WEBVTT - The Tech Junkie 0:00:02.000 --> 0:00:02.320 Walter. 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:08.400 Sorry, Tony, that's. 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:09.639 Going above and beyond. 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:14.600 Tony Michael, I want to share something with you by 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:17.640 all means. So today, before I came into the studio, 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:21.120 there was this whole situation in my home with the dishwasher, 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:23.639 and I'm going to spare the details, but the bottom 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:26.079 line is I took this shit apart, I put it 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:29.400 back together again. It's it's going great, and it's saved 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:33.160 my family. Basically, you know, you're supposed to constantly clean 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:34.280 out your dishwasher filter. 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:35.760 There's a lot of things in the household that we're 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:36.959 supposed to do that we don't, right. 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:38.440 But that's why I'm saying it's like a pit stop, 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:40.280 Like your dishwasher should do a pit stop, but it 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:43.880 doesn't say that. I think one of the most important 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:47.879 parts of being an adult is realizing how much of 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:52.560 life is maintenance. Oh yes, the pit stops of life, 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.400 paying bills, showing up when you said you were going 0:00:56.480 --> 0:01:01.000 to show up, being reliable to people, figure out your closet, 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:07.520 figuring out your refrigerator, maintenance, daily maintenance. It feels so insurmountable, 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:11.280 but being a mature adult is doing that stuff in doing. 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:15.600 It before the foins tonight before it becomes a huge problem. 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:20.360 Correct, And how is all of this related to today's episode. 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:23.039 I think you'll figure that out. 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:24.880 I haven't figured that out, but maybe as we get 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:28.480 into today's episode, it will start to make sense a 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.520 truth about life in the car and the power unit. 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:36.759 Maybe and maybe not. It's possible that it's totally unrelated. 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:39.399 And at this point I'm not in charge of the 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:41.760 post engineering of this podcast, but I hope they will 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:43.399 just play the theme song and cut me off. But 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:46.160 I'll keep talking and then hopefully they'll do for My 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.880 Heart podcast one on one Studios and Sports Illustrated Studios. 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:52.080 This is choosing sides. 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:59.080 Yes one, wow, wow wa. 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:03.480 Can you hear me? 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.600 Okay, you're a bit low? 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.600 Oh right, low, Okay, hold on, I'll move my microphone 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:09.160 a little bit. 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:11.160 I feel like this is going to be a big episode. 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:12.600 I think it is, and I think your high is 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:13.600 certainly excited. 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:15.120 Yeah oh yeah, oh yeah. 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.560 Last week, there he is. Last week we focused on 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.000 the drivers. But if F one is the merger of 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.640 man and machine, this week it's going to be all 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:26.440 about the machine. Bernie, welcome. Can you give us a 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:29.200 brief explanation of who you are and how you sit 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:30.800 into the wonderful world of Formula one. 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:33.560 Thank you for having me. So my name is Bernie Collins. 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:36.960 I joined Formula one quite a few years ago now 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:41.040 as a mechanical engineer. I started working at McLaren, spent 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:44.880 some time design work there, but spent the twenty fourteen 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:48.720 season as Jensen Button's performance engineer, So that was my 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:52.200 first traveling season on the road. And then from twenty 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:56.200 fifteen to twenty twenty two I was a strategist at 0:02:56.639 --> 0:03:00.200 no I Aston Martin, but then for India and I 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:04.080 work for Sky sportsf one. So now I'm on TV 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.440 hopefully trying and explain some of that to those watching 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:07.720 no Home. 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:12.400 Okay, can you give us a pitch of why being 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.959 a technology fan in Formula one is the best kind 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:16.320 of fan. 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.919 F one teams are driven by a single focus. So 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:23.519 teams or maybe eight or nine hundred people all working 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:25.720 to make two cars as fast as they can on tracks. 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:28.880 They're not so worried about the commercial value. They're only 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:32.280 worried about speed and the weight of the component, whatever 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:35.760 it is. So there's this real drive to accelerate the 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.640 technology forward, and that's why I F one, I've come 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:41.840 up with some brilliant solutions, you know, you know, it's 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:45.480 the most efficient engine that we have. It produced things 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:48.200 like carbon fibers. So there's so much new technology is 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:51.640 generated by what I think are some of the brightest 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:55.920 minds that we have in terms of engineers. And yeah, 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:59.160 so it's really, I think a really interesting place. 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.000 Wondering if there's anything that you think of just like 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.080 there is this interesting paradox of like we've got this 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.160 uber NuTech and then yet there's still technology that still 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:08.480 works today that we came up within the seventies or 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:09.080 the eighties. 