WEBVTT - Formula 1 - 101 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:07.240 Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production of I Heart Radios, 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:14.640 How Stuff Works. Pay there, everybody, and welcome to Tech Stuff. 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:17.599 I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer with 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:19.720 How Stuff Works and I heart radio and I love 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:24.560 all things tech, and today we are tackling a listener request. 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:29.200 Michael Peach asked me ages ago if I could talk 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:33.159 about Formula one race cars? Formula one racing, what's it 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.440 all about? How does that work? And I thought, you know, 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:39.760 I'm not really a car guy, like I've done car 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:44.800 topics before, but it requires an enormous amount of research 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:48.519 on my part because I don't I don't really know cars, 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.600 so it it's it's like it's extra work for me. 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:55.040 Not that I don't, you know, mind doing some extra work, 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.240 but that's asking a lot. And then I thought, wait 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:00.600 a minute. There's a dude who literally sits on the 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.440 other side of the table from me at our workstations. 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:07.160 His name is Scott Benjamin and he's not doing anything. 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.480 So I'm just gonna grab him and pull him into 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:12.080 the studio. Scott, welcome to the show. You just say, 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:15.160 not doing anything? Okay, that's totally Scott's doing a lot 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.800 of stuff. I'm doing some stuff over yeah. Now and then, 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:21.120 so Scott, first of all, tell our listeners what you 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:23.800 have been doing, because they may not be aware of 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.360 the shows you're working. Well. First, thank you for having 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:28.039 me on your show. I really appreciate it. Every time 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:30.119 I'm here, I have a good time. So let's keep 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:33.480 that up. Okay, absolutely on this, And uh, I've been 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.040 working on some other stuff. I've been gosh for a 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:38.640 couple of years. I've been doing some true crime stuff. Yeah, 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.200 you might. You might recognize Scott's voice if you've listened 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:45.520 to Monster for example. Yeah, Voice of the Zodiac. And 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:47.920 I've got my own show, which is called Insomniac. I've 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:49.640 been doing that and that was kind of wrapping up 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:51.840 right around now. And I've got a couple of a 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:53.760 couple of car shows that are coming up soon and 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:55.640 one has already been released. The other one we're kind 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.880 of holding off on. But um, it's no secret. I 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:02.400 don't think we are. We're going to re release car stuff. 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.440 I'm gonna come back on the show just me, just myself. 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.440 Ben will not be with me, and I'll explain all 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.720 of that at the beginning of the of the series, 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.480 and there's no big fight or anything like that, but 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:15.720 just Ben and I are always in a big fight. 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:18.320 But you're Ben, You're you're You're still you're still close. No, no, 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:20.280 so yeah, we're still tight and everything. He's just got 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:22.359 a lot going on now, more than more than a 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:24.320 lot of us do. So, uh, there's that. And then 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.720 I also have another show called The Fast Track, and 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:28.959 The Fast Track is a lot like car stuff, only 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:33.280 it's it's more focused on things that go fast, people 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:37.240 to go fast, ways that we go fast. Um, just components, 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:41.160 you know, race series, anything about speed and going quickly 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.160 and how we can get there faster, and that's that's 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:46.760 what it's all about. Awesome, So you are clearly the 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:50.040 go to guy if we're gonna talk about Formula One, 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.640 and uh, in the interest of full disclosure, guys, I 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:55.840 was not joking when I say I'm not a car guy, 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:59.000 and I'm certainly not a race car guy. I've I've 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:01.760 never really watched racing. I mean I'm aware of it 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:06.560 from the sort of the cultural touchstones that are out there, 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.320 and uh, you know, I'm aware that there are different 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.240 kinds of racing. You know, there's the Formula one. There's 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.880 stock car racing. You know, there's there's NASCAR, which is 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.360 sort of an offshoot of the stock car racing. But 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:23.440 beyond that, I wouldn't have necessarily been able to differentiate them. 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.720 And I didn't really know much about Formula one before 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.400 looking back into this, apart from you know, seeing it 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:33.320 in movies and stuff. Uh. And I remember joking with 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:35.760 you Scott this morning, I said, well, to me, the 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:40.000 history of race car, uh, driving race cars and and 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.160 and races in general kind of boil back to the 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:47.200 day the second car rolled off the manufacturing plant and 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:49.520 people started wondering, I wonder which of these two can 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.480 go faster? It's essentially true, but it really did happen 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:54.160 that way. I mean, that's that's what it was. As 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:57.080 soon as there were enough cars to get together, they 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:58.920 started a race or so you would get to a 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.840 certain point fast. Yeah. And a lot of those early 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:05.080 races it wasn't even just about speed. It was because 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.960 cars were so new. It was literally seeing which one 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:12.880 of these can actually make that trip? There were reliability tests, right, like, 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:16.560 like will this car actually make this this trip? From 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.440 it was almost always Paris to something else, like the 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:25.520 French were gaga that's French for walsa for for car racing. Uh. 