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Speaker 1: Welcome to tech Stuff, a production from I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer with I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: And how the tech are you? You know, folks? I

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Speaker 1: had planned to have a brand new episode come out today,

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Speaker 1: but technical issues got in the way. And yes, I

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Speaker 1: am aware of the irony, and it's one of those

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Speaker 1: irritating things where I haven't yet tracked down the actual

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Speaker 1: source of the problem. So that has taken up a

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Speaker 1: lot of my time today and it means that I

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Speaker 1: did not get a new episode recorded. However, I would

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Speaker 1: never want to leave you without an episode of tech Stuff.

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Speaker 1: So here's one that was recorded a few years ago.

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Speaker 1: On August two thousand nineteen, we published it. It's about

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Speaker 1: Formula one racing. It's called Formula one one oh one.

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Speaker 1: And on this episode, I had the amazing guest of

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Speaker 1: Scott Benjamin on the show. Mr Scott, hope you are

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Speaker 1: well and uh yeah, I thought we could go back

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Speaker 1: and listen to this so that we could go fast.

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Speaker 1: Even while we're sitting still today we are tackling a

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Speaker 1: listener request. Michael Peach asked me ages ago if I

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Speaker 1: could talk about Formula one race, cars, Formula one racing,

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Speaker 1: what's it all about? How does that work? And I thought,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm not really a car guy, like I've

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Speaker 1: done car topics before, but it requires an enormous amount

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Speaker 1: of research on my part because I don't I don't

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Speaker 1: really know cars. So it it's it's like it's extra

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Speaker 1: work for me. Not that I don't, you know, mind

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Speaker 1: doing some extra work, but that's asking a lot. And

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Speaker 1: then I thought, wait a minute, there's a dude who

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Speaker 1: literally sits on the other side of the table from

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Speaker 1: me at our workstations. His name is Scott Benjamin and

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Speaker 1: he's not doing anything. So I'm just gonna grab him

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Speaker 1: and pull him into the studio. Scott, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: Did you just say not doing anything? Okay, that's totally

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Speaker 1: at Scott's doing a lot of stuff. I'm doing some

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Speaker 1: stuff over yeah. Now and then, so Scott, first of all,

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Speaker 1: tell our listeners what you have been doing, because they

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Speaker 1: may not be aware of the shows you're working. Well, First,

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Speaker 1: thank you for having me on your show. I really

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Every time I'm here, I have a good time,

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Speaker 1: So let's keep that up. Okay, absolutely, And uh, I've

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Speaker 1: been working on some other stuff. I've been cash for

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Speaker 1: a couple of years. I've been doing some true crime stuff. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you might. You might recognize Scott's voice if you've listened

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Speaker 1: to a Monster for example. Yeah, Voice of the Zodiac. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And I've got my own show, which is called Insomniac.

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Speaker 1: I've been doing that and that's kind of wrapping up

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Speaker 1: right around now. And I've got a couple of a

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Speaker 1: couple of car shows that are coming up soon and

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Speaker 1: one has already been released. The other one we're kind

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Speaker 1: of holding off on. But um, it's no secret. I

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Speaker 1: don't think, I mean we are. We're going to re

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Speaker 1: release car stuff. I'm gonna come back on the show

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Speaker 1: just me, just myself. Ben will not be with me,

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Speaker 1: and I'll explain all of that at the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the of the series. And there's no big fight or

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Speaker 1: anything like that, but just Ben and I are always

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Speaker 1: in a big fight. But you've been you're you're you're

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Speaker 1: still you're still close. No, no, so yeah, we're still

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Speaker 1: tight and everything. He's just got a lot going on,

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Speaker 1: more than more than a lot of us do. So

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Speaker 1: there's that, and then I also have another show called

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Speaker 1: The Fast Track, and The Fast Track is a lot

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Speaker 1: like car stuff, only it's it's more focused on things

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Speaker 1: that go fast, people to go fast, ways that we

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Speaker 1: go fast. Um, just components, you know, race series, anything

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Speaker 1: So you are clearly the go to guy if we're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk about Formula one and Uh, in the interest

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Speaker 1: of full disclosure, guys, I was not joking when I

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Speaker 1: say I'm not a car guy, and I'm certainly not

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Speaker 1: a race car guy. I've I've never really watched racing.

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Speaker 1: And I remember joking with you Scott this morning, I said, well,

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Speaker 1: of those early races it wasn't even just about speed.

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Speaker 1: for walsa for for car racing. Uh. And in fact,

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Speaker 1: the the history of Formula one, if you look at it,

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Speaker 1: just there's so many factors that go into why these

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Speaker 1: The rules were usually things like they would govern how

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Speaker 1: that means like great prize in French. Right, So big old,

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Speaker 1: big old honk and prize. Yeah, yeah, that's right, big trophy, right,

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Speaker 1: racing ad exactly. Yeah, So Ferrari, the birth of Ferrari

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Speaker 1: And this changes all the time, all the time, which

427
00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,239
Speaker 1: is why I why I I was fumbling because it

428
00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:39,600
Speaker 1: changes like year to year. I think I have a

429
00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:43,120
Speaker 1: real quick rundown of the changes, if you like real quick,

430
00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:45,480
Speaker 1: I would love to hear this super quick. Um. So

431
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,400
Speaker 1: so maybe we should talk about the current engine last.

432
00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:52,480
Speaker 1: But pre nineteen nine it was unlimited cylinders. You could

433
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Speaker 1: have as many cylinders, you want sixteen cylinders, twelve cylinders, whatever,

434
00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:58,840
Speaker 1: doesn't um. In the nineteen nineties they switched this to

435
00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,920
Speaker 1: twelve cylinders, and and then in the early two thousand's

436
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:04,880
Speaker 1: they went to V tens. Then up until about two

437
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:08,920
Speaker 1: thousand eight they use V eights, and they have recently

438
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:12,280
Speaker 1: this is in nineteen right now. What they're using is

439
00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:15,480
Speaker 1: a very specific it's one point six leader four stroke

440
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:19,320
Speaker 1: turbocharged V six. So you know, those incredible cars and

441
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:22,160
Speaker 1: the incredible speeds and sounds that we hear are coming

442
00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:25,480
Speaker 1: from a turbocharged V six that's relatively small. And they've

443
00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 1: been doing this since again, just a one point six

444
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:33,920
Speaker 1: leader engine. So, um gosh, I that's CS I guess

445
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:35,520
Speaker 1: you want to put it that way. Yeah, And so

446
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,760
Speaker 1: this is this is also fascinating is that you sit

447
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 1: there and you look at this and you think, you

448
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:44,720
Speaker 1: know these what does this actually translate to? Right, you're

449
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:50,680
Speaker 1: talking about engine volume is not necessarily equivalent to more

450
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:54,680
Speaker 1: ccs means more speed. It's it's all about other elements

451
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:58,120
Speaker 1: as well, and engineering as a whole takes a very

452
00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:02,160
Speaker 1: important part in this. Uh So that was another thing

453
00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:04,880
Speaker 1: that was confusing to me because all right as a kid,

454
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna really reveal my ignorance here as

455
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,760
Speaker 1: a kid. To me, the exposure of the concept of

456
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:16,080
Speaker 1: ccs for engines was limited to games that involved uh

457
00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:19,199
Speaker 1: go kart racing video games because they would have the

458
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 1: different you know, you have a fifty C C or

459
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 1: one C C or on c C. So to me,

460
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 1: it was just like bigger just means faster, you know,

461
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 1: that's typically the way it is, really, I mean, but

462
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:31,600
Speaker 1: somewhere along the way, you know, engineering got a whole

463
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 1: lot better, and they're able to get so much more

464
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:36,760
Speaker 1: power out of a smaller engine. And that's what we're

465
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,480
Speaker 1: seeing here. I mean, we've gone from unlimited cylinders and

466
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Speaker 1: you know, the sixteen cylinder engines in these in these

467
00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:44,480
Speaker 1: F one cars down to you know, turbo charged V

468
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:48,800
Speaker 1: six is and I you know, I don't know for sure,

469
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:50,440
Speaker 1: but I would say that they're going to continue to

470
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:53,160
Speaker 1: shrink in size. I just have a gut feeling they're

471
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,440
Speaker 1: going to just continue to get smaller and smaller. It's

472
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:59,159
Speaker 1: also interesting because just the where where we've seen the

473
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Speaker 1: changes in the limitations for how big the engine is

474
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:04,359
Speaker 1: allowed to be, and then we've gotten to the point

475
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:07,840
Speaker 1: now where it's even uh, it's uniform, that's saying, well,

476
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:11,640
Speaker 1: they all have to be specifically this particular engine volume.

477
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 1: The other element that has changed quite a bit has

478
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,080
Speaker 1: been whether or not you could even have a turbocharged

479
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 1: engine in your vehicle. Some years it was yes, you

480
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:25,320
Speaker 1: could either have a turbo engine of this capacity or

481
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,679
Speaker 1: naturally aspirated of this capacity. You could have like just

482
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 1: for an example, you could have a turbocharge V six

483
00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:33,960
Speaker 1: or you could have a naturally aspirated V eight. Yeah,

484
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 1: and then they there were some years where they said, okay,

485
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:39,680
Speaker 1: well now you can't have turbo charged at all. Uh.

486
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,159
Speaker 1: There was there was a time just really in the

487
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:45,720
Speaker 1: late sixties early seventies where that became a thing where

488
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 1: they said, all right, we're gonna remove turbo charged, largely

489
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 1: because there there seemed to be an unfair advantage of

490
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,880
Speaker 1: some of the vehicles that were engineered with turbo charged.

491
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,879
Speaker 1: They were giving the natural aspirated engines a chance to

492
00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,760
Speaker 1: catch up in a way. This is something that we

493
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 1: see from the governing body that I think they're constantly

494
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 1: tweaking these rules in part because they want to have

495
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:13,160
Speaker 1: the what they considered to be the most entertaining result, right,

496
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:17,360
Speaker 1: the most entertaining, most most competitive race, because if it's

497
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 1: not competitive, people start to lose interest. You know that.

498
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 1: You've got to remember that the Formula one World Championship

499
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 1: is actually a series of races. It's not one race winner.

500
00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 1: Take hall now it's twenty or I think it's races

501
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 1: in two thousand nineteen. So the and they're all over

502
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 1: the world. Yeah, in fact, the United States only recently

503
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,920
Speaker 1: started to host them again. Uh. And it's in Austin, Texas.

504
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,119
Speaker 1: That where it takes place. And um, that the reason

505
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 1: why the United States this is a whole different discussion,

506
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,440
Speaker 1: but it's largely because Formula one racing just never got

507
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:52,800
Speaker 1: super popular in the US, which you know, it was

508
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 1: always seen as more of a European pursuit than an

509
00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:00,399
Speaker 1: American one. Stock car racing was much more pop are here.

510
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 1: You know, when I first moved to Detroit. This is

511
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,439
Speaker 1: back in the nineteen eighties. This has been like eight

512
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 1: four eighty five somewhere around there. Uh. They ran a

513
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 1: Formula one race in downtown Detroit on the streets of Detroit.

514
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 1: It was a road course that was on the streets

515
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 1: of Detroit. And it was in such condition at the

516
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 1: time that it was able they were able to do that,

517
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,040
Speaker 1: and later they moved it out to uh, you know,

518
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:21,919
Speaker 1: bell Aisle and they're still doing that now. But it's

519
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:23,639
Speaker 1: you know, the Car to Indy Car series. It's a

520
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: different series. It's not the F one guys like like

521
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 1: it was in the past. But I found that pretty

522
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 1: fast and it didn't last too long when I was there.

523
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:31,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how many years they ran there.

524
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 1: I can't remember, but um, I don't know. It's just

525
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,640
Speaker 1: it's it's fascinating to me that, you know, F one

526
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 1: just continually a justice and I know it. It's maddening

527
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,680
Speaker 1: to the fans because they're always changing something around, making

528
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 1: something different, and they're always trying to kind of level,

529
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 1: like you said, level that plane field a little bit.

530
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 1: And I know it's it's it's angering to us, you know,

531
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:52,919
Speaker 1: as fans to watch this and kind of you know,

532
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 1: try to keep up with the rule changes and what's

533
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,359
Speaker 1: happening in the series. I can imagine. I can't imagine

534
00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:58,879
Speaker 1: what it would be like to be a team owner

535
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:00,800
Speaker 1: that has to adhere to the help to pay for

536
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 1: all the changes and everything. But you know. One other

537
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:05,679
Speaker 1: thing that this does is that it can lead to

538
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,679
Speaker 1: incredibly boring racing if you get it to level, if

539
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: you get everything to level. And and that was a

540
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 1: critique of F one for a long long time, and

541
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,120
Speaker 1: it's not this way anymore. It's it's different now. I've

542
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,439
Speaker 1: been watching this past season even the season before, and

543
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,399
Speaker 1: it's quite a bit different now because of a lot

544
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 1: of what we're going to talk about. You know that

545
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 1: some of the new technologies. But um, there was no passing.

