Can't wait to see what ferrari pulls off this weekend. I went to Imola, so I know what ferrari disappointment is.

If Ferrari get through their home race without making any monumental strategy errors that will be a win for them regardless of their placing.

Ferrari are probably gonna turn up their engines to the max mode and take an extra penalty later in the season just so they have the advantage at Monza. Not that'll matter once they put Leclerc on wets in the dry and Sainz gets a 40 minute pitstop because they full on forget to bring the wheel gun from maranello

I’m a Lewis fan but Max and RBR have got it all dialed in this is his championship and prob the next one too he’s a beast !

With RedBull, you'd have the chance DRS doesnt work anyway, no matter the circuit. "Max, please only press it ONCE"

Rather than me praying for a massive headwind, I’m just praying for no more disappointment from the home team

If there’s one race where the red team have to put it all together, it’s this one. The Tifosi deserve nothing less than a win or at least a double podium.

Gonna be another Ferrari disaster this weekend

Wind in Monza is rare... very rare. I've lived in the area all my life until 2017 and usually wind is never there, especially early September, still hot, still humid and very sunny.

I'm looking forward to seeing the Williams higher up on the grid

Something I am wondering which I feel have been forgotten about because of Mercs "terrible" season. When the teams rocked up at pre season testing, first event Merc had a normal car and then at Bahrain they showed up with their innovative design. Everyone were so excited about their sidepod-less design that would produce so little drag, but now everyone is talking baout how slow and draggy the Merc is. What gives?

Considering how big that main straight is it is amazing how underpowered drs is here

Why? Simple: Monza is a high speed track so all cars already have minimal downforce. Therefore DRS won't add much top speed. I predict that the Red Bulls will have enough top speed without DRS to stay ahead of Ferrari's with DRS.

It really depends on what the teams can run to optimize their laptimes, lower drag, lower downforce on a very fast circuit like Monza can be key but you still have to balance everything, so in my opinion in Monza we are gonna see the hugest differences of pace between teams, accounting for the Sprint Race and the grid penalties that might occur we are gonna get an exciting weekend ahead of us, with loads of overtakes made easier by the drs. None the less it's a RedBull 1-2, that thing has a cx of a mosquito.

Can you do a video on how the new regulations have affected overtakes with stats from all the races so far vs previous years?

Ayyyyy, wtf1 uploads get me excited.

Another amazingly edited video Katy.

I don't know why but I have a feeling Ferrari might actually show up this weekend. Of course it is a home race, but it seems like whenever you expect Ferrari to do well, they bottle it. And when you expect them to not even be in the fight, they put in a decent run. And everyone is expecting Max to run away with it at Monza.

For everyone wanting to get rid of DRS in F1, just look at DRS trains. This is what racing without a DRS system would be because no one would be able to pass.

The old Hockenheim would have been pointless for DRS too. The same narrow wings would appear there in my memories from my early days watching F1, and the last 4 years of that layout.

My question is even, will the be a rearwingless test this year? The new floors make more downforce the faster it goes so the speedy corners should be able to be done at full speed

Ferrari new livery will make it impossible for them to overtake with drs

The low downforce setup not only reduces the drs effectiveness but also the dirty air the cars leave behind making following through the corner easier and not need the drs as much since the drs was to balance the disadvantage of having dirty air of the front car so that balances things out

It will be interesting this year

I really hope that Ferrari does well this weekend And that's coming from a Red Bull fan

I'll speak up for the broadcasters on the wind issue. It's my first year watching and they definitely made it clear (to my memory) how big a factor wind has been at certain sectors of several tracks this year.

Fascinating. The system to boost straight line speed does not help at the track with long straights.

WTF1 is spoiling us with such amazing content :D

as a new f1 fan i like this videos that bring up a topic i would have known nothing about!

@3:05 would love to say Charles, but with Binotto still at tp, wouldn't think so. One way or another they're gonna effed it up and will say to their drivers to just deal with it.

I wish that Variante Rettifilo chicken was a right and left split chicane. If you were side by side down the front straight with a competitor, you should choose the opposite side to try and make a pass.

Designing an F1 car is more of an aerospace project than an automotive one. Downforce is a function of airspeed like lift is for an aeroplane.

Hopefully the current cars will follow better through some of the high speed corners leading to those straights too. I'd love to predict a Merc win or something but I think more of the same from the last few months.

Can someone please explain the reference to Albon's 'Rocket'? I missed the Belgian GP.. :)

Albon Q3 in Monza 2022. Come back to this when it happens.

The rear wings at Monza are often refereed as razor wing. Then, there is barely any intense braking there. Long, fast straight and fast corners.