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.520 Yeah, I think the newest technology or the most advanced 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.280 stuff is probably all around the engines trying to get 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.400 you know, the curve system working, and a lot of 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.000 that is actually where a lot of the advance was going. 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.200 You know, there's a lot happening in the future with 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:27.880 synthetic fuels to try and you know, reduce the carbon footprint. 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.560 So there's a lot of work happening on those sorts 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:32.080 of and I think, you know, a lot of the 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:35.120 new technologies and materials, so they're trying to for example 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.160 of recycled carbon fiber or so there's a lot of 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.880 growing in that area. Obviously, AI has been for a 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:44.760 long time in F one a big thing, and so 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:49.279 how can we use computers to manage our data to 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:51.800 make some decisions or at least like point us in 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.520 the right direction for a decision. So that that data 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.599 world is massive and has been for a long time, 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:03.840 but just growing exponentially. Whereas the oldest technology like that's 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.880 there's some of the simplest things that's still work well. 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:10.800 So you know, I guess the lowest technology if we 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.000 think of it. If you get a new floor component 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:15.039 and you're trying to get it quite close to the tire, 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.600 sometimes you'll just put pen on it, and if the 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.560 pens rubbed and the tires rub and the floor, you 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.960 could get a really complicated sensor. But the pen works. 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.480 And that's been like that, you know, from from reason begun. 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.479 I love it because I these conversations always come up 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:32.640 when you see duct tape come out and you're just like, 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:37.200 it's formula one outcomes the duc tap and anyone that's 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:38.560 new is just like, isn't this supposed to be the 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:42.080 most technologically advanced kind in the world. But sometimes the 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:42.920 simplest solution. 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:46.240 I keep hearing people referring to the new regulations and 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:49.880 the new era cars, and from last season I thought 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:53.159 it was new regulations, But what does that mean? How 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:56.160 often is the regulations happening? How much is this tie in? 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:57.160 What's changed? 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:02.200 All that go regulations for a few reasons, One to 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.159 sort of move the sport on so that we're not 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.760 set in the previous regulation that we have. We're trying 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.479 to work the same page for everyone. I think the 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:13.200 regulations now are probably tighter than they've been at any 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:16.000 point in the past. So although we get differences in 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:18.400 the car, you know, they're broadly the same. A few 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:20.680 years ago, we had what we call our very errow 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:24.480 regulations and they were brought in to try and improve racing, 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.640 to try and improve the overtaken of the cars. The 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:29.640 next change that we have, the big change that we 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.600 have coming is twenty twenty six, and that's to try 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:36.000 and take an extra step and engine efficiency. So that 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:40.080 is to try and for these new engine manufacturers, can 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.760 we develop technologies that can go in your road car. 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.320 And you know, ultimately F one is used by these 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:50.960 big companies as an advertisement platform, so you know, Mercedes 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:52.880 for many years when they were making the best engine, 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:54.279 are they selling more road cars? 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:54.359 Like? 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:56.400 That's fundamentally what people are trying to do with it. 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:59.280 So that's why you get these changes in regulation. But 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:03.719 obviously with each big step in regulation, you sometimes get 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:05.599 one manufacturer that gets it right and one that gets 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:06.000 it wrong. 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.320 For a new person maybe joining the sport, they'll look 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:10.960 at it and go, how like how how how? How 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.440 Is that an easy way of explaining just the red 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:14.120 bull domination. 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.320 I think if we like go back a little bit. 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:21.600 We had new engine regulations in twenty fourteen and they 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.440 brought in the hybrid engines. Mercedes were the strongest, said 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:28.360 that they won for many many years under those engine regulations. 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:31.920 Then we had the change in twenty twenty two. I think. 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.840 So over those years that we had the engine REGs, teams, 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.800 like I said, were converging and other engines were getting better, 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:40.920 so all the engines were sort of the same then. 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.560 And then we had this rule that was about aerodynamics, 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.840 so how the car sticks to the road. 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.960 The twenty twenty two car had a whole people describe 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:52.360 it as having a whole new philosophy. 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:54.520 The people they could describe the cars had a whole 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:55.360 new philosophy. 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:56.720 Yeah you want to talk about life. 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:58.240 Yeah, we're going to talk about life. 