546
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,680
Speaker 1: You know, you you'd start the race and whatever order

547
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:30,440
Speaker 1: they would end up in, you know, after turn one,

548
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,439
Speaker 1: turn two, that was that's how they finished. And it

549
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 1: was so boring for a long long time. Really, all

550
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 1: what mattered was how you qualified, because your order of

551
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 1: qualification dependent determines your order in the uh, in the

552
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 1: starting for the race, and and if you weren't in that,

553
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 1: you know, first place and after the second or third turn,

554
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 1: well you know what place you're gonna get. A road

555
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 1: course is very difficult to pass on. There's very few

556
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: passing zones, you know, for you to use to to

557
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 1: manipulate and and uh, you know, it's gotten a lot

558
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 1: better if you haven't watched Formula One, and that was

559
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 1: your argument against it. It's it's a lot different now

560
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 1: if you watch and and that is in uh, in

561
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 1: relation to some of the technologies that we can we

562
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 1: can talk about a little bit later, because there are

563
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 1: some advancements that have made they're racing a lot more

564
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 1: exciting for the fans to watch and a lot more

565
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 1: exciting for the drivers. I'm sure it's not it's not

566
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: you know, you don't you don't finish in the order

567
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: that you started exactly. Yeah, it's it's just it's a

568
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 1: it's a much better race now. Yeah. And and so

569
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 1: at the end of the series of races, what they

570
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 1: do is they have points given out to the top

571
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: ten finishers of each Grand Prix of each race, and

572
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 1: then at the end of the season, those points are

573
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 1: totaled up, and whoever has the most is the Grand

574
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 1: Champion driver. But then you also have the winner teams

575
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 1: instructor championship constructor championships. Yeah, and then when you get

576
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 1: to that point, if you're the company that is making

577
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 1: the vehicle, that is like sometimes you see like one

578
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 1: company just dominating the top sometimes top ten teams. Then

579
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 1: that is where the value comes from that that company.

580
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 1: So for example, Mercedes has been doing quite well, um

581
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 1: in the last few years, and that ends up being

582
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: a really valuable tool for them because, as we've said before,

583
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 1: this really does help sell cars if you're able to say, listen,

584
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:25,560
Speaker 1: we make the cars where the elite drivers, not just

585
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 1: elite drivers who come from the same country that made

586
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 1: the cars, but other elite drivers who they want to play,

587
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 1: they want to drive for a winning team, they come

588
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 1: to us. That's a powerful advertising tool. Oh sure is yeah.

589
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 1: And you know what, as you mentioned Mercedes right now,

590
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 1: they are currently as we're recording this, they're they're number

591
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 1: one in the Constructor's Championship and uh their driver, the

592
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 1: driver is Lewis Hamilton. He's number one in the Driver's

593
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 1: Championship as well, obviously, I mean he's a brit to Mercedes. Yeah,

594
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: he is a brit and um he I think he's

595
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 1: on his fifth title at this point even and Mercedes

596
00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 1: is also on their fifth title. They they're they're very

597
00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 1: successful in the series, very successful and as is you know,

598
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 1: you'll find that Ferrari and McLaren, you know, they're they're

599
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 1: all they all have their moments, you know, they all have.

600
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 1: It's kind of this updown thing, you like, where one

601
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,840
Speaker 1: team does dominate the series and and you'll find that

602
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 1: this switches around routinely, not not not necessarily throughout the

603
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 1: season because once you once you do find that, you

604
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,480
Speaker 1: know someone is dominating the season, like I would bet

605
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: that Lewis Hamilton's gonna win his fair share of the

606
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 1: next ten races or however many or left as well,

607
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 1: and Mercedes along with him, of course, and it'll probably

608
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: just go the way you think it's gonna go. But

609
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 1: next year, who knows. From season to season, you've got

610
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: because you have so many people that are focusing on

611
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 1: ringing out every single little drop of performance you can

612
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 1: get out of these vehicles. And then on top of that,

613
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 1: you're pairing them with the best drivers in the world

614
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: who can endure the incredible amount of punishment they're going

615
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 1: to have dealt upon them. I mean, if you look

616
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: back at the history of Formula one racing and you

617
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 1: want to look at stories of drivers who have gone

618
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: through incredible trials and tribulations in the process of racing,

619
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: there's no shortage of those stories. I remember coming across

620
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: one of there was a a driver I want to

621
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: say he was something like five ft three inches tall.

622
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: This from the classic days of of racing. Who uh

623
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: was so determined to race? Ferrari was actually begging him

624
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 1: to withdraw from a race because the car itself was

625
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:33,959
Speaker 1: starting to fall apart, and it was one of these

626
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 1: road races from one say to another, and they were

627
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 1: begging him to to stop racing. He was racing on

628
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: behalf of Ferrari, and he said no, no, no, is

629
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 1: Ferra said, I was absolutely certain that his determination was

630
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 1: to die behind the wheel doing what he loved. Turned out,

631
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 1: he ended up having to eventually withdraw from the race

632
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 1: simply because the car couldn't perform anymore. Yeah, he was,

633
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: according to the stories call thing up blood, but still

634
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 1: wanted to race. And he died. He died in bed

635
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 1: five years later, So it wasn't like he passed away

636
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 1: immediately thereafter. But he was in failing health and was

637
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: still determined, and he was still winning too. He was

638
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 1: twenty nine minutes ahead of the next fastest car, significant distance. Yes,

639
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: so also shows you a lot of difference between this

640
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: and and say NASCAR racing. And again we're not we're

641
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: not trying to say one is better than the other. Obviously,

642
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: I don't know we keep saying that, but it's been

643
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 1: just to point out how different they are. Now. One

644
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 1: of the things I wanted to talk about before we

645
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:41,479
Speaker 1: go to break is that the Formula one form factor

646
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 1: is very distinctive, very different from the look of stock

647
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: cars and other types of race cars. It's very low

648
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 1: to the ground as almost sort of this very wing

649
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: kind of design. And uh, the interesting thing to me

650
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 1: is that it's it's a wing, but it's a wing

651
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: that's meant to do the opposite of what an aircraft

652
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 1: wing doing. Everything is about down force. You want the

653
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:05,959
Speaker 1: car to stick to the ground, so the faster you go,

654
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 1: the more it adheres to the ground. And of course

655
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 1: the tires are gonna work with this as well. Um,

656
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:12,440
Speaker 1: the whole car is really a giant wing, you right,

657
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 1: that that provides down force instead of instead of lift.

658
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 1: And if you turn around, if you're going backwards in

659
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: this thing, that's the unfortunate thing. You get into a

660
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: turn and you turn, you spin around, and you're going

661
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 1: just as fast backwards. The problem is it becomes the

662
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:29,240
Speaker 1: opposite problem to lift the car off. Yes, it happens

663
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 1: in Uh, it happens in a lot of forms of racing.

664
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 1: You'll find that, you know, as soon as the car

665
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 1: spins around, the back end wants to come straight up

666
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 1: in the air on you. And that's that's an issue

667
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 1: with with any of these cars that you know, down

668
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 1: forces a major part of the design. But yeah, you're right,

669
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: it is it's open, it's open wheel, it's open cockpit. Um,

670
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: that's changed just a tiny little bit, and I think

671
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 1: they're gonna go maybe even a little bit further with

672
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 1: this idea. But um, that's the whole halo thing that

673
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: we can talk about when we talk about technology. Um,

674
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:01,400
Speaker 1: it's it's it's an itesting looking car for sure. I

675
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 1: mean it's it's definitely it looks like a spaceship really,

676
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 1: And they're getting to the point where there are so

677
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:11,320
Speaker 1: many facets and uh you know, um surfaces and every

678
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 1: single bit of that car is engineered for speed and

679
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: for its ability to cut through the air and to

680
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:20,280
Speaker 1: again provide down force. We're talking about the tiniest little

681
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 1: components behind the wheels, We're talking about the side pods

682
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 1: that are next to the driver. I mean, every little

683
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: bit of this thing is is just tuned to perfection

684
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:32,359
Speaker 1: for for it to be slippery through the air, to

685
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 1: conserve fuel, to go fast, to be lightweight. You know,

686
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,279
Speaker 1: it's all these things and every single factor is the

687
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 1: thought of and everything is um you know, scrutinized to

688
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 1: the point where if it doesn't belong, if it if

689
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 1: it has no purpose, of course, it's not going to

690
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 1: be on the car. If it has um. If it

691
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:50,840
Speaker 1: does have a purpose, it's going to be made lighter somehow,

692
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 1: it's going to be made more efficient. Somehow, it's gonna

693
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 1: be made of a stronger material, but a lighter material.

694
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 1: It's gonna be um, you know, slippery through the air.

695
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 1: As we said, you know, every every little thing is

696
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:05,720
Speaker 1: just is to the the tiniest, tiniest little minute detail

697
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:09,439
Speaker 1: is scrutinized by every single person on that team and

698
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:12,880
Speaker 1: and it makes for a fantastic vehicle and and it

699
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 1: gets better and better every year. The problem is then,

700
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:17,719
Speaker 1: you know, f one will come back and say like,

701
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 1: we're gonna make some changes, and they change it. Now

702
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 1: your now your strategy is no longer applicable. No, and

703
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: you do have to change. And that change is something

704
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 1: that has a domino effect. You change something at the

705
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: front of the car. It not only affects that one

706
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 1: little piece at the front of the car, it has

707
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 1: this domino effect on the aerodynamics of the car all

708
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 1: the way back to the tail end of it. And

709
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 1: that has to be kind of dealt with almost a

710
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 1: total redesign every time. Yeah exactly, well yeah, not almost,

711
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,359
Speaker 1: I mean not quite. But you have to refine so

712
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 1: many different things just because of that one little change

713
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:49,840
Speaker 1: at the front of the car, and and that happens.

714
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 1: You know, they might change something in the middle of

715
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:54,760
Speaker 1: the car and that affects everything from that point back. Um,

716
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 1: it's just there's so many things. Again, this whole series

717
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:00,120
Speaker 1: is mind boggling when you look at the rules, you

718
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 1: look at the way, um everything again just has to

719
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: be just just going over and over and over and

720
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: over again to make sure that everything is perfect. Man,

721
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: Well they are perfect. When we come back, we're going

722
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:13,919
Speaker 1: to dive into that perfection a bit. We're gonna talk

723
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:17,800
Speaker 1: a little bit more about uh stuff like like, uh,

724
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 1: you know, I just learned before we came in here

725
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: that they don't do refueling anymore, because when I was

726
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 1: looking at the old histories, they talked about refueling and

727
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: pit stops. We're gonna talk about pit stops, talk about

728
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 1: how much fuel these things carry, uh, and you know

729
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 1: that will tell you how efficient they have to be

730
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 1: in order to complete these distances, because the distance for

731
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,840
Speaker 1: Formula one is considerable. And we'll talk about some of

732
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 1: this incredible technology that you find in the vehicles of

733
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: today when we come back. Now, Scott, before we uh

734
00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: came into the studio, you know, I we were talking

735
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 1: about pit stops. I was actually talking about stuff I

736
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 1: don't understand in racing. I was like, you know, I

737
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 1: even had to look up how pit stops work, because

738
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 1: I know about pit stops. I know what they're meant

739
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 1: to do. But I was thinking, like, well, how does

740
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 1: that work in the in the sense of the action

741
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:16,439
Speaker 1: of the race as a whole, Like, you're obviously off

742
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,280
Speaker 1: the track at that moment, you're no longer accumulating lapse,

743
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 1: You're you're having your car uh having the tires usually

744
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 1: replace that sort of thing. How does that work in

745
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:28,799
Speaker 1: the context of the full race? Not thinking oh wait,

746
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 1: everybody else also has to do that. So in the end,

747
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:36,400
Speaker 1: it ends up being how how fast and efficient your

748
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:38,359
Speaker 1: pit stop crew can be. That's when you said, why

749
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: don't you take a look at like a typical Formula

750
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:44,800
Speaker 1: one pit stop. And the video, by the way, guys,

751
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: was fifty five seconds long. Ten seconds in, it was

752
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,359
Speaker 1: still just the title picture. It was. There was no

753
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 1: there's no video. Around twelve seconds in we saw the

754
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,919
Speaker 1: picture of the pit crew. We didn't see a car

755
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,359
Speaker 1: pull into the space to about thirty three seconds into

756
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,839
Speaker 1: this second video. Uh, the car was at a full

757
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: stop by thirty five seconds and the car was gone

758
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,759
Speaker 1: at thirty eight seconds. Within that span of thirty five

759
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 1: seconds to thirty eight seconds, the pet crew completely removed

760
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: and replaced all four tires on this Formula one race car.