So what you are saying is that we should install a giant fan at the end of the straight in the chicane so that there's more wind on that straight? Maybe even change the straight into a tunnel, so that you can have that extreme wind tunnel effect. All for better overtakes, of course.

Let's be honest. Ricciardo won at Monza because they told Norris to stay behind him.

Ferrari:We are better in the corners. Red Bull:VTEC JUST KICKED IN YO!

In other words, this is why DRS is not going away any time soon. If you can't overtake at Monza with minimum DRS effect and one of the longest straights followed by one of the biggest braking zone, you won't be able to overtake anywhere else without DRS.

This weekend feels like a RB 1-2

I'm torn about this weekend. I want Ferrari to do well, but I also wanna see Max try and break the consecutive wins record (9 wins by Vettel). Considering how absolutely dominant Max has been this season, it feels like a great time to try. I guess I'm hoping for a Max 1 Ferrari 2 &3 podium this weekend then

What about the gearing, that they all have to choice at the start of the season

Leclerc wins Monza 2019 and crashes out 2020 Gasly wins Monza 2020 and crashes out 2021 Danny wins Monza 2021 and ....?????

You also forgot to mention that all the turns are chicanes. It's very hard to overtake on then, because the track narrows down, and the inside becomes the outside

The solution is for F1 to come a kitcar series, like Australia's V8 supercars. Not a one make series but the cars sharing alot of common parts. In the V8 suupercars thier ran the same chassis, rollcage and gearbox but run different bodywork and motor. Even thou V8 supercars only as twoo makes it's not limited to two makes.

Ricciardo: "I never left" 😂

what i always love is how the engines go to the highest rpm of the year

Spicy headwind FTW!

RB aren't even running a skinny rear wing, literally turning up the difficulty because Max is bored

Idea for replacing DRS: A mandated push to pass button which is always gives X percent more horsepower. Teams can decide themselves if they want the baseline tune to be more or less conservative. If they're more conservative then the push to pass mode can be run for a long time but the regular mode becomes a bit useless. If the baseline tune is already pretty on the limit then you want to limit your use of push to pass when it is strictly necessary. During qualifying they always run this mode which is then fixed for the entire weekend. I think this reduces the gimmick factor since the teams are back in control of when they apply it and it provides a tradeoff between the possibility of grenading your engine or having an easier time overtaking. What do you guys think?

Hmmm… after seeing RB rear wing in FP1 and FP2, I think that DRS definitely will make a huge difference for them.

Short explaination of DRS train, locomotive is .5 second faster without DRS, following wagons are as fast but with DRS, things equalize themselves and no passing. That is a DRS train.

For DRS to work at Monza, you’d have run it through Curve Grande, right up to the second chicane.

I have a sneaky feeling alonso is going to create a drs train of 7 cars then pit for hards then get podium finish while ferrari amps up their power for the home race and the blow up or bottle it in the first chicane and max does a zandervoort and finishes the race 50 minutes ahead of everyone because he's a Lewis Hamilton in Brazil last year and is a maniac for speed and a champion and then albon does a jet flyby and buzzes the tower to score some topgun points in his f-14 tomcat and then suddenly comes George with the struggling car to third while lando has his own race with vettel doing his own thing and we all cheer on vettel and expect mick to do something amazing so we keep him next year and watch Daniel in 17th place sadly :( that's how I think this race will go or a red flag because Yuki gets ahead of himself bless him. Tell me what yall think😂

01:15 As rather new fan of F1, knowing about the good days of Williams, but not seeing their best days, it's a funny thing to hear.

I'm looking forward to the Albon DRS train.

This is why F1 should run a "push to pass" button similar to Indycar at tracks like Monza, Spa, Canada, etc etc

Good looking forward to them working more for an overtake rather than drive-bys on the straights. It'll force them to take more exciting opportunities. Ban DRS at some tracks I think.

When you said there is one more problem and it's invisible, I thought you were gonna say Latifi😜

I cannot imagine how many overtakes we will see in Interlagos. Where DRS makes a 15-20 kph difference.

This actually misses the most important historical reason overtaking was a challenge. Gearing. F1 cars run too short of gears at Monza because this is the only track that would benefit, but others have better traction and acceleration using shorter gears elsewhere, so the top speed limitation at this track in particular is not aerodynamic, but mechanical. As the top speed has nothing to do with the aerodynamica of the car (or dramatically less so), decreasing the drag of the package doesn't help overcome the literal limitations that the cars are running peak rpm at 8th gear and just are not allowed to run faster due to engine/transmission damage risks. Toto has come flat out and said it that they could go a lot faster at Monza, but then they would suffer everywhere else, and this is also why Monza of all tracks shows the least progress from the 80/90s cars.

