1. I came across your channel and watched some of your videos 2. Then watched all F1 races this summer and rewatched your videos again to actually understand. 3. Picked my favorite driver 4. Picked my favorite team 5. Picked my favorite track 6. Watched race highlights from last decades 7. Spent countless hours on Wikipedia articles and reddit related to F1 8. Weighed in my opinion on Halo Now, I need to go to driving school, get a driving license, buy myself a modest city car, and find a friend who I can talk to about F1 over a Maß of Weizenbier.

Today I learned: My brain is made of alphabet soup.

1:23 Looks like Raikkonen has been racing a really long time!

kimi: it protects my head

odd to see no mention of the hans device, its pretty integral to helmet design (you cant just fit a hans device to non-hans helmets)

Video ideas 1. Wheel nuