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Speaker 1: Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production of I Heart Radios,

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Speaker 1: How Stuff Works. Pay there, everybody, and welcome to Tech Stuff.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer with

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Speaker 1: How Stuff Works and I heart radio and I love

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Speaker 1: all things tech, and today we are tackling a listener request.

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Speaker 1: Michael Peach asked me ages ago if I could talk

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Speaker 1: about Formula one race cars? Formula one racing, what's it

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Speaker 1: all about? How does that work? And I thought, you know,

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

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Speaker 1: topics before, but it requires an enormous amount of research

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Speaker 1: on my part because I don't I don't really know cars,

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Speaker 1: so it it's it's like it's extra work for me.

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Speaker 1: Not that I don't, you know, mind doing some extra work,

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Speaker 1: but that's asking a lot. And then I thought, wait

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Speaker 1: a minute. There's a dude who literally sits on the

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Speaker 1: other side of the table from me at our workstations.

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Speaker 1: His name is Scott Benjamin and he's not doing anything.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna grab him and pull him into

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Speaker 1: the studio. Scott, welcome to the show. You just say,

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Speaker 1: not doing anything? Okay, that's totally Scott's doing a lot

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Speaker 1: of stuff. I'm doing some stuff over yeah. Now and then,

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Speaker 1: so Scott, first of all, tell our listeners what you

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Speaker 1: have been doing, because they may not be aware of

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Speaker 1: the shows you're working. Well. First, thank you for having

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Speaker 1: me on your show. I really appreciate it. Every time

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Speaker 1: I'm here, I have a good time. So let's keep

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Speaker 1: that up. Okay, absolutely on this, And uh, I've been

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: been doing that and that was 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 we are. We're going to re release car stuff.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna come back on the show just me, just myself.

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Speaker 1: Ben will not be with me, and I'll explain all

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Speaker 1: of that at the beginning of the of the series,

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Speaker 1: and there's no big fight or anything like that, but

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Speaker 1: just Ben and I are always in a big fight.

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Speaker 1: But you're Ben, You're you're You're still you're still close. No, no,

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Speaker 1: so yeah, we're still tight and everything. He's just got

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Speaker 1: a lot going on now, more than more than a

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Speaker 1: lot of us do. So, uh, there's that. And then

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Speaker 1: I also have another show called The Fast Track, and

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Speaker 1: The Fast Track is a lot like car stuff, only

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Speaker 1: it's it's more focused on things that go fast, people

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Speaker 1: to go fast, ways that we go fast. Um, just components,

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Speaker 1: you know, race series, anything about speed and going quickly

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Speaker 1: and how we can get there faster, and that's that's

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Speaker 1: what it's all about. Awesome, So you are clearly the

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Speaker 1: go to guy if we're gonna talk about Formula One,

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Speaker 1: and uh, in the interest of full disclosure, guys, I

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Speaker 1: was not joking when I say I'm not a car guy,

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Speaker 1: and I'm certainly not a race car guy. I've I've

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Speaker 1: never really watched racing. I mean I'm aware of it

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Speaker 1: from the sort of the cultural touchstones that are out there,

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I'm aware that there are different

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Speaker 1: kinds of racing. You know, there's the Formula one. There's

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Speaker 1: stock car racing. You know, there's there's NASCAR, which is

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Speaker 1: sort of an offshoot of the stock car racing. But

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Speaker 1: beyond that, I wouldn't have necessarily been able to differentiate them.

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Speaker 1: And I didn't really know much about Formula one before

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Speaker 1: looking back into this, apart from you know, seeing it

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Speaker 1: you Scott this morning, I said, well, to me, the

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Speaker 1: history of race car, uh, driving race cars and and

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Speaker 1: and races in general kind of boil back to the

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Speaker 1: day the second car rolled off the manufacturing plant and

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Speaker 1: people started wondering, I wonder which of these two can

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Speaker 1: go faster? It's essentially true, but it really did happen

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Speaker 1: that way. I mean, that's that's what it was. As

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Speaker 1: French were gaga that's French for walsa for for car racing. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And in fact, the the history of Formula one, if

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Speaker 1: to you know, prove their endurance by by you know,

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Speaker 1: You know, so you can imagine if you've ever been

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Speaker 1: in a bumpy car ride, that's not even coming close

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Speaker 1: things have gotten a lot better, I mean a lot better.

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Speaker 1: We're we're talking some enormous engines, maybe not the highest

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Speaker 1: racing has always translated to sales for for automakers, and

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Speaker 1: refers to a set of rules, right, so you would

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

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Speaker 1: But the car manufacturers started to pull out around the

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Speaker 1: from a turbocharged V six that's relatively small. And they've

428
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Speaker 1: been doing this since again, just a one point six

429
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Speaker 1: lead engines. So, um, gosh, I that's six c cs.

430
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Speaker 1: I guess you want to put it that way. Yeah,

431
00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:46,960
Speaker 1: And so this is this is also fascinating, is that

432
00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:49,040
Speaker 1: you sit there and you look at this and you think,

433
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Speaker 1: you know these what does this actually translate to, Right,

434
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Speaker 1: you're talking about engine volume is not necessarily equivalent to

435
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Speaker 1: more ccs being more speed. It's it's all about other

436
00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:06,399
Speaker 1: elements as well, and engineering as a whole takes a

437
00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:10,439
Speaker 1: very important part in this. Uh So, that was another

438
00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,080
Speaker 1: thing that was confusing to me because all right, as

439
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 1: a kid, I'm gonna I'm gonna really reveal my ignorance

440
00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:18,760
Speaker 1: here as a kid. To me, the exposure of the

441
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Speaker 1: concept of ccs for engines was limited to games that

442
00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:27,560
Speaker 1: involved uh go kart racing video games because they would

443
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Speaker 1: have the different you know, you have a fifty c

444
00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:32,600
Speaker 1: C or one c C or on CC. So to me,

445
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,240
Speaker 1: it was just like bigger just means faster, you know,

446
00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:37,320
Speaker 1: that's typically the way it is, really, I mean, but

447
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,200
Speaker 1: somewhere along the way, you know, engineering got a whole

448
00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,320
Speaker 1: lot better, and they're able to get so much more

449
00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 1: power out of a smaller engine. And that's what we're

450
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:48,040
Speaker 1: seeing here. I mean, we've gone from unlimited cylinders and

451
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Speaker 1: you know, the sixteen cylinder engines in these in these

452
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Speaker 1: F one cars down to you know, turbo charge V

453
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Speaker 1: six is and I you know, I don't know for sure,

454
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Speaker 1: but I would say that they're going to continue to

455
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Speaker 1: shrink in size. I just have a gut feeling they're

456
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:03,960
Speaker 1: going to just continue to get smaller and smaller. It's

457
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 1: also interesting because just the where where we've seen the

458
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Speaker 1: changes in the limitations for how big the engine is

459
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Speaker 1: allowed to be, and then we've got to the point

460
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:16,400
Speaker 1: now where it's even uh, it's uniform. That's saying, well,

461
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Speaker 1: they all have to be specifically this particular engine volume.

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Speaker 1: The other element that has changed quite a bit has

463
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Speaker 1: been whether or not you could even have a turbocharged

464
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Speaker 1: engine in your vehicle. Some years it was yes, you

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Speaker 1: could either have a turbo engine of this capacity or

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Speaker 1: naturally aspirated of this capacity. You could have like just

467
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Speaker 1: for an example, you could have a turbocharge V six

468
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Speaker 1: or you could have a naturally aspirated V eight. Yeah,

469
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,640
Speaker 1: and then they there were some years where they said, okay,

470
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Speaker 1: well now you can't have turbo charged at all. Uh.

471
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Speaker 1: There was there was a time, just really in the

472
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Speaker 1: late sixties early seventies where that became a thing where

473
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Speaker 1: they said, all right, we're gonna remove turbo charge, largely

474
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Speaker 1: because there there seemed to be an unfair advantage of

475
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Speaker 1: some of the vehicles that were engineered with turbo charged

476
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,439
Speaker 1: they were giving the natural aspirated engines a chance to

477
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Speaker 1: catch up in a way. This is something that we

478
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Speaker 1: see from the governing body that I think they're constantly

479
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 1: tweaking these rules in part because they want to have

480
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 1: the what they consider to be the most entertaining result, right,

481
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Speaker 1: the most entertaining, most most competitive race, because if it's

482
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Speaker 1: not competitive, people start to lose interest. You know that

483
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Speaker 1: You've got to remember that the Formula one World Championship

484
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Speaker 1: is actually a series of races. It's not one race winner.

485
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Speaker 1: Take Hall. Now it's twenty or I think it's in

486
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Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen, so the and they're all over the world. Yeah,

487
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 1: in fact, the United States only recently started to host

488
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Speaker 1: them again. Uh, and it's in Austin, Texas that where

489
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Speaker 1: it takes place. And um that the reason why the

490
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Speaker 1: United States this is a whole different discussion, but it's

491
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Speaker 1: largely because Formula one racing just never got super popular

492
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Speaker 1: in the US, which you know, it was always seen

493
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Speaker 1: as more of a European pursuit than an American one.

494
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,159
Speaker 1: Stock car racing was much more popular here. You know,

495
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Speaker 1: when I first moved to Detroit. This is back in

496
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Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties. This has been like four eighty five

497
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Speaker 1: somewhere around there. Uh, they ran a Formula one race

498
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Speaker 1: in downtown Detroit on the streets of Detroit. It was

499
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Speaker 1: a road course that was on the streets of Detroit

500
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Speaker 1: and it was in such condition at the time that

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Speaker 1: it was able. They were able to do that, and

502
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,119
Speaker 1: later they moved it out to uh, you know, bell Aisle,

503
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 1: and they're still doing that now. But it's you know,

504
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 1: the Car to Indy Car series. It's a different series.

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Speaker 1: It's not the F one guys like like it was

506
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 1: in the past. But I found that pretty fast and

507
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:38,879
Speaker 1: it didn't last too long when I was there. I mean,

508
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Speaker 1: I don't know how many years they ran there. I

509
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,480
Speaker 1: can't remember, but um, I don't know. It's just it's

510
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Speaker 1: fascinating to me that, you know, F one just continually

511
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:48,920
Speaker 1: adjustice and I know it. It's maddening to the fans

512
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:52,399
Speaker 1: because they're always changing something around, making something different, and

513
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: they're always trying to kind of level, like you said,

514
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 1: level that plane field a little bit. And I know

515
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Speaker 1: it's it's it's angering to us, you know, as fans

516
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 1: to watch this and kind of you know, try to

517
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 1: keep up with the rule changes and what's happening in

518
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 1: the series. I can imagine. I can't imagine what it

519
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 1: would be like to be a team owner that has

520
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:09,479
Speaker 1: to adhere to these and have to pay for all

521
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: the changes and everything. But you know, one other thing

522
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:15,640
Speaker 1: that this does is that it can lead to incredibly

523
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 1: boring racing if you get it to level, if you

524
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 1: get everything to level, and and that was a critique

525
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,360
Speaker 1: of F one for a long long time, and it's

526
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 1: not this way anymore. It's it's different now. I've been

527
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:28,200
Speaker 1: watching this past season, even the season before, and it's

528
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 1: quite a bit different now because of a lot of

529
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 1: what we're going to talk about. You know that some

530
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Speaker 1: of the new technologies. But um, there was no passing.

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Speaker 1: You know, you you'd start the race and whatever order

532
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: they would end up in, you know, after turn one,

533
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Speaker 1: turn two, that was that's how they finished. And it

534
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,200
Speaker 1: was so boring for a long long time. So really

535
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Speaker 1: all of what mattered was how you qualified, because your

536
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 1: order of qualification dependent determines your order in the in

537
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 1: the starting for the race, and and if you weren't

538
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:56,880
Speaker 1: in that, you know, first place and after the second

539
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,680
Speaker 1: or third turn. Well, you know what place you're gonna get.

