A short history of crash barrier technology in F1

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F1 has come a long way over 7 decades in putting safe, effective barriers between the track and its surroundings. From straw bales, to armco to tyre barriers we look at the good design and terrible problems with barrier solutions used over the years.
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@chainbear 6 жыл бұрын

A lot of people are asking why I didn't include Gravel Traps: Well, gravel traps aren't barriers. But I DO have a full video on run-off area design that will go into all the different types of run off areas and how that's changed over the years and why different designs are used in different places. And then, to complete the trilogy, there will be a video on the actual safety mechanisms built into the cars. Once you've seen all three parts it'll be clearer why drivers can walk away from ridiculous accidents.

@AntonAdelson 6 жыл бұрын

Chain Bear F1 I know I'm late but please answer!

@saynotohaloFIN 6 жыл бұрын

Anton Adelson Im no expert like chainbear, but water is quite heavy, especially if barrel is as big as one tyre tower. Also imagine the delay when someone hits water barrels and marshalls had to fill them up again

@garethlee7927 6 жыл бұрын

I cannot find the video bout run off areas.

@craigwilde2162 6 жыл бұрын

I was going to ask why that wasn't covered in this

@driffbro3380 6 жыл бұрын

Chain Bear F1 dude, you deserve every single penny your patrons give you..

@gunnargreene2060 4 жыл бұрын

Rally racing is like: “Barriers? What barriers? Oh you mean. That single tree over there!”

@linksauce_1 4 жыл бұрын

Gunnar Greene or “oh you mean that tight, blind corner with a 500 foot drop on the other side?”

@genedrakes686 4 жыл бұрын

Snow banks do a awesome job for the winter rounds! The rally car probably the only race car I would not want to drive at speed with !

@harharhahrahrharo 4 жыл бұрын

oof... hes goners..... Welp back to spectating the race! :D

@awildfilingcabinet6239 4 жыл бұрын

You mean the people that are standing in the road?

@stpbasss3773 4 жыл бұрын

The barriers are the idiots who stand along the track hanging over it lmao. Then again rally cars aren't going 200mph.

@StarryNightGazing 3 жыл бұрын

I'm here after Romain's crash. So glad of the safety we have now.

@hi-or4sg 3 жыл бұрын

True

@aleisternasia-music1057 3 жыл бұрын

That guardrail was in a bad place. Abu Dhabi also has a concerningly placed barrier similar to it...

@sagars3771 3 жыл бұрын

53g

@categoriaxbox2396 3 жыл бұрын

Its been 2 months after the crash... time flies... cant wait to the 2021 season starts

@metrofilmer8894 2 жыл бұрын

That race was really more of a signal of a bad barrier for the type of area it was in. It would have been much better if the barrier Romain crashed into was a tire wall

@HanZhao 6 жыл бұрын

9:53 only Maldonado could do that tho

@mesumnaqvi3411 4 жыл бұрын

I was looking for this comment

@GrasshopperKelly 4 жыл бұрын

@@mesumnaqvi3411 yes, it's out job as engineers, to have fun demolishing these... Sorry "testing" them for all sorts of un thought of scenarios. To see what weight is best, for what part, of what corner, on what track, with what predicted weather, and what is dangerous, if said weather doesn't appear, or other weather arises. Driver crashes like Maldonado's are great for us to see what Can happen. When we get it wrong. Even something as little as, what the crews are setting their cars to, how low they will each be etc. Or, whether that barrier simply is not the best option available. So, as long as I persoanly don't have to fix the track, drivers who wreck the crash systems are my guinepigs (my humane subjects... We obviously do our best with the tolls available so that if something does happen, said guiniepig can walk away, perhaps just with a small purple spot on their arm or leg. But if the same type of crash happens twice. Where a barrier or safety device now becomes a danger to one or more drivers. Then we've failed at our job. Allowing you to say that :p And so God forbid, similar happens again. I belive, there have since been additional attachment hard points used, with loose cables, to help limit the distance they can move in future, but when any such feature is added. An intentional breaking point is added. Because if said amount of force is applied, then the driver should not be at the receiving end. So its better to allow the car to continue etc. I also belive, the attachment points between the same barrier points, have since been altered. To also help resist any twisting forces, which is what broke them. All stuff I get off to....