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:02.720 The philosophy is just someone a high level designer will 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.320 come up with some bs ideas, and they might be 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.480 really simple things like we're going to design the car 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.920 around this wheel use. And they'll have, you know, done 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.120 a lot of work on why they've come up with 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:15.520 that number, but they'll have come up with this number, 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.960 and that'll be like the HW they design that car. 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.680 They'll design that car as much as they possibly count. 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:23.840 But obviously that's a really big thing to change, Like 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:27.560 that starting point is a massive change. So if you 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:29.880 decide that you can't develop the car anymore or it's 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.400 not working for whatever reason, you will go back and 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.600 change that starting point. And that is what we talk 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.440 about the new philosophy of the car, and it applies 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:42.240 to so many things. It could be the engine layer, 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:44.560 it could be the right height of the car so 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:46.680 high high, the rear of the car is. It could be, 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.360 like I said, the wheel raise. So people will start 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.439 to talk about philosophies, but they'll use that word real interchangeably. 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:56.440 Depending on which aspect of the beginning is changing. Teams 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.240 will be looking at the cars around. Then you know 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.440 the I photographers are there and if they see something 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.320 very different, they'll begin doing some tests on it. They'll 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:08.760 begin looking at alternatives. They'll begin to put some of 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:12.320 that in the wind tunnel and say, can we is 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.640 there something we're missing here and what potential has it? 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:17.520 I actually think it's a great way of describing the 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.600 car like it drives differently, that the approach to building 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.280 the car was different, and it ultimately means that the 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:27.320 car has completely been reinvented in every single way possible. 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.880 What's an example of one of the changes. 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:35.480 Aerodynamics fundamentally is about producing downforce on the car, so 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:39.760 load on the car such that it's more stable and 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:43.000 corner in. So if you think of a car, your 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:46.040 car contacts the road by the four tires. That is 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:49.280 the only point of contact. So all your speed comes 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:52.240 from how well you can manage the load on those 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:55.960 four tires. It's that simple. So the more stable you 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:58.600 can have it in cornering in straight line, whatever the 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:03.120 case will be, the better the driver can predict how 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:07.440 the car is going to react. And red ball with 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:11.200 Adrian Nuei and you know, a fantastic teams It's not 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.240 just one person. We tend to talk about Adrian, but 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.840 it's the team he's built, how they developed the car, 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:17.640 how they test it, how they run it, and the 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:21.600 Win tunnel, all these things they have produced. And even 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:25.720 before the regulation change, they had the best aerow car, 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.000 they had the best aero concept. It's just that it 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:33.560 was less important than when the regulation changed. Suddenly. The 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.920 fact that they're strong in this area of development really 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:38.720 makes a difference to all the other cars. 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:41.880 Some teams missed the point and went back to the 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.600 drawing board and started again and tried new things, and 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:45.960 that's already happening. This year. 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:49.760 We see McLaren catching up faster than most other teams. 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:54.360 Teams will catch up eventually, as they develop and learn 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:58.400 and do more tests and more experiments, they will catch up. 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:01.199 It's just they're not there yet. The longer we have 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:05.160 a regulation, hopefully, the more the fail converges. So you know, 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:07.640 the margin that red Ball had in previous years should 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.920 get smaller as others close the gap and work to 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:11.719 develop their car. 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:13.480 So it's going to take us a handful of years 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:15.880 before we can safely say did we hit the mission 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.679 of these new twenty twenty two regulations. 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:21.080 By which time, of course we'll have a new set 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:21.720 of regulations. 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:25.360 Yeah, how many parts are in an F one car? 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:27.960 Because to me it looks like one part. 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:29.240 It's one big car. 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.800 It seems like that just comes out of the the 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:33.960 F one machine and it's like, oh, there's the car. 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.800 Yeah, I'm thinking it's like hundreds of thousands of components. 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:42.160 There's some off the shelf stuff, but mostly not so 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:44.719 even to the point where, like when I was doing 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:48.440 suspension design at McLaren, where the wishbone connects to the 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.800 way you'd have a bracket, Yeah, and the boat that 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:55.239 you're potting in there there might be like a standard 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.600 one that's I don't know, fifty mil long, but you 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.800 might want forty or forty five mile long or whatever. 