540
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: A course is very difficult to pass on. There's very

541
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 1: few passing zones, you know, for you to use to

542
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,439
Speaker 1: to manipulate. And and and uh, you know, it's gotten a

543
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:09,679
Speaker 1: lot better. If you haven't watched Formula One, and that

544
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,719
Speaker 1: was your argument against it, it's it's a lot different

545
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,159
Speaker 1: now if you watch. And and that is in uh,

546
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 1: in relation to some of the technologies that we can

547
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 1: we can talk about a little bit later, because there

548
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 1: are some advancements that have made they're racing a lot

549
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: more exciting for the fans to watch and a lot

550
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 1: more exciting for the drivers. I'm sure it's not it's

551
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 1: not you know, you don't you don't finish in the

552
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: order that you started exactly. Yeah, it's it's just it's

553
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,920
Speaker 1: a it's a much better race now. Yeah. And and

554
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 1: so at the end of the series of races, what

555
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 1: they do is they have points given out to the

556
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 1: top ten finishers of each Grand Prix of each race,

557
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 1: and then at the end of the season those points

558
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 1: are totaled up and whoever has the most is the

559
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 1: Grand Champion driver. But then you also have the winner

560
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 1: teams Instructor Championship Constructor Championships. Yeah, and then when you

561
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 1: get to that point, uh, if you're the company that

562
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 1: is making the vehicle, that is like sometimes you see

563
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 1: like one company just dominating the top sometimes top ten teams,

564
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 1: then that is where the value comes from that that company.

565
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 1: So for example, Mercedes has been doing quite well, um

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Speaker 1: in the last few years, and that ends up being

567
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 1: a really valuable tool for them because, as we've said before,

568
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 1: this really does help sell cars. If you're able to say, listen,

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Speaker 1: we make the cars where the elite drivers, not just

570
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Speaker 1: elite drivers who come from the same country that made

571
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Speaker 1: the cars, but other elite drivers who they want to play,

572
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 1: they want to drive for a winning team, they come

573
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 1: to us. That's a powerful advertising tools. Oh sure is. Yeah.

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00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 1: And you know what, as you mentioned Mercedes right now,

575
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 1: they are currently as we're recording this, they're they're number

576
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Speaker 1: one in the Constructor's Championship and uh, their driver, the

577
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: driver is Lewis Hamilton. He's number one in the Driver's

578
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 1: Championship as well. Obviously, I mean he's a in Mercedes. Yeah,

579
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: he has a brit and um he I think he's

580
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:06,320
Speaker 1: on his fifth title. At this point even and Mercedes

581
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 1: is also on their fifth title. They they're they're very

582
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Speaker 1: successful in the series, very successful, and as is. You know,

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Speaker 1: you'll find that Ferrari and McLaren, you know, they're they're

584
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 1: all they all have their moments, you know, they all have.

585
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Speaker 1: It's kind of this up down thing, you like, where

586
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 1: one team does dominate the series and and you'll find

587
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:26,479
Speaker 1: that this switches around routinely, not not not necessarily throughout

588
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 1: the season because once you once you do find that,

589
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 1: you know someone is dominating the season, Like I would

590
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 1: bet that Lewis Hamilton's gonna win his fair share of

591
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 1: the next ten races or however many or left as well,

592
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 1: and Mercedes along with him, of course, and it'll probably

593
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 1: just go the way you think it's gonna go. But

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00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 1: next year, who knows. From season to season, you've got

595
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 1: because you have so many people that are focusing on

596
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 1: ringing out every single little drop of performance you can

597
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 1: get out of these vehicles. And then on top of that,

598
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 1: you're pairing them with the best drivers in the world

599
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 1: who can endure the incredible amount of punishment they're going

600
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 1: to have dealt upon them. I mean, if you look

601
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 1: back at the history of Formula one racing and you

602
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 1: want to look at stories of drivers who have gone

603
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 1: through incredible trials and tribulations in the process of racing.

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00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 1: There's no shortage of those stories. I remember coming across

605
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 1: one of there was a a driver I want to say,

606
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: he was something like five ft three inches tall, this

607
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 1: from the classic days of racing, who uh was so

608
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 1: determined to race. Ferrari was actually begging him to withdraw

609
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: from a race because the car itself was starting to

610
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: fall apart, and it was one of these road races

611
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 1: from one say to another, and they were begging him

612
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 1: to to stop racing. He was racing on behalf of Ferrari,

613
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 1: and he said no, no, no. His Ferra said, I

614
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 1: was absolutely certain that his determination was to die behind

615
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 1: the wheel doing what he loved. Turned out, he ended

616
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: up having to eventually withdrawal from the race simply because

617
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 1: the car couldn't perform anymore. Yeah, he was, according to

618
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: the stories, coughing up blood but still wanted to race,

619
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 1: and he died. He died in bed five years later,

620
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 1: so it wasn't like he passed away immediately thereafter, but

621
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 1: he was in failing health and was still determined and

622
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 1: he was still winning too. He was twenty nine minutes

623
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: ahead of the next fastest car, significant distance. Yes, so

624
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: also shows you a lot of difference between this and

625
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: and say NASCAR racing. And again we're not we're not

626
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: trying to say one is better than the other. Obviously,

627
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 1: I don't know we keep saying that, but it's been

628
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 1: just to point out how different they are. Now. One

629
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 1: of the things I wanted to talk about before we

630
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: go to break is that the Formula one form factor

631
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 1: is very distinctive, very different from the look of stock

632
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 1: cars and other types of race cars. It's very low

633
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 1: to the ground as almost sort of this very wing

634
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: kind of design. And uh, the interesting thing to me

635
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 1: is that it's it's a wing, but it's a wing

636
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 1: that's meant to do the opposite of what an aircraft

637
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 1: wing is doing. Everything is about down force. You want

638
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: the car to stick to the ground, so the faster

639
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 1: you go, the more it adheres to the ground. And

640
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: of course the tires are gonna work with this as well. Um,

641
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:20,959
Speaker 1: the whole car is really a giant wing, you right,

642
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: that that provides down force instead of instead of lift.

643
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 1: And if you turn around, if you're going backwards in

644
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 1: this thing. That's the unfortunate thing. You get into a

645
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 1: turn and you turn, you spin around, and you're going

646
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 1: just as fast backwards. The problem is it becomes the

647
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: opposite problem to lift the car off. Yes, it happens

648
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 1: in uh, it happens in a lot of forms of racing.

649
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: You'll find that, you know, as soon as the car

650
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 1: spins around, the back end wants to come straight up

651
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 1: in the air on you. And that's that's an issue

652
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 1: with with any of these cars that you know, down

653
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 1: forces a major part of the design. But yeah, you're right,

654
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 1: it is. It's open, it's open wheel, it's open cockpit. Um,

655
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 1: that's changed just a tiny little bit. And I think

656
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 1: they're gonna go maybe even a little bit further with

657
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 1: this idea. But um, that's the whole halo thing that

658
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: we can talk about when we talk about technology. Um,

659
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,879
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's it's an interesting looking car, for sure.

660
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:11,879
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's definitely looks like a spaceship really,

661
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 1: and they're getting to the point where there are so

662
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 1: many facets and uh you know, um surfaces and and

663
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 1: every single bit of that car is engineered for speed

664
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 1: and for its ability to cut through the air and

665
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 1: to again provide down force. We're talking about the tiniest

666
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:32,240
Speaker 1: little components behind the wheels, We're talking about the side

667
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: pods that are next to the driver. I mean, every

668
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: little bit of this thing is is just tuned to

669
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: perfection for for it to be slippery through the air,

670
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 1: to conserve fuel, to go fast, to be lightweight. You know,

671
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:46,799
Speaker 1: it's all these things and every single factor is the

672
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 1: thought of and everything is um you know, scrutinized to

673
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 1: the point where if it doesn't belong, if it if

674
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 1: it has no purpose, of course it's not going to

675
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 1: be on the car. If it has UM. If it

676
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,360
Speaker 1: does have a purpose, it's going to be made lighter, somehow,

677
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 1: it's gonna be made more efficient, somehow, it's gonna be

678
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 1: made of a stronger material, but a lighter material. It's

679
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 1: going to be um, you know, slippery through the air.

680
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 1: As we said, you know, every every little thing is

681
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:14,280
Speaker 1: just is to the the tiniest, tiniest little minute detail

682
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 1: is scrutinized by every single person on that team. And

683
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,440
Speaker 1: and it makes for a fantastic vehicle, and and it

684
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 1: gets better and better every year. The problem is then

685
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 1: you know, f one will come back and say like,

686
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: we're gonna make some changes, and they change it. Now

687
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 1: your now your strategy is no longer applicable. No, and

688
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 1: you do have to change. And that change is something

689
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 1: that has a domino effect. You change something at the

690
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 1: front of the car, it not only affects that one

691
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:40,359
Speaker 1: little piece at the front of the car, it has

692
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 1: this domino effect on the aerodynamics of the car all

693
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 1: the way back to the tail end of it. And

694
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: that has to be kind of dealt with, almost a

695
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 1: total redesign every time. Yeah exactly, Well yeah, not almost,

696
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 1: I mean not quite. But you have to refine so

697
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,319
Speaker 1: many different things just because of that one little change

698
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 1: at the front of the car, and and that happens.

699
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 1: You know, they might change something in the middle of

700
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 1: the car and that affects everything from that point back. Um,

701
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 1: it's just there. There's so many things. Again, this whole

702
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 1: series is mind boggling. When you look at the rules,

703
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: you look at the way, um, everything again just has

704
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:14,959
Speaker 1: to be just just going over and over and over

705
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 1: and over again to make sure that everything is perfect. Man,

706
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 1: Well they are perfect. When we come back, we're going

707
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: to dive into that perfection a bit. We're gonna talk

708
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:26,360
Speaker 1: a little bit more about uh stuff like like, uh,

709
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 1: you know, I just learned before we came in here

710
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 1: that they don't do refueling anymore, because when I was

711
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:34,800
Speaker 1: looking at the old histories, they talked about refueling and

712
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 1: pit stops. We're gonna talk about pit stops, talk about

713
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 1: how much fuel these things carry, uh, and you know

714
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 1: that will tell you how efficient they have to be

715
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:47,319
Speaker 1: in order to complete these distances, because the distance for

716
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:51,360
Speaker 1: Formula one is considerable. And we'll talk about some of

717
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 1: this incredible technology that you find in the vehicles of

718
00:36:54,200 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 1: today when we come back. Now, Scott, before we uh

719
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 1: came into the studio, you know, we were talking about

720
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,439
Speaker 1: pit stops. I was actually talking about stuff I don't

721
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: understand in racing. I was like, you know, I even

722
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,400
Speaker 1: had to look up how pit stops work because I

723
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 1: know about pit stops. I know what they're meant to do,

724
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: but I was thinking, like, well, how does that work

725
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 1: in the in the sense of the action of the

726
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:25,400
Speaker 1: race as a whole, Like you're obviously off the track

727
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:28,839
Speaker 1: at that moment, you're no longer accumulating laps, You're you're

728
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:33,319
Speaker 1: having your car. Uh, having the tires usually replaced, that

729
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 1: sort of thing. How does that work in the context

730
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:38,239
Speaker 1: of the full race? Not thinking, oh wait, everybody else

731
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 1: also has to do that. So in the end it

732
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: ends up being how how fast and efficient your pit

733
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 1: stop crew can be. That's when you said, why don't

734
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 1: you take a look at like a typical Formula one

735
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 1: pit stop? And the video, by the way, guys, was

736
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:57,839
Speaker 1: fifty five seconds long. Ten seconds in, it was still

737
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 1: just the title picture. It was there were no there's

738
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 1: no video. Around twelve seconds in we saw the picture

739
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: of the PET crew. We didn't see a car pull

740
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 1: into the space till about thirty three seconds into this

741
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:13,359
Speaker 1: fifty second video. Uh, the car was at a full

742
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:15,720
Speaker 1: stop by thirty five seconds and the car was gone

743
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:19,319
Speaker 1: at thirty eight seconds. Within that span of thirty five

744
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: seconds to thirty eight seconds, the pet crew completely removed

745
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 1: and replaced all four tires on this Formula one race car.

746
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 1: And that's a relatively slow stop, yes. And then Scott

747
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 1: blew my mind by telling me how fast the fastest

748
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,919
Speaker 1: Formula one pit stop ever was, which happened this year?

