2:50clever a movable aerodynamic device
67. 2:52wouldn't have passed the FIA regulations
68. 2:54but the f-duct found its way around the
69. 2:57rules it was up to the driver to
70. 3:00activate the gadget covering a hole in
71. 3:02the cockpit with his left leg soon many
72. 3:05teams copied the idea but a few went too
73. 3:08far
74. 3:08Ferrari opened the Pandora's box when
75. 3:11everyone saw Fernando Alonso driving
76. 3:13one-handed at the Spanish Grand Prix
77. 3:15when he operates your f-duct with his
78. 3:17left hand changes the brake balance with
79. 3:19his right hand
80. 3:20how's he steering I don't think we're
81. 3:23there we were the feet that but they
82. 3:25should steer with their with the hand
83. 3:26that is available but he doesn't have a
84. 3:28hand available I don't know maybe the
85. 3:30carries is too good of that I don't know
86. 3:33but I can drive it so and now I would
87. 3:35love to be no no let's say that is
88. 3:37really good driving on that nothing to
89. 3:39say it emerged that their system
90. 3:41required the driver to cover a hole with
91. 3:43his hand and Ferrari weren't the only
92. 3:46ones and thus teams agreed to bandy
93. 3:48f-duct both the safety and cost issues
94. 3:51ahead of the 2011 season
95. 3:56this journey through Formula One's
96. 3:58astuteness couldn't overlook MacLaren's
97. 4:01famous rear brake pedal it was f1
98. 4:03photographer Darren Heath who smartly
99. 4:06discovered MacLaren's trick having a
100. 4:08hunch of what he might find he sneaked
101. 4:10his camera inside maker Hawkins retired
102. 4:12car at the 1997 Luxembourg ROM Prix
103. 4:16revealing their hidden innovation the
104. 4:19third pedal allowed the driver to
105. 4:21control the rear braking of the car
106. 4:22independently and substantially improved
107. 4:25performance by reducing either
108. 4:26understeer or wheel spin stewards
109. 4:29initially deemed the system is legal but
110. 4:31after Ferrari complaints in early 1998
111. 4:33it was finally banned we were fortunate
112. 4:37in being the first of the three teams
113. 4:39running the system find a performance
114. 4:41advantage within the regulations and
115. 4:43that the only response that a rival team
116. 4:46has is to try and find a way to have it
117. 4:48banned as opposed to rising to the
118. 4:50technical challenge ground effect made
119. 4:54incredible speed and downforce possible
120. 4:57by sucking the cars to the ground
121. 4:59Adam skirts of the bodywork was a way of
122. 5:01achieving this so airflow would get
123. 5:03trapped under the car and suck it to the
124. 5:06asphalt the benefits of ground effect
125. 5:08was so massive that every attempt at
126. 5:10banning it brought a bigger effort by
127. 5:12the teams to find their way around it
128. 5:15especially the one made by Lotus genius
129. 5:18designer Colin Chapman who'd brought
130. 5:20ground-effect of Formula One in the
131. 5:22first place
132. 5:26effect that air has when it flows over
133. 5:28the car and we've been trying to do our
134. 5:29best to stop it flow under it we're
135. 5:32really trying to do is to promote air
136. 5:33flow under the car in order to be able
137. 5:36to contour the underside of the car so
138. 5:38it produces a negative lift in other
139. 5:40words the air passing under the car
140. 5:43helps to hold it on the road the risk of
141. 5:46the cars taking off was high so skirts
142. 5:48were banned for the 1981 season teams
143. 5:51quickly reacted and Llosa's his solution
144. 5:53was the Lotus 88 a car with two chassis
145. 5:57the upper one was able to adapt its
146. 5:59height exploiting ground effect at high
147. 6:02speeds but still respecting the ground
148. 6:04clearance rule when the car was stopped
149. 6:06while the bottom chassis was still and
150. 6:09shielded the driver against the
151. 6:10ferocious forces of conventional ground