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.680 And in fact, the the history of Formula one, if 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:32.320 you look at it, really has its roots in an 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:38.599 earlier part of racing, the whole grand pre concept, right absolutely, yeah, Yeah, 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:40.440 So we're talking about you know, turn of the century, 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.800 turn of the twentieth century, yea. And more than the 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:46.440 early early dawn of automobiles is when we're talking about, 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:48.640 you know, the racing beginning like you were talking about, 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:50.520 you know, when there's just more than a few in 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:52.440 a field and they're trying to get somewhere or trying 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.039 to you know, prove their endurance by by you know, 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.560 racing twenty six miles or whatever it was. You know 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.520 it took some all day, Yeah, because they're their top 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:04.039 speed might be like fifteen kilometers an hour, yeah, exactly, 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.520 And and the roads and the conditions and the vehicles 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.760 themselves and just there's so many factors that go into 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:12.640 why these races were just um, it's just brutal on 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:15.320 the person that was you know, in the driver's seat, 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.240 were in the passenger seat, and mechanics seed or however 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:19.719 you want to put it. Um. A lot of times 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:21.800 you know, it came down to what the driver could stand. 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.040 There was these are open cockpit cars, and they were 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:26.560 they were really really punishing on the person that was driving. 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.480 The wheels were not inflatable tire wheels because the road 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.080 first of all, those had not really been invented yet. Also, 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:36.440 the roads certainly were not uh in good enough shape 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.920 to allow that kind of wheel to last for very long. No, 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.479 these are wagon trails. Yeah, so you're talking about like 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:45.880 hard rubber wheels or sometimes like metal wheels on these things. 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.240 You know, so you can imagine if you've ever been 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:51.440 in a bumpy car ride, that's not even coming close 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:54.440 to what this experience was. Yeah, exactly. You know, the 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:56.880 tires were not pneumatic tires or binding means, so a 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.240 lot of times they were really really rough ride. But 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.680 you know, the racing did begin early, early in the 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:06.080 night or rather the twentieth century, and by the time 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:09.040 you get to round you know, the nies, nineteen thirties, 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.159 things have gotten a lot better, I mean a lot better. 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.760 We're we're talking some enormous engines, maybe not the highest 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:18.000 horsepower output, but they are strong. I mean, they're putting 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:21.880 aircraft engine in cars at this point in race cars, 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.599 I should say, because you know they're obviously they're not 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:26.560 a street car. There, there's something a little bit more 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:29.000 than that. They're they're throwing you know, V sixteen engines 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.680 into cars, and you know, the manufacturers are starting to 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:33.960 get into it and they're realizing that people are you know, 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:37.840 taking note of the manufacturers that win the race, or 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.560 you know, they're they're proving that reliability, they're proving their speed, 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:43.240 they're proving you know, just what that they're they're backing 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.400 their product. They're they're throwing it out there for everybody 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.120 to see. And of course that translates to sales, and 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:51.560 racing has always translated to sales for for automakers, and 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.000 that's exactly why they get into it. And you know, 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.239 early on, you know, we're we're here to talk about 0:06:56.320 --> 0:07:00.280 Formula one, and uh, early on in the is that 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.880 we're talking about, there was no Formula one, right right 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:07.480 at this point, you had some formula in this sense 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:11.480 refers to a set of rules, right, so you would 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.640 have different sets of rules for different races, but they 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:18.000 changed all the time. In fact, Formula one rules have 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:22.320 changed significantly since they were introduced. They changed weekly. Yeah, 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:24.360 to the point where you're like, why are you calling 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:28.560 it a formula. It's kind of like the flavor of 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:31.880 the week at this point, changing formula, But exactly it's 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:35.800 it's it's no coke classic. But the the formulas are. 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:41.080 The rules were usually things like they would govern how 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.560 heavy your vehicle could be, and then generally the capacity 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:49.400 of the engine. And there were some stretches where even 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.200 that was thrown out the window. There were the so 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:56.960 called Formula libre years, where that means formula free, right, 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.280 so you didn't have those restrictions. That really was around 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.680 when that happened. And this was also around the same 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:09.360 time where to build these race cars it was a 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:12.960 really expensive endeavor. And we'll get into costs like modern 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.960 day costs later on, because while it was expensive back then, 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:21.400 it was peanuts compared to what it is today. I mean, 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.120 you've only shared with me a couple of figures. I 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.240 wanted to save the best for the show because I 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:31.400 think you'll hear my jaw hitting the desk multiple times. 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:36.080 But the car manufacturers started to pull out around the 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:40.000 late twenties early thirties UH in order to focus on 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:43.600 building out their their consumer cars. Because that's really when 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.880 consumer vehicles were starting to take off and you started 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:52.479 seeing the rise of these specialty manufacturers, the Ferraris, the Bugattis, 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:55.080 the Maserati's. And here there's a couple of interesting things 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:57.920 I want to point out about that, about those those 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:01.080 manufacturers that are stepping in because um, you know, and 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.000 we should say this too, that you know, up until 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:06.120 this point it's been called grand Prix racing, Grand prix 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.240 motor racing, I think, is how they actually said it. 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.840 In Grand Prix of course means I think that means 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:14.080 like great prize in French. Right, So big old, big 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.960 old honk and prize. Yeah, yeah, that's right, big trophy, right, 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:19.480 that's that's what you win. And uh and so you know, 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.480 early days of this type of racing, it was called 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.240 Grand Prix racing. There was no Formula one up until 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:27.320 a point that we're gonna get to in just a 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:30.199 moment here. But manufacturers were starting to step in there 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:33.320 like um um, like Ferrari and f Is a great 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:36.720 example is because he really just wanted to go racing. 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:38.320 That's all I wanted to do. He didn't want he 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.000 didn't want a road car, and he had to build 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:43.400 a certain number of road cars at a certain point 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.319 in order to fund his racing program. That's what he did. 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.560 So he started to build a company to fuel his 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:53.040 racing ad exactly. Yeah, so Ferrari, the birth of Ferrari 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:56.040 is really because of his desire to go racing. He 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.640 wanted to you know, the best racing machine. But he 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:02.280 had to build and sell cars to the to the 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:05.840 public in order to fund that program. And it kind 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:07.760 of became this uh, I don't know what you call it, 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.000 the way it's kind of this back and forth where 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.000 you know, it's like a balancing act like if I 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.880 if I build okay, if I build twenty cars this year, 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.280 I can afford to race one more season. If I 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:20.320 build eight cars next year, I'll be able to afford 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.600 another race car and do it for two more seasons 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:24.559 or three more seasons or whatever. And it just became 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:26.000 this thing that grew and grew and grew, and the 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:29.000 team's got bigger, the cars got more expensive and faster, 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.120 and he was more competitive on the track, and he 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.720 had to build more rate more street cars, which he 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.240 didn't really enjoy at first. He didn't want to do that. 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.120 He just just wanted the racing programs, and I know, 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.679 and it's it's crazy, isn't it. That Like now when 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:43.800 you look at Ferrari, they're a fantastic rowd card. Of course, 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.720 they've got a great racing program still, of course, I mean, 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:50.040 that's what the whole company is based on. But you know, 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:53.760 they do build some incredible and just incredible street machines 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:57.120 as well, and you know they always were great, just 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:59.400 he was just more doing it, I guess, just out 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:03.360 of his own own selfish needs really, you know, early 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.600 on the initial days. Well, and this also kind of 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:07.439 ties in and we're talking a lot about the pre 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:10.400 Formula one days because it's really important to understand why 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:13.960 Formula one came around when it did in those pre days. 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.360 So in the very early years you had sort of 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:20.920 French domination in in these in these races of France 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:24.480 was uh, first of all, France was hosting most of 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:28.920 the Grand Prix races and also was fielding at least 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.800 half the vehicles in most of these races as well, 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.760 so clearly they were going to dominate. After that, you 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.160 started to see the rise of the Italian vehicles with 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:40.800 the Ferraris coming in and really starting to challenge that, 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:44.319 and then following that you started to see Germany really 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:48.360 push hard to get into this space too with German engineering, 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:53.160 and this became not just a sports thing but a 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:56.400 political thing because it's if you're paying attention, this is 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.200 the same as the rise of Hitler, and Hitler was 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:04.680 very much determined to have Germany's profile raised in all 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:08.800 fields of engineering and science, largely as a sort of 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.520 a domination play. And you know, we also saw this 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:13.839 in the Olympics. We saw it in also any place 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.560 where Germany was going to have a place on the 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.280 world stage. Hitler one Germany to be at the very 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:23.160 top of that. And so you saw a lot of pressure, 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:27.000 a lot of state sponsored programs in Germany to try 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:31.560 and and boost their own performance in the UH in 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:34.920 the racing world. Although I should also add that even 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:39.920 states sponsored only covered part of the cost of developing 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.440 these vehicles, because that's how expensive they were. You couldn't 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:45.640 even have an entire country behind you instill compete. You 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:48.000 had to have more money than that, sure, and that's 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.960 why we see teams often come and go in the series, 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.680 and even now a lot of teams just simply can't 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.760 afford to compete, and we're talking about major, major manufacturers. 