WEBVTT - The Meteorologist 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.120 Michael, Tony, Chris Brother outside today. You know what I 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:07.760 miss about New York and big cities, of being able 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:10.400 to walk from one place to the other and feel 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:11.600 the weather forecast. 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:14.040 You always do this, what the Brits always do this? 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:18.040 Every British person always has to somehow talk about the weather. 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:19.440 Yeah, that's what we do. 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:21.880 I noticed even the F one commentators, many of them 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:25.000 are from the UK, and even during a broadcast, during 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:28.480 an actual race, they'll divert to talking about the weather. 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:31.319 There's a race happening right now. Talk about the race. 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:34.040 Yeah, but you know the way the clouds move and 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:38.600 the sun peaks through, and you know impending doom of rain. 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:40.640 How can you not be fascinated by it? 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:44.600 From My Heart Podcast one on one Studios and Sports 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:59.200 Illustrated Studios, this is choosing sides, Yes one, Wow, Tony, 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:01.200 will you tell me the truth for fucking once in 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:03.440 this thing? Okay, this episode has nothing to do with 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:05.560 F one. It's just a British thing, isn't it. Regardless 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:07.720 of the subject matter. You always will sneak in the weather. 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:10.040 Well, that is true. We will always find an excuse 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.679 to sneak in the weather. You will hopefully find off 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:15.120 to this episode that the weather has absolutely everything to 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:16.280 do with Formula One. 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:17.840 Actually, how so it has. 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:22.360 It has a pretty massive effect. Actually so, I'm Bernie Collins. 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.120 I am an ex head of race strategy for the 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.960 Aston Martin Formula one team. Before that, I was a 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:32.160 performance engineer with Jensen Button in twenty fourteen, so I've 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:35.280 been trackside in F one for around eight and a 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:36.000 half years. 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.360 I always been a fan of Whether my whole life, 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:43.360 so I'm just ecstatic to be on here. 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:47.520 This is Elizabeth Olmacha. She is a meteorologist specializing in 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:51.800 race and motor racing predictions, cool and in her free time. Michael, 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:55.720 she actually chases storms storm chaser. It has bed time. 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:58.760 I would say it would be more like a freelance 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:02.080 storm chaser. I do it on my free time, but 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:07.000 I highly don't recommend people doing it if they don't 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:11.519 understand what they're getting themselves into, because it can be 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:13.560 a very dangerous situation. 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:15.240 Just like driving a Formula one car. Leave it to 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:19.120 the experts. This is doctor Aaron Studwell. 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:20.560 President founder of race Weather. 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:24.080 A meteorologist specializing in motor sports, and a huge petrol 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:24.800 head himself. 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:27.760 Love the sport, love the racing, love racing in general, 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:32.360 and happy to provide a service to fans, teams media. 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.200 Are you also a storm chaser like Elizabeth? 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:38.160 When I lived in Oklahoma? 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:38.560 I did. 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.680 I've seen tornadoes in person, but yeah, I live on 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.040 the East coast of the US now, so it's not real. 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.800 If I'm here, I'm generally tropical storm chasing or hurricane chasing. 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:51.480 I didn't realize there were like different categories of storm chasers. 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:54.720 If there is one thing that fans love and hopeful 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:59.280 and drivers are terrified of is the unpredictable last minute 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:03.040 weather change. The effects of the weather on a circuit, 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.760 on the driver, on their performance, on the performance of 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:11.520 the car cannot be understated. It basically changes the whole game. 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:15.560 You're asking a driver to drive as close to the limit, 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:17.960 and we talk about the limit being the limit of grip. 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:21.240 So if you think of taking a corner really slowly, 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.120 that's easy. Anyone can do that. And then if you 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:26.560 go up in like ten kilometers an hour, you know 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:28.320 every time you do the corner, there will be a 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:31.360 point where the car no longer makes the corner. The 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:33.560 drivers are working out where that point is, Like how 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:35.800 fast can you go around that corner before the car 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:39.200 starts to slide? And if you get a gust of 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:42.600 wind one lap to the next, the car will be 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:46.800 theoretically able to do that corner at a slightly different speed. 