761
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 1: And that's a relatively slow stop, yes, And then Scott

762
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 1: blew my mind by telling me how fast the fastest

763
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 1: Formula one pit stop ever was, which happened this year.

764
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:31,240
Speaker 1: I think where was it was the Grand Prix um

765
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,240
Speaker 1: in Great Britain. I think you remember exactly where it happened.

766
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:37,840
Speaker 1: But um, it was a one point nine second stop

767
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 1: and that means four tires off, four tires on and

768
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 1: back out. And it's that fast. It's one point nine seconds. Um,

769
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:47,399
Speaker 1: that's the world record time at this moment, and it's

770
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 1: probably gonna drop even more. Um, but it's an incredible

771
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,400
Speaker 1: thing to watch. If you've never seen one, take a

772
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:55,319
Speaker 1: look at it. Because and F one pit stop is

773
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:58,759
Speaker 1: a is a thing of beauty. It's it's so it's terrifying.

774
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 1: It is so choreographed, it so it's so perfect in

775
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 1: every in every aspect, I mean, the way that the

776
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:07,919
Speaker 1: team handles themselves. It's it's completely different from any other

777
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 1: series in the way that they do this. Now we've

778
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:12,839
Speaker 1: taken out the complexity of adding fuel that does take

779
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:15,319
Speaker 1: some time, not as much time as you might think. Uh,

780
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 1: you know, to add sometimes twenty plus gallons of fuel

781
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 1: to a car, it only takes a few seconds. Really, Yeah,

782
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 1: when when you when you compare that to your average

783
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 1: experience at a typical fuel pump, you might think, when

784
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 1: were we going to get that technology? You don't want

785
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:34,480
Speaker 1: that technology. There's there's a lot of problems that come

786
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: with with forcing plus gallons of fuel into a car,

787
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 1: and you know in three seconds. Yeah, you might think

788
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 1: while you're standing there, I would really, especially if you're

789
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:46,400
Speaker 1: saying outside in the Georgia heat in the middle of

790
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 1: the day, refilling your car, you might think I would

791
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:50,239
Speaker 1: really like to get back in the air conditioning, but

792
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:53,239
Speaker 1: some things were happy to trade off on that. Right,

793
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:55,880
Speaker 1: it's a it's a lot easier. And they have just

794
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:57,480
Speaker 1: switched over to this, and I think they've done it

795
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 1: for a couple of years now. Uh, they've removed the

796
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,439
Speaker 1: the idea that there are are refueling a car during

797
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:05,839
Speaker 1: the race, so you feel up before the race and

798
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 1: after the race, of course, you know, during qualifying and

799
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 1: you know other other activities practice. Uh, they are allowed

800
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:12,880
Speaker 1: of fuel in the pits, of course they have to,

801
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 1: but during the race they just don't do it. The

802
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,800
Speaker 1: cars are designed so that they burn, or they're intended

803
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 1: to burn, and that's one of the f one regulations

804
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 1: is that you, um, your engine is only allowed to

805
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: burn a certain amount of fuel per hour, and they

806
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: calculated that that out so that you know, during the race,

807
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: it doesn't burn more than what you're able to carry,

808
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:34,800
Speaker 1: and if it does, that means that your engine is

809
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:36,840
Speaker 1: running too rich anyway, and you're not supposed to be

810
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,919
Speaker 1: doing that. You're you're in violation of the rules. So, um,

811
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:42,439
Speaker 1: every car that's out there has enough fuel in them

812
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:44,880
Speaker 1: from the very beginning to go the full distance without

813
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 1: having to do that. They just do the tires only,

814
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 1: and that's different right there. The other thing is that

815
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 1: you know they have like I think it's fourteen or

816
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,879
Speaker 1: sixteen people out to do this procedure, this, this, this,

817
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:58,359
Speaker 1: you know stop. Yes, it's a much larger pet crew

818
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:00,840
Speaker 1: than you would see a NASCAR for example. Yeah, everybody

819
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: has just one single job. And I know that in

820
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 1: a NASCAR, you know there's a you know, they're very

821
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:08,400
Speaker 1: specific jobs as well, or you know, an IndyCar or whatever,

822
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 1: but far fewer people are over the wall as they

823
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:13,359
Speaker 1: say in those in those sports. Now this one, there's

824
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 1: a garage area and so they just kind of wander

825
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:17,239
Speaker 1: out into this this box you know, where they pull

826
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 1: into to do the pit stuff. But um, fourteen or sixteen,

827
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:22,880
Speaker 1: I can't remember the number of people that that do this.

828
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,319
Speaker 1: But um, you know, when you have one job, I

829
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:27,480
Speaker 1: mean one job. All you do is your job is

830
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:29,839
Speaker 1: to remove the tire that comes in off the car

831
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 1: that was just on the track. That's it. Just take

832
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 1: the tire off once it's once the the wheel nut

833
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 1: is gone, which is another person's job. Wheel nut comes off,

834
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:39,880
Speaker 1: the wheel night goes back on. You know, it's that's it.

835
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 1: And one person operates of course, the front jack, the backjack,

836
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: and you know there's there's people making adjustments and all that.

837
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:48,279
Speaker 1: But um, when you have there's was it three or

838
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 1: three maybe even four people per tire, it's I think

839
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 1: it's three per tire, it's one you take off one person,

840
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 1: who's one person who's bringing on the new tire. So

841
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 1: they have the new tire, they're waiting. Do you have

842
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:00,759
Speaker 1: one person whose job it is to you take the

843
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 1: tire off, and then you have one person whose job

844
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 1: it is to remove and replace the nuts. So just

845
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,320
Speaker 1: getting those three people in that one tiny little area

846
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 1: to operate and and function without you know, knocking each

847
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 1: other over every time, it's incredible. It's really interesting to

848
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 1: watch it. And I can't imagine the countless hours they

849
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 1: have to practice to make every single move perfect. Right,

850
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:22,359
Speaker 1: you have to conserve your your space because if you're not,

851
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 1: then you're wasting time. Now if you make if you

852
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 1: make a pit stop, that is even let's say it's

853
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:28,719
Speaker 1: double the time that we just talked about. Let's say

854
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:32,439
Speaker 1: it's it's three point eight seconds, that's a disaster. Yeah,

855
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:34,319
Speaker 1: I mean that's crazy to think about. But three point

856
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:36,360
Speaker 1: eight seconds is a disaster because you're gonna have to

857
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 1: make up that lost time someone else, even if you

858
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:42,399
Speaker 1: were in number one. If you're leading by less than

859
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:45,920
Speaker 1: two seconds and the person behind you when they have

860
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 1: their pit stop is not taking nearly as long, you

861
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:51,560
Speaker 1: know you've you've lost time. Pit strategy is is really

862
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: something fun to watch. And I know that it sounds

863
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 1: terribly boring when I just say it like this, when

864
00:43:57,760 --> 00:43:59,759
Speaker 1: you're watching the race and you kind of get into it,

865
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 1: you know, towards the end, and you know the pits

866
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 1: strategy becomes so vital in winning a race in a

867
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:07,799
Speaker 1: lot of cases. Um, it's it's it's there's far more

868
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:09,279
Speaker 1: to it than you might think. Really, yeah, I mean

869
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:11,760
Speaker 1: it's it's fascinating to watch. It's a game of chess.

870
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:14,920
Speaker 1: We were talking a bit about the distance you have

871
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 1: to go. So the last thing I saw about distances

872
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 1: was that you would complete a number of laps that

873
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 1: are equivalent actually that exceed three five kilometers. So the

874
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 1: minimum of a Grand Prix is three kilometers, with one exception,

875
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:35,880
Speaker 1: that exception being Monaco. In Monaco, it is two hundred

876
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 1: sixty and a half kilometers. A tighter track there. It's

877
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 1: a smaller area as you can imagine. Monica is not

878
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 1: a very large was it was Providence. What is what

879
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 1: is Monica? I don't even need a principality to me,

880
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 1: it's it's the most magical place on Earth. I visited

881
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:51,359
Speaker 1: and it's amazing. I bet it is. Yeah, I love

882
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 1: BEAUTI I'd love to go. That'd be cool, but but

883
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 1: it is. It is very tight and uh, Monaco is

884
00:44:57,320 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: a different race altogether, right well, And if you were

885
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:01,400
Speaker 1: to add an their lap on there so that it

886
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 1: would end up, you know, being closer to the correct distance,

887
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:08,480
Speaker 1: it would go too far. So it's one of those

888
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 1: where you have to you know, you have to make

889
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 1: a call. And uh, but yeah, Monica is pretty phenomenal.

890
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 1: It's also whenever I see footage of the race and Monaco,

891
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:20,439
Speaker 1: it is terrifying to me to watch these cars going

892
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 1: down these these roads and and sometimes you see people

893
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 1: watching on not terribly far away from where these cars

894
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:31,359
Speaker 1: are are rushing by, and more than two or there

895
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:33,840
Speaker 1: on balconies kind of hanging over the track. It's it's

896
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:36,799
Speaker 1: it's an interesting race. I love Monico. It's beautiful and um,

897
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:38,880
Speaker 1: it's fun to watch the race there because it is

898
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: so um, it's steeped in history as well. You know,

899
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 1: it's so tight and it's so fast, and you get

900
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 1: that real sensation of speed there um that you might

901
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:48,440
Speaker 1: not get well you actually, you know, you get it

902
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 1: in a lot of road courses. But there's just something

903
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: magical about Monco. It's beautiful. It's really interesting. Um, you

904
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:57,320
Speaker 1: don't you know, I don't know where to go with this.

905
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 1: We've got so much material here. I don't if I'm

906
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:03,479
Speaker 1: overstepping my bounce, But I would love to talk about

907
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 1: the engine for just a moment. We can because the

908
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 1: engine and we haven't talked about cost or anything on

909
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 1: this yet, so all right. I recently did a program

910
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:14,359
Speaker 1: on the on the Fast Track about why there are

911
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: five reasons why you can't put an F one engine

912
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:20,279
Speaker 1: into your road car because a lot of people have

913
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 1: engine swap questions, and like you said before, you don't

914
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 1: really know a whole lot about racing engines versus car engines,

915
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:28,239
Speaker 1: and they're dramatically different, especially in F one engine, and

916
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:30,360
Speaker 1: you can't just stuff and F one engine into a

917
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 1: road car and expect it to work. And there's a

918
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 1: lot of reasons it's probably a hundred reasons why this

919
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:36,719
Speaker 1: wouldn't work, but the five and I'm gonna go through

920
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 1: them super fast. If you want to hear it, you can.

921
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:41,360
Speaker 1: I guess I can plug my own shiller, right. You

922
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 1: could go over to the fast track and listen to

923
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 1: the five reasons explained in more detail. But um, the

924
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:49,839
Speaker 1: first one is they're they're really hard to start. Now

925
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:52,640
Speaker 1: this is kind of tough to comprehend here, but a

926
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 1: normal engine, you're able to attach a wrench to it

927
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:58,279
Speaker 1: in the front and spin the engine. You're able to

928
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 1: make the pistons move up and down using a large lever.

929
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:03,880
Speaker 1: It does take some mechanical advantage to be able to

930
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 1: do that, but you can spin your own car engine

931
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:07,840
Speaker 1: that way. It's a lot like turning the prop on

932
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,280
Speaker 1: an airplane. If you can imagine that, it's it's started,

933
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:12,520
Speaker 1: and you could theoretically turn it fast enough to start

934
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 1: the car like the old crank starts. But I don't

935
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 1: want to do that, so um with quickly breaking everyone

936
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 1: in your body start spinning, absolutely shatter your arms. Um

937
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: this uh, you know with the UP one engine, it's

938
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 1: it's a lot different. You cannot turn an F one

939
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:33,480
Speaker 1: engine when it's cold. They're they're created with such a

940
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:38,400
Speaker 1: tight or high tolerance. They're engineered so uh precisely, like

941
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:40,359
Speaker 1: like a like a fine watch or something like that.

942
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:43,320
Speaker 1: That I mean, they're so precisely engineered and fitted together

943
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:47,760
Speaker 1: that the pistons are essentially seized in the engine at

944
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:50,719
Speaker 1: at like the ambient temperature. So it doesn't matter what

945
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:53,360
Speaker 1: the temperature is out of here, it's it's you have

946
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 1: to pump. You have to extern and use external pumps

947
00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 1: to pump heated fluids through this thing. You know, both

948
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:02,879
Speaker 1: coolant and the engine will the lubricant, and it has

949
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:04,440
Speaker 1: to be up to I think it's a hundred and

950
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:07,920
Speaker 1: seventy six degrees fahrenheit before you can even begin to

951
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:11,839
Speaker 1: move the pistons within the piston uh cylinders. That's how

952
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 1: tightly they are they are engineered. There's there's such precision machines,

953
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: and I had no idea that that was, you know,

954
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:19,880
Speaker 1: a factor in this whole thing. So you would not

955
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 1: be able to just get into the car and start

956
00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 1: it up like you could a normal engine. You would

957
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 1: have to have these external pumps heat up the engine

958
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:27,839
Speaker 1: and then you know, and then even then you would

959
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:29,799
Speaker 1: have to have an external starting, which is like a

960
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:32,560
Speaker 1: big drill that starts the whole thing. Um, you know,

961
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 1: it spins it like, you know, several thousand rpm in

962
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:36,920
Speaker 1: order to get it even going. And even then it's

963
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:38,879
Speaker 1: hard to start. It's it's difficult to get the fuel

964
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: flowing correctly and all that. So this is this is amazing.