749
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:39,760
Speaker 1: I think where was it was? The Grand Prix um

750
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,800
Speaker 1: in Great Britain. I think you'll remember exactly where it happened.

751
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:46,400
Speaker 1: But um, it was a one point nine second stop,

752
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 1: and that means four tires off, four tires on and

753
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 1: back out. And it's that fast. It's one point nine seconds. Um.

754
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 1: That's the world record time at this moment, and it's

755
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 1: probably gonna drop even more. Um. But it's an incredible

756
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: thing to watch. If you've never seen one, take a

757
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:03,880
Speaker 1: look at it, because and F one pit stop is

758
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:07,319
Speaker 1: a is a thing of beauty. It's it's so terrifying,

759
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: it is so choreographed, it's so it's so perfect in

760
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 1: every in every aspect. I mean, the way that the

761
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:16,439
Speaker 1: team handles themselves. It's it's completely different from any other

762
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: series in the way that they do this. Now we've

763
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:21,399
Speaker 1: taken out the complexity of adding fuel that does take

764
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 1: some time, not as much time as you might think,

765
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: you know, to add sometimes twenty plus gallons of fuel

766
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:28,799
Speaker 1: to a car, it only takes a few seconds. Really,

767
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 1: when when you when you compare that to your average

768
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 1: experience at a typical fuel pump, you might think, when

769
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 1: were we going to get that technology? You know, you

770
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,720
Speaker 1: don't want that technology. There's there's a lot of problems

771
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:45,879
Speaker 1: that come with with forcing plus gallons of fuel into

772
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 1: a car and you know in three seconds. Yeah, you

773
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 1: might think while you're standing there, I would really especially

774
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: if you're saying outside in the Georgia heat in the

775
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: middle of the day, refilling your car, you might think,

776
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 1: I would really like to get back in the air conditioning.

777
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:01,799
Speaker 1: But some things were be to trade off on. Yes, right,

778
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 1: it's a it's a lot easier. And they have just

779
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 1: switched over to this and I think they've done it

780
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 1: for a couple of years now. Uh, they've removed the

781
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: the idea that there are are refueling a car during

782
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,360
Speaker 1: the race so you feel up before the race and

783
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 1: after the race, of course, you know, during qualifying and

784
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: you know other other activities practice. Uh, they are allowed

785
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 1: to fuel in the pits, of course they have to,

786
00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 1: but during the race they just don't do it. The

787
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:27,360
Speaker 1: cars are designed so that they burn, or they're intended

788
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 1: to burn, and that's one of the f one regulations

789
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: is that you, um, your engine is only allowed to

790
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 1: burn a certain amount of fuel per hour, and they

791
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 1: calculated that out so that you know, during the race

792
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 1: it doesn't burn more than what you're able to carry

793
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:43,320
Speaker 1: and if it does, that means that your engine is

794
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,400
Speaker 1: running too rich anyway, and you're not supposed to be

795
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 1: doing that. You're you're in violation of the rules. So, um,

796
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 1: every car that's out there has enough fuel in them

797
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 1: from the very beginning to go the full distance without

798
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: having to do that. They just do the tires only,

799
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 1: and that's different right there. The other thing is that

800
00:40:58,000 --> 00:40:59,759
Speaker 1: you know they have like I think it's fourteen or

801
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:03,439
Speaker 1: six teen people out to do this procedure, this, this, this,

802
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:06,919
Speaker 1: you know stop. Yes, it's a much larger pet crew

803
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:09,400
Speaker 1: than you would see a NASCAR for example. Yeah, everybody

804
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,759
Speaker 1: has just one single job. And I know that in

805
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 1: a NASCAR, you know, there's a you know, they're very

806
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 1: specific jobs as well, or you know, an IndyCar or whatever,

807
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: but far fewer people are over the wall as they

808
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:21,919
Speaker 1: say in those in those sports. Now this one, there's

809
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:23,720
Speaker 1: a garage area and so they just kind of wander

810
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:25,799
Speaker 1: out into this this box, you know, where they pull

811
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 1: into to do the pit stuff. But um, fourteen or sixteen,

812
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 1: I can't remember the number of people that that do this.

813
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:33,800
Speaker 1: But um, you know, when you have one job, I

814
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 1: mean one job, all you do is your job is

815
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:38,359
Speaker 1: to remove the tire that comes in off the car

816
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 1: that was just on the track. That's it. Just take

817
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 1: the tire off once it's once the the wheel nut

818
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 1: is gone, which is another person's job. Wheel nut comes off,

819
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,400
Speaker 1: the wheel, night goes back on. You know, it's that's it.

820
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: And one person operates, of course, the front jack, the

821
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,280
Speaker 1: back jack, and you know there's there's people making adjustments

822
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,319
Speaker 1: and all that. But um, when you have there's was

823
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 1: it three or three maybe even four people per tire,

824
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 1: it's I think it's three per tire. It's one to

825
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 1: take it off, one person who's one person who's bringing

826
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 1: on the new tire, so they have the new tire,

827
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 1: they're waiting. Do you have one person whose job it

828
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 1: is to take the tire off, and then you have

829
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 1: one person whose job it is to remove and replace

830
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 1: the nuts. So just getting those three people in that

831
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 1: one tiny little area to operate and and function without,

832
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 1: you know, knocking each other over every time, it's incredible.

833
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:22,840
Speaker 1: It's really interesting to watch it, and I can't imagine

834
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 1: the countless hours they have to practice to make every

835
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 1: single move perfect. Right, you have to conserve your your

836
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 1: space because if you're not, then you're wasting time. Now

837
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 1: if you make if you make a pit stop, that

838
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:36,279
Speaker 1: is even let's say it's double the time that we

839
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 1: just talked about. Let's say it's it's three point eight seconds.

840
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:42,359
Speaker 1: That's a disaster. Yeah, I mean that's crazy to think about,

841
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 1: but three point eight seconds is a disaster because you're

842
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,840
Speaker 1: gonna have to make up that lost time someone else.

843
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 1: Even if you were in number one. If you're leading

844
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 1: by less than two seconds and the person behind you

845
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 1: when they have their pit stop is not taking nearly

846
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 1: as long, you know you've you've lost time. Pit strategy

847
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 1: is is really something fun to watch. And I know

848
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 1: that it sounds terribly boring when I just say it

849
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 1: like this, but when you're watching the race and you

850
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:09,359
Speaker 1: kind of get into it, you know, towards the end,

851
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 1: and you know, the pit strategy becomes so vital in

852
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 1: winning race in a lot of cases. Um, it's it's

853
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 1: it's there's far more to it than you might think. Really, yeah,

854
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:19,799
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's fascinating to watch. It's a game

855
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: of chess. We were talking a bit about the distance

856
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 1: you have to go, So the last thing I saw

857
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: about distances was that you would complete a number of

858
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 1: laps that are equivalent actually that exceed three five kilometers.

859
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 1: So the minimum of a Grand Prix is three kilometers,

860
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 1: with one exception, that exception being Monaco. In Monaco, it

861
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: is two hundred sixty and a half kilometers, a tighter

862
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 1: track there. Yeah, it's a smaller area as you can imagine.

863
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: Monica is not a very large was it was providence?

864
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 1: What is what is Monica? I don't even need a

865
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 1: principality to me, it's it's the most magical place on Earth.

866
00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 1: I visited it and it's amazing. I bet it is. Yeah,

867
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:01,919
Speaker 1: I loved beautiful. I'd love to go, it'd be cool.

868
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:04,879
Speaker 1: But but it is, it is very tight, and uh,

869
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:07,480
Speaker 1: Monica is a different race altogether, right. Well, And if

870
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:09,839
Speaker 1: you were to add another lap on there so that

871
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:14,440
Speaker 1: it would end up, you know, being closer to the

872
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:16,759
Speaker 1: correct distance, it would go too far. So it's one

873
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:18,480
Speaker 1: of those where you have to you know, you have

874
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 1: to make a call. And uh, but yeah, Monica is

875
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 1: pretty phenomenal. It's also whenever I see footage of the

876
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 1: race and Monico, it is terrifying to me to watch

877
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 1: these cars going down these these roads and and sometimes

878
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 1: you see people watching on not terribly far away from

879
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 1: where these cars are are rushing by, and more than

880
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 1: two or there on balconies kind of hanging over the track.

881
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 1: It's it's it's an interesting race. I love Monica. It's

882
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:46,799
Speaker 1: beautiful and um, it's fun to watch the race there

883
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 1: because it is so um, it's steeped in history as well.

884
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 1: You know, it's so tight and it's so fast, and

885
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 1: you get that real sensation of speed there um that

886
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 1: you might not get well you actually you know, you

887
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:59,279
Speaker 1: get it in a lot of road courses. But there's

888
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 1: just something magical about Monaco. It is. It's beautiful, it's

889
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 1: really interesting. Um, you don't you know, I don't know

890
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 1: where to go with this. I We've got so much

891
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 1: material here. I don't know if I'm overstepping my bounce.

892
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 1: But I would love to talk about the engine for

893
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:15,319
Speaker 1: just a moment. We can because the engine, and we

894
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:17,719
Speaker 1: haven't talked about cost or anything on this yet, so

895
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:20,560
Speaker 1: all right. I recently did a program on the on

896
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 1: the Fast Track about why there are five reasons why

897
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:26,520
Speaker 1: you can't put an F one engine into your road car,

898
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: Because a lot of people have engine swap questions and

899
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 1: like you said before, you don't really know a whole

900
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 1: lot about racing engines versus car engines, and they're dramatically different,

901
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 1: especially in F one engine that you can't just stuff

902
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 1: an F one engine into a road car and expected

903
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 1: to work. And there's a lot of reasons. It's probably

904
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 1: a hundred reasons why this wouldn't work, but the five

905
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna go through them super fast. If you

906
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:48,320
Speaker 1: want to hear it, I guess I can plug my

907
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:50,759
Speaker 1: own shill, right, you could go over to the fast

908
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 1: track and listen to the five reasons explained in more detail.

909
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:57,799
Speaker 1: But um, the first one is they're they're really hard

910
00:45:57,840 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 1: to start. Now, this is kind of tough to comprehend. Here.

911
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:03,880
Speaker 1: It a normal engine. You're able to attach a wrench

912
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 1: to it in the front and spin the engine. You're

913
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 1: able to make the pistons move up and down using

914
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: a large level. It does take some mechanical advantage to

915
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:13,440
Speaker 1: be able to do that, but you can spin your

916
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 1: own car engine that way. It's a lot like turning

917
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 1: the prop on an airplank. If you can imagine that

918
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: it's it's started, and you could theoretically turn it fast

919
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:22,280
Speaker 1: enough to start the car like the old crank starts,

920
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 1: but I don't want to do that so um with

921
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 1: quickly breaking in your body as it starts, absolutely shatter

922
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 1: your arms. Um this uh you know with the UP

923
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:37,400
Speaker 1: one engine, it's it's a lot different. You you cannot

924
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:40,959
Speaker 1: turn an F one engine when it's cold. They're they're

925
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 1: created with such a tight or high tolerance. They're engineered

926
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:48,080
Speaker 1: so uh precisely, like like a like a fine watch

927
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 1: or something like that. That I mean, they're so precisely

928
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 1: engineered and fitted together that the pistons are essentially seized

929
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 1: in the engine at at like the ambient temperature. So

930
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:00,399
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what the temperature is. How to hear

931
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:03,600
Speaker 1: it's it's you have to pump. You have to external

932
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 1: use external pumps to pump heated fluids through this thing.

933
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: You know, both coolant and the engine oil the lubricant,

934
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 1: and it has to be up to I think it's

935
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:15,759
Speaker 1: a hundred and seventy six degrees fahrenheit before you can

936
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:19,400
Speaker 1: even begin to move the pistons within the piston uh cylinders.

937
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 1: That's how tightly they are they are engineered. There's there's

938
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:25,759
Speaker 1: such precision machines and I had no idea that that

939
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:27,759
Speaker 1: was you know, a factor in this whole thing. So

940
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 1: you would not be able to just get into the

941
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:31,319
Speaker 1: car and start it up like you could a normal engine.

942
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 1: You would have to have these external pumps heat up

943
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 1: the engine and then you know, and then even then

944
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: you would have to have an external starting which is

945
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:40,719
Speaker 1: like a big drill that starts the whole thing. Um,

946
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:42,720
Speaker 1: you know, it spins it like you know, several thousand

947
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 1: rpm in order to get it even going. And even

948
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: then it's hard to start. It's it's difficult to get

949
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:49,319
Speaker 1: the fuel flowing correctly and all that. So this is

950
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 1: this is amazing. What it reminds me of is um,

951
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 1: how you start up jet engines, because a jet not

952
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:56,400
Speaker 1: not that it works on the same principle. These are

953
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:58,760
Speaker 1: two different principles, don't get me wrong. But to start

954
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:02,440
Speaker 1: a jet engine, you have to pump uh pressurized air

955
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:05,399
Speaker 1: through the jet engine because it's designed to operate once

956
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:09,239
Speaker 1: you are at a certain speed moving through the air.

957
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:11,959
Speaker 1: Well obviously on ground you're not moving through the air yet,

958
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:15,360
Speaker 1: so you can't get those turbines turning at the proper

959
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:19,799
Speaker 1: speed for it to be a self propelling reaction. Right,

960
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:23,959
Speaker 1: This idea that the turbines turn because of the outgoing

961
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:28,400
Speaker 1: uh exhaust from the jet engine, that that provides the

962
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:31,000
Speaker 1: turning force to keep the turbines coming to pull air

963
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:35,120
Speaker 1: through the engine, so you have to pump uh pressurized

964
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 1: air into it first, and typically you do that either

965
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:41,640
Speaker 1: using an auxiliary power unit or you have uh the

966
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:45,440
Speaker 1: little huffer carts that hook up to an engine. So

967
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:47,800
Speaker 1: to me, like when you started explaining this, I'm like, wow,

968
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 1: this sounds a lot like how it's hard to start

969
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:53,960
Speaker 1: a jet engine. It's just that we're talking about an

970
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:57,400
Speaker 1: internal combustion engine, not a jet engine. Obviously, sofers No,

971
00:48:57,480 --> 00:48:59,239
Speaker 1: there are differences, but that's fascinating that you have to

972
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:01,320
Speaker 1: have these ex turn old factors in order to begin

973
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 1: the thing, even to even start the process. And that's

974
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:05,760
Speaker 1: what this is. Um, all right, I know we're probably

975
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:08,400
Speaker 1: starting to run tight on time, so let's keep going.

976
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 1: I'm fascinated. As you might have guessed, they're not cheap.

977
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 1: And this is the first time we're gonna really talk

978
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 1: about prices here on this. I think this is the

979
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:19,800
Speaker 1: first time get this, and I this blew me away

980
00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:22,400
Speaker 1: talking about just the engine, just the price of the engine,

981
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 1: These range between seven point seven million and ten and

982
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 1: a half million dollars per per engine, just the for

983
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 1: just the engine. Another good reason why you weren't going

984
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:34,880
Speaker 1: to put these in a regular road car. Just one engine,

985
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 1: that's all we're talking about. So yeah, even I mean,

986
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:40,440
Speaker 1: any manufacturer would never be able to justify putting an

987
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:42,839
Speaker 1: engine like this in their car. Now, there are there

988
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 1: are some derivatives of an F one engine that have

989
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:48,920
Speaker 1: been have kind of showed up into road cars, you know,

990
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 1: like maybe the V ten engine that was used in

991
00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 1: an F one car. But it's not you know, meticulous,

992
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:57,840
Speaker 1: it's not as um um uh finally tuned, is not

993
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:00,759
Speaker 1: as you know, it doesn't have all of the components

994
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:02,800
Speaker 1: of the F one engine. Of course, it's just derived

995
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:04,800
Speaker 1: from it, right, It's it's the design of the F

996
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 1: one informed the design of this other engine exactly. And

997
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:10,680
Speaker 1: and these F one engines they spent at something like

998
00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:13,880
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand RPMs. They can go up to twenty RPMs,

999
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 1: which is like, I mean, that's that's like that's motorcycle

1000
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 1: or even faster RPMs in a in an engine for

1001
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:23,200
Speaker 1: a race car. If you if you saw that that

1002
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:26,239
Speaker 1: gauge on your dashboard you might flip out of this

1003
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 1: next one is what you're what you're talking about, it's cooling. Um.

1004
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 1: In order to keep these engines cool, you would have

1005
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:35,360
Speaker 1: to travel at such incredible rates of speed. And not

1006
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:37,800
Speaker 1: only that the design of your car would have to

1007
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:40,439
Speaker 1: be so dramatically different from what it is that that

1008
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 1: you would have to build these enormous side pods on

1009
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:46,319
Speaker 1: it with these huge radiators, and that would kind of

1010
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:50,319
Speaker 1: like negate any performance advantage you might have from such

1011
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 1: a strong engine. You're gonna you're gonna have such a

1012
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:55,200
Speaker 1: like a wacky design, I guess a better lass lack

1013
00:50:55,239 --> 00:50:56,960
Speaker 1: of a good way to say this, just to dissipate

1014
00:50:57,040 --> 00:50:59,800
Speaker 1: the heat that's coming off those those enormous side pods

1015
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:01,480
Speaker 1: on the car, the ones that are next to the driver,

1016
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:05,879
Speaker 1: those are big cooling pods. And and think of those

1017
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:08,680
Speaker 1: as having giant radiators inside them that are laid out

1018
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:10,960
Speaker 1: at kind of a forty five degree angle from the

1019
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:13,399
Speaker 1: front kind of laid down to the back. They're they're

1020
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:16,280
Speaker 1: really big. They're they're several feet long, and they're except,

1021
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:18,120
Speaker 1: you know, extremely as wide as they can make them,

1022
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:21,440
Speaker 1: really and that requires so much airflow over top of

1023
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:23,320
Speaker 1: them to keep it cool, you know, because these engines

1024
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:25,759
Speaker 1: run so hot, um that you know, you just would

1025
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:28,279
Speaker 1: it just wouldn't be possible to keep the amount of

1026
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:30,560
Speaker 1: incoming cooler that you would need to keep the engine

1027
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:34,040
Speaker 1: cool in a in a regular road car without dramatically

1028
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:37,319
Speaker 1: redesign everything. Um. We did talk about fuel a little bit,

1029
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:40,399
Speaker 1: and UM, I want to tell you that these are

1030
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:43,200
Speaker 1: designed you're not allowed to burn through more than one

1031
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 1: of petrol per hour of driving. So that's the limit

1032
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:50,239
Speaker 1: is a hundred liters per hour. That's about thirteen point

1033
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 1: two gallons of fuel. If you want to, um, you know,

1034
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 1: extrapolate what that what that hundred liters amounts to. Uh.

1035
00:51:56,600 --> 00:52:00,279
Speaker 1: They do carry around two leads for a rate stough,

1036
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 1: so that's a lot of fuel that they're carrying on

1037
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:04,319
Speaker 1: board fuels things. So they do get through the whole

1038
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:07,720
Speaker 1: race without without refueling. That's about sixty gallons of fuel

1039
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:09,799
Speaker 1: that they carry. And by the end of the race

1040
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:12,879
Speaker 1: they're probably running pretty low. If I had to guess, well, yeah,

1041
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:16,880
Speaker 1: because it's like the again, the time limit and max

1042
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 1: assuming there are no red flag stoppages, is two hours.

1043
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:23,480
Speaker 1: And this is surprising to me. The fuel mixture that

1044
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 1: they use is not terribly different from what you might

1045
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:29,000
Speaker 1: use in a road car. It's strange now you might

1046
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:30,680
Speaker 1: think that, you know, they're using some kind of crazy

1047
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 1: jet fuel or something, you know, like the people love

1048
00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:34,720
Speaker 1: to think that, you know, they're using rocket fuel or something.

1049
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:36,960
Speaker 1: It's really not that much different from what we use.

1050
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: It is. It is formulated a little different. It's very

1051
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:42,160
Speaker 1: specific per vehicle. And I'll tell you how they do that.

1052
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:45,840
Speaker 1: At the end of the race, they analyze um the oil.

1053
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 1: They take the engine oil from each car and they

1054
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:50,440
Speaker 1: take a sample of it and they run it to

1055
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:53,040
Speaker 1: their chemist, and their chemist looks at it for up

1056
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 1: to fifteen different types of metal that might be found

1057
00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:58,480
Speaker 1: in that oil at the end of a race, so

1058
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:01,440
Speaker 1: that that indicates where the wear is coming from. So

1059
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:03,799
Speaker 1: part of an engine is wearing a little bit prematurely,

1060
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:06,280
Speaker 1: causing metal flakes to break off and get into the oil.

1061
00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:09,239
Speaker 1: They know where that metal came from, because it might

1062
00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:11,080
Speaker 1: be the piston ring, it might be the piston itself,

1063
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:13,920
Speaker 1: it might be from you know, the the camshaft, you know,

1064
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 1: whatever bearings they have in there. They're able to determine

1065
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:20,879
Speaker 1: from the fifteen different types of metal where that wear

1066
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:23,400
Speaker 1: is coming from, and then they send that information to

1067
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:25,719
Speaker 1: the person who is is developing the fuel for them

1068
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 1: or the company that's developing the fuel, and then they

1069
00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 1: specially formulate the fuel for the next race in order

1070
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 1: to minimize the amount of where that happens and that

1071
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:37,359
Speaker 1: one part of the engine in the next race. Yes. Yes,

1072
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:40,319
Speaker 1: so that's how specific this gets. And you can imagine

1073
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:42,719
Speaker 1: that that's not cheap to do that. Yeah. Now, there

1074
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:46,840
Speaker 1: was a time before the the formalization of these rules

1075
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:50,680
Speaker 1: where there was a little bit more experimentation with with

1076
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:53,280
Speaker 1: car fuels, and that's probably where these stories about rocket

1077
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:56,799
Speaker 1: fuel and stuff come out of, largely from also Germany

1078
00:53:56,840 --> 00:54:00,359
Speaker 1: pre World War Two happened they experiment in a lot

1079
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 1: with that. But then there were rules that essentially said

1080
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:07,040
Speaker 1: that Formula one race cars were to run on petrol. Uh,

1081
00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:10,880
Speaker 1: it's just it's very precisely formulated petrol. Yeah, yeah, it's

1082
00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:13,879
Speaker 1: it's very exacting science. So it's not exactly what we're

1083
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:16,120
Speaker 1: thinking of when we go to the pump like hitting

1084
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:21,200
Speaker 1: Formula one. No, it's not not quite that simple, you know.

1085
00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're exact requirements for each one, and then

1086
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:26,960
Speaker 1: even then they fine tuned it throughout the season, extremely

1087
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:29,439
Speaker 1: fine tuned. The last one on this is of course

1088
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:31,720
Speaker 1: the lifespan of the engine. Now we've all seen races

1089
00:54:31,719 --> 00:54:34,040
Speaker 1: where a car goes out in h you know, two

1090
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:37,480
Speaker 1: laps in they developed some major problem and you know,

1091
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:39,959
Speaker 1: after all this money, all this everything we've talked about,

1092
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:42,600
Speaker 1: you know, they're there, I don't know, ten miles into

1093
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:46,240
Speaker 1: the race and there's catastrophic engine failure because they're they're

1094
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 1: subjected to so much pressure, so much, so much force

1095
00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:51,839
Speaker 1: is happening in these engines at this time. I mean

1096
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:55,560
Speaker 1: we're saying that you know, they spin around what pm.

1097
00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:58,319
Speaker 1: That means that the pistons are traveling up and down

1098
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:03,720
Speaker 1: about three time every second. Yeah, three times every single second.

1099
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:05,640
Speaker 1: So that's the type of pressures that we're talking about it.

1100
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:07,960
Speaker 1: I mean, we're saying, like I want to say, it's

1101
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 1: like fifteen thousand or d p s I is what

1102
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 1: those cylinders are subjected to every second. So a lot

1103
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:17,040
Speaker 1: of pressure in these things, and of course they have

1104
00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:18,840
Speaker 1: to be rebuilt all the time. And we know this

1105
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:21,719
Speaker 1: from racing. We've seen this in so many different series. Um,

1106
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:23,399
Speaker 1: you know, drag racing, and they practically do it every

1107
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:26,400
Speaker 1: quarter mile. They rebuild engines all the time, right, or

1108
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:29,480
Speaker 1: even less if it doesn't make it a quarter mile. Um,

1109
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 1: but most race cars can only last one maybe two

1110
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:34,040
Speaker 1: races at the most before they to be rebuilt. These

1111
00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:37,520
Speaker 1: are every race, and the maximum that they can reach

1112
00:55:37,560 --> 00:55:40,439
Speaker 1: is about maybe maybe two races at the most. They're

1113
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:43,600
Speaker 1: like sie miles, it's about a thousand kilometers. Is like

1114
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:47,760
Speaker 1: the maximum life at optimal conditions for an F one engine,

1115
00:55:48,200 --> 00:55:49,719
Speaker 1: Which means that if you were to put one of

1116
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:53,399
Speaker 1: these into your road car, think about you know how

1117
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:55,800
Speaker 1: many not only is it seven to twelve million dollars,

1118
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:58,800
Speaker 1: but seven to twelve million dollars every this many times.

1119
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you the average US person person puts

1120
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 1: thirteen thousand, four hundred and seventy six miles in a

1121
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:07,400
Speaker 1: car every year. That's average. If you own a vehicle,

1122
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:11,440
Speaker 1: that means that you would be rebuilding your engine twenty

1123
00:56:11,440 --> 00:56:14,040
Speaker 1: two times each year if you're average. Now most a

1124
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:15,640
Speaker 1: lot of people, of course, are gonna be way above

1125
00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:18,800
Speaker 1: that average. We're gonna be under, but twenty two times

1126
00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:20,879
Speaker 1: per year, you're spending seven and a half to ten

1127
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:23,320
Speaker 1: and a half million dollars, So I'm gonna need to

1128
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 1: sell some more girls, do you see what I mean? Like?

1129
00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:28,640
Speaker 1: And again, if you want more detail on all this,

1130
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:30,839
Speaker 1: and maybe you don't, maybe that was way too much

1131
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:32,719
Speaker 1: to be it's not. But if you go and if

1132
00:56:32,719 --> 00:56:34,120
Speaker 1: you want more detail on this, you can go to

1133
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:36,239
Speaker 1: the Fast Direct show and listen all about it. But

1134
00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:40,680
Speaker 1: I find the numbers in Formula one to be just

1135
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:45,080
Speaker 1: fascinating and the dollar amounts. And should we just briefly

1136
00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:47,360
Speaker 1: talk about the car, yeah, because we've we've started it

1137
00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:51,200
Speaker 1: with the engines. Let's talk about how expensive this kind

1138
00:56:51,239 --> 00:56:54,720
Speaker 1: of vehicle is when you're looking at it soup to nuts,

1139
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:56,880
Speaker 1: and then we'll also talk about I mean, you can

1140
00:56:56,920 --> 00:57:00,800
Speaker 1: also mention things like that's one expense, right, one expense

1141
00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:04,319
Speaker 1: is just the vehicle, But then beyond that, you have

1142
00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:07,879
Speaker 1: to actually pay money to be part of this whole experience.

1143
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:11,720
Speaker 1: So there are companies that are spending mind boggling amounts

1144
00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:16,000
Speaker 1: of money on participating in Formula one. Yeah, and so

1145
00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:18,040
Speaker 1: for some of the smaller teams, if you want to

1146
00:57:18,040 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 1: call them that, the ones that aren't in the upper echelon, uh,

1147
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:24,240
Speaker 1: they're spending right around twitter and fifty million dollars a

1148
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:27,120
Speaker 1: year to be part of F one for one season,

1149
00:57:27,160 --> 00:57:31,280
Speaker 1: so a quarter of a billion dollars per year, and

1150
00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:35,160
Speaker 1: to be in this and if you're happen to be

1151
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 1: working for Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes, Red Bull, you know, the

1152
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:41,840
Speaker 1: top teams in the series. Right now, we're talking about

1153
00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:45,240
Speaker 1: four hundred plus million dollars every single year and a

1154
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:46,800
Speaker 1: lot of that. Of course, this goes into the car.

1155
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 1: It takes you know, between it's gonna I'm gonna say,

1156
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:51,360
Speaker 1: I see a number here that's a little bit low,

1157
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:53,200
Speaker 1: given that we just learned that, you know, the engine

1158
00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:55,280
Speaker 1: is ten and a half million. Sometimes I'm going to

1159
00:57:55,400 --> 00:58:00,120
Speaker 1: say that, um, anywhere between twelve and fifteen million dollars

1160
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:02,960
Speaker 1: per vehicle per car. So when you see, you know,

1161
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:04,960
Speaker 1: an F one car that's destroyed in an accident on

1162
00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:07,840
Speaker 1: the track, you're talking about, you know, between twelve and

1163
00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:10,200
Speaker 1: fifteen million dollar loss to the team. They might be

1164
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:12,040
Speaker 1: able to salvage a few parts here and there, but

1165
00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:15,920
Speaker 1: essentially it's a twelve to fifteen million dollar loss at

1166
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:18,560
Speaker 1: that point. Um. Then of course that doesn't happen often

1167
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:20,800
Speaker 1: where they lose every single bit of the car, but

1168
00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 1: they do lose parts and and I've got a list

1169
00:58:22,840 --> 00:58:24,919
Speaker 1: here of the parts, and I will not go over

1170
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:27,240
Speaker 1: every part of this, but this kind of blew my

1171
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:29,640
Speaker 1: mind when I saw this. You know, how often, uh

1172
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:31,400
Speaker 1: do you see where an F one car goes out

1173
00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:33,000
Speaker 1: on the track and they hit a little bit of debris,

1174
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 1: you know, something that not a tired necessarily, but something

1175
00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:38,520
Speaker 1: that's on the track. They bump a corner or whatever,

1176
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:41,440
Speaker 1: another car even Um, you know that front wing is

1177
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:43,240
Speaker 1: designed to come right off and right back on. They

1178
00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:45,040
Speaker 1: do it super quick. They can do it in a second,

1179
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:48,480
Speaker 1: two seconds, whatever it takes, it's super fast. That part,

1180
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:51,400
Speaker 1: that front wing part can cost be anywhere between one

1181
00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:54,480
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand to two hundred and thirty five

1182
00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:56,480
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. It's kind of beginning to feel like I'm

1183
00:58:56,520 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 1: in the wrong business. Like two wings a year, king,

1184
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:06,479
Speaker 1: you know the thing Like, Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna

1185
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:08,840
Speaker 1: wrap up with with another one in in a moment

1186
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:10,840
Speaker 1: here because I want to show you something in specific.

1187
00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:13,439
Speaker 1: But um, if the transmission in the car we talked

1188
00:59:13,440 --> 00:59:15,360
Speaker 1: about the engine already, the transmission in the car can

1189
00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:18,840
Speaker 1: can be up to six hundred thousand dollars. UM. You know,

1190
00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:20,919
Speaker 1: if you're on a lower end team, you're only paying

1191
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:23,560
Speaker 1: only about four hundred thousand for that. But if you

1192
00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:25,560
Speaker 1: want to upgrade, you know, you you're gonna have a

1193
00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:28,000
Speaker 1: six h thousand dollar engine. That's for the top teams. Again,

1194
00:59:28,040 --> 00:59:30,200
Speaker 1: the fuel tank alone, just because of the way it's

1195
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:33,040
Speaker 1: designed and with the materials made of hundred and forty

1196
00:59:33,040 --> 00:59:34,840
Speaker 1: thou dollars and that's kind of like again a low

1197
00:59:34,920 --> 00:59:38,480
Speaker 1: end tank. The the carbon fiber monocoque design, you know,

1198
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 1: which is essential to the safety of the driver and

1199
00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:44,760
Speaker 1: the structure of the car itself. That's very expensive and

1200
00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:48,000
Speaker 1: teams won't scrimp on that. There are lower cost options,

1201
00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:50,840
Speaker 1: I believe, but most teams are paying around six hundred

1202
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:52,919
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars for that. And of course, once

1203
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 1: it's damaged, it's done. You don't get you don't get

1204
00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:58,520
Speaker 1: to reuse that. That has to be replaced UM, as

1205
00:59:58,600 --> 01:00:01,080
Speaker 1: is with with most of these parts. UM there's the

1206
01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:04,439
Speaker 1: halo device, which is that crazy thing that goes over

1207
01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:07,360
Speaker 1: there over their heads now kind of blocks in the

1208
01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:11,520
Speaker 1: um UM. It protects the um exposed helmet and head

1209
01:00:11,640 --> 01:00:14,560
Speaker 1: of the of the driver. That's something that I wish

1210
01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:16,320
Speaker 1: we had more time to talk about. Really it's a

1211
01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:19,600
Speaker 1: pretty fascinating piece of tech that that I just love

1212
01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:21,760
Speaker 1: the tech that goes into these cars. I really do.

1213
01:00:21,960 --> 01:00:25,520
Speaker 1: There's that is uh it's designed to hold the weight

1214
01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:28,280
Speaker 1: of a double decker bus, a London double decker bus.

1215
01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:29,800
Speaker 1: If you were to just set it on top of it,

1216
01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:32,720
Speaker 1: I think it's like twenty six thousand five pounds. It

1217
01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:35,000
Speaker 1: can withstand that. And it's designed again like if a

1218
01:00:35,080 --> 01:00:37,360
Speaker 1: you know, a tire is coming at the driver. If

1219
01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:39,960
Speaker 1: it's it's an outside company that builds it, they build

1220
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:42,280
Speaker 1: kind of like the it's it's made out of um

1221
01:00:42,320 --> 01:00:43,840
Speaker 1: oh gosh, I have a note here. It's made out

1222
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:48,080
Speaker 1: of like platinum. I think, um, that's not cheap. No, no,

1223
01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:51,480
Speaker 1: it's not cheap. And you know I do have a note.

1224
01:00:51,520 --> 01:00:53,439
Speaker 1: I'll have to I'll find it here in just a moment.

1225
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:56,560
Speaker 1: But it's a it's like a certain aerospace grade platinum

1226
01:00:56,680 --> 01:01:00,640
Speaker 1: level five something. It's it's crazy, it's really really expensive

1227
01:01:00,640 --> 01:01:03,560
Speaker 1: and it's it's um it's it's kind of a heavy item,

1228
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 1: but it's essential for their safety because it is this

1229
01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:08,560
Speaker 1: open cockpit and they have had so many, um, you know,

1230
01:01:08,680 --> 01:01:10,439
Speaker 1: incidents where a tire has come up, or a piece

1231
01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:13,280
Speaker 1: of suspension or a full car you know, has come

1232
01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:15,240
Speaker 1: up and landed on the on the other vehicle, and

1233
01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:17,200
Speaker 1: of course you know, with your your helmet, your head

1234
01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:20,640
Speaker 1: exposed there. It's it's a really dangerous type of racing.

1235
01:01:20,720 --> 01:01:24,640
Speaker 1: This open cockpit. I mean, that's that's been part of

1236
01:01:24,680 --> 01:01:27,280
Speaker 1: the Formula one history. Two is the fact that it's

1237
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:31,400
Speaker 1: been a very dangerous sport, one in which in the

1238
01:01:31,400 --> 01:01:34,560
Speaker 1: early years of Formula one racing, not a whole lot

1239
01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:38,280
Speaker 1: of thought was given to drivers safety necessarily. It was

1240
01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:41,320
Speaker 1: you know, that was not It was sort of considered

1241
01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:43,680
Speaker 1: it's kind of like the space race in many ways,

1242
01:01:44,200 --> 01:01:46,880
Speaker 1: and that it was thought that that if you were

1243
01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:49,880
Speaker 1: the type of person to pursue a career in that space,

1244
01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:53,440
Speaker 1: you were a thrill seeker, and it was the the

1245
01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:56,200
Speaker 1: the importance of racing and going fast was more important

1246
01:01:56,200 --> 01:02:01,880
Speaker 1: than uh, doing you know, safety features like you have astronauts.

1247
01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:05,160
Speaker 1: You you can listen to interviews with astronauts about well

1248
01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:08,480
Speaker 1: do you worry about like how dangerous this is? Like

1249
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:13,440
Speaker 1: I'm no, I'm I'm I have I feel compelled to

1250
01:02:13,480 --> 01:02:16,040
Speaker 1: do this, And the same thing was sort of thought

1251
01:02:16,040 --> 01:02:18,480
Speaker 1: of in the old racing days was that, Yeah, you know,

1252
01:02:18,880 --> 01:02:21,840
Speaker 1: safety be great now, but that's not what we're worried about. Well,

1253
01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:24,439
Speaker 1: you know, I can tell you now, I found this note. Um.

1254
01:02:24,480 --> 01:02:27,240
Speaker 1: It is the strongest part of the car, and that

1255
01:02:27,280 --> 01:02:30,520
Speaker 1: shows you, It tells you how much they're you know,

1256
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:34,680
Speaker 1: firmly um backing this idea that driver's safety is becoming

1257
01:02:34,680 --> 01:02:37,320
Speaker 1: more and more and more important as the decades progress.

1258
01:02:37,360 --> 01:02:39,880
Speaker 1: In Formula one and in the sixties, they were a

1259
01:02:39,880 --> 01:02:41,400
Speaker 1: little bit more lax with that type of thing. And

1260
01:02:41,400 --> 01:02:43,880
Speaker 1: that's why drivers like Jackie Stewart and several others that

1261
01:02:44,120 --> 01:02:46,880
Speaker 1: other names that you would recognize, uh, that they really

1262
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:50,080
Speaker 1: they protested. They they sat out races, they didn't race

1263
01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:53,280
Speaker 1: in certain places because they were losing friends every month.

1264
01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:57,480
Speaker 1: Then the reason why we saw changes was largely because

1265
01:02:57,600 --> 01:03:01,080
Speaker 1: the drivers and the races were starting to demand changes. Yeah,

1266
01:03:01,080 --> 01:03:03,320
Speaker 1: the cars were getting so fast, so fast, and the

1267
01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:07,040
Speaker 1: tracks were so fast, and the safety standards just weren't there.

1268
01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:09,800
Speaker 1: They just weren't protecting the drivers the way that they

1269
01:03:09,840 --> 01:03:12,960
Speaker 1: should and and Jackie Stewart realized this and several other

1270
01:03:13,040 --> 01:03:15,920
Speaker 1: racers did as well. There's there's a lot of information

1271
01:03:15,920 --> 01:03:17,920
Speaker 1: out there on Jackie Stewart and what he did to

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01:03:18,360 --> 01:03:21,160
Speaker 1: kind of push safety forward in Formula one, and it's

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01:03:21,200 --> 01:03:24,520
Speaker 1: a huge leap forward for the drivers and the safety

1274
01:03:24,520 --> 01:03:27,240
Speaker 1: and you know, just kind of their overall well being.

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01:03:27,280 --> 01:03:29,320
Speaker 1: I guess. And I found UM this note about the

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01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:31,160
Speaker 1: Halo and I'm sorry, I think I said. Did I

1277
01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:33,640
Speaker 1: say platinum? I hope I didn't say platinum when I

1278
01:03:33,680 --> 01:03:38,280
Speaker 1: when I said what material was? It's it's a mandatory

1279
01:03:38,520 --> 01:03:45,800
Speaker 1: UM device. Obviously it's aerospace industry grade five titanium probably

1280
01:03:45,840 --> 01:03:48,280
Speaker 1: does yeah, UM, but it can again, it can withstand

1281
01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:50,120
Speaker 1: the weight of that London double decker bus, which is

1282
01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:54,560
Speaker 1: like twenty It is incredible. It is the strongest part

1283
01:03:54,600 --> 01:03:56,320
Speaker 1: of the car at this point. And again that's a

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01:03:56,400 --> 01:03:59,320
Speaker 1: that's a nod to safety. UM. Another piece of tech,

1285
01:03:59,640 --> 01:04:02,120
Speaker 1: A couple pieces of tech that UM finally written a

1286
01:04:02,200 --> 01:04:05,560
Speaker 1: tech right type stuff. UM. You know, they have biometric

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01:04:05,560 --> 01:04:08,000
Speaker 1: gloves that the drivers were. Now I don't know if

1288
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:09,600
Speaker 1: you knew this or not. We didn't talk about this,

1289
01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:13,000
Speaker 1: but they the drivers wear biometric gloves and this is

1290
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:16,400
Speaker 1: actually a safety feature because it facilitates the medical response

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01:04:16,520 --> 01:04:18,960
Speaker 1: to the driver when they're you know, if there's a

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01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:22,160
Speaker 1: medical situation that's happening, and the driver doesn't even really

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01:04:22,160 --> 01:04:24,440
Speaker 1: know what's happening yet. It registers in these gloves with

1294
01:04:24,560 --> 01:04:28,320
Speaker 1: pulse rate UM. It's also got UM what's the oxygen

1295
01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:31,360
Speaker 1: level in your blood blood? It measures that UM. But

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01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:33,760
Speaker 1: it will tell them as they approached the vehicle, you know,

1297
01:04:33,760 --> 01:04:36,360
Speaker 1: if it's been in an accident, the driver's condition and

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01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:38,400
Speaker 1: what to look for. You know, don't know pretty much

1299
01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:40,520
Speaker 1: exactly what's going on with that driver at that point,

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01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:44,120
Speaker 1: whether they've got a pulse, whether they don't. Unfortunately a

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01:04:44,160 --> 01:04:45,960
Speaker 1: lot of times they don't. I mean, these these rex

1302
01:04:46,040 --> 01:04:48,600
Speaker 1: are pretty severe when they do happen. You're going on

1303
01:04:48,680 --> 01:04:51,520
Speaker 1: incredible speeds in a in a vehicle that's still even

1304
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:56,200
Speaker 1: with the added safety features, it's very design is one

1305
01:04:56,280 --> 01:05:00,520
Speaker 1: that you could easily see there there'd be some pretty

1306
01:05:00,560 --> 01:05:04,160
Speaker 1: catastrophic injuries if there is a crash. And I didn't

1307
01:05:04,160 --> 01:05:06,880
Speaker 1: mean to step over your your discussion about the space race,

1308
01:05:06,960 --> 01:05:09,160
Speaker 1: and you know the astronauts and how they I mean,

1309
01:05:09,200 --> 01:05:12,040
Speaker 1: but these guys they know going into this, just like

1310
01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:15,040
Speaker 1: just like the astronauts, they know going into this that

1311
01:05:15,160 --> 01:05:17,760
Speaker 1: they're in it for the whole thing. It's either it's

1312
01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:20,680
Speaker 1: all or none for them, and there's always that chance

1313
01:05:20,800 --> 01:05:23,480
Speaker 1: every single time. And it's not being overly dramatic. It's true.

1314
01:05:24,320 --> 01:05:26,440
Speaker 1: Every single time they get into that car, it could

1315
01:05:26,480 --> 01:05:28,240
Speaker 1: be the last time they get into that car. And

1316
01:05:28,520 --> 01:05:31,040
Speaker 1: they know it, and as does as do the astronauts.

1317
01:05:31,080 --> 01:05:33,120
Speaker 1: They know it, they know what they're in for, but

1318
01:05:33,160 --> 01:05:35,520
Speaker 1: they knowingly take the risk because you know, the reward

1319
01:05:35,600 --> 01:05:38,240
Speaker 1: for them is so great that they decide that, you know,

1320
01:05:38,280 --> 01:05:39,640
Speaker 1: this is something I want to do and I want

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01:05:39,640 --> 01:05:42,360
Speaker 1: to dedicate my life to this, really, so they've got

1322
01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:44,560
Speaker 1: these these biometric gloves. One of the things that I've

1323
01:05:44,600 --> 01:05:48,240
Speaker 1: also noticed about Formula one race cars is, uh, the

1324
01:05:48,240 --> 01:05:50,920
Speaker 1: steering mechanism is very different from what you would see

1325
01:05:50,920 --> 01:05:54,000
Speaker 1: in a standard vehicle. Have you been peaking at my notes? No,

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01:05:54,160 --> 01:05:57,040
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about pictures I've seen of these crazy

1327
01:05:57,400 --> 01:05:59,919
Speaker 1: steering mechanisms. Do you remember early on when we set

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01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:01,400
Speaker 1: down and I said, I'm gonna turn this piece of

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01:06:01,400 --> 01:06:03,400
Speaker 1: paper over on the desk here so you can't see

1330
01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:05,080
Speaker 1: what it is. That is what it is. It's a

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01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:06,920
Speaker 1: steering wheel. And I don't know what's more complex, my

1332
01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:09,920
Speaker 1: notes around the steering wheel or the steering wheel itself.

1333
01:06:09,960 --> 01:06:12,400
Speaker 1: But the steering wheel in a Formula one car is

1334
01:06:12,520 --> 01:06:15,560
Speaker 1: incredibly complex. And the thing is, I've watched a lot

1335
01:06:15,560 --> 01:06:18,800
Speaker 1: of videos about this, and the buttons really do make

1336
01:06:18,880 --> 01:06:21,200
Speaker 1: sense when you have a driver described to you what

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01:06:21,280 --> 01:06:23,120
Speaker 1: they are. Right. So, if you were to look at

1338
01:06:23,120 --> 01:06:25,160
Speaker 1: a picture of this, because you know, obviously this being

1339
01:06:25,160 --> 01:06:27,640
Speaker 1: an audio podcast, you aren't given the benefit of what

1340
01:06:27,760 --> 01:06:29,720
Speaker 1: Scott just showed me, which was a picture of this,

1341
01:06:30,280 --> 01:06:33,000
Speaker 1: it looks kind of like a video game controller in

1342
01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:36,160
Speaker 1: a way, right. It's it's calling it a wheel seems

1343
01:06:36,360 --> 01:06:41,160
Speaker 1: uh like it would be misdirection because it's not a

1344
01:06:41,160 --> 01:06:43,880
Speaker 1: full wheel shape. You've got the you've got the little

1345
01:06:43,880 --> 01:06:45,520
Speaker 1: bit of the wheel on the left and right sides.

1346
01:06:45,800 --> 01:06:47,479
Speaker 1: But it really does look kind of like a video

1347
01:06:47,480 --> 01:06:49,760
Speaker 1: game controller, almost like it has a screen in the

1348
01:06:49,840 --> 01:06:53,400
Speaker 1: in the Front's got some dials and some buttons that

1349
01:06:53,480 --> 01:06:57,880
Speaker 1: are an easy reach where of your hand placement. I

1350
01:06:58,080 --> 01:07:01,520
Speaker 1: see now that there are clutch buttons on the wheel itself,

1351
01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:05,480
Speaker 1: which is interesting. I have no idea what the rest

1352
01:07:05,480 --> 01:07:07,000
Speaker 1: of these things do. So tell me a little bit

1353
01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:09,840
Speaker 1: about this. I'll make it quick because there's way too

1354
01:07:09,920 --> 01:07:11,919
Speaker 1: much to cover here. This is his own podcast. Really

1355
01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:14,960
Speaker 1: that the tech that's involved in in a Formula one

1356
01:07:14,960 --> 01:07:18,040
Speaker 1: steering wheel is unbelievable. Their videos about this, there's a

1357
01:07:18,080 --> 01:07:20,400
Speaker 1: lot of online articles about it. And in fact, I

1358
01:07:20,400 --> 01:07:22,640
Speaker 1: will tell you that the price of the steering wheel,

1359
01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:24,880
Speaker 1: it probably would not surprise you to hear that this

1360
01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:29,200
Speaker 1: is expensive as well, between fifty and one thousand dollars

1361
01:07:29,240 --> 01:07:31,160
Speaker 1: per wheel. Now, a lot of racers, a lot of

1362
01:07:31,240 --> 01:07:34,600
Speaker 1: drivers for each car will have up to three different wheels.

1363
01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:37,800
Speaker 1: They'll have a primary wheel that they normally use, they'll

1364
01:07:37,800 --> 01:07:39,720
Speaker 1: have a backup, you know, just in case something happens,

1365
01:07:39,720 --> 01:07:41,840
Speaker 1: you know, during an accident or whatever, you know, practice

1366
01:07:41,920 --> 01:07:44,800
Speaker 1: or just malfunctions. And then they'll also have a lot

1367
01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:49,480
Speaker 1: of times an experimental wheel that then loads on new buttons,

1368
01:07:49,520 --> 01:07:52,320
Speaker 1: has new systems, new settings, that type of things, you know,

1369
01:07:52,320 --> 01:07:55,240
Speaker 1: So the buttons do different things, and it's it's less

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01:07:55,280 --> 01:07:57,240
Speaker 1: complicated than you might think. I mean, when you're looking

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01:07:57,240 --> 01:07:59,800
Speaker 1: at it, it's extremely complicated. But the drivers learn this

1372
01:08:00,320 --> 01:08:03,400
Speaker 1: very quickly. They understand every single function of it, and

1373
01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:06,280
Speaker 1: it's all within reach, and it's it's all customized to them.

1374
01:08:06,360 --> 01:08:09,200
Speaker 1: The hand grips are customized. They're formed to their hands

1375
01:08:09,240 --> 01:08:11,320
Speaker 1: so they fit exactly in their hand, it's not. It's

1376
01:08:11,320 --> 01:08:13,800
Speaker 1: not a one size fits all thing. They're all different shapes,

1377
01:08:13,800 --> 01:08:17,719
Speaker 1: they're all different sizes, and the buttons are essentially the same.

1378
01:08:17,760 --> 01:08:19,400
Speaker 1: I mean there's I mean, I gotta go through every

1379
01:08:19,400 --> 01:08:21,360
Speaker 1: single one again. But you know, there's like a radio

1380
01:08:21,439 --> 01:08:23,799
Speaker 1: button as you might expect. There's a neutral and reverse

1381
01:08:23,840 --> 01:08:26,479
Speaker 1: button for the car, so you don't um inavertly run

1382
01:08:26,479 --> 01:08:27,920
Speaker 1: over your crew as you pull into the pit. You know,

1383
01:08:27,960 --> 01:08:30,840
Speaker 1: you can get neutral. There's the pit lane speed limitter,

1384
01:08:30,880 --> 01:08:33,600
Speaker 1: which is limited to either eighty kilometers per hour or

1385
01:08:33,720 --> 01:08:36,439
Speaker 1: sixty depending on the track and how much space you have.

1386
01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:40,680
Speaker 1: Each track has its own pit lane speed. There's um

1387
01:08:41,040 --> 01:08:43,639
Speaker 1: there's a button for something called the drag reduction system,

1388
01:08:43,640 --> 01:08:45,960
Speaker 1: which we haven't even talked about. But drag reduction system

1389
01:08:46,040 --> 01:08:49,000
Speaker 1: is like movable aerodynamic wing on the back of the car.

1390
01:08:49,160 --> 01:08:51,000
Speaker 1: So it's like the elements you would see on an

1391
01:08:51,080 --> 01:08:55,880
Speaker 1: on an aircraft. Yes, yes, it's like the flight surfaces

1392
01:08:55,960 --> 01:08:59,240
Speaker 1: on wings and tails of aircraft. Yes. And you can

1393
01:08:59,320 --> 01:09:02,240
Speaker 1: reduce your drag by by pushing this button. And there

1394
01:09:02,240 --> 01:09:04,559
Speaker 1: are certain parameters where drivers allowed to do that, but

1395
01:09:04,600 --> 01:09:06,960
Speaker 1: it's controlled by the driver with a button on this

1396
01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:09,760
Speaker 1: wheel and it's really it's just the flap on the

1397
01:09:09,760 --> 01:09:13,040
Speaker 1: rear wing that gives you an aerodynamic advantage in order

1398
01:09:13,080 --> 01:09:15,200
Speaker 1: to pass the car that's in front of you. And

1399
01:09:15,240 --> 01:09:17,519
Speaker 1: you have again the parameters are like certain zones on

1400
01:09:17,560 --> 01:09:19,840
Speaker 1: the track that you're able to use this. And I

1401
01:09:19,880 --> 01:09:21,880
Speaker 1: think you have to be within one second of the

1402
01:09:21,920 --> 01:09:23,400
Speaker 1: car in front of you in order to push the

1403
01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:27,880
Speaker 1: button one second following speed. Now, UM, I guess that's

1404
01:09:27,920 --> 01:09:30,040
Speaker 1: up to you know, F one rulemakers. You know exactly

1405
01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:31,439
Speaker 1: how close you were when you use this. But it

1406
01:09:31,439 --> 01:09:33,599
Speaker 1: does give it give you advantage and it promotes passing.

1407
01:09:33,920 --> 01:09:35,200
Speaker 1: So that's one of the things they've done to make

1408
01:09:35,200 --> 01:09:38,280
Speaker 1: it a little more exciting. Um. There are differential settings

1409
01:09:38,320 --> 01:09:42,000
Speaker 1: that are for entry and exitive turns, and this changes

1410
01:09:42,080 --> 01:09:44,720
Speaker 1: the balance of the car while you're driving it, so

1411
01:09:44,840 --> 01:09:48,560
Speaker 1: you can kind of promote um, you know, additional additional oversteer,

1412
01:09:48,600 --> 01:09:51,439
Speaker 1: additional understeer, whatever you like. You can kind of fine

1413
01:09:51,479 --> 01:09:54,240
Speaker 1: tune the car as you're driving it. Um. There are

1414
01:09:54,280 --> 01:09:57,040
Speaker 1: of course, you know, there's there's clutch operation for gear shifts.

1415
01:09:57,040 --> 01:09:59,160
Speaker 1: Of course, that's what you saw earlier. There's paddles on

1416
01:09:59,200 --> 01:10:02,160
Speaker 1: both sides up and down. Uh, there's an overtake button,

1417
01:10:02,320 --> 01:10:06,599
Speaker 1: there's a messaging buttons. There's it seems like there's of course,

1418
01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:09,720
Speaker 1: there's an energy recovery harvesting button, which wants that, you know,

1419
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:11,800
Speaker 1: you can gain that little extra boost of power if

1420
01:10:11,840 --> 01:10:14,280
Speaker 1: you need it for passing. Uh. There's the button to

1421
01:10:14,680 --> 01:10:18,360
Speaker 1: listen to your favorite ieheart radio podcasts. There's the one

1422
01:10:18,360 --> 01:10:20,679
Speaker 1: that has a little hard on it. The most confusing, Yeah,

1423
01:10:20,720 --> 01:10:24,080
Speaker 1: that's right, that's funny. The most confusing ones to me

1424
01:10:24,120 --> 01:10:25,960
Speaker 1: are the dials. There are dials at the bottom that

1425
01:10:26,040 --> 01:10:29,160
Speaker 1: have you know, like tire presets or chassis presets, and

1426
01:10:29,240 --> 01:10:31,120
Speaker 1: you can kind of fine tune the chassis that way.

1427
01:10:31,160 --> 01:10:33,280
Speaker 1: But it's not just a button. The driver has to

1428
01:10:33,280 --> 01:10:36,080
Speaker 1: remove his hands from the wheel, his biometric glove from

1429
01:10:36,080 --> 01:10:39,000
Speaker 1: the wheel, and fine tune the chassis and the tires

1430
01:10:39,040 --> 01:10:41,040
Speaker 1: and you know all this. It's it's just it's a

1431
01:10:41,080 --> 01:10:45,120
Speaker 1: fascinating feature to this whole thing, and you can control

1432
01:10:45,200 --> 01:10:46,960
Speaker 1: so much from it. I can. I can understand why

1433
01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:49,959
Speaker 1: it's expensive, but yeah, I don't know, fifty dollars expensive.

1434
01:10:50,400 --> 01:10:53,600
Speaker 1: It's I mean that's the price of a car's just

1435
01:10:53,680 --> 01:10:55,360
Speaker 1: that wheel. Get up to a hundred thousand, that's the

1436
01:10:55,360 --> 01:10:57,920
Speaker 1: price of a small house, you know, and and they

1437
01:10:57,960 --> 01:11:00,479
Speaker 1: need three per vehicle. I mean, it's it's it's incredible.

1438
01:11:00,840 --> 01:11:04,400
Speaker 1: The prices are just insane. But I love the series overall.

1439
01:11:04,439 --> 01:11:06,519
Speaker 1: I think, as you've been able to tell, I've I've

1440
01:11:06,600 --> 01:11:08,760
Speaker 1: gone on and on here for probably far too long,

1441
01:11:09,600 --> 01:11:12,200
Speaker 1: but I I am. I'm a big Formula One fan.

1442
01:11:12,280 --> 01:11:13,840
Speaker 1: I hadn't watched it for a long time. I kind

1443
01:11:13,840 --> 01:11:17,280
Speaker 1: of got back into it last season. And the problem

1444
01:11:17,320 --> 01:11:19,840
Speaker 1: here in the United States is that oftentimes the races,

1445
01:11:19,880 --> 01:11:23,840
Speaker 1: because they're being held many times over in Europe, they

1446
01:11:23,920 --> 01:11:26,400
Speaker 1: might start at you know, six in the morning here,

1447
01:11:26,960 --> 01:11:29,000
Speaker 1: you know, when it's like a midday race there, and

1448
01:11:29,080 --> 01:11:31,000
Speaker 1: so that makes a little difficult to watch unless you're

1449
01:11:31,040 --> 01:11:33,960
Speaker 1: recording it right and I have in the past record

1450
01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:35,720
Speaker 1: of them. But if I happen to be up on

1451
01:11:35,760 --> 01:11:39,439
Speaker 1: Sunday morning at six am, usually that's what's on my screen.

1452
01:11:39,880 --> 01:11:41,720
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. I mean, like I said, just the

1453
01:11:41,720 --> 01:11:45,559
Speaker 1: watching the videos that I've seen, uh, it really does

1454
01:11:46,600 --> 01:11:51,960
Speaker 1: bring together that that necessary combination of incredible engineering and

1455
01:11:52,000 --> 01:11:58,920
Speaker 1: technology and amazing like laser focus for everybody involved on

1456
01:11:58,960 --> 01:12:03,000
Speaker 1: that team, whether it's the driver or the crew, it's

1457
01:12:03,000 --> 01:12:07,400
Speaker 1: it's phenomenal, how synchronized everything has to be in order

1458
01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:11,200
Speaker 1: to ring out every thousandth of a second you can,

1459
01:12:11,600 --> 01:12:14,439
Speaker 1: because that could be the difference between coming in first

1460
01:12:14,520 --> 01:12:16,800
Speaker 1: or second. Sure, and you know we are I think

1461
01:12:16,800 --> 01:12:18,439
Speaker 1: we say this every time, or at least I do

1462
01:12:18,479 --> 01:12:20,040
Speaker 1: on my show. Anyways, this is kind of the tip

1463
01:12:20,080 --> 01:12:23,320
Speaker 1: of the iceberg. Yeah, there's there's so much tech that

1464
01:12:23,439 --> 01:12:26,840
Speaker 1: is crammed into these cars. Their their entire sections. On

1465
01:12:26,880 --> 01:12:28,240
Speaker 1: the f one site, if you go to f one

1466
01:12:28,280 --> 01:12:30,920
Speaker 1: dot com, you can look up just the technical information

1467
01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:35,160
Speaker 1: and just the technical advantages that have been created or

1468
01:12:35,280 --> 01:12:38,760
Speaker 1: or um um, you know, fine tuned just this year

1469
01:12:38,800 --> 01:12:41,639
Speaker 1: by certain teams, and you can go back in different years.

1470
01:12:41,640 --> 01:12:44,439
Speaker 1: You can look at teens upgrades and seventeens, and you

1471
01:12:44,439 --> 01:12:47,840
Speaker 1: can look at historical documents, and there's so much information

1472
01:12:47,920 --> 01:12:50,320
Speaker 1: available in the series. And it's just again, if you're

1473
01:12:50,320 --> 01:12:51,920
Speaker 1: a tech person, and I would guess that you would

1474
01:12:51,920 --> 01:12:54,960
Speaker 1: be listening to this podcast, Uh there there is more

1475
01:12:55,040 --> 01:12:57,400
Speaker 1: tech here than you can imagine. It's just it's a

1476
01:12:57,439 --> 01:13:00,400
Speaker 1: fascinating series. It is amazing. It is amazing. Saying now,

1477
01:13:00,439 --> 01:13:01,840
Speaker 1: there's a couple of things I want to say before

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Speaker 1: we sign off. One of those is that I did

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Speaker 1: mention I was gonna briefly explain the difference between Formula

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Speaker 1: one and Formula two racing. The biggest difference is that

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Speaker 1: in Formula two racing, every team is racing with the

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Speaker 1: same car, essentially the same basic type of vehicle and engine.