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:05.040 So you you take that standard bolt and machine it 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:07.720 down to get the right size because those few extra 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:11.800 mill will either clash with something else or are adding 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.920 weight to the car. So there's very few even standard components. 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:16.839 We try and use as many as you can because 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:21.680 that's cheaper, but most things are machined, like BA spoke 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:26.239 for that car, and there's hundreds of parts in each assembly. 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:30.079 You know, in the suspension or the whale or the uprighters. 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.080 There's so many pieces that go into it, and you know, 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:36.040 from year to year you might carry over some of 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:39.040 the parts, but not all of them. We might we 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.680 might take one that's you know, maybe a similar design 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:46.160 and start with that basis, but there's so many parts 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:47.680 designed new year on year. 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:51.360 It's like putting together in Ikea. It's like when they 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:53.760 just just get a bag of parts and it's like. 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:59.760 There is an ike of fun fact that flat packs 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.920 kitchens with the inspiration from one of the parts in 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:05.800 f one car of just like how you put it 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.000 in locking in and you don't need other devices and 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:09.800 for the front wing the nose of the car. 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:13.439 Ikea is not a furniture company. It's a packing and 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:14.400 unpacking company. 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:16.559 You know what. I have dreamt for us to have 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.680 an Ikea sponsorship in Formula one because to me, it 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:21.920 makes a lot of sense because to your point, the 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.160 car is and doesn't just arrive, it doesn't travel as 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:26.720 one part. We take a part everything and we rebuild it. 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.400 So after your face, I would love an Ikea partnership. 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:35.520 We have to take a quick break and we'll be 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:40.280 back back from the ads Okay, if you're has and 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:44.200 I'm Mercedes, do we use the same screw on the 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:50.160 wing the banister flack or can I invent my own screw? 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.920 And you know, I mean, what's the okay variability? 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:56.920 There great question. There's a distinction to be made between 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.800 the different buckets of car components, and in the most 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:04.320 simplistic way, let's start off with this. There are a 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:08.000 specific number of individual parts of the chassis, which is 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.000 the main part of the racing car. 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.160 And the chassis will include all of the little bits 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:15.079 to go with that. So the seat, this, you know, 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:16.880 how everything interacts with the. 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:20.880 Driver, the radio, yes, the sixties CD changer in the back. 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:22.480 That's not heavy at all. 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:26.480 The tube splits. Then are suspension, which is everything that 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:30.000 hangs off the car, So the wishbones, any of the 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.880 dampers that are inside the chassis to get suspension will 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:37.280 be one group of designers. And then you get arrow 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.520 bodywork and wings. Yeah, a lot of what we see 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.600 is all aero components that are all sort of dressed. 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.720 That's the first bucket. Then there's the second bucket, which 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:49.560 are there pieces that they are not allowed to design 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:53.040 and build themselves, but they need to purchase from the 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:57.720 accreditated FIA third party vendors. Okay, you can probably get already. 0:14:57.760 --> 0:14:58.720 The first ones. 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:02.640 Wheels, that's pretty tie listening. 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:06.560 Little girls start. The second one is the halo, which 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:08.200 makes a lot of sense when you think. 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:10.080 That the halo was built that a head protection. 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.360 It's the head protection, which makes sense because this is 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:15.160 all about they don't want teams tweaking and changing with 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:16.800 something that can save a driver's life. 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.560 That there's actually there's quite a few sort you know, 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:24.560 standard components. The majority of work the teams do is designing, building, 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.520 checking their own components, and they'll they'll test them themselves 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:31.640 as well, because obviously they have a duty of care 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:33.320 to the driver, so they want it to be as 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.680 see if as they possibly can as well. But certain 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.520 things are either tested by the FA or provided by 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:39.240 the FA. 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:41.520 Then there's a number of other pieces that can be 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.000 purchased from specialists but don't have to be You can 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:45.680 build them yourself or they will say, hey, there's a 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:47.640 bunch of people here that build great things. That's things 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:49.560 like the fuel tanks and the wheels and the brakes, 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:53.520 et cetera. Not the actual tires, but the wheels. Finally 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:55.840 the rest of the car. And then remember when we 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.400 talked about how there are works teams and there are 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:01.280 constructor teams. This is where they comes in. The rest 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:03.640 of the car is essentially designed and manufactured by the 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:06.760 works teams. These other teams that actually build all the components, 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:08.920 and then they sell as part of their business model 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:11.320 some of these components to the other constructor team. 