I suppose they could regulate a higher minimum rear wing size to make the DRS here stronger

Feels like you meant to say more about how the wind typically acts at Monza than you did

Could this be big weekend for Williams and Albon???

No one wants to see an overly dominant team, but tbh I think it would be really cool to see max break the records for the most consecutive wins and the most wins in a season in the same season

Nobody: Absolutely nobody: Matt: kmph

Can’t wait to see what Mercedes pulls off this weekend I’ve been to silvers one so I know what Mercedes can be

Why don't the enable drs in the straight after ascari given that these new generation cars have lesser slipstreaming effect

So what you're saying is, if they carry the same setup as Spa, is _Williams have a chance?_

Considering how important top speed is at Monza, and how fast the Red Bull is in a straight line I think we wil lhave to use a calender to measure Max's winning margin this week.

Ferrari Monza weekend prediction: The crew end up being sent by accident to Mugello.

And yet we still got a drs train on sunday, which is probably why dre vries managed to score on his debut

I havent watched to video, so I'm gonna shoot my shot for an explanation: Everyone is driving Monza packages anyway that reduce drag as much as possible. When you almost have no rear wing, you don't gain much by reducing even more.

Here are my predictions for the top 3, Max Perez and Gasly. That Honda engine is a rocketship.

The last 2 years were both absolute carnage, so you never know

The red bull just isn't going to use a rear wing in Monza

Williams is ready! Top 10 finish coming!

Max is boutta run laps around the competition 😭😂

Actually DRS did help last weekend. Apart from in overtaking Williams :)

Home Race suffering... incoming.

If I was a team like Mclaren I'd overclock the engine by 5% for qually/race and go for it. I'd rather fight for a podium 1 week and start from the back of the grid the next week. I have a feeling that all Merc powered teams might struggle to make q3. Well Merc might make it but I think it'll be closer than usual. Max will win this race by 45 seconds if there's no safety cars and he doesn't slow down toward the end to minimize risks. Lack of straight line speed has to be the most frustrating thing. Makes overtakes, even with drs open, near impossible.

A potential counter-point is why qualifying sessions in recent years at Monza have become a bit of a joke... If cars generate less drag, that should create less dirty air & less of a slipstream tow... However we know that's not the case at Monza. It should help serve a fascinating race, even if the logic doubles-back on itself throughout the weekend (Also, fair play Ferrari for painting their engine covers yellow to camouflage when it inevitably catches fire)

I am not a Ferrari fan, but I do hope they get their act together this weekend and at least put up a good fight.

What about the Gear Ratio? ⚙⚙⚙ At Monza you often see them hitting the limiter way before the end of the straight. Especially when slipstreaming. Or is this something they can't change overnight?

Ferari current situation remind me to formula 1 late 90's situation. Ferari must find team principle that's can bring to podium.

maybe with the old cars, im sure the race will be entertaining with the new ones

Waiting for 19 car DRS train while Max wins by lapping everyone.

The explanation of how a headwind affects DRS in the video is the opposite of what commentator Alex Brundle said during the F2 sprint race at Zandvoort this past weekend. He said the headwind _reduced_ the effectiveness of DRS not increased it. Is someone wrong or does the nature of the headwind wind and other factors mean the wind's effect on DRS can go either way depending on the circumstances?

No mention of the chicanes that negate the large braking zones???

Small wings up and down the field incoming

Going to watch baku 2018 now

The only way Max doesn't win at Monza is if someone takes him out in the same way he took out himself and Lewis at Monza last year.

Isn't it because the gearbox ratios are fixed at the beginning of the year and cars will be running close to max rpms at Monza, so reducing drag doesn't mean the car can go any faster as the engine cannot do more rpms.

Cuz teams already running low wing, saved you 3 minutes

If max doesn’t win this weekend in a car 10-15mph faster than the next fastest then that’s just embarrassing for red bull

If Max's car doesn't go wrong he wins far and away. I think the real question is, 'What new Ferrari blunder will happen this weekend?'.. I so can't wait for the end of the year compilation of this ridiculousness.

No, team orders helped certain someone to take victory last year. In return he gained staggering 32 points in remaining 8 races that year.

overtaking is not simple with drs at Monza. RBPT: Imma bout to end this man's whole career

Except this year the aero book has been ripped up. Ground Effects, remember? What happened last year, or any year before that, means he haw for this year. Tbh anything that cuts drag on the straights this year imo plays directly into Red Bull, RBRPT-Honda, and Max's hands. Maybe see Williams' Alex Albon wearing a big cheesy grin too rubbing his hands in anticipation.