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Speaker 1: So there's no differentiation there. And the idea is to

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Speaker 1: create a more level playing field and also to reduce

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Speaker 1: the cost of entry um. And if you go to

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Speaker 1: Formula three and Formula four, as you go up the numbers, uh,

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Speaker 1: then you'll see that the barrier to enter is slightly lower.

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Speaker 1: By lower, I mean it's in the hundreds of thousands

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Speaker 1: of dollars instead of the millions of dollars. So it's

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Speaker 1: so your mileage may vary. You're not buying a ten

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Speaker 1: and a half million dollar engine for your Formula four car. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So it's also kind of it becomes sort of almost

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Speaker 1: a league, a farm league for for future Formula one drivers.

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Speaker 1: There's only so many Formula one drivers who are allowed

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Speaker 1: to participate per year. Yeah, so f one scouts not

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Speaker 1: only will they go to other series and look for

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Speaker 1: Draft one drivers, people that are are talented in their

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Speaker 1: own series, whether that's uh gosh, you could even be NASCAR,

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Speaker 1: could be Indycarcart, could be any of those series. But

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Speaker 1: they often will go to, you know, the Formula two

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Speaker 1: series and take a look at you know, who's who's

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01:14:19,320 --> 01:14:23,040
Speaker 1: the young rising star that series, right, and maybe we

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Speaker 1: try them out and add them to the team next

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Speaker 1: season for the Formula one team. Yeah. Here, here the keys.

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Speaker 1: It's not keys, but here's the uh, let's just say

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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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Speaker 1: NASCAR drivers, lot of juniors over in NASCAR. You know,

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Speaker 1: maybe maybe you'll have a lot of the thirds maybe,

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01:14:52,640 --> 01:14:54,639
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 the history

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Speaker 1: of Grand Prix racing. But that's something that you and

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Speaker 1: Ben covered at great length in a previous episode of

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Speaker 1: Car Stuff, and I want people to be aware of

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01:15:09,800 --> 01:15:12,080
Speaker 1: that because if you really. I mean, this is an

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Speaker 1: 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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Speaker 1: the evolution of the sport. And so yeah, I want

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Speaker 1: to do you do you have that episode? I do,

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Speaker 1: And you know what, there might even be drama in

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01:15:30,640 --> 01:15:33,960
Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm not sure. I mean, it's it's sort

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01:15:34,000 --> 01:15:36,479
Speaker 1: of a drama queen, not between Ben and Ei. There

1527
01:15:36,560 --> 01:15:37,800
Speaker 1: might be a little bit of drauma. You never know.

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01:15:38,080 --> 01:15:40,559
Speaker 1: But we did actually a two part series on this.

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01:15:40,640 --> 01:15:43,320
Speaker 1: We did How Formula One Works. So, um, if you

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Speaker 1: search how Formula one Works on Car Stuff Show dot

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01:15:46,640 --> 01:15:50,000
Speaker 1: Com in the the search box up there, you will

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Speaker 1: find back in May, we did that two part series

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01:15:53,680 --> 01:15:57,000
Speaker 1: and it's roughly you know, I think you're about minutes

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01:15:57,040 --> 01:15:59,639
Speaker 1: each and uh, and I think it's it's a pretty

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01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:01,600
Speaker 1: good look back at Grand Prix racing and then of

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01:16:01,600 --> 01:16:03,720
Speaker 1: course Formula one and some of the players and some

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01:16:03,800 --> 01:16:06,640
Speaker 1: of the uh, the rules. And of course now we're

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01:16:06,680 --> 01:16:08,960
Speaker 1: six years beyond this, so you know, what we're talking

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01:16:09,000 --> 01:16:10,720
Speaker 1: about right now is a little bit different than what

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01:16:10,760 --> 01:16:12,960
Speaker 1: it was back then. But essentially the history is never

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01:16:12,960 --> 01:16:16,360
Speaker 1: going to change, obviously, so you're gonna get a full

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01:16:16,400 --> 01:16:17,760
Speaker 1: story there if you want to go back and look

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Speaker 1: at that, and awesome, thank you for referring to them

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01:16:19,680 --> 01:16:22,680
Speaker 1: to absolutely always use some more views on that one, right, Yeah,

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01:16:22,920 --> 01:16:25,120
Speaker 1: and you know it never hurts to get that download

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01:16:25,200 --> 01:16:27,960
Speaker 1: number popping up a couple of months as good. Why not.

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01:16:28,560 --> 01:16:30,559
Speaker 1: It's been fun, but yeah, it's also I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: to to nail this home. I mean, we know that

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Speaker 1: in twenty the it'll be different from twenty nineteen, Like

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01:16:37,120 --> 01:16:39,640
Speaker 1: there'll be different rules that will come into play, and

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01:16:39,680 --> 01:16:43,160
Speaker 1: it'll it'll end up putting teams in a in a

1552
01:16:43,800 --> 01:16:47,280
Speaker 1: you know, a scramble to get everything finally tuned, and

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01:16:47,400 --> 01:16:49,960
Speaker 1: we'll see that progression happened throughout the season as well.

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01:16:50,400 --> 01:16:54,120
Speaker 1: I know the fans are already talking one they're talking

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01:16:54,120 --> 01:16:56,920
Speaker 1: about rules and potential rules and you know what that's

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01:16:56,920 --> 01:16:59,240
Speaker 1: gonna mean. And fans love to talk about this stuff

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01:16:59,240 --> 01:17:00,880
Speaker 1: and you know, to argue about it. It's it's it's

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01:17:00,920 --> 01:17:02,720
Speaker 1: it's it's really kind of fun to get into the

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01:17:02,720 --> 01:17:04,639
Speaker 1: forums and read about some of this stuff and you're

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01:17:04,680 --> 01:17:06,560
Speaker 1: just you know, kind of kind of lurk there in

1561
01:17:06,560 --> 01:17:09,080
Speaker 1: the background and watch what's going on. Yeah, I mean,

1562
01:17:09,160 --> 01:17:12,320
Speaker 1: and here here is a baseball fan. I thought, just

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01:17:12,479 --> 01:17:16,240
Speaker 1: getting into arguments about the designated hitter rules passionate and

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01:17:16,280 --> 01:17:19,320
Speaker 1: I've got nothing on race car fans. They do get

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01:17:19,520 --> 01:17:22,200
Speaker 1: they do get passionate, get intense, they do they get intense.

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01:17:22,479 --> 01:17:25,400
Speaker 1: That's a good word for it. And maybe we'll even

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Speaker 1: do a deeper dive on tech in Formula one in

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01:17:27,880 --> 01:17:30,599
Speaker 1: the in the near future, kind of really dive into

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01:17:30,640 --> 01:17:32,840
Speaker 1: some of this stuff a bit more. But I felt

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Speaker 1: like for the first episode it was more important to

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01:17:34,840 --> 01:17:37,960
Speaker 1: get kind of that general overview, like obviously, like we've

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01:17:37,960 --> 01:17:39,479
Speaker 1: been going on for a while, we could go on

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01:17:39,680 --> 01:17:43,960
Speaker 1: for another two hours just about the tech. Uh. And

1574
01:17:44,080 --> 01:17:47,160
Speaker 1: so Scott, I may tap on your shoulder one day

1575
01:17:47,560 --> 01:17:49,439
Speaker 1: and say, hey, how about we go in and finish

1576
01:17:49,479 --> 01:17:52,160
Speaker 1: what we started perfectly fine? And I hope I didn't

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01:17:52,160 --> 01:17:54,880
Speaker 1: stretch your show out too long here on I'm fine

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Speaker 1: with it. Is the one who's you know, she's the

1579
01:17:56,520 --> 01:17:58,599
Speaker 1: one who's yelling at me. Yeah, she's ready to go home.

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01:17:58,880 --> 01:18:01,040
Speaker 1: I've got I've got a lot to say about the series,

1581
01:18:01,120 --> 01:18:02,759
Speaker 1: as you can tell. I've I've been an open wheel

1582
01:18:02,880 --> 01:18:05,439
Speaker 1: racing fan my whole life. I love Indy Car um

1583
01:18:05,520 --> 01:18:07,479
Speaker 1: Formula one a little bit less than any car, but

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01:18:07,840 --> 01:18:09,400
Speaker 1: I'm still a big fan, as you can tell. And

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01:18:09,520 --> 01:18:11,840
Speaker 1: it's just it's all fascinated to me. I could talk

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01:18:11,840 --> 01:18:14,160
Speaker 1: for hours about this stuff. I really could. And I

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01:18:14,160 --> 01:18:15,639
Speaker 1: think you and I just have kind of a good

1588
01:18:15,680 --> 01:18:17,920
Speaker 1: report and we're able to go back and forth with

1589
01:18:17,960 --> 01:18:20,479
Speaker 1: the stuff pretty good. We have conversations like this at

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01:18:20,479 --> 01:18:22,680
Speaker 1: our desk all the time. Absolutely. That's why I was like,

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01:18:23,040 --> 01:18:25,080
Speaker 1: I need to get Scott back into the studio. And

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01:18:25,120 --> 01:18:29,240
Speaker 1: then Michael tweeted me and I was saying, Hey, where's

1593
01:18:29,280 --> 01:18:31,760
Speaker 1: that Formula one podcast? You promised me ages ago? And

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01:18:31,800 --> 01:18:35,120
Speaker 1: I thought this is the perfect opportunity. Michael. I appreciate

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01:18:35,200 --> 01:18:36,759
Speaker 1: it too, because I love to get into the studio

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01:18:36,760 --> 01:18:38,960
Speaker 1: and talk about this stuff. It's fun. Yeah, it was great,

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01:18:39,080 --> 01:18:41,200
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, Well we'll come back to this in

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Speaker 1: a future episode and we will cover more about the

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Speaker 1: the space age technology that's that are in these vehicles

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01:18:49,240 --> 01:18:53,400
Speaker 1: and how that again helps contribute to the amazing performance

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01:18:53,439 --> 01:18:57,799
Speaker 1: we see. How about how titanium is not platinum. Listen, Scott,

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01:18:57,840 --> 01:19:00,679
Speaker 1: if we want to go down a list of things

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01:19:00,720 --> 01:19:02,800
Speaker 1: that have been said on this podcast that turned out

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01:19:02,840 --> 01:19:05,760
Speaker 1: to not be accurate. We're gonna be here for a

1605
01:19:05,880 --> 01:19:08,040
Speaker 1: very long time because I've been doing this for more

1606
01:19:08,040 --> 01:19:10,160
Speaker 1: than a thousand episodes, and I make a gaff at

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01:19:10,240 --> 01:19:14,120
Speaker 1: least once a show. Perfectly fine. I think it's that's acceptable. Yeah, No,

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01:19:14,280 --> 01:19:18,639
Speaker 1: we're we're We're well under the threshold. We're fine, alright.

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Speaker 1: So guys, if you have any suggestions for future episodes

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Speaker 1: of tech Stuff, you can reach out via email the

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01:19:24,360 --> 01:19:26,960
Speaker 1: addresses tech stuff at how stuff works dot com, or

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01:19:27,040 --> 01:19:29,080
Speaker 1: you can pop on over to our website that's tech

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01:19:29,160 --> 01:19:32,439
Speaker 1: stuff podcast dot com. You'll find an archive of all

1614
01:19:32,479 --> 01:19:34,760
Speaker 1: of our past episodes there, you'll find where we are

1615
01:19:34,760 --> 01:19:37,280
Speaker 1: on social media over there, and you'll find a link

1616
01:19:37,360 --> 01:19:39,760
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01:19:39,800 --> 01:19:42,040
Speaker 1: to help the show, and we greatly appreciate it. And

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Speaker 1: I'll talk to you again really soon. Text Stuff is

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