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:58.720 They just don't see enough return on investment and a 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.360 lot of times and or they may have come into 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:03.360 it with only the plan to operate in there for 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:07.080 a few years, learn what they can and then get out. Yep. 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:10.760 So through all this we get to World War Two, 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.800 and of course during World War Two, the Grand Prix stop. 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:16.600 I mean, obviously there were more important things going on 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.000 at that point. But as soon as World War Two 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:23.480 was over, the world started to return to to normal, 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:26.360 and even before World War Two had completely ended in 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.160 all theaters that it ended in Europe, they were already 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.400 starting to plan the next round of Grand Prix, which 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:35.120 would take place. By nineteen forty six they started holding 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.120 these races again. Yes, nineteen forty six, and nineteen forty 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:39.839 six is an important year because I think that was 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:43.360 when they held the very first official Formula One race. 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:47.200 And the thing is it wasn't um It wasn't actually 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:50.560 formalized until one year later, I believe, until nineteen seven, 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:54.079 and then the first official I guess if you want 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:57.960 to go with like the absolute official world class you 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:01.120 know race, world class Formula one race, the World Championship 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:03.360 race was held in nineteen fifty and this wasn't at 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:07.520 Silverstone in the United Kingdom. Yeah, so these were all 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:11.319 sort of the the stepping stones to establishing what truly 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:14.719 would be Formula one, which again we're gonna go more 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:17.360 into in our our next section after we come back 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:19.600 from the break, we're going to talk more about what 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:23.160 the Formula one rules were when they were originally put 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:26.080 in place. That would obviously change a lot and also 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:30.640 have some questions for Scott because the rules indicate things 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:34.080 like like engine volume and I need to understand more 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:37.200 about what that means. And that's why I have him here. 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:40.200 I'll do what I can. Yeah, No, I unfortunately I 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:41.880 know a little bit about it, so we can talk 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.280 about kind of what these are. But these are things 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:47.920 that these are terms that would pop up abound around 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:51.560 racing that, because I was not in that world, to me, 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.880 were just it was like Greek, completely understand just totally 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.160 a mystery to me. So yeah, and now we finally 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:01.400 get up to where you have the this organization in 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:05.000 UH in Europe that has formalized the set of rules. 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:08.280 This is the I A yeah, yeah, and so they've 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:12.240 they've got this set now by the way, if you're wondering, 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:16.720 are there other Formula races, Yes, there's Formula two, there's 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:20.200 Formula three, there's Formula four. There's also Formula E, which 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:24.920 is for electric vehicles. Um, and we'll talk a little 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:28.320 bit about the differences largely between Formula one and Formula two, 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:31.680 just on a very brief level in our next segment. 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:34.240 But before we get into that, we're going to really 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:37.320 dive into some some engine stuff in a minute. And uh, 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:40.600 I'm gonna need to take a quick break to steal 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:44.720 myself for this experience. So when we come back more 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:55.200 about Formula one. Okay, So we get to the point 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:59.200 where Formula one rules are set, and here's how I understand. 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:03.280 The rule is to be based on my research, and Scott, 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.040 if I if I go way wrong, just you know, 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:09.440 not to use a pun, but steer me back on track. Okay. 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.800 One thing, one thing I didn't mention earlier was one 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:15.800 of the big differences between Formula one racing and say 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:19.960 your your typical like your NASCAR races, is that the 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:23.840 circuits on Formula one involve lots of different turns left 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.760 and right right. That's not like a big oval like 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:28.840 you would see in a lot of race car races. Now, 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.960 these are road courses, so there's elevation changes, there are 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:33.960 left and right turns. As you said, Um, it's not 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.160 the high banked ovals like we're talking about in in 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.640 NASCAR or you know, some other forms of racing. It's 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.480 this is a it's a challenging race. I mean they're 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:46.400 all challenging, but this becomes a sport where the person 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:48.400 behind the wheel really does need to be an athlete. 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:50.920 And if you don't believe me, try We talked about 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.600 this off air, but try going go karting at an 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.040 indoor track for maybe ten fifteen minutes at a time. 