965
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 1: What reminds me of is um how you start up

966
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:46,719
Speaker 1: jet engines, because a jet not not that it works

967
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:48,919
Speaker 1: on the same principle. These are two different principles, don't

968
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:51,360
Speaker 1: get me wrong. But to start a jet engine, you

969
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:54,880
Speaker 1: have to pump uh pressurized air through the jet engine

970
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 1: because it's designed to operate once you are at a

971
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 1: certain speed moving through the air. Well. Obviously on ground

972
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:04,440
Speaker 1: you're not moving through the air yet, so you can't

973
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 1: get those turbines turning at the proper speed for it

974
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:12,279
Speaker 1: to be a self propelling reaction. Right. This idea that

975
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 1: the turbines turn because of the outgoing UH exhaust from

976
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:20,560
Speaker 1: the jet engine, that that provides the turning force to

977
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:23,280
Speaker 1: keep the turbines coming. To pull air through the engine,

978
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 1: so you have to pump uh pressurized air into it first,

979
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:30,800
Speaker 1: and typically you do that either using an auxiliary power

980
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 1: unit or you have, uh, the little huffer carts that

981
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:37,799
Speaker 1: hook up to an engine. So to me, like when

982
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:39,839
Speaker 1: you started explaining this, I'm like, wow, this sounds a

983
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 1: lot like how it's hard to start a jet engine.

984
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:46,640
Speaker 1: It's just that we're talking about an internal combustion engine,

985
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 1: not a jet engine obviously, so now there are differences,

986
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:51,560
Speaker 1: but that's fascinating that you have to have these external

987
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:53,799
Speaker 1: factors in order to begin the thing, even to even

988
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 1: start the process. And that's what this is. All right,

989
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:57,840
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna tap the brakes here so that we

990
00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 1: could take one more you know, break for ads, and

991
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:04,239
Speaker 1: then we're going to be back with the conclusion of

992
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:14,880
Speaker 1: Formula one one on one. As you might have guessed,

993
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 1: they're not cheap. And this is the first time we're

994
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:19,759
Speaker 1: gonna really talk about prices here on this. I think

995
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:22,359
Speaker 1: this is the first time. Get this, okay, and I

996
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:24,800
Speaker 1: this blew me away. I'm talking about just the engine,

997
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:27,920
Speaker 1: just the price of the engine. These range between seven

998
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 1: point seven million and ten and a half million dollars

999
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:34,000
Speaker 1: per per engine, just the engine, for just the engine.

1000
00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 1: Another good reason why you weren't going to put these

1001
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 1: in a regular road car. Just one engine. That's all

1002
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:41,920
Speaker 1: we're talking about. So yeah, even I mean, any manufacturer

1003
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:44,400
Speaker 1: would never be able to justify putting an engine like

1004
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:46,719
Speaker 1: this in their car. Now, there are there are some

1005
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:50,040
Speaker 1: derivatives of an F one engine that have been have

1006
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:52,560
Speaker 1: kind of showed up into road cars, you know, like

1007
00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:55,799
Speaker 1: maybe the V ten engine that was used in an

1008
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:58,719
Speaker 1: F one car. But it's not, you know, meticulous, it's

1009
00:50:58,719 --> 00:51:01,799
Speaker 1: not as um um finally tuned, is not as you know,

1010
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:04,400
Speaker 1: it doesn't have all of the the components of the

1011
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:06,839
Speaker 1: F one engine. Of course, it's just derived from it, right,

1012
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:09,759
Speaker 1: it's it's the design of the F one informed the

1013
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 1: design of this other engine exactly. And and these F

1014
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:15,560
Speaker 1: one engines they spent at something like fifteen thousand RPMs.

1015
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:17,320
Speaker 1: They can go up to twenty r p m s,

1016
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:20,480
Speaker 1: which is like, I mean, that's that's like that's motorcycle

1017
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:23,520
Speaker 1: or even faster RPMs in a in an engine for

1018
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 1: a race car. If you if you saw that that

1019
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:29,640
Speaker 1: gauge on your dashboard, you might flip out of this

1020
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 1: next one is what you're what you're talking about. It's cooling. Um.

1021
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:35,840
Speaker 1: In order to keep these engines cool, you would have

1022
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:38,759
Speaker 1: to travel at such incredible rates of speed. And not

1023
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 1: only that the design of your car would have to

1024
00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:43,839
Speaker 1: be so dramatically different from what it is that that

1025
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:46,360
Speaker 1: you would have to build these enormous side pods on

1026
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 1: it with these huge radiators, and that would kind of

1027
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:53,719
Speaker 1: like negate any performance advantage you might have from such

1028
00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 1: a strong engine. You're gonna you're gonna have such a

1029
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:58,640
Speaker 1: like a wacky design, I guess a better lass lack

1030
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:00,439
Speaker 1: of a good way to say this, just to paint

1031
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:03,240
Speaker 1: the heat that's coming off those those enormous side pods

1032
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:04,879
Speaker 1: on the car, the ones that are next to the driver,

1033
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 1: those are big cooling pods, and and think of those

1034
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:12,080
Speaker 1: is having giant radiators inside them that are laid out

1035
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:14,360
Speaker 1: at kind of a forty five degree angle from the

1036
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:16,799
Speaker 1: front kind of laid down to the back. They're they're

1037
00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:19,720
Speaker 1: really big. They're they're several feet long, and they're except

1038
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 1: you know, extremely as wide as they can make them,

1039
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 1: really and that requires so much airflow over top of

1040
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:26,719
Speaker 1: them to keep it cool, you know, because these engines

1041
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:29,240
Speaker 1: run so hot, um that you know, you just would

1042
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:31,719
Speaker 1: it just wouldn't be possible to keep the amount of

1043
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:33,960
Speaker 1: incoming cooler that you would need to keep the engine

1044
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:37,480
Speaker 1: cool in in a regular road car and without dramatically

1045
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:40,719
Speaker 1: redesign everything. Um, we did talk about fuel a little bit,

1046
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:43,879
Speaker 1: and UM, I want to tell you that these are

1047
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:46,640
Speaker 1: designed you're not allowed to burn through more than one

1048
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:50,959
Speaker 1: of petrol per hour of driving. So that's the limit

1049
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:53,640
Speaker 1: is a hundred liters per hour. That's about thirteen point

1050
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:56,600
Speaker 1: two gallons of fuel. If you want to, um, you know,

1051
00:52:56,840 --> 00:53:00,200
Speaker 1: extrapolate what that what that hundred liters amounts to. They

1052
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:03,960
Speaker 1: do carry around two leads for a race, though, so

1053
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:06,160
Speaker 1: that's a lot of fuel that they're carrying on board

1054
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:08,040
Speaker 1: fuels things, so they do get through the whole race

1055
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:11,239
Speaker 1: without without refueling. That's about sixty gallons of fuel that

1056
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:13,479
Speaker 1: they carry, and by the end of the race they're

1057
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 1: probably running pretty low if I had to guess, well, yeah,

1058
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:20,320
Speaker 1: because it's like the again, the time limit and max,

1059
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:23,400
Speaker 1: assuming there are no red flag stoppages, is two hours.

1060
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:26,880
Speaker 1: And this is surprising to me. The fuel mixture that

1061
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:30,040
Speaker 1: they use is not terribly different from what you might

1062
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:32,440
Speaker 1: use in a road car. It's strange. Now you might

1063
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 1: think that you know, they're using some kind of crazy

1064
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 1: jet fuel or something, you know, like the people love

1065
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 1: to think that, you know, they're using rocket fuel or something.

1066
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:40,400
Speaker 1: It's really not that much different from what we use.

1067
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 1: It is. It is formulated a little different. It's very

1068
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:45,600
Speaker 1: specific per vehicle. And I'll tell you how they do that.

1069
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:49,280
Speaker 1: At the end of the race, they analyze um the oil.

1070
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:52,160
Speaker 1: They take the engine oil from each car and they

1071
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:53,880
Speaker 1: take a sample of it and they run it to

1072
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:56,400
Speaker 1: their chemist, and their chemist looks at it for up

1073
00:53:56,480 --> 00:54:00,000
Speaker 1: to fifteen different types of metal that might be found

1074
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 1: in that oil at the end of a race, so

1075
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:04,839
Speaker 1: that that indicates where the wear is coming from. So

1076
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 1: part of an engine is wearing a little bit prematurely,

1077
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:09,720
Speaker 1: causing metal flakes to break off and get into the oil.

1078
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:12,640
Speaker 1: They know where that metal came from, because it might

1079
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 1: be the piston ring, it might be the piston itself,

1080
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:17,359
Speaker 1: it might be from you know, the the camshaft, you know,

1081
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:20,360
Speaker 1: whatever bearings they have in there. They're able to determine

1082
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:24,319
Speaker 1: from the fifteen different types of metal where that wear

1083
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:26,840
Speaker 1: is coming from, and then they send that information to

1084
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:29,160
Speaker 1: the person who is is developing the fuel for them

1085
00:54:29,239 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 1: or the company that's developing the fuel, and then they

1086
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:34,399
Speaker 1: specially formulate the fuel for the next race in order

1087
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:37,120
Speaker 1: to minimize the amount of where that happens and that

1088
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:40,799
Speaker 1: one part of the engine in the next race. Yes, yes,

1089
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 1: so that's how specific this gets. And you can imagine

1090
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 1: that that's not cheap to do that. Yeah. Now, there

1091
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:50,240
Speaker 1: was a time before the the formalization of these rules

1092
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 1: where there was a little bit more experimentation with with

1093
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:56,640
Speaker 1: car fuels, and that's probably where these stories about rocket

1094
00:54:56,680 --> 00:55:00,160
Speaker 1: fuel and stuff come out of, largely from also Germany

1095
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:04,040
Speaker 1: pre World War Two happened, they experimented a lot with that.

1096
00:55:04,400 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 1: But then there were rules that essentially said that Formula

1097
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:10,680
Speaker 1: one race cars were to run on petrol. Uh, it's

1098
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 1: just it's very precisely formulated petrol. Yeah, yeah, it's it's

1099
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 1: very exacting science. So it's not exactly what we're thinking

1100
00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:22,719
Speaker 1: of when we go to the pump like hitting Formula one. No,

1101
00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:24,960
Speaker 1: it's not not quite that simple, you know. I'm sure

1102
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:27,680
Speaker 1: they're exact requirements for each one, and then even then

1103
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:30,960
Speaker 1: they fine tune it throughout the season, extremely fine tuned.

1104
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:33,200
Speaker 1: The last one on this is of course, the life

1105
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:35,399
Speaker 1: span of the engine. Now we've all seen races where

1106
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:37,960
Speaker 1: a car goes out and you know, two laps in

1107
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:41,359
Speaker 1: they developed some major problem. And you know, after all

1108
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 1: this money, all this everything we've talked about, you know,

1109
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:46,359
Speaker 1: they're there, I don't know, ten miles into the race

1110
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:50,560
Speaker 1: and there's catastrophic engine failure because they're they're subjected to

1111
00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:53,840
Speaker 1: so much pressure, so much, so much force is happening

1112
00:55:53,880 --> 00:55:55,880
Speaker 1: in these engines at this time. I mean we're saying

1113
00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:59,560
Speaker 1: that you know, they spin around what pm. That means

1114
00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 1: that the the pistons are traveling up and down about

1115
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 1: three hundred times every second. Yeah, three times every single second.

1116
00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:09,080
Speaker 1: So that's the type of pressures that we're talking about it.

1117
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:11,399
Speaker 1: I mean, we're saying, like I want to say, it's

1118
00:56:11,440 --> 00:56:15,360
Speaker 1: like fifteen thousand or p s I is what those

1119
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:18,480
Speaker 1: cylinders are subjected to every second. So a lot of

1120
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:20,520
Speaker 1: pressure in these things, and of course they have to

1121
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:22,800
Speaker 1: be rebuilt all the time, and we know this from racing.

1122
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:25,360
Speaker 1: We've seen this in so many different series, um, you know,

1123
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:27,359
Speaker 1: drag racing, and they practically do it every quarter mile.

1124
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 1: They rebuild engines all the time, right or even less

1125
00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:33,040
Speaker 1: if it doesn't make it a quarter mile. Um, but

1126
00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:35,840
Speaker 1: most race cars can only last one, maybe two races.

1127
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:37,640
Speaker 1: At the most before they to be rebuilt. These are

1128
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 1: every race and the maximum that they can reach is

1129
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:45,400
Speaker 1: about maybe maybe two races at the most. Like SIS,

1130
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:48,160
Speaker 1: it's about a thousand kilometers, is like the maximum life

1131
00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 1: at optimal conditions for an F one engine, which means

1132
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:53,480
Speaker 1: that if you were to put one of these into

1133
00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:57,200
Speaker 1: your road car, think about you know how many not

1134
00:56:57,239 --> 00:56:59,640
Speaker 1: only is it seven to twelve million dollars, but seven

1135
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:02,960
Speaker 1: to twelve million dollars every this many times. And I'll

1136
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:07,000
Speaker 1: tell you so, the average US person person puts thousand,

1137
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:09,319
Speaker 1: four hundred and seventy six miles on a car every year.

1138
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:12,040
Speaker 1: That's average. If you own a vehicle, that means that

1139
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:15,560
Speaker 1: you would be rebuilding your engine twenty two times each

1140
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:17,919
Speaker 1: year if you were average. Now most a lot of people,

1141
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:19,840
Speaker 1: of course, are gonna be way above that average, are

1142
00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:22,680
Speaker 1: going to be under. But twenty two times per year,

1143
00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 1: you're spending seven and a half to ten and a

1144
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:27,040
Speaker 1: half million dollars. So I'm gonna need to sell some

1145
00:57:27,080 --> 00:57:30,400
Speaker 1: more girls, do you see what I mean? Like and again,

1146
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:33,000
Speaker 1: if you want more detail on all this, and maybe

1147
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:34,440
Speaker 1: you don't, maybe that was way too much to be

1148
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:36,200
Speaker 1: but it's not. But if you go, and if you

1149
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 1: want more detail on this, you can go to the

1150
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:41,120
Speaker 1: Fast Direct show and listen all about it. But I

1151
00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 1: find the numbers in Formula one to be just fascinating

1152
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:48,720
Speaker 1: and the dollar amounts. And should we just briefly talk

1153
00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:50,920
Speaker 1: about the car, Yeah, because we've we've started it with

1154
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:54,920
Speaker 1: the engines. Let's talk about how expensive this kind of

1155
00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:58,120
Speaker 1: vehicle is when you're looking at it soup to nuts,

1156
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:00,880
Speaker 1: and then we'll also talk about you can also mention

1157
00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:04,640
Speaker 1: things like that's one expense, right, one expense is just

1158
00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:08,200
Speaker 1: the vehicle, But then beyond that, you have to actually

1159
00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:11,800
Speaker 1: pay money to be part of this whole experience. So

1160
00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:15,240
Speaker 1: there are companies that are spending mind boggling amounts of

1161
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:19,640
Speaker 1: money on participating in Formula one. Yeah. And so for

1162
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:21,600
Speaker 1: some of the smaller teams if you want to call

1163
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:25,040
Speaker 1: them that, the ones that aren't in the upper echelon, uh,

1164
00:58:25,080 --> 00:58:27,680
Speaker 1: they're spending right around twitter and fifty million dollars a

1165
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 1: year to be part of F one for one season,

1166
00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:34,680
Speaker 1: so a quarter of a billion dollars per year and

1167
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:38,600
Speaker 1: to be in this and if you're happen to be

1168
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 1: working for Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes, Red Bull you know, the

1169
00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:45,200
Speaker 1: top teams in the series. Right now, we're talking about

1170
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:48,640
Speaker 1: four hundred plus million dollars every single year and a

1171
00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:50,200
Speaker 1: lot of that. Of course, this goes into the car.

1172
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:52,680
Speaker 1: It takes you know, between it's gonna I'm gonna say,

1173
00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:54,760
Speaker 1: I see a number here that's a little bit low,

1174
00:58:54,880 --> 00:58:56,640
Speaker 1: given that we just learned that, you know, the engine

1175
00:58:56,680 --> 00:59:00,000
Speaker 1: is ten and a half million. Sometimes, I'm gonna say that, um,

1176
00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:05,360
Speaker 1: anywhere between twelve and fifteen million dollars per vehicle per car.

1177
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:07,040
Speaker 1: So when you see, you know, an F one car

1178
00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:09,400
Speaker 1: that's destroyed in an accident on the track, you're talking about,

1179
00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:12,560
Speaker 1: you know, between twelve and fifteen million dollar loss to

1180
00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 1: the team. They might be able to salvage a few

1181
00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:17,120
Speaker 1: parts here and there, but essentially it's a twelve to

1182
00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:20,840
Speaker 1: fifteen million dollar loss at that point. Um. Then of

1183
00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:23,120
Speaker 1: course that doesn't happen often where they lose every single

1184
00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:25,400
Speaker 1: bit of the car, but they do lose parts and

1185
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:27,040
Speaker 1: and I've got a list here of the parts, and

1186
00:59:27,080 --> 00:59:29,280
Speaker 1: I will not go over every part of this, but

1187
00:59:29,720 --> 00:59:31,520
Speaker 1: this kind of blew my mind when I saw this.

1188
00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:34,080
Speaker 1: You know, how often, uh, do you see where an

1189
00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:35,560
Speaker 1: F one cargoes out on the track and they hit

1190
00:59:35,600 --> 00:59:38,080
Speaker 1: a little bit of debris, you know, something that not

1191
00:59:38,160 --> 00:59:40,760
Speaker 1: a tire necessarily, but something that's on the track. They

1192
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:43,680
Speaker 1: bump a corner or whatever, another car even Um, you

1193
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:45,880
Speaker 1: know that front wing is designed to come right off

1194
00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:47,560
Speaker 1: and right back on. They do it super quick. They

1195
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:49,640
Speaker 1: can do it in a second, two seconds, whatever it takes.

1196
00:59:49,640 --> 00:59:53,440
Speaker 1: It's super fast. That part, that front wing part can

1197
00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:56,560
Speaker 1: cost be anywhere between one hundred and fifty thousand to

1198
00:59:56,720 --> 00:59:59,080
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty five thousand dollars. It's kind of

1199
00:59:59,120 --> 01:00:03,120
Speaker 1: beginning to feel like I'm in their own business. You

1200
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:08,880
Speaker 1: can make two wings a year, you know the thing like, Okay,

1201
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:11,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna wrap up with with another one

1202
01:00:11,560 --> 01:00:13,160
Speaker 1: in in a moment here because I want to show

1203
01:00:13,160 --> 01:00:16,320
Speaker 1: you something in specific. But um, if the transmission in

1204
01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:18,320
Speaker 1: the car we talked about the engine already, the transmission

1205
01:00:18,320 --> 01:00:20,240
Speaker 1: in the car can can be up to six hundred

1206
01:00:20,360 --> 01:00:23,200
Speaker 1: thousand dollars um. You know, if you're on a lower

1207
01:00:23,280 --> 01:00:25,720
Speaker 1: end team, you're only paying them only about four hundred

1208
01:00:25,720 --> 01:00:27,880
Speaker 1: thousand for that. But if you want to grade, you know,

1209
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:30,480
Speaker 1: you you're gonna have a six d dollar engine. That's

1210
01:00:30,480 --> 01:00:32,920
Speaker 1: for the top teams. Again, the fuel tank alone, just

1211
01:00:32,960 --> 01:00:35,080
Speaker 1: because of the way it's designed and with the materials

1212
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:37,600
Speaker 1: made of hundred and forty dollars and that's kind of

1213
01:00:37,680 --> 01:00:40,920
Speaker 1: again a low end tank. The the the carbon fiber

1214
01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:44,000
Speaker 1: monocoque design, you know, which is essential to the safety

1215
01:00:44,080 --> 01:00:46,800
Speaker 1: of the driver and the structure of the car itself.

1216
01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:50,280
Speaker 1: That's very expensive and teams won't scrimp on that. There

1217
01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:52,640
Speaker 1: are lower cost options, I believe, but most teams are

1218
01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:55,680
Speaker 1: paying around six hundred and fifty thousand dollars for that.

1219
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:58,000
Speaker 1: And of course once it's damaged, it's done. You don't

1220
01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:00,200
Speaker 1: get you don't get to reuse that. That has to

1221
01:00:59,880 --> 01:01:03,480
Speaker 1: be replaced UM, as is with with most of these parts.

1222
01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:07,240
Speaker 1: UM there's the halo device, which is that crazy thing

1223
01:01:07,320 --> 01:01:10,240
Speaker 1: that goes over there over their heads now kind of

1224
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:14,080
Speaker 1: blocks in the um UM. It protects the um exposed

1225
01:01:14,120 --> 01:01:17,160
Speaker 1: helmet and head of the of the driver. That's something

1226
01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:19,520
Speaker 1: that I wish we had more time to talk about. Really,

1227
01:01:19,520 --> 01:01:22,439
Speaker 1: it's a pretty fascinating piece of tech that that I

1228
01:01:22,640 --> 01:01:24,720
Speaker 1: just love the tech that goes into these cars, I

1229
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:28,320
Speaker 1: really do. There's that is uh it's designed to hold

1230
01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:31,080
Speaker 1: the weight of a double decker bus, a London double

1231
01:01:31,120 --> 01:01:32,760
Speaker 1: decker bus. If you were to just set it on

1232
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:34,840
Speaker 1: top of it, I think it's like twenty six thousand

1233
01:01:34,920 --> 01:01:38,040
Speaker 1: five pounds. It can withstand that. And it's designed again

1234
01:01:38,080 --> 01:01:40,080
Speaker 1: like if a you know, a tire is coming at

1235
01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:42,520
Speaker 1: the driver. If it's it's an outside company that builds it.

1236
01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:45,280
Speaker 1: They build kind of like the it's it's made out

1237
01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:46,960
Speaker 1: of um oh, gosh, I have a note here. It's

1238
01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:51,520
Speaker 1: made out of like platinum. I think, um, that's not cheap. No, no,

1239
01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:54,919
Speaker 1: it's not cheap. And you know I do have a note.

1240
01:01:54,920 --> 01:01:56,840
Speaker 1: I'll have to I'll find it here in just a moment.

1241
01:01:56,880 --> 01:02:00,000
Speaker 1: But it's a it's like a certain aerospace grade platinum

1242
01:02:00,120 --> 01:02:04,040
Speaker 1: level five something. It's it's crazy, it's really really expensive,

1243
01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:07,000
Speaker 1: and it's it's um it's it's kind of a heavy item,

1244
01:02:07,040 --> 01:02:09,120
Speaker 1: but it's essential for their safety because it is this

1245
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:11,960
Speaker 1: open cockpit and they have had so many, um, you know,

1246
01:02:12,080 --> 01:02:13,880
Speaker 1: incidents where a tire has come up, or a piece

1247
01:02:13,880 --> 01:02:16,720
Speaker 1: of suspension or a full car you know, has come

1248
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:18,640
Speaker 1: up and landed on the on the other vehicle, and

1249
01:02:18,880 --> 01:02:20,600
Speaker 1: of course you know with your your helmet your head

1250
01:02:20,600 --> 01:02:24,040
Speaker 1: exposed there. It's it's a really dangerous type of racing.

1251
01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:28,080
Speaker 1: This open cockpit, I mean, that's that's been part of

1252
01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:30,720
Speaker 1: the Formula one history. Two is the fact that it's

1253
01:02:30,760 --> 01:02:34,800
Speaker 1: been a very dangerous sport, one in which in the

1254
01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:38,000
Speaker 1: early years of Formula one racing, not a whole lot

1255
01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:41,680
Speaker 1: of thought was given to drivers safety necessarily. It was

1256
01:02:41,920 --> 01:02:44,720
Speaker 1: you know, that was not It was sort of considered

1257
01:02:44,760 --> 01:02:47,120
Speaker 1: it's kind of like the space race in many ways,

1258
01:02:47,640 --> 01:02:50,280
Speaker 1: and that it was thought that that if you were

1259
01:02:50,640 --> 01:02:53,320
Speaker 1: the type of person to pursue a career in that space,

1260
01:02:53,880 --> 01:02:56,880
Speaker 1: you were a thrill seeker, and it was the the

1261
01:02:56,880 --> 01:02:59,600
Speaker 1: the importance of racing and going fast was more important

1262
01:02:59,640 --> 01:03:05,320
Speaker 1: than uh, doing you know, safety features like you have astronauts.

1263
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:08,560
Speaker 1: You you can listen to interviews with astronauts about well

1264
01:03:08,680 --> 01:03:11,920
Speaker 1: do you worry about like how dangerous this is? Like

1265
01:03:12,600 --> 01:03:16,840
Speaker 1: I'm no, I'm I'm I have I feel compelled to

1266
01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:19,439
Speaker 1: do this. And the same thing was sort of thought

1267
01:03:19,480 --> 01:03:21,880
Speaker 1: of in the old racing days was that, yeah, you know,

1268
01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:24,200
Speaker 1: safety be great now, but that's not right what we're

1269
01:03:24,240 --> 01:03:26,240
Speaker 1: worried about. Well, you know, I can tell you now.

1270
01:03:26,360 --> 01:03:29,800
Speaker 1: I found this note. Um. It is the strongest part

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01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:31,880
Speaker 1: of the car and that shows you it tells you

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01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:36,400
Speaker 1: how much they're you know, firmly um backing this idea

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01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:38,880
Speaker 1: that driver's safety is becoming more and more and more

1274
01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:41,800
Speaker 1: important as the decades progress. In Formula one and in

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01:03:41,840 --> 01:03:44,240
Speaker 1: the sixties, they were a little bit more lax with

1276
01:03:44,240 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 1: that type of thing. And that's why drivers like Jackie

1277
01:03:46,120 --> 01:03:49,520
Speaker 1: Stewart and several others that other names that you would recognize, uh,

1278
01:03:49,600 --> 01:03:52,880
Speaker 1: that they really they protested. They they sat out races,

1279
01:03:52,920 --> 01:03:55,680
Speaker 1: they didn't race in certain places because they were losing

1280
01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:59,800
Speaker 1: friends every month. The reason why we saw changes was

1281
01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:03,000
Speaker 1: largely because the drivers and the races were starting to

1282
01:04:03,080 --> 01:04:06,439
Speaker 1: demand changes. Yeah, the cars were getting so fast, so fast,

1283
01:04:06,520 --> 01:04:09,720
Speaker 1: and the tracks were so fast, and the safety standards

1284
01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:12,800
Speaker 1: just weren't there. They just weren't protecting the drivers the

1285
01:04:12,840 --> 01:04:15,640
Speaker 1: way that they should and and Jackie Stewart realized this,

1286
01:04:15,720 --> 01:04:18,520
Speaker 1: and several other racers did as well. There's there's a

1287
01:04:18,560 --> 01:04:20,880
Speaker 1: lot of information out there on Jackie Stewart and what

1288
01:04:20,920 --> 01:04:24,240
Speaker 1: he did to kind of push safety forward in Formula one,

1289
01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:27,200
Speaker 1: and it's a huge leap forward for the drivers and

1290
01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:29,560
Speaker 1: the safety and you know, just kind of their overall

1291
01:04:30,040 --> 01:04:32,400
Speaker 1: well being, I guess, and I found um this note

1292
01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:34,400
Speaker 1: about the halo. And I'm sorry, I think I said,

1293
01:04:34,400 --> 01:04:36,560
Speaker 1: did I say platinum? I hope I didn't say platinum

1294
01:04:36,800 --> 01:04:41,040
Speaker 1: when I when I said what material wastum, it's it's

1295
01:04:41,040 --> 01:04:47,920
Speaker 1: a mandatory UM device. Obviously it's aerospace Industry grade five titanium.

1296
01:04:48,680 --> 01:04:51,160
Speaker 1: It probably does yeah, UM, but it can. Again, it

1297
01:04:51,160 --> 01:04:53,280
Speaker 1: can withstand the weight of that London double decker bus,

1298
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 1: which is like twenty six It is incredible. It is

1299
01:04:57,080 --> 01:04:59,120
Speaker 1: the strongest part of the car at this point. And

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01:04:59,160 --> 01:05:02,160
Speaker 1: again that's a that's a nod to safety. UM. Another

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01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:04,200
Speaker 1: piece of tech, A couple of pieces of tech that

1302
01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:07,840
Speaker 1: UM finally written a tech right type stuff. UM. You

1303
01:05:07,840 --> 01:05:10,280
Speaker 1: know they have biometric gloves that the drivers were Now

1304
01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:12,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if you knew this or not. You

1305
01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:16,120
Speaker 1: didn't talk about this, but they the drivers wear biometric gloves.

1306
01:05:16,120 --> 01:05:18,840
Speaker 1: And this is actually a safety feature because it facilitates

1307
01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:21,760
Speaker 1: the medical response to the driver when they're you know,

1308
01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:24,840
Speaker 1: if there's a medical situation that's happening and the driver

1309
01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:27,200
Speaker 1: doesn't even really know what's happening yet. It registers in

1310
01:05:27,240 --> 01:05:30,600
Speaker 1: these gloves with pulse rate. UM. It's also got um,

1311
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:33,880
Speaker 1: what's the oxygen level in your blood? Blood? It measures

1312
01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:36,640
Speaker 1: that um, but it will tell them as they approached

1313
01:05:36,680 --> 01:05:38,240
Speaker 1: the vehicle, you know, if it's been in an accident,

1314
01:05:38,600 --> 01:05:40,600
Speaker 1: the driver's condition and what to look for. You know,

1315
01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:42,960
Speaker 1: the don't know pretty much exactly what's going on with

1316
01:05:42,960 --> 01:05:45,280
Speaker 1: that driver at that point, whether they've got a pulse,

1317
01:05:45,280 --> 01:05:48,480
Speaker 1: whether they don't. Unfortunately a lot of times they don't.

1318
01:05:48,520 --> 01:05:50,920
Speaker 1: I mean, these these rex are pretty severe when they

1319
01:05:50,920 --> 01:05:53,280
Speaker 1: do happen. You're going on incredible speeds in a in

1320
01:05:53,320 --> 01:05:56,800
Speaker 1: a vehicle that's still even with the added safety features,

1321
01:05:57,000 --> 01:06:02,000
Speaker 1: it's very design is one that you could easily see

1322
01:06:02,040 --> 01:06:06,640
Speaker 1: there there'd be some pretty catastrophic injuries if there is

1323
01:06:06,680 --> 01:06:08,680
Speaker 1: a crash. And I didn't mean to step over your

1324
01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:11,040
Speaker 1: your discussion about the Space race and you know the

1325
01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:13,640
Speaker 1: astronauts and how they I mean, but these guys they

1326
01:06:13,880 --> 01:06:16,800
Speaker 1: know going into this, just like just like the astronauts,

1327
01:06:17,080 --> 01:06:19,920
Speaker 1: they know going into this that they're in it for

1328
01:06:19,960 --> 01:06:22,240
Speaker 1: the whole thing. It's either it's all or none for them.

1329
01:06:22,640 --> 01:06:25,280
Speaker 1: And there's always that chance every single time. And it's

1330
01:06:25,280 --> 01:06:28,640
Speaker 1: not being overly dramatic, It's true. Every single time they

1331
01:06:28,680 --> 01:06:30,480
Speaker 1: get into that car, it could be the last time

1332
01:06:30,480 --> 01:06:32,920
Speaker 1: they get in that car, and they know it and

1333
01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:35,040
Speaker 1: as does as do the astronauts. They know it, they

1334
01:06:35,040 --> 01:06:37,360
Speaker 1: know what they're in for, but they knowingly take the

1335
01:06:37,440 --> 01:06:40,080
Speaker 1: risk because you know, the reward for them is so

1336
01:06:40,160 --> 01:06:42,160
Speaker 1: great that they decided that, you know, this is something

1337
01:06:42,200 --> 01:06:44,400
Speaker 1: I want to do and I want to dedicate my

1338
01:06:44,440 --> 01:06:47,240
Speaker 1: life to this, really, so they've got these these biometric gloves.

1339
01:06:47,240 --> 01:06:49,080
Speaker 1: One of the things that I've also noticed about Formula

1340
01:06:49,120 --> 01:06:53,120
Speaker 1: one race cars is, uh, the steering mechanism is very

1341
01:06:53,160 --> 01:06:55,360
Speaker 1: different from what you would see in a standard vehicle.

1342
01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:57,920
Speaker 1: Have you been peaking at my notes? No, I'm just

1343
01:06:57,960 --> 01:07:01,880
Speaker 1: thinking about pictures I've seen of these crazy easy steering mechanisms.

1344
01:07:01,960 --> 01:07:03,840
Speaker 1: You remember early on when we sat down and I said,

1345
01:07:03,840 --> 01:07:05,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna turn this piece of paper over on the

1346
01:07:05,720 --> 01:07:07,640
Speaker 1: desk here so you can't see what it is. That

1347
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:09,200
Speaker 1: is what it is. It's a steering wheel. And I

1348
01:07:09,200 --> 01:07:11,360
Speaker 1: don't know what's more complex, my notes around the steering

1349
01:07:11,400 --> 01:07:14,320
Speaker 1: wheel or the steering wheel itself, but the steering wheel

1350
01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:17,840
Speaker 1: in a Formula one car is incredibly complex. And the

1351
01:07:17,840 --> 01:07:19,880
Speaker 1: thing is, I've watched a lot of videos about this,

1352
01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:23,120
Speaker 1: and the buttons really do make sense when you have

1353
01:07:23,200 --> 01:07:25,520
Speaker 1: a driver described to you what they are, right, So

1354
01:07:25,560 --> 01:07:27,120
Speaker 1: if you were to look at a picture of this,

1355
01:07:27,200 --> 01:07:29,640
Speaker 1: because you know, obviously this being an audio podcast, you

1356
01:07:29,680 --> 01:07:32,120
Speaker 1: aren't given the benefit of what Scott just showed me,

1357
01:07:32,120 --> 01:07:34,880
Speaker 1: which was a picture of this. It looks kind of

1358
01:07:34,920 --> 01:07:37,680
Speaker 1: like a video game controller in a way. Right It's

1359
01:07:37,760 --> 01:07:41,720
Speaker 1: it's calling it a wheel seems uh like it would

1360
01:07:41,760 --> 01:07:46,040
Speaker 1: be misdirection because it's not a full wheel shape. You've

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01:07:46,040 --> 01:07:47,840
Speaker 1: got the you've got the little bit of the wheel

1362
01:07:47,880 --> 01:07:49,920
Speaker 1: on the left and right sides. But it really does

1363
01:07:49,960 --> 01:07:52,160
Speaker 1: look kind of like a video game controller, almost like

1364
01:07:52,160 --> 01:07:54,440
Speaker 1: it has a screen in the in the Front's got

1365
01:07:54,440 --> 01:07:58,080
Speaker 1: some dials and some buttons that are an easy reach

1366
01:07:58,800 --> 01:08:02,080
Speaker 1: where of your hand place. Man, I see now that

1367
01:08:02,160 --> 01:08:05,960
Speaker 1: there are clutch buttons on the wheel itself, which is interesting.

1368
01:08:06,440 --> 01:08:09,120
Speaker 1: I I have no idea what the rest of these

1369
01:08:09,160 --> 01:08:10,920
Speaker 1: things do. So tell me a little bit about this.

1370
01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:13,640
Speaker 1: I'll make it quick because there's way too much to

1371
01:08:13,640 --> 01:08:15,920
Speaker 1: cover here. This is his own podcast. Really that the

1372
01:08:15,960 --> 01:08:19,000
Speaker 1: tech that's involved in in a Formula one steering wheel

1373
01:08:19,040 --> 01:08:21,840
Speaker 1: is unbelievable. Their videos about this, there's a lot of

1374
01:08:21,880 --> 01:08:24,200
Speaker 1: online articles about it, and in fact, I will tell

1375
01:08:24,240 --> 01:08:26,840
Speaker 1: you that the price of the steering wheel, it probably

1376
01:08:26,880 --> 01:08:28,919
Speaker 1: would not surprise you to hear that this is expensive

1377
01:08:28,920 --> 01:08:33,360
Speaker 1: as well, between fifty and one thousand dollars per wheel. Now,

1378
01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:35,519
Speaker 1: a lot of racers, a lot of drivers for each

1379
01:08:35,560 --> 01:08:38,720
Speaker 1: car will have up to three different wheels. They'll have

1380
01:08:38,960 --> 01:08:41,839
Speaker 1: a primary wheel that they normally use. They'll have a backup,

1381
01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:43,559
Speaker 1: you know, just in case something happens, you know, during

1382
01:08:43,560 --> 01:08:46,680
Speaker 1: an accident or whatever, you know, practice or just malfunctions.

1383
01:08:47,040 --> 01:08:48,760
Speaker 1: And then they'll also have a lot of times an

1384
01:08:48,800 --> 01:08:53,839
Speaker 1: experimental wheel that then loads on new buttons, has new systems,

1385
01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:55,960
Speaker 1: new settings, that type of things, you know, So the

1386
01:08:56,000 --> 01:08:59,320
Speaker 1: buttons do different things, and it's it's less complicated than

1387
01:08:59,360 --> 01:09:00,920
Speaker 1: you might think. I mean, when you're looking at it,

1388
01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:04,320
Speaker 1: it's extremely complicated. But the drivers learn this very quickly.

1389
01:09:04,360 --> 01:09:07,200
Speaker 1: They understand every single function of it, and it's all

1390
01:09:07,280 --> 01:09:09,840
Speaker 1: within reach, and it's it's all customized to them. The

1391
01:09:09,880 --> 01:09:12,760
Speaker 1: hand grips are customized. They're formed to their hands so

1392
01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:14,720
Speaker 1: they fit exactly in their hand. It's not a it's

1393
01:09:14,760 --> 01:09:17,200
Speaker 1: not a one size fits all thing. They're all different shapes,

1394
01:09:17,240 --> 01:09:21,080
Speaker 1: they're all different sizes, and the buttons are essentially the same.

1395
01:09:21,160 --> 01:09:22,840
Speaker 1: I mean, there's I mean, I gotta go through every

1396
01:09:22,840 --> 01:09:25,120
Speaker 1: single one again. But you know there's like a radio button.

1397
01:09:25,160 --> 01:09:27,559
Speaker 1: As you might expect, there's a neutral and reverse button

1398
01:09:27,600 --> 01:09:30,000
Speaker 1: for the car so you don't um inadvertly run over

1399
01:09:30,080 --> 01:09:31,360
Speaker 1: your crew as you pull into the pit. You know

1400
01:09:31,360 --> 01:09:34,240
Speaker 1: you can get neutral. There's the pit lane speed limitter,

1401
01:09:34,280 --> 01:09:37,040
Speaker 1: which is limited to either eighty kilometers per hour or

1402
01:09:37,160 --> 01:09:39,640
Speaker 1: sixty depending on the track and how much space do

1403
01:09:39,640 --> 01:09:42,639
Speaker 1: you have. Each track has its own pit lane speed.

1404
01:09:43,080 --> 01:09:45,920
Speaker 1: There's um how there's a button for something called the

1405
01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:48,320
Speaker 1: drag reduction system, which we haven't even talked about. But

1406
01:09:48,400 --> 01:09:51,760
Speaker 1: drag reduction system is like movable aerodynamic wing on the

1407
01:09:51,760 --> 01:09:53,600
Speaker 1: back of the car. So it's like the elements you

1408
01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:57,000
Speaker 1: would see on an on an aircraft. Yes, yes, it's

1409
01:09:57,040 --> 01:10:02,320
Speaker 1: like the flight surfaces on wings and tails of aircraft. Yes.

1410
01:10:02,320 --> 01:10:05,000
Speaker 1: And you can reduce your drag by by pushing this

1411
01:10:05,080 --> 01:10:07,559
Speaker 1: button and there are certain parameters where driver is allowed

1412
01:10:07,600 --> 01:10:09,640
Speaker 1: to do that, but it's controlled by the driver with

1413
01:10:09,680 --> 01:10:12,160
Speaker 1: a button on this wheel. And it's really it's just

1414
01:10:12,240 --> 01:10:15,040
Speaker 1: the flap on the rear wing that gives you an

1415
01:10:15,040 --> 01:10:18,040
Speaker 1: aerodynamic advantage in order to pass the car that's in

1416
01:10:18,080 --> 01:10:19,920
Speaker 1: front of you. And you have again the parameters are

1417
01:10:19,960 --> 01:10:22,040
Speaker 1: like certain zones on the track that you're able to

1418
01:10:22,120 --> 01:10:24,240
Speaker 1: use this, and I think you have to be within

1419
01:10:24,400 --> 01:10:26,120
Speaker 1: one second of the car in front of you in

1420
01:10:26,200 --> 01:10:29,800
Speaker 1: order to push the button one second following speed. Now, UM,

1421
01:10:30,479 --> 01:10:32,920
Speaker 1: I guess that's up to you know, F one rulemakers.

1422
01:10:32,920 --> 01:10:34,680
Speaker 1: You know exactly how close you were when you use this.

1423
01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:36,160
Speaker 1: But it does give it give you advantage and it

1424
01:10:36,200 --> 01:10:38,400
Speaker 1: promotes passing. So that's one of the things they've done

1425
01:10:38,439 --> 01:10:41,639
Speaker 1: to make a little more exciting. Um. They're differential settings

1426
01:10:41,760 --> 01:10:45,439
Speaker 1: that are for entry and exitive turns, and this changes

1427
01:10:45,479 --> 01:10:48,120
Speaker 1: the balance of the car while you're driving it, so

1428
01:10:48,240 --> 01:10:52,000
Speaker 1: you can kind of promote um, you know, additional additional oversteer,

1429
01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:54,880
Speaker 1: additional understeer, whatever you like. You can kind of fine

1430
01:10:54,880 --> 01:10:57,559
Speaker 1: tune the car as you're driving it. Um. There are,

1431
01:10:57,720 --> 01:11:00,479
Speaker 1: of course, you know, there's this clutch operation for your shifts.

1432
01:11:00,479 --> 01:11:02,559
Speaker 1: Of course that's what you saw earlier. There's paddles on

1433
01:11:02,600 --> 01:11:05,559
Speaker 1: both sides up and down. Uh, there's an overtake button,

1434
01:11:05,720 --> 01:11:10,040
Speaker 1: there's a messaging buttons, there's it seems like there's of course,

1435
01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:13,160
Speaker 1: there's an energy recovery harvesting button, which means that you know,

1436
01:11:13,400 --> 01:11:15,240
Speaker 1: you can gain that little extra boost of power if

1437
01:11:15,240 --> 01:11:17,680
Speaker 1: you need it for passing. Uh, there's the button to

1438
01:11:18,120 --> 01:11:21,960
Speaker 1: listen to your favorite ieheart radio podcasts. That one has

1439
01:11:21,960 --> 01:11:24,519
Speaker 1: a little hard on it. The most confusing, Yeah, that's right,

1440
01:11:24,520 --> 01:11:28,200
Speaker 1: that's funny. The most confusing ones to me are the dials.

1441
01:11:28,240 --> 01:11:29,760
Speaker 1: There are dials at the bottom that have you know,

1442
01:11:29,800 --> 01:11:33,120
Speaker 1: like tire presets or chassis presets, and you can kind

1443
01:11:33,120 --> 01:11:35,000
Speaker 1: of fine tune the chassis that way. But it's not

1444
01:11:35,080 --> 01:11:37,599
Speaker 1: just a button. The driver has to remove his hands

1445
01:11:37,600 --> 01:11:40,479
Speaker 1: from the wheel, his biometric glove from the wheel, and

1446
01:11:40,600 --> 01:11:42,800
Speaker 1: fine tune the chassis and the tires and you know

1447
01:11:42,840 --> 01:11:46,720
Speaker 1: all this. It's it's just it's a fascinating feature to

1448
01:11:46,800 --> 01:11:49,360
Speaker 1: this whole thing, and you can control so much from it.

1449
01:11:49,400 --> 01:11:51,439
Speaker 1: I can. I can understand why it's expensive, but yeah,

1450
01:11:51,520 --> 01:11:54,479
Speaker 1: I don't know. Fifty dollars expensive, it's I mean that's

1451
01:11:54,479 --> 01:11:57,840
Speaker 1: the price of a car, just that wheel get up

1452
01:11:57,840 --> 01:11:59,920
Speaker 1: two hundred thousand. That's the price of a small house,

1453
01:12:00,360 --> 01:12:02,760
Speaker 1: you know, And and they need three per vehicle. I mean,

1454
01:12:02,760 --> 01:12:06,000
Speaker 1: it's it's it's the prices are just insane. But I

1455
01:12:06,040 --> 01:12:09,160
Speaker 1: love the series overall. I think, as you've been able

1456
01:12:09,200 --> 01:12:11,080
Speaker 1: to tell, I've I've gone on and on here for

1457
01:12:11,200 --> 01:12:14,559
Speaker 1: probably far too long, but I I am I'm a

1458
01:12:14,560 --> 01:12:16,600
Speaker 1: big Formula One fan. I hadn't watched it for a

1459
01:12:16,600 --> 01:12:19,120
Speaker 1: long time. I kind of got back into it last season.

1460
01:12:19,800 --> 01:12:21,880
Speaker 1: And the problem here in the United States is that

1461
01:12:22,040 --> 01:12:25,400
Speaker 1: oftentimes the races, because they're being held many times over

1462
01:12:25,439 --> 01:12:29,160
Speaker 1: in Europe, they might start at you know, six in

1463
01:12:29,200 --> 01:12:31,400
Speaker 1: the morning here, you know, when it's like a midday

1464
01:12:31,479 --> 01:12:33,600
Speaker 1: race there, and so that makes a little difficult to

1465
01:12:33,600 --> 01:12:36,640
Speaker 1: watch unless you're recording it, right and I have in

1466
01:12:36,680 --> 01:12:38,840
Speaker 1: the past record of them. But if I happen to

1467
01:12:38,840 --> 01:12:42,000
Speaker 1: be up on Sunday morning at six am, usually that's

1468
01:12:42,000 --> 01:12:44,479
Speaker 1: what's on my screen. It's pretty cool. I mean, like

1469
01:12:44,520 --> 01:12:47,479
Speaker 1: I said, just the watching the videos that I've seen, Uh,

1470
01:12:47,520 --> 01:12:53,960
Speaker 1: it really does bring together that that necessary combination of

1471
01:12:54,160 --> 01:13:00,760
Speaker 1: incredible engineering and technology and amazing like laser focus for

1472
01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:04,680
Speaker 1: everybody involved on that team, whether it's the driver or

1473
01:13:04,760 --> 01:13:10,160
Speaker 1: the crew. It's it's phenomenal how synchronized everything has to

1474
01:13:10,200 --> 01:13:13,439
Speaker 1: be in order to ring out every thousandth of a

1475
01:13:13,600 --> 01:13:16,880
Speaker 1: second you can, because that could be the difference between

1476
01:13:17,240 --> 01:13:19,240
Speaker 1: coming in first or second. Sure, and you know, we

1477
01:13:19,320 --> 01:13:21,439
Speaker 1: are I think we say this every time, or at

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Speaker 1: least I do on my show. Anyways, this is kind

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Speaker 1: of the tip of the iceberg. Yeah, there's there's so

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Speaker 1: much tech that is crammed into these cars. Their their

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Speaker 1: entire sections. On the F one site, if you go

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Speaker 1: to f one dot com, you can look up just

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Speaker 1: the technical information and just the technical advantages that have

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Speaker 1: been created or or um um you know, fine tuned

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01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:44,000
Speaker 1: just this year by certain teams, and you can go

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Speaker 1: back in different years. You can look at eighteens upgrades

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01:13:47,080 --> 01:13:49,839
Speaker 1: and seventeens, and you can look at historical documents, and

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01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:52,800
Speaker 1: there's so much information available in the series. And it's

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01:13:52,840 --> 01:13:54,760
Speaker 1: just again, if you're a tech person, and I would

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01:13:54,760 --> 01:13:57,360
Speaker 1: guess that you would be listening to this podcast, Uh

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01:13:57,400 --> 01:14:00,000
Speaker 1: there there is more tech here than you can image.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's a fascinating series. It is amazing. It

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01:14:03,040 --> 01:14:04,720
Speaker 1: is amazing. Now, there's a couple of things I want

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Speaker 1: to say before we sign off. One of those is

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01:14:08,640 --> 01:14:12,040
Speaker 1: that I did mention I was gonna briefly explain the

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01:14:12,080 --> 01:14:15,439
Speaker 1: diffence between Formula one and Formula two racing. The biggest

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01:14:15,439 --> 01:14:18,240
Speaker 1: difference is that in Formula two racing, every team is

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01:14:18,360 --> 01:14:23,000
Speaker 1: racing with the same car, essentially the same basic type

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Speaker 1: of vehicle and engine, so there's no differentiation there, and

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Speaker 1: the idea is to create a more level playing field

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01:14:30,200 --> 01:14:33,720
Speaker 1: and also to reduce the cost of entry um. And

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01:14:33,760 --> 01:14:36,479
Speaker 1: if you go to Formula three and Formula four, as

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01:14:36,520 --> 01:14:40,680
Speaker 1: you go up the numbers, uh, then you'll see that

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01:14:40,760 --> 01:14:45,080
Speaker 1: the barrier to enter is slightly lower. By lower, I

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01:14:45,120 --> 01:14:48,479
Speaker 1: mean it's in the hundreds of thousands of dollars instead

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01:14:48,479 --> 01:14:51,839
Speaker 1: of the millions of dollars. So it's so your mileage

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01:14:51,920 --> 01:14:53,800
Speaker 1: may vary. You're not buying a ten and a half

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01:14:53,880 --> 01:14:57,120
Speaker 1: million dollar engine for your Formula four car. Yeah. So

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01:14:57,600 --> 01:15:00,719
Speaker 1: it's also kind of it becomes sort of almost a league,

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01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:04,240
Speaker 1: a farm league for for future Formula one drivers. There's

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01:15:04,280 --> 01:15:06,160
Speaker 1: only so many Formula one drivers who are allowed to

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01:15:06,200 --> 01:15:08,960
Speaker 1: participate per year. Yeah, so f one scouts not only

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01:15:08,960 --> 01:15:10,760
Speaker 1: will they go to other series and look for drift

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01:15:10,800 --> 01:15:13,479
Speaker 1: one drivers, people that are are talented in their own series,

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01:15:13,520 --> 01:15:16,200
Speaker 1: whether that's uh, gosh, it could even be NASCAR, could

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01:15:16,200 --> 01:15:18,960
Speaker 1: be Indycarcart, could be any of those series. But they

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01:15:18,960 --> 01:15:21,120
Speaker 1: often will go to, you know, the Formula two series

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01:15:21,160 --> 01:15:23,480
Speaker 1: and take a look at you know, who's who's the

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01:15:23,479 --> 01:15:27,200
Speaker 1: young rising star that series, right, and maybe we try

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01:15:27,240 --> 01:15:29,360
Speaker 1: them out and add them to the team next season

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01:15:29,760 --> 01:15:31,880
Speaker 1: for the Formula One team. Yeah. Here, here the keys.