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:49.880 If the temperature is a bit different, then the tires 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.280 will have a slightly different level of grip. So what 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:56.440 you're asking the driver do is predict that maximum limit 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:59.160 lap one lap, one lap. And I heard a really 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:02.920 interesting thing recent from Alonzo who said that every lap 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:05.960 of the reis the track is improven, and every lap 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.400 of the riis the car is getting lighter. So every 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:10.680 lap of the rest, the grip in that corner is 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.320 different than the weather plays a part in that. So 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:14.760 if you get a driver, you know, and that's where 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.599 we see drivers having a little off because there's been 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.320 a gust or whatever the case may be. And that's 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:22.120 why we hear so much of the READLYO where the 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.680 teams are telling them the winds picked up, or we 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:27.839 hear the driver asking the question because they can feel 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:30.280 the effect on the car and we're trying to keep 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:31.080 them ahead of the gear. 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.120 If we can any examples of. 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:37.120 That, Yeah, there's a very well known historical example of this, 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:42.880 which is the story of Nikki Lauda's accident. The late 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:47.240 Nikki Lauder's accident during the nineteen seventy six German compree. 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:49.760 All the top drivers are here at Novo Gring for 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:51.039 the European Grand Prix. 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:52.960 The Nuva rings what my girlfriend used to wear in 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:54.280 college so she wouldn't get pregnant. 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.520 I'm sorry, what what to quote? 0:04:56.520 --> 0:05:01.440 Tony moving swiftly on the most dangerous of Grand Prix courses, 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:03.200 notorious among drivers. 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:07.080 It's a giant, giant circuit and Niki Lauda, one of 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:12.040 the greats. Before the race, he basically raised the flag 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:15.040 and he said, listen, I'm looking at this circuit and 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.880 safety measures are not in place. There's a crash on 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:19.240 the other side of the ring. It's gonna take you 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.000 too much time to get to those people like, this 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:25.520 is just not safe. And people people basically like laughed 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:28.720 him off, and the other drivers, yeah, we're like, uh, 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:31.640 we're good to race. Stop stopp being a scaredy cat. 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:37.600 There's even a vote among the drivers, and the drivers 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.440 voted him down. They voted to keep going in the race. 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:41.880 I know where this is going. 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.640 Then race day comes and it's raining. 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:48.599 Right. Do they ever stop for any type of weather? Yeah, 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:49.080 they do. 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.880 If it's too heavy in the downpour, then it will 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:55.760 affect their visibility, and that's usually when they away. 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:57.800 Even I think now they're like a little bit too 0:05:57.800 --> 0:05:58.880 safe about it sometimes. 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.160 Yeah, some would argue, why do we have rain tires 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:03.480 and wet tires if we don't go racing when. 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.640 It's wet, right, They hardly, They hardly use the wet 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:09.560 tires because usually when it's when it's raining hard enough 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:13.360 to them use wet tires, they they don't let the 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:14.039 drivers race. 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:15.920 Which I will argue that I think now that we've 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.440 got the helmet coms and the driver's view, we might 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.760 understand what the drivers see and absolutely don't see, and 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:23.880 we might have more empathy of like, oh, yeah, you 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:25.200 actually can't go racing. 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:27.840 We see videos from the seventies and eighties and these 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:30.840 rooster tails and they're still out there racing in this 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:36.000 torrential rain. But we've lost so many drivers in these 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.279 kind of incidents. Were bad accidents that really just didn't 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:42.240 need to happen. So I think now there's an abundance 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.440 of caution where we're going to say and that's not 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:47.080 a negative or we're gonna say if you can't see 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.000 the car ahead of you, even when they're the red 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.720 the red light's blinking and they're regenerating the energy that 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.279 you know, it's not good for the driver, it's not 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:57.360 good for the sport. 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.839 So the terrible irony here, of course, is that on 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.000 race that Nicko Lauda didn't want. 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:03.920 A tempted to arrange a boycott of the race. 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:07.760 Exactly right, Niki Lauder lost control of his Ferrari on 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:09.920 a one hundred and fifty mile an hour curve. 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:14.040 He crashed horribly and was chopped in a burning car. 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.320 The race was restarted, but for Louder it was a 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:20.920 race for life. Almost died while his fellow drivers jockeyed 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.840 for position. He was being rushed to an intensive care 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:28.960 unit with severe burns, fractures and lung damage. Surgeons pronounced 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.960 he was near to death and last rites were administered. 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:36.040 Six weeks later, with bandages all over his body. 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:39.400 Crowds of sightseers and hosts of newsmen gathered at the 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:43.640 Ferrari factory in Marnllo, Italy to welcome Nicki Lauder back 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:44.240 from the dead. 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:45.600 He's back in a racing car. 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:46.440 What the fuck? 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:50.000 Just forty days after doctors had given up hope and 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:53.960 a priest had knelted his bedside, the Austrian Ace climbed 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:56.640 back into the cockpit of his glaring red Ferrari. 