152. 6:12effect cars teams however quickly
153. 6:15protested against it arguing that while
154. 6:18it shouldn't be illegal they would all
155. 6:20have to deploy one and the costs would
156. 6:22be massive
157. 6:23the governing body listened and the
158. 6:25Lotus 88 died despite all of Colin
159. 6:28Chapman's efforts in court in 2009
160. 6:35massive rule changes reduced downforce
161. 6:37by 50 percent so teams had to be extra
162. 6:40creative to get some of it back and it
163. 6:42was brawn GP who made the most of it
164. 6:45this was a traditional diffuser and this
165. 6:49is the one Braun used double diffusers
166. 6:52had a different central channel using
167. 6:54its shape to create a double-decker
168. 6:56design dare defuses controversial aspect
169. 6:59was the hole in the rear which increased
170. 7:01the airflow speed and as a consequence
171. 7:03generated more downforce the double
172. 7:06diffuser remained legal and was a key
173. 7:09part of the car that would go on to win
174. 7:11both 2009 championships before being
175. 7:15banned
176. 7:16[Music]
177. 7:19in 1982 three British team Lotus
178. 7:22Williams and Brabham couldn't keep pace
179. 7:24with the turbo cars at the front and so
180. 7:26found an ingenious way of racing their
181. 7:29cars below the minimum weight limit they
182. 7:32did this by emptying their reserved
183. 7:34water tanks mainly used for brake cooler
184. 7:36before the race began and making sure it
185. 7:39was topped up again before scrutineers
186. 7:41inspected it afterwards
187. 7:42Nelson Piquet won his home race as a
188. 7:44result but both he and second-place Kok
189. 7:47Rosberg were disqualified and the tactic
190. 7:50though technically legal was immediately
191. 7:52outlawed two years later it was terrell
192. 7:55who used an even more flagrant trick
193. 7:57they not only ran underweight cars
194. 7:59emptying their water tanks but topped
195. 8:01them up and before the end of the race
196. 8:03with an additional two gallons of water
197. 8:05mixed with 140 pounds of lead shot when
198. 8:11the stewards discovered this the team
199. 8:13was disqualified from the entire 1984
200. 8:16championship
201. 8:19first introduced in 1976
202. 8:22Turrell's six-wheeled p34 showed
203. 8:25potential right away getting its only
204. 8:27win at the swedish grand prix in and
205. 8:33after poor results in 1977 tyrell
206. 8:37discontinued Essex wheeler but the
207. 8:39concept didn't die three other teams
208. 8:41would develop it March design never made
209. 8:44it to a Grand Prix and the same happened
210. 8:46to Ferraris 312 T six the idea then
211. 8:50hibernated until 1982 when Williams
212. 8:53tested another promising six wheeler it
213. 8:55didn't only provide more grip but also
214. 8:58extracted more potential of ground
215. 9:00effect with longer skirts that extended
216. 9:03the bodywork closer to the ground
217. 9:05unfortunately for Williams both ground
218. 9:07effect and four-wheel drive were banned
219. 9:09for the 1983 season and all those
220. 9:12promising designs went straight into the
221. 9:14skip
222. 9:15[Music]
223. 9:17the same fate would befall the
224. 9:19short-lived Brabham bt 46 be better
225. 9:23known as the fan car created by genius
226. 9:27designer gordon murray in 1978 it won
227. 9:29the only Grand Prix had ever raced in
228. 9:32Sweden with Niki Lauda at the wheel the
229. 9:35fan was a fresh way of making the most
230. 9:37of ground effect and Colin Chapman of
231. 9:38course wasn't very happy rivals were
232. 9:42both impressed and outraged questioning
233. 9:46its legality right away after just one
234. 9:48race political pressure killed the fan
235. 9:50car for good clever and cheeky solutions
236. 9:54have come and gone through the years but
237. 9:56they will always be part of Formula
238. 9:58One's identity
239. 10:00[Music]