@chiefdenis 4 жыл бұрын

Lol, i thought so too

@oraandrip5266 4 жыл бұрын

Read Macdonald

@jonathanarie2813 2 жыл бұрын

Thats Sainz 2015 sochi

@Ultrajuiced 6 жыл бұрын

What do we learn from that? No barrier is safe enough for Maldonado. ;)

@dankatz5224 6 жыл бұрын

BlastForward or safe enough *from* Maldonado!

@davidvasquez08 5 жыл бұрын

I knew someone was going to mention that

@BlueCJ 6 жыл бұрын

Sir, the amount of time, research, and effort you put in these videos are just amazing. Best KZfaqr ever! :D

@tg13fire 4 жыл бұрын

Theres no research it's called education

@LancasterResponding 3 жыл бұрын

Hey man that hurts 😔 I try my best

@runawayplane6166 3 жыл бұрын

Trystan Gibb I’m pretty sure a fair amount of research went into this video. Not much education in a history of crash barriers are there?

@julianbell9161 5 жыл бұрын

I love how, despite the incredibly advancements in technology and engineering, the best solution is just a wall of tires.

@jimcrelm9478 2 жыл бұрын

Often the case IMHO. High tech isn't always the solution, but it always distracts people from looking to and accepting the solutions available to them. Futurism is the curse of the 20th century, nothing good comes of it.

@user-nu2it6kf2m 2 жыл бұрын

@@jimcrelm9478 -typed from a smartphone

@jimcrelm9478 2 жыл бұрын

@@user-nu2it6kf2m not sure what point you are trying to make here

@tosehoed123 Жыл бұрын

Really 😅

@Cafferssss 6 жыл бұрын

Tyre wall is king 👌🏻 Recycling if nothing else 🤷‍♂️

@Cafferssss 5 жыл бұрын

Gater Rater belted tyre wall should fix that.

@genedrakes686 4 жыл бұрын

I just had a few feet of grass and a row of tires 3 high. That was for karting. Got hit one day by a kart that spun in the rain. Was about 2 steps slow walking backwards. Stupid me forgot the kart rain tires useless on grass! Thankfully safety has improved overall in racing.

@dakotabalboa3322 4 жыл бұрын

*tire*

@zackhughes7878 4 жыл бұрын

Titre walls no safer barrier yes

@MarkHanford 3 жыл бұрын

@@dakotabalboa3322 not everyone lives in America. "Tyre" is correct everywhere else.

@adamturner4619 3 жыл бұрын

Came back to this video after Romain crash

@mdrlhighlights7076 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone here after Romain’s huge crash

@zhuofengho7325 3 жыл бұрын

Grosjean"s crash was special cuz he ran into a guard barrier at high speed

@seadeer923 3 жыл бұрын

Btw that crash was 56g

@tonyamartin4913 3 жыл бұрын

Yes I’m commenting 2 weeks after Grosjean’s horrific crash and astonishing survival, literally walking out of the flames into the arms of the world class first responders. Relatively new fan of F1 (3 years) and probably my favorite thing about it is the NASA-like cutting edge engineering; the safety features and measures always improving. That along with this young man’s brilliant moves made all the difference between what could have been a terrible tragedy; instead the world watched nothing short of a miracle.

@sinyo28 3 жыл бұрын

Yea

@Master_122 3 жыл бұрын

Glad that it was on a side were there was no public also glad that Romain is ok, that crash is a good testimony in how safe F1 has turned, but stills not safe enough.

@daliborzak2485 5 жыл бұрын

Tecpro: "I'm the most advanced crash barrier out there!" Pastor Maldonado: "Ehm, hold my beer..."