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:58.880 You're exhausted. When you're done, Yeah, you'll make And that's 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:01.080 just go karting. And that's and that's just for ten 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:03.800 or fifteen minutes. The Formula One race, by the way, 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:07.480 has a time limit of two hours on a regular race, 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:11.000 assuming no red flag conditions pop up. Yes, so you know, 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:14.159 no doubt about it. These guys are athletes. Yeah, And 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:17.720 and you could experience uh forces up to five g 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:22.280 in strength, five times the the force of gravity on 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:24.679 you in some of these turns. And they're taking like 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:28.399 I said, turns left and right. Um, so it is. 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:32.719 It also Formula one cars, today's modern ones, which will 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:35.600 get to a little bit later, go a little faster 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.840 than the fastest NASCAR cars, like by five miles per hour. 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:41.840 It's like two is the top for NASCAR generally speaking, 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.280 in two oh five for Formula one. But it's also 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.640 a very different experience. It is. Yeah, and we're talking 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.439 about average speeds where you know, going in a circle. 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:52.199 You know, I hate to use that because a lot 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:54.440 of people say, as nothing, but going in a circle 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:56.320 and turn and left, it's not. It's not that easy, 0:17:56.800 --> 0:18:01.200 and it's for NASCAR. It's also incredibly brutal. It is difficult. Yes, 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:03.720 it's it's more difficult than you would think. But but 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:06.160 but honestly, like, um, you know, when we're talking about 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:09.080 average speeds, I mean, these guys the cars accelerate a 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:13.239 lot faster, lot quicker than a NASCAR would and they 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:15.440 can break a lot harder than a NASCAR car would. 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:17.560 And so when you talk about average speeds, you're talking 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:20.280 about over the course of a road course versus a 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:23.960 an oval. It's a significant difference the type of racing 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:27.119 that it is. So some of the basic rules for 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:30.159 Formula One when it was first coming out was that 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:34.360 originally there was no weight limit on vehicles. You did 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:41.640 have different um uh engine volumes that were allowed. If 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:45.000 you were using a turbo charger or super charger, then 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:50.480 you were limited to fIF c C, which Scott kindly 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.399 informing does not mean carbon copy in this case, but 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:56.480 cubic centimeter. We'll get into that in a second. Sure, 0:18:57.000 --> 0:19:01.480 and then the the I think that you could have 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:07.520 up to three thousand cc for an naturally aspirated engine, sure, 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:09.840 which means it doesn't have a supercharger, doesn't have a 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:13.200 turbo or anything like that. It's just it's breathing. It's 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:16.080 breathing air. So so this was something that I actually 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:19.120 had to look up because again not a car guy, 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:22.280 but naturally aspirated means that it's using just the natural 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:27.199 atmospheric pressure to feed oxygen into the uh the engine. 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:29.040 That's what I mean. It's not forced induction when I 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:31.119 say it's breathing air. Of course every engine breathe are 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:34.320 this one is simply just you're right taking this taking 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:39.119 the atmospheric um pressure. Yeah pressure, yea atmospheric air. I 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:41.080 guess you're gonna put that way. But a turbocharger or 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:44.480 a supercharger, it's pushing air into the engine. It's forced 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:46.920 air induction is what that is. Yeah, you're using you 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:50.320 you're forcing air into the engine. You're creating additional horsepower 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:54.560 by by running, by ramming more air through there and fuel, right, 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:58.879 So that means that you're you're able to uh to 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:03.400 get fuel to the cylinders faster. And that's the cylinders 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:06.320 are what we're referring to when we're talking about like CC, 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:09.760 what you're really talking about is the the volume that 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:13.760 the cylinders can hold based on the full stroke of 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:16.919 the piston. It's the displacement of the engine. So what 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:19.719 you're looking at is the the the amount of space. 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:21.479 I guess I'm gonna put this in the simplest way 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:24.639 without really getting too much. When the pistons travel up 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:26.679 and down, if it's all the way at the bottom, 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:28.920 there's a there's a you know, in the cylinder itself, 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:31.679 where the piston travels up and down, there's there's a 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:34.879 volume of air there and that error is then you know, 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:37.240 compressed and it's filled with fuel and that's where the 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:40.640 explosion happens. And proper piston down, et cetera. We we 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:42.960 don't need to go into like the whole combustion cycle 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:46.679 and everything right now. But um, that's the volume of 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:49.520 displacement of the engine. In the United States, we typically 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:53.399 use a different measurement. We use cubic inch displacement c 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:58.000 I D because we're all about imperialism. If you want 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:00.280 to think of of CC, then easy the easy way 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:03.040 to think of like a cc displacement. Um, you've heard 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:06.280 the term, like you know, two leader car, three leader engine, 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:10.040 four leader engine, whatever. Um, it's typically about a thousand 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:14.159