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Speaker 1: He's not keys, but here's the uh, let's just say

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01:15:35,240 --> 01:15:37,200
Speaker 1: it that way. Anyway, Here the keys to the fifteen

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Speaker 1: million dollar car. Don't don't wreck it, Junior, don't don't

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Speaker 1: get a scratch on the paint, please. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if I don't think there are any F one drivers

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Speaker 1: that are named Junior, probably not. Lots of lots of

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01:15:48,600 --> 01:15:51,360
Speaker 1: NASCAR drivers, lot of juniors over in NASCAR. You know,

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01:15:51,520 --> 01:15:55,320
Speaker 1: maybe maybe you'll have a lot of the thirds. Maybe,

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01:15:56,080 --> 01:15:58,120
Speaker 1: but but yeah, that's that was one of the things.

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Speaker 1: The other thing I wanted to mention was that, you know,

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Speaker 1: we kind of toyota around a little bit in the

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Speaker 1: history of Grand Prix racing. But that's something that you

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01:16:07,640 --> 01:16:10,559
Speaker 1: and Ben covered at great length in a previous episode

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01:16:10,600 --> 01:16:13,120
Speaker 1: of Car Stuff, and I want people to be aware

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01:16:13,120 --> 01:16:15,240
Speaker 1: of that because if you really, I mean, this is

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01:16:15,280 --> 01:16:21,879
Speaker 1: an incredibly rich and fascinating history. Um, it's full of drama,

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Speaker 1: not just in the races, but in just the progression

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01:16:25,960 --> 01:16:30,880
Speaker 1: the evolution of the sport. And so yeah, I want

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01:16:30,880 --> 01:16:32,640
Speaker 1: to do you do you have that episode? I do.

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01:16:32,720 --> 01:16:34,639
Speaker 1: And you know, there might even be drama in the podcast.

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01:16:34,760 --> 01:16:37,519
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I mean it's it's sort of a

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01:16:37,600 --> 01:16:40,160
Speaker 1: drama queen between Ben and I. There might be a

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01:16:40,160 --> 01:16:42,160
Speaker 1: little bit of druma. You never know. But we did

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01:16:42,200 --> 01:16:44,479
Speaker 1: actually a two part series on this. We did how

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01:16:44,520 --> 01:16:47,599
Speaker 1: Formula one Works. So, um, if you search how Formula

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01:16:47,640 --> 01:16:51,200
Speaker 1: one works on Car Stuff Show dot Com in the

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Speaker 1: the search box up there, you will find back in May,

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01:16:55,800 --> 01:16:58,519
Speaker 1: we did that two part series and it's roughly, you know,

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01:16:58,560 --> 01:17:00,679
Speaker 1: it's I think you're about forty forty five minutes each

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01:17:01,160 --> 01:17:03,120
Speaker 1: and uh, and I think it's, uh, it's a pretty

1552
01:17:03,120 --> 01:17:05,000
Speaker 1: good look back at Grand Prix racing and then of

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01:17:05,040 --> 01:17:07,160
Speaker 1: course Formula one and some of the players and some

1554
01:17:07,240 --> 01:17:10,080
Speaker 1: of the uh, the rules, and of course now we're

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01:17:10,120 --> 01:17:12,400
Speaker 1: six years beyond this, so you know, what we're talking

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01:17:12,400 --> 01:17:14,160
Speaker 1: about right now is a little bit different than what

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01:17:14,200 --> 01:17:16,360
Speaker 1: it was back then. But essentially the history is never

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01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:19,800
Speaker 1: going to change, obviously, so you're gonna get a full

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01:17:19,800 --> 01:17:21,160
Speaker 1: story there if you want to go back and look

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01:17:21,200 --> 01:17:23,120
Speaker 1: at that. And awesome, thank you for referring to them

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01:17:23,120 --> 01:17:26,360
Speaker 1: to absolutely always use some more views on that one, right, yeah, yeah,

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01:17:26,360 --> 01:17:28,519
Speaker 1: and you know, it never hurts to get that download

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01:17:28,600 --> 01:17:31,320
Speaker 1: number popping up a couple of months as good. Why

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01:17:31,360 --> 01:17:34,479
Speaker 1: not fun? But yeah, it's also I mean, it's to

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01:17:34,479 --> 01:17:37,040
Speaker 1: to nail this home. I mean, we know that in

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Speaker 1: twenty the it will be different from nine, Like there'll

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01:17:41,040 --> 01:17:43,400
Speaker 1: be different rules that will come into play, and it'll

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01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:47,400
Speaker 1: it'll end up putting teams in a in a you know,

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01:17:47,600 --> 01:17:51,240
Speaker 1: a scramble to get everything finally tuned. And we'll see

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01:17:51,280 --> 01:17:54,080
Speaker 1: that progression happened throughout the season as well. I know

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Speaker 1: the fans are already talking one. They're talking about rules

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01:17:58,160 --> 01:18:00,800
Speaker 1: and potential rules, and you know what that's gonna mean.

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01:18:00,840 --> 01:18:02,680
Speaker 1: And if fans love to talk about this stuff and

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01:18:02,680 --> 01:18:04,519
Speaker 1: you have to argue about it, it's it's it's it's

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01:18:04,520 --> 01:18:06,519
Speaker 1: it's really kind of fun to get into the forums

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01:18:06,520 --> 01:18:08,479
Speaker 1: and read about some of this stuff. You're just you know,

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01:18:08,680 --> 01:18:10,720
Speaker 1: kind of kind of lurk there in the background and

1578
01:18:10,760 --> 01:18:13,599
Speaker 1: watch what's going on. Yeah, I mean, and here here

1579
01:18:13,680 --> 01:18:16,960
Speaker 1: is a baseball fan. I thought, just getting into arguments

1580
01:18:17,000 --> 01:18:20,320
Speaker 1: about the designated hitter rules, passionate and I got nothing

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01:18:20,360 --> 01:18:23,679
Speaker 1: on race car fans. They do get they do get passionate,

1582
01:18:23,720 --> 01:18:26,400
Speaker 1: get intense, they do, they get intense that's a good

1583
01:18:26,439 --> 01:18:29,400
Speaker 1: word for it. And maybe we'll even do a deeper

1584
01:18:29,400 --> 01:18:31,760
Speaker 1: dive on tech in Formula one in the in the

1585
01:18:31,840 --> 01:18:34,400
Speaker 1: near future, kind of really dive into some of this

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01:18:34,479 --> 01:18:36,640
Speaker 1: stuff a bit more. But I felt like for the

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01:18:36,720 --> 01:18:38,680
Speaker 1: first episode it was more important to get kind of

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01:18:38,680 --> 01:18:41,840
Speaker 1: that general overview, like obviously, like we've been going on

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01:18:41,880 --> 01:18:44,400
Speaker 1: for a while, we could go on for another two

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01:18:44,400 --> 01:18:48,479
Speaker 1: hours just about the tech. Uh. And so Scott, I

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01:18:48,600 --> 01:18:51,559
Speaker 1: may tap on your shoulder one day and say, hey,

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01:18:51,600 --> 01:18:53,679
Speaker 1: how about we go in and finish what we started

1593
01:18:53,840 --> 01:18:56,160
Speaker 1: perfectly fine, And I hope I didn't stretch your show

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01:18:56,200 --> 01:18:58,920
Speaker 1: out too long here on. I'm fine with it. Is

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01:18:58,960 --> 01:19:01,240
Speaker 1: the one who's you know, she's the and yelling at me. Yeah,

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01:19:01,240 --> 01:19:03,280
Speaker 1: she's ready to go home. I've got I've got a

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01:19:03,280 --> 01:19:05,040
Speaker 1: lot to say about the series. As you can tell,

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Speaker 1: I've I've been an open wheel racing fan my whole life.

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01:19:07,479 --> 01:19:09,920
Speaker 1: I love Indy car Um Formula one a little bit

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Speaker 1: less than any car, but I'm still a big fan,

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01:19:12,160 --> 01:19:14,600
Speaker 1: as you can tell. And it's just it's all fascinated

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01:19:14,600 --> 01:19:16,479
Speaker 1: to me. I could talk for hours about this stuff,

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01:19:16,479 --> 01:19:18,280
Speaker 1: I really could. And I think you and I just

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01:19:18,320 --> 01:19:20,680
Speaker 1: have kind of a good report, and we're able to

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01:19:20,680 --> 01:19:22,519
Speaker 1: go back and forth with the stuff pretty good. We

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01:19:22,560 --> 01:19:25,280
Speaker 1: have conversations like this at our desk all the time. Absolutely.

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01:19:25,320 --> 01:19:27,360
Speaker 1: That's why I was like, I need to get Scott

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01:19:27,400 --> 01:19:31,080
Speaker 1: back into the studio. And then uh, Michael tweeted me

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01:19:31,280 --> 01:19:33,959
Speaker 1: and I was saying, Hey, where's that Formula one podcast

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01:19:34,000 --> 01:19:36,280
Speaker 1: you promised me ages ago? And I thought, this is

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01:19:36,320 --> 01:19:39,240
Speaker 1: the perfect opportunity. Michael. I appreciate it too, because I

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01:19:39,280 --> 01:19:40,960
Speaker 1: love to get into the studio and talk about this stuff.

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01:19:41,000 --> 01:19:43,400
Speaker 1: It's fun. Yeah, it was great, and uh yeah, well

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01:19:43,479 --> 01:19:46,320
Speaker 1: we'll come back to this in a future episode and

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01:19:46,400 --> 01:19:50,600
Speaker 1: we will cover more about the the space age technology

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01:19:50,720 --> 01:19:54,559
Speaker 1: that's that are in these vehicles and how that again

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01:19:54,680 --> 01:19:57,639
Speaker 1: helps contribute to the amazing performance we see. How about

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01:19:57,640 --> 01:20:01,679
Speaker 1: how titanium is not platinum? Listen, Scott, if we want

1619
01:20:01,680 --> 01:20:04,479
Speaker 1: to go down a list of things that have been

1620
01:20:04,520 --> 01:20:07,960
Speaker 1: said on this podcast that turned out to not be accurate.

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01:20:08,280 --> 01:20:10,160
Speaker 1: We're gonna be here for a very long time because

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01:20:10,160 --> 01:20:12,559
Speaker 1: I've been doing this for more than a thousand episodes,

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01:20:12,600 --> 01:20:15,120
Speaker 1: and I make a gaff at least once a show. Perfectly,

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01:20:16,400 --> 01:20:20,520
Speaker 1: that's acceptable. Yeah, No, We're we're we're well under the threshold,

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01:20:20,560 --> 01:20:24,479
Speaker 1: We're fine. I hope you enjoyed that classic episode of

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01:20:24,520 --> 01:20:27,800
Speaker 1: tech Stuff from three whole years ago, not even three yet,

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01:20:28,520 --> 01:20:32,120
Speaker 1: but uh yeah. Also just uh shout out to Scott

1628
01:20:32,280 --> 01:20:34,760
Speaker 1: and and love sent through the universe to him. I

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01:20:34,800 --> 01:20:38,080
Speaker 1: hope he's doing well. Miss you, buddy, And um yeah,

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Speaker 1: I hope you all enjoyed this episode. If you have

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01:20:42,120 --> 01:20:44,960
Speaker 1: suggestions for topics I should tackle on future episodes, A

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01:20:45,000 --> 01:20:47,400
Speaker 1: lot of people have been reaching out with some great,

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01:20:47,960 --> 01:20:51,960
Speaker 1: great suggestions and I am working on those ideas, so

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01:20:52,080 --> 01:20:53,960
Speaker 1: that will be coming up. But if you would like

1635
01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:56,080
Speaker 1: to be one of those folks, reach out to me

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01:20:56,280 --> 01:20:59,479
Speaker 1: on Twitter. The show's handle is tech Stuff h s

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Speaker 1: W and I'll talk to you again really sick. Yes.

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