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:59.560 I'm looking at images of the accident right here. And 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.000 it's tricky because he might have put in his head 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:06.120 that this was a dangerous place to ride. But also 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:08.480 that could have nothing to do with this is a 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.440 professional race car driver who's very good. That's too bad. 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:13.720 It does also bring us back a little bit too 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:16.120 manifesting destiny. 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:18.239 Yeah, and I don't want to buy into that, because 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.040 therefore you would never speak up out of a safety 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:22.200 concern because you'd be afraid. 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:25.480 And it's yeah, oh, it was just like he knew 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:26.320 what he was talking about. 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:29.360 Yeah, yeah, or it's just absolutely I like that. That's 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:32.120 very pragmatic. And I like that that he said, this 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.080 is a big circuit. People go fast here, You're not 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:34.920 gonnably to help me out. 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:38.320 There's a sentence that you might hear, which is rain 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:42.360 is the great equalizer Formula one. It shows the priss 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:43.680 of a lot of these drivers. 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.040 They're going to call it a great equalizer, but I 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.680 think some are more equal than others. There are drivers 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.840 who are better in the rain than others. I'm not 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:53.880 going to specifically name drivers, but I know there are 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.760 drivers who kind of dread driving in the rain, and 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:59.160 they're drivers who grew up driving in the rain. 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:03.280 Drivers who grew up and were born in countries like Belgium, 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:05.920 Austria and the UK where it rains a lot definitely 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.120 have an advantage. Some of the best in the rain 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.000 are the likes of Maxwistappan UIs, Hamilton, Lando Norris. What 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:12.880 do they all have in common? They all lived for 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:15.160 a long time, so there's pictures and videos of them 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:19.880 in go karts in the absolute right like aqua planning 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.120 to your heart's content. And I think we see this 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:23.840 on road cars as well. You can see when people 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.440 are used to driving in the rain. California rains for 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:28.440 a minute and it's a standstill in the city. 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.319 People know how to drive, Yeah, no idea. Go down 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:31.480 to the south and there's a little bit of a 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:33.720 frost and everyone's cars crashing all over the place. 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:34.240 Yeah. 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:37.640 And the absolute king of this skill is the legendary 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:41.920 Late Art and Center, also known as the rainmaster. 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:46.000 Cool, absolutely marvelous. Vella went round the outside of Louder 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.480 into the rough. 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:52.920 Ga and that was brave and skillful. 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.440 Just just to put that into numbers for you, because 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:59.559 that name is actually backed by by statistics. His overall 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.959 win rate in Formula one at Donsenna is twenty five 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.839 point three percent. That means he won about a quarter 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:09.960 of the races he started. But of those races, the 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.600 ones that were in the rain, he won more than 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:14.520 half of them fifty five percent. 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:15.640 Wow. Okay. 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:18.960 Wet conditions are often used as an example of when 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.440 actually the car is less important than the driver. So 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.760 actually the driver coming can make quite a big difference 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.240 because of his ability, let's say, to work in this 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:31.160 very changeable condition. But there are still some teams that 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:35.840 are better at management of those situations. So people always 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:38.480 think there's more risk and reward in those situations as well. 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:40.960 So some people really delight in the chaos of it all. 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:43.800 I always thought it was a bit panicked. So I 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:45.600 wasn't that sure that Reian was good for. 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:47.200 Us, because you were you were the one in the 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:50.440 chaos having to make the decisions. Yeah, exactly, give you 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:50.880 some order. 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:55.280 It's like, oh, Yeah, exactly, it's it's you know, but 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.880 for a for a lower team, a team lower down 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.120 the order, it is more likely to bring this avharc 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:03.839 result that doesn't otherwise happen. So that's why I think 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:05.120 it's a bit more of an equalizer. 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.400 So tell me about driving in the rain, what is okay? 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:09.280 How is that different? 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:11.160 Hey, it's going to affect the grip of the car 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.720 and how it goes round the track. To complicate things, 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:17.000 these f one circuits and tracks, as we've spoken about, 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:21.840 are massive, which means that there are massive areas where 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:25.760 puddles of water can start compiling together, which means you 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:29.440 can start ending up with aqua planning as well. It 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:31.560 also means that certain aspects of the track are going 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.080 to drive faster or slower. So when they start switching 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.480 out to the tires, you will hear them saying I 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.199 can see the sun on the second part of the track, 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.640 but it's still raining on the first part of the 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:43.760 track where you use the wet tires the dry tires. 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:47.120 That adds a layer of strategy, but also just complicated 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.679 to drive on the right tires, wrong tires, right track. 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.600 Even just where you have more peaks and valleys, not 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.439 a flat track, but say more in Europe where you're 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.120 going up a hill and you may have worked us 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.360 your winds at the top of the hill. It can 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:02.800 be across wind, it could be provide more downforce, it 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.679 could be a tailwind. Going down the street. You're gonna 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:07.960 the driver's gonna need to know that, both from a 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.720 handling condition, in from a speed condition. 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.400 And it also just affects visibility. Again when you think 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.000 about it, they're lying down in these cars. They're very 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:18.680 close to the ground. If you are in front, you 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:20.560 are in a great position. If you are in the back, 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:25.880 you're getting everyone's rain and water and backspash in your face. Yeah, yeah, 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:26.439 whitch go. 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.319 This is the start of the nineteen ninety eight Belgian GP. 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:31.959 Oh, this is kind of pulling. 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.120 This is the worst start for aprol rate. 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:37.600 But I have ever seen in the whole of my life. 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.520 I'm looking at this video and if you mean every 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:44.120 place crashed, I mean, first of all, there's one car 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:47.360 in the front who has good visibility, and then every 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:50.800 other car is just toe you can't see anything. 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:52.040 And we're laughing. 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:53.439 I know, it's not funny. 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:57.760 The danger on like, yeah, none of these cars have 0:12:57.760 --> 0:12:59.600 wheels left. It's just it's a wheel race. 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.200 That's not funny. It's you know, in between my laughing, 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:06.920 I want to say, it's not funny, it's very entertaining. 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.400 I'm gonna look at the second one spree coming off 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:12.520 the front axle. The any visibility you have is just canceled. 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:15.920 This just doesn't look feasible. It doesn't look feasible, it 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:16.920 doesn't look possible. 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:19.880 This is where the gut instinct and driving right. 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:23.080 I would encourage anybody who's listening right now to just 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.480 go watch a helmet cam of any one of these 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:29.400 F one drivers on a dry situation. It seems chaotic 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:36.439 and unreasonable. And now in the rain, it's uh it certainly. 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:39.360 I mean, are they going slower in the rain? Absolutely 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:41.880 not me. When it rains in New York, I'm going faster. 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:45.840 Today, on the exit ramp from the Queensboro Bridge, comedian 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:49.560 Michael Costa, recklessly driving his Volvo station Wagon causes a 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.480 multi car pile up. Thankfully no one was injured, but 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.120 drivers stuck in the ensuing traffic We're not happy. 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:56.360 Do I like it? 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:56.560 No? 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:58.920 It's a lack of respective rules. 0:13:58.960 --> 0:13:59.600 What are you gonna do? 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:06.360 Is. I'm Danielle Waxman for Fake NYC News quick Break 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:09.160 for ads and we'll be back before you can say aquaplaning. 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:14.360 So when you're talking about whether you're really just talking 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:16.840 about if it's raining or not wet or dry. 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:20.080 A lot of people think it's just rain and that 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:22.880 will affect the tracks, but it's not just rain. 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:28.560 For most of us. Minimal changes in temperature and small 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.920 shifts will mostly go unnoticed, like we don't know if 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:34.160 it's dropping temperatures, But in Formula one, even these smaller 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.920 increases or decreases, even if we're talking one or two 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.200 degree changes, actually has a pretty big impact on how 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.200 the different teams are going to approach a race or 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:45.800 a different session. When we're talking weather forecasting, we're not 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:49.280 talking what we see on the TV or even my 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:52.480 little British chit chat about the weather. It's actually we're 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:55.920 talking about all the different layers. So air temperature, track temperature, 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.040 even sometimes like the driver's temperature, how are you doing 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:00.680 inside of the cockpit? Are you okay? 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:04.240 It can be twenty to thirty degrees hotter inside the 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.760 cockpit than it is outside on a track. So if 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:09.840 it's stay it's ninety degrees. It can be like one 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:14.280 hundred and twenty inside and there is no air ventilation 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.040 or like ac you know that you can just crank up. 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:21.400 These drivers, they have to adapt to these different conditions. 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.920 The temperature inside of Formula one car during an actual 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.600 race will average to about one hundred and twenty two 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:28.520 degrees fanheight. 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.680 Wow, that's an average, and that's just inside the car. 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:33.560 That's yeah, inside the car. Wow. Okay. 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:36.040 For as much as weight as they lose any normal race, 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.200 they'd probably lose even more if it's you know you 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:43.120 talk about widely erase Jetta at night, Well, it's going 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:46.280 to be ninety five degrees during the day. Jet is 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:49.240 actually a humid environment because it's right next to the water. 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.600 So that's going to be both of the crew and 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:57.440 the driver. It's going to be just depleting and you're 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.680 going to have We've seen races where drivers have just 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.120 got got out of the car and just kind of 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.240 flopped against the car, their helmet at their side, just 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:07.120 drinking water or having water poured down their neck. They're 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:10.160 so busy it's dark here, fading with. 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:14.360 Flow blood pressure and just passing out in the car. 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:17.520 So for example, during this year is Qatar Grand Prix. 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:21.360 We had a combination of heat and humidity, which meant 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:23.800 that it was absolutely unbearable for the drivers. 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:27.240 Honestly, yeah, I fell ill by fifteen sixteen. 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:29.960 One driver is the band Okon who said that he 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:31.880 felt like he was vomiting in his helmet. 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.680 You know, I was throwing up in the car. And 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.320 I've managed to come down afterwards, tried to really focus 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:41.640 on what I had to do, and I've managed to 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:42.480 get down the control. 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:46.080 But got so bad that many fans but also people 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.720 within the industry and the ecosystem were saying, this is 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.680 probably a bad time to be racing in such a rouson. 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:55.760 Once again, Michael Karsta brings it back to tennis. I mean, 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:59.760 humidity affects a tennis ball tremendously. I can only imagine 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:03.400 a fire burning machine with four wheels on it. 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:07.680 And fire burning machine in really incredible temperatures like we 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.160 had this year. I think it was like the Katar GP. 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:13.840 When we're talking about safety. The drivers were cracking open 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:17.080 their helmet visors so they could get air coming in. 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.720 That air that we get into the cockpit is just horrible, 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:23.879 you know, it's like I don't know a fire, you know, 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:25.359 going through the through the helmet. 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.680 One of the drivers describe cracking open their helmets so 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:29.639 they could get air. By the way, really dangerous. The 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:31.320 last thing you want to do with a helmet is 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.480 crack it open, because that's where something can go fly 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.240 right into your eye. But that was my only solution 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:40.199 to try and call down, which, by the way, it 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.520 did bring up a whole conversation which if we go 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:44.840 back to the logistics of Formula one, it did bring 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.359 back a conversation about the racing calendar and why are 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:49.040 we racing in Qatar at the time of the year 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:52.080 where it's actually really hot, which goes back to actually 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:55.080 the logistics of pulling off that F one race calendar 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:56.760 is really really really tricky. 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.080 Yeah, let's let's come back here in this humber, please 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:01.840 not October. Yeah, that was definitely a tough one. 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:07.000 Air temperature. How does that affect a car? My Volvo 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:10.199 runs like a tank no matter what temperature is. 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.880 Well, the cold is kind of the enemy of Formula 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:16.440 one cars because frankly, they don't often run in the cold. 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.080 This is Scott Mansel, and he's not only an X 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:21.560 racing driver, but he's also the founder of an immensely 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.360 popular Formula one YouTube channel called driver sixty one. 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:28.800 Most of the temperatures across the year and the season 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:32.399 are within a kind of fairly warm range, right, and 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:35.040 so the engineers and the teams are just designing the 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.439 cars to run in these temperatures. Of course, if they 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:40.000 wanted to, they wouldn't be as quick, but they could 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:43.639 get them to run at colder temperatures, but they're just 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:48.200 not typically designed to do that. So they have issues 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:51.840 with the engine temperatures, with blanking the radiator ducts off 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:54.280 so you don't have as much cold air rushing through 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:57.159 over the engine and through the radiators. But as you 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:00.320 say that, the main problem is the tires, and it's 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:03.400 as simple as the rubber just doesn't get warm enough 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:07.200 to then have that chemical reaction that bite into the 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:10.800 racing circuit, and so you just have less grip overall. 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.000 And typically when you have less grip, it's just more 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:16.400 difficult to drive, Like you know, if it was if 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:18.400 it rained and there were wet conditions on track, it's 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:20.840 more difficult for the drivers, and so that means you 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.720