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:15.080 So customer team like Aston Martin or Buy and Mercedis engines. 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:18.160 So you've got like the big engine bits, You've got gearbox, 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.120 ense or transmission. You can think of transmission being everything 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.360 from the back of that engine until it gets to 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:27.000 the rear wheels. So that's another big section of the car. 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:29.560 Some of these teams, you're saying, they're making their car 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:31.880 and they're also making shit for other people. 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:33.960 Yeah, this would be like if Rafael. 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:36.080 And Nadal on the side was in the locker room 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.680 making rackets and selling them to Novak Djokovic. 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:40.440 I mean, it's just hilarious to me. 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:43.000 These are known by the way as like transferable parts, 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.600 and they can be bought and sold between the different teams. 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:48.000 How many people does it take to build an F 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:48.440 one car? 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:51.360 You know? The one thing that's limited is you've got 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.040 fifty eight technical people at the track, So that's an 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:57.000 FA limit that at the track for each team there 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:00.520 are fifty eight people and that will be split acrawl, 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:05.280 mechanics and engineers. Then in the factory you've probably got 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:08.000 four or five hundred people direct you know, you've got 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:10.639 the design of the car is one branch of people. 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.359 Then you've got the people who are manufacturing the components. 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:16.720 So generally we tend to have the teams where the 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:20.439 design offices upstairs and then the manufacturings downstairs. That tends 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.639 to be the layout. So you'll have people design and 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:26.000 drawing components split into the groups that we said like 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:29.080 suspension or front wing or whatever, and then they can 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:30.879 go downstairs and see it being built. So you'll have 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:34.600 people in machine shops building it or building individual components. 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:38.320 And then you'll have the race team. So generally the 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:42.199 fifty eight or maybe another twenty that are building the 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:44.480 car the track will also be maybe building the car 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:47.359 in the factory, so if they in between races, they 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:49.399 might come back and do it, or sometimes you'll get 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:51.359 other people that are just in the factory doing it. 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:53.760 So yeah, and then you know, you've got other departments 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.160 like your vehicle dynamics who are trying to work out, 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.920 you know, what type of spring or damper or simulation 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.360 in order to improve the speed of the car. 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.359 Then there's also a team of aeronautical engineers that run 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:08.159 the wind tunnel, and both of those simulator and the 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:11.199 wind tunnel is also about understanding how far we can 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:13.359 push the car. Again, it goes back to the point 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:15.840 that we can't just test these cars out on track constantly. 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:18.639 And those are different. The wind tunnel is different than 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:19.359 the simulator. 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:24.240 Correct, They both offer you different data points, different insights 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:25.240 into how the car runs. 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:31.000 Is everything based on aerodynamics? Is this all wind? 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:33.400 Most people, a lot of people would argue. 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:35.920 On what are they doing in the wind tunnel? Those 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:38.040 are cool pictures that I see, but what the hell 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:38.600 are they doing? 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:43.360 You have this squares section that the car sets in. 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:46.200 That car isn't powered in the same way a car. 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:49.359 It's not run by an engine or anything, but it'll 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:51.600 have like a strut that comes up from the front 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:53.800 of it and that'll load it in the way we 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:58.080 expect and carries all the sensors basically, and the car 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:01.040 would be largely dumb on the end side, but you'd 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:04.639 have all the move and suspension components. The wheels well 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:08.280 be free to move independently. And it's a it's on 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:10.760 a road. We call it a rolling road. It's a 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:14.480 treadmill for the car it's running up up to speed, 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:16.280 so there's a limit on the speed that they can 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:20.280 run the cars. And then on this car treadmill, we 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:22.359 then put wind on it, so you're a fire and 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:25.800 wind through this wind tunnel at this car that's moving 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:29.080 on a track. Now there's so much detail that can 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:31.960 be going too that the road that it's on the 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:36.359 treadmill can be different ingredients of roughness to represent different tracks, 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:39.480 because a really rough track the air that comes off 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:42.320 it is different two really smooth tracks. So there's lots 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:44.920