The Formula 1 Car with INFINITE GEARS

The Formula 1 Car with INFINITE GEARS | The Blueprint

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This 1993 Williams has one of the most unusual gearboxes ever in F1. Rather than 8 gears like modern F1 cars, it had an ingenious mechanism that could smoothly change through an infinite number of gear ratios.
It promised to make the car easier to drive, more efficient and much, much faster.
It's called a Continuously Variable Transmission, a CVT. It’s not a new thing but was new to something as powerful as a 90s F1 car.
It meant the car was always in the right gear and could make the best use of the engine's power, delivering all 850 horsepower, all the time.
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So how do they work?
There are many different types of CVT - with more clever ones being trialled in cars all the time. They’re not new though and are often used on anything from a Pillar Drill to a Scooter.
But this is the one that was used in the Williams car, it’s essentially two pulleys, with a belt connecting them. One pulley is connected to the engine, the other to the wheels.
Each pulley has one side fixed in place, whilst the other side can move.
When the pulley is squeezed together, it forces the belt up the cone, the same as shifting to the largest cog on the back of your bike.
The same happens in reverse, pull the two sides apart and the belt moves to the bottom, similar to the smallest cog on a bike.
If you were to hold the pulley somewhere in the middle, you can have any gear ratio you like, as the belt can deliver power anywhere on the surface of the pulleys.
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@Driver61 2 жыл бұрын

Some of you may have seen this one, but most of our subscribers haven't. So here is a remix of an old upload, with some new bits in there!

@affe89 2 жыл бұрын

I can just imagine how much better todays CVT gearboxes would have been if F1 had developed them for 25 years or so...

@ragerancher 2 жыл бұрын

Teams: Hey we got this new idea!

@WillyWilson11 2 жыл бұрын

During a tour at the DAF museum where the car is on display, I was told it was banned because a maximum of 8(?) forward gears was allowed at the time. While Williams argued it had 1 forward gear, the FIA argued it had infinite forward gears, and thus too many.

@megapet777 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if that system could be made reliable enough for 1-2 races nowadays? Would be very interesting. I can only imagine how weird would be to slow down to corner and still be at nearly max rpm constantly :D

@jiveturkey9993 2 жыл бұрын

My speculation on why they banned it was they just couldn't stand the sound of it.

@KimiButNoDrink 2 жыл бұрын

93 Williams? Yeah loved that car

@hr_pedersen1439 2 жыл бұрын

A fun quirk of some of these gearboxes is that it can go just as fast in reverse as it can go forward.

@Noukz37 2 жыл бұрын

I'm one of the few car enthusiasts that actually like CVTs, for daily driving. But it's a shame there was no usage of this in a full length championship, to test it, develop it and prove it's application in motorsport.

@balazsbelavari7556 Жыл бұрын

If cvt’s were a thing in f1, a lot more aero engineers would have come to participate.

@MonsterPumpkin 2 жыл бұрын

It is a huge shame it was banned especially without reason but to be fair, the more things drivers have to keep in check and have to do the more entertaining it is to watch, because it becomes a race of skill more than equipment and of course can't forget about the iconic sound

@opperbuil 2 жыл бұрын

Reliability has changed quite a bit. The Japanese self-defense force run the Mitsubishi type 10 tank of 40 tonnes and 1200 hp on a CVT. While the high revs of a formula 1 car is its own challenge, so is 40 tonnes of box bouncing on terrain that's impossible to drive over with wheeled vehicles. The mostly guaranteed reliability distance of a modern tank is closer to the full formula 1 race season than a single GP.

@micahkiyimba8641 2 жыл бұрын

Would have loved to see at least 1 GP with the CVT Williams

@gbraadnl 2 жыл бұрын

7:35

@Conservator. 2 жыл бұрын

I remember driving my grandmother’s DAF 66 in 1983. It was considered anything but a sporty car and yet I was first away at a traffic light, every time.

@emi2047 2 жыл бұрын

Well explained, but I think there is a little misconception at

@patrickrodriguez8797 2 жыл бұрын

I sometimes feel like the FIA is purposefully hindering technological advances. Imagine if F1 teams were given a chance to use and perfect the CVT and their advancement would trickle down to us consumers.