@benhoresh9122 6 жыл бұрын

Whenever talking about track safety I think about Imola 94'. Think what would have happened if the entire track and especially the corner that senna crashed in were safer. 2 drivers killed and one heavily injured. On a 200 mph sport crashes will always happen. Everyone were trying to figure out why senna crashed. The real question is why did he need to die by that crash.

@azarisLP 6 жыл бұрын

Lethal accidents in modern motorsports seem to fall in a couple of categories: - head injury from flying debris (Ayrton Senna, Justin Wilson) - basilar skull fracture due to sudden deceleration in a head-on collision (Roland Ratzenberger, Dale Earnhardt, Adam Petty, Kenny Irwin Jr.) - catastrophic monocoque/roll cage failure (Gilles Villeneuve, Gordon Smiley) - fire (Ricardo Paletti) - head injury from contact with an obstacle such as catch fencing pole or concrete barrier (Jules Bianchi, Jeff Krosnoff, Greg Moore, Dan Wheldon) The first category might be reduced by the Halo, although I suspect we will see freak accidents still claim lives occasionally. The second category has been greatly dimished by the HANS device. The third category has been addressed by better car construction and SAFER barriers. The fourth category has been almost eliminated by better track marshaling, fuel cells, and flame-retardant driving suits.

@youtubeonly439 6 жыл бұрын

You have a very, very vague definition of "modern motorsports" when you're mentioning fatalities from a timespan of almost 40 years. Plus, deaths caused by fire certainly aren't a regular part of modern motorsports anymore.

@jsquared1013 6 жыл бұрын

KZfaq Only most of those are within the last two decades.

@hristoitchov 6 жыл бұрын

azarisLP Jules Bianchi didn't in fact hit anything with his helmet, it was the sudden deceleration which caused his brain to suffer severe injuries.

@nadavm.6843 5 жыл бұрын

@@azarisLP I agree with you, but I assume that you consider the front right tyre of Ayrton's Williams to be flying debris, that clunked him over the head which was the cause of his death. It's a technicality, but the wheel was still connected to the car by a suspension strut. This isn't me saying your wrong, it's only a technicality.

@ricq 5 жыл бұрын

7:57 “a tire wall, in its enTIREty” 😄

@Jordan51203 6 жыл бұрын

Can you make a video talking about what a track needs to be FIA Grade 1?

@daviernest4892 6 жыл бұрын

Jordan 51203 Agree!

@Jordan51203 6 жыл бұрын

The main reason I want this topic for a video is because I want to know why tracks like Phillip Island (FIA Grade 3), Zandvoort (FIA Grade 2) and The Bend (FIA Grade 2) are below Grade 1 even though they seem to have enough runoff and safety barriers

@claycopter 6 жыл бұрын

What about why Monte-Carlo and Albert Park are FIA Grade 1?

@Ralesong 6 жыл бұрын

I think that the video could actually talk about Grades 1-3, so the full picture and context could be presented.

@Jordan51203 6 жыл бұрын

KG_Ralesong That's what I meant with my second comment

@lePierre1860 6 жыл бұрын

*Opening up laptop to work on assignment* *sees ChainBear video* ......alriiiiiight then

@gracefool 6 жыл бұрын

lePierre1860 why did you go to KZfaq to work on your assignment?

@lePierre1860 6 жыл бұрын

Safe to say, wasn't the smartest thing to stop procrastination. I'm with you on this one.

@gracefool 6 жыл бұрын

still here tho :p

@Rich14Richy 6 жыл бұрын

This is incredible! How do you know so much lol? Wouldnt be surprised if F1 came knocking they need your content!

@Renee_R343 6 жыл бұрын

Have you ever heard of the term "research"? Plus I bet if he's into f1 and technically inclined most of it is basic knowledge for him just from years of contact with the sport.

@Votlon 6 жыл бұрын

You must be real fun at parties Renee

@Homanjer 6 жыл бұрын

David Allen If you think talking about f1 barriers on a party is a good idea then youre the one whos not very fun to be around. And if you assumed that this one sentence gave you enough information to know how this guys general interaction with other humans is, then you are one stupid human being

@Rafay__Hadi 5 жыл бұрын

@@Homanjer from a compliment to a fight. The internet everyone.

@nocturnal_sushi 5 жыл бұрын

@@Homanjer wow. Just wow

@freeski919 3 жыл бұрын

Chain Bear: "Guard rails are highly effective in MOST crashes" Romain Grosjean: "hold my beer"

@lmao7439 2 жыл бұрын

Guard rails are terrible if a car is coming at an angle more than 25 degrees

@thepodcastcrew1113 6 жыл бұрын

I just finished school doing higher physics and this was a great video to watch thank you!

@kaba0444 6 жыл бұрын

7:13 "... but for MAXimum..." Oh i see what you did there ;)

@shadowwsk3507 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah im thinking about that

@andythespy 6 жыл бұрын

Max Verstappen 😂😂😂

@mikespearwood3914 5 жыл бұрын

@@andythespy *Max Crashstappen

@glovesandsteeringwheel8222 5 жыл бұрын

@@mikespearwood3914 funny

@f1sherman52 4 жыл бұрын

SAFER barrier. an amazing piece of equipment used for concrete walls

@SamnissArandeen 2 жыл бұрын

The steel skin works to avoid bouncing a shallow collision back into traffic and frictionally stops the car, like a concrete wall, but with crushable foam blocks to absorb head-on impacts. Simple yet ingenious!

@Dan-uy2ld 3 жыл бұрын

This video is really relevant after today's incident!

@blueshift7320 6 жыл бұрын

This makes it even more insane that Kenny Brack survived a 200+G impact in Indycar. Great video as always mate, so happy to see your channel growing!

@marek9784 6 жыл бұрын

Great video as usual! Maybe you could do a video on how the cars protect the driver next, interested to find out about how the chassis/nose (crumble zone) absorbs the impact as well, while keeping the driver safe!

@soufiankoraichi 6 жыл бұрын

So well made video. As a physic and f1 fan I love these videos

@nayaazhashim5539 6 жыл бұрын

When you think you watching an F1 video, but really you revising for your Physics Exam next week.

@chainbear 6 жыл бұрын

Sorry I accidentally deleted someone's comment on SAFER barriers!

@danielo7985 6 жыл бұрын

10/10 m8

@jeffreyhueseman7061 6 жыл бұрын

Considering the design was built for a slower, but more massive vehicle, it does well on the North American circuits.

@Finallybianca 6 жыл бұрын

Safer Barriers were developed right here in Lincoln Nebraska.

@ethanroebuck7203 6 жыл бұрын

Jeffrey Hueseman frankly, safer barriers were designed more specifically for IndyCar, seeing as they were developed mainly at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which are more comparable to f1 cars when it comes to crash physics. But i would say its probably the second biggest modern safety innovation after the HANS device. I almost hate to think of the drivers that wouldn’t be here without the safer barriers. But back to the point, they add more foam inserts for nascar events as, like you said, they are heavier cars. For Indycar events they remove pretty much half of the inserts.

@sideslick1024 6 жыл бұрын

Actually, SAFER barriers were designed for Indycars, which are only slightly heavier than a typical F1 car, but (on average) travel at much higher speeds. NASCAR adopted the design, and now it's found at tracks all over the USA, as well as international tracks such as Le Mans (in the Porsche Curves) and Baku (entering the pit-straight), among others.

@NikhilYadav-mj6wj 6 жыл бұрын

Not even a f1 fan but found the video so interesting. Great work.

@blasphem1a 6 жыл бұрын

Its always good to have your daily dose of knowledge. What a Lovely day!

@maxpower892 6 жыл бұрын

I exepected maldonado to be in this video, not dissapointed

@TheKincognito 6 жыл бұрын

Max Power A Video about Safety in F1 will always contain a (honorable) mention of Maldonado. That Guy will be a Meme for a long Time xD

@clowitty 6 жыл бұрын

Where's IntoTheBarrier? This would be his video!

@ciaranreed91 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Please let ITB test all of these on F1 2017!

@raywei8472 6 жыл бұрын

There's a movie called "1" it talks a lot about how much safety has improved in formula 1

@rgarlinyc 6 жыл бұрын

I *never* thought I could love F1 *more* ...... until I discovered this channel!👊

@andcunsan 6 жыл бұрын

I have never thought how much engineering is underlying a simple F1 barreir. I thought they are just a bunch of tires to absorb impact or sheets of bent metal in guard rails ( you have also shown the aplication of Gauss' Equations of Plate Theory, indeed a professor wouldn't never tell it in Solid Mechanics class) . Instead there are intesting engineering Solutions. You are a F1 Encyclopedia. 👏👏

@RonnieAttema 6 жыл бұрын

Great video, very informative Sadly they still dont strap tyre barriers togheter on all circuits. A few weeks ago a race truck managed to hit a tyre wall at the exit of T1, making it flip over, but also taking the whole barrier with him, the tyres were all over the place after that

@chrisnightingale6917 6 жыл бұрын

Crisp clean and to the point, always a pleasure to watch

@Heisenburger-_- 3 жыл бұрын

Who's here after Grosjean's crash at Bahrain GP 2020

@CallMeMarex 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video. I do like the new ending. Looks great. Maybe turn down the volume at the end just a tiny little bit to make it more "enjoyable" after your voice (which is a bit quieter). But nevertheless: Keep on going, you are on the right track! :)

@StruggleGaming 6 жыл бұрын

F1 should invest in the safer barrier for straights being as they have a great track record in NASCAR and they're meant for glancing blows like concrete on straights but then also give way and flex like a guard rail, and if they can perform well for a heavy NASCAR doing 204MPH they can handle a tiny F1 doing 200KPH

@TheGrundigg 6 жыл бұрын

Nascar is shit.

@HighlandCall 6 жыл бұрын

SAFER barriers were originally designed for Indycars though which are probably the closest thing to F1 cars when it comes to the speeds involved in crashes and they are comparatively similar cars so you'd expect them to work pretty well. They aren't perfect and things like tyre barriers and tecpro soft walls are better when you have a bit of runoff but in places where you have no room to extend runoff and you don't want to change the track (like Montreal as you said: they also use SAFER barriers in Baku and Interlagos as well as at Le Mans in the Porsche curves) then the SAFER barrier is the best technology available and vastly better than a concrete wall or armco. Indeed NASCAR originally wanted Indianapolis to take the original SAFER barrier down at Indianapolis for the stock car races since they were sceptical about whether or not it would work: the Speedway fought and it remained up and then NASCAR realised its effectiveness and the rest was history - and naturally NASCAR took the credit for the thing that they hadn't put any money into the development of.

@chainbear 6 жыл бұрын

Struggle Gaming I cut the section I'd written on SAFER barriers but I there are very few sections of track where they'd be that useful in f1 I think. In Canada you don't bit the barriers square on enough to warrant them imho. They take up a lot of track space, don't forget

@HighlandCall 6 жыл бұрын

they've replaced some of the steel guardrails with them this year and it sounds like they plan to replace the remainder with SAFER walls once the remaining armco needs replaced in a gradual way. Sure they don't need them for most of the track but its something to consider if you are replacing barriers - there are ways to install SAFER in the same amount of space as a regular concrete or steel barrier would use. Generally they shouldn't rush to replace the concrete barriers with them since like you say they generally wouldn't be useful - although recent years in Indycar and NASCAR have seen tracks have the same mentality and then freak accidents have happened involving the remaining exposed concrete walls they have which have either caused injuries (Kyle Busch at Daytona a few years ago) or got lucky so maybe that's the wrong mentality. Although like you say in the vast majority of cases there are better things you can use: the SAFER barrier was designed for the unique problems that oval racing pose and the need to have barriers that can absorb energy as well as deflecting cars in the same way that a normal concrete barrier can and for road racing you often don't have to do both of those things at once.

@jsquared1013 6 жыл бұрын

Chain Bear F1 SAFER barriers use up less space than TecPro or a tire wall. Nice videos, by the way! Keep 'em coming 😊

@Kudatr 6 жыл бұрын

Truly brilliant video. I could not have seen how such a detailed, well thought out and informative video on crash barrier technology could be put together until this. Love your channel, keep 'em coming.

@user54321ytfo_ 6 жыл бұрын

Your knowledge is incredible you deserve to be recognized by the f1 community!! Well done

@blathers_13 6 жыл бұрын

This is actually surprisingly relevant to my A Level Physics currently haha, thanks for the help with it ☺️ (also helps me understand what's going on in my lessons without all of the complicated words 😄) Love the videos man, so good 👌

@Dat1ScrubLord 4 жыл бұрын

“Let’s spend thousands on design and saving lives” One dude not paying attention at the safety meeting: “hehe tire”

@SilkyFIFA 6 жыл бұрын

Brilliant yet again! Really hope F1 take notice of what your doing and get in touch. I particularly loved the Pizza analogy

@TRRailfan 3 жыл бұрын

I knew nothing about F1 and I got one of this guy’s videos recommended, now I’m watching all of them

@chewbacca2492 6 жыл бұрын

Great job on the video! You deserve way more subscribers for the amount of effort you put into each vid!

@serious4093 6 жыл бұрын

Maximum versatility, it’s important to keep my fav safe 👍🏻

@anirudhdasari69 6 жыл бұрын

I love this guy! He's got a lot of concept and also, he explains it in a very simple and understandable way.

@commentator232 6 жыл бұрын

This guy deserves atleast a million. The amount of effort that goes into these videos is astonishing. His animations are great, and he is excellent at explaining them. He's improved so much since his beggining, and i've been watching for ages. Cheers mate!

@ecksoal 6 жыл бұрын

This was extremely interesting to learn about, you don’t hear much about these barriers on the tv

@nicholassteyn4211 3 жыл бұрын

Recommended after Romains Bahrain crash

@Jake_Connellan_71 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Chainbear! I'm currently in my penultimate year at school in the UK and I am writing my EPQ (Extended Project Qualification) on the evolution of safety in Formula 1 over the past half-century. This video was both incredibly informative and very helpful. Thank you so much for the time, research and effort that you put into these videos. Hope you have a great winter break!

@seanswilson 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent explanation and history of the technology.

@chevyjansen4880 6 жыл бұрын

7:10 that pun is just so bad, but very hilarious

@porkimond 6 жыл бұрын

Do we have a video where Maldonado is NOT mentioned when we are talking about crashes in F1? I think not.

@RendiRetnandito29 6 жыл бұрын

you my friend, need more recognition in youtube, your content is amazing!

@LTF1Official 3 жыл бұрын

Perfect time for a refresher! As always top quality content

@PragmaticAntithesis 3 жыл бұрын

Watching this after Bahrain 2020.

@bunce888 6 жыл бұрын

only Maldonado can crash that bad

@marcoroberts9462 4 жыл бұрын

Matt Ball Bonsai Grosjean: hold my beer

@charamia9402 3 жыл бұрын

@@marcoroberts9462 Not sure how to judge the aging of this...

@GrasshopperKelly 4 жыл бұрын

Tyres are also ideal, because while the material itself is "heavy," and so will resit deformation, they don't produce a large amount of force afterwards to "spring" the cars, or any debree and such back. Unlike an actual spring. Which will produce an almost equal "potential" force back on the object, the more it is compressed, or stretched (hooks law). We also like to keep the inserts to the outer most layers of tyres. This means, that the cars will first hit a softer layer. Meaning the cars momentum is reduced over a longer period of time. Reduce the moment force on the driver, and internal parts. The Car itself, just like you or me, has internal components (like an engine, or fuel tank) that don't like big forces. No different that our organs like being priced up against a rib cage. But by he time the car ahs say reached the final layer(s) of tyres, and the fixed outer wall, the remaining momentum is slow enough, that a faster deceleration is ideally now safe. Your seat belts in you car do the same. By producing the same force, over a longer period of time. The other cushions involved. Are the cars themselves. Whole they look like they blow up spectacularly in a crash, and look devastatingly mangled. This is because of crumple zones. Exactly the same as the crumple zone built into a car. These hopefully keep a pedestrian alive, even if severely injured, and the car will (to a percentage) wrap around them, rather than hit them at full force. This helps to start moving the pedestrian in the direction of the car, so by the time a harder part hits the pedestrian, the reletive speed of the car to the pedestrian, is slower. Even if the pedestrian is now moving relative to the external environment. The F1 cars are designed with intentionally weak components. Such as the nose, wings, tail and wheel structures. These stay rigid under the forced applied by the engine, and cornering etc. But will intentionally provide only small resistance against a crash, before a harder component hits the colliding body. Idealy this too will. Not not be a rigid structure. In short. This means, that a car is gradually applied more and more resistance (even if in the space of a worst case 2-3 seconds) Because of the square law shown above. Idealy, the force experienced by the driver, and any fragile car components (again, engine and fuel tanks being the main risks) the graph of force experienced over time is linear. Rather than exponential. Simply because, the force applied, is lower at higher speeds, and higher at lower speeds. A car, is much easier to replace, than a drivers neck. Or worse, the drivers life. Another example is Nascar. I'm. Not a fan of the racing, but the engineering is orgasmic to an engineer/nerd like myself. There are tiny veins fixed to a cars roof. These look almost like a joke. I've seen some new drivers (like when Hammond first drives Nascar for top dear) say "that's what will save my life in a spin?!" But the amswer is yes. The friction from the air resistance is actually quite high with high speeds. Then after a few moments, much larger air breaks will deploy. Providing huge resistance, but at a marginally slower, but safer speed. Even the use of a 20-50 meter sand trap on a corner is all about providing a very small, but constant and critical amount of resistance. It may not look it to a spectator. But watching the car speed on the quipment, if a car under steers onto a sand trap, or looses control, the speed goes down very fast, and any car still with control find it very difficult to keep up, or regain speed before returning to the track. Sorry for the rant anyway, but to me this is what I get off to xD The wife is just someone to share it all with (don't worry, she knows xD).

@MrMartinAlmighty 5 жыл бұрын

Honestly never knew F1 was so interesting until I started watching your videos. Thank you for making such a cool subject so accessible!

@Smonserratm 6 жыл бұрын

Maldonado mentioned in a crash barrier technology video. Check.

@heylolp9 6 жыл бұрын

Have a nice day everyone

@krunchykarrot6537 2 жыл бұрын

Everything I was looking for. Fantastic vid homie

@thatguytom2271 6 жыл бұрын

This is by far the most fun way to revise for my a level physics finals next week. Love your content chain bear, keep it up

@remystern7818 3 жыл бұрын

Who’s else is here after Romain almost died

@AngryGooseChieftain 6 жыл бұрын

So THAT'S why Maldonado is still alive

@siddharthshekher1101 4 жыл бұрын

May be the most informative piece of information I came across this morning. What an amazing explanation.

@matthewmyatt2625 5 жыл бұрын

Really good quality video. It’s great how you made what quite often can be a boring topic into a really interesting thing to listen to and watch. I’m definitely subscribing. Really good video and really informative. Keep up the awesome work 👍🏻

@wokelikeamf3616 2 жыл бұрын

This got recommend to me after Max Verstappen's crash at the British GP

@bigsmoke9935 6 жыл бұрын

9:53 listen to that a bit out of context.. i had quite a laugh

@lllucas44 6 жыл бұрын

I can see your hard work in your videos, keep it up you're doing great! I mean, this video was about freaking barriers and you got me hooked through the whole video!

@fransisrld 6 жыл бұрын

And again I am blown away! Amazing video as always!

@thonolon 3 жыл бұрын

Bet this will get a lot of hits today

@JeroenSteinfort 6 жыл бұрын

Last time I was this early Verstappen was still in P20

@lestermoreno1504 6 жыл бұрын

Dude love it! Really nice content, and thanks for the physics lessons. They help a lot to understand better the angle of impact and everyhting

@CountSwagula24 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video. Superbly researched

@akashdodda 2 жыл бұрын

Got this recommended after verstappen crash at Silverstone

@SARTHAXBEATZ 2 жыл бұрын

Haha same, YT sure knows how to get views

@ritemasterful 6 жыл бұрын

Real title = "How max is still alive??"

@fiftylaren 6 жыл бұрын

I absolutly love your Videos, keep up the good work and thanks for your awesome F1 related content

@jonathanpalmer155 4 жыл бұрын

I've yet to watch one of your brilliantly-presented videos and not come away having learned something new!

@daanstam6697 6 жыл бұрын

Maldonado probably would have been Able to curve a concrete wall if he kept on racing 😂

@sjoseph001 6 жыл бұрын

Hi there, thanks for a great video. I always wonder whether Senna would have been saved by a tyre wall. He went straight into a concrete wall on Tamburello, and it's not like others hadn't crashed there before at very high speed, Gerhard Berger and Nelson Piquet for example. Would be grateful for your thoughts on this. Other viewers comments also invited.

@zachogdahl210 6 жыл бұрын

Sanjay Joseph it wasnt the shock from the impact that killed him it was a tie rod from the suspension that came up and whacked him in the helmet. Had he hit the wall a couple degrees left or right he would still be with us today

@sjoseph001 6 жыл бұрын

Zach, I do agree with the cause of death, that is immutable. The coroner noted that there were three severe injuries to the brain, all due to the wheel coming off, but might a tyre wall prevented the wheel from breaking off in the first place?

@jsquared1013 6 жыл бұрын

Sanjay Joseph suspension arms break with tire barrier impacts as well. What likely could have saved Senna was wheel tethers, which is why they were mandated shortly after the accident. (A Halo likely would have done the trick as well, maybe even the higher cockpit sides we have today... which were also introduced after the Senna tragedy). Additionally, there really isn't any way to fit much of a barrier there without making it narrow like a street circuit. Even before the '94 GP, people looked into the possibility of pushing the wall back further, but there is a creek behind it that is a pretty immovable limit for the architects and engineers.

@orsomethingorno 6 жыл бұрын

I think a tyre barrier -- with a belt in front of it -- would have been better in the case of Senna's crash, though I think the best solution (at the time) would have been to move the concrete wall inwards to the track's edge, moving outwards again to take all available space on corner exit -- as the video comments here, runoff increases the angle of impact and Senna definitely left the track at a much shallower angle than he struck the wall at, even though he did slow down by the time he got to the wall. The same solution could have saved Ratzenberger a few hundred metres down the road, where the small amount of runoff at the kink was just enough to massively increase the angle of impact. With modern innovations you would be able to have SAFER barriers on these corners also.

@guilemaigre14 6 жыл бұрын

+1 for referencing Douglas Adams ! Great video, as always.

@srdjankos4254 6 жыл бұрын

This is the only channel I know with videos of such consistent high quality I might as well like them before they even start.

@StreetWarrior24 3 жыл бұрын

Who's here after the Grosjean crash?

@antagony98 3 жыл бұрын

*Romain Grosjean liked this*

@Vilbe 6 жыл бұрын

Great and very well made video as always!

@lovelyjoyheyres443 3 жыл бұрын

I did replay the vid a lof of times. Put on headphones to clearly hear every bit. 😆 That's a lot of Physics and science! Thanks for this 💚

@QuangLe-pj4jg 6 жыл бұрын

7:13 I see what you did there

@0MyChannel0 6 жыл бұрын

6:20 who is that pokemon? lol

@SataySauceSG 6 жыл бұрын

This is a tremendously accessible video that describes in layman terms what measures we put in place for circuit safety. Thank you very much, from the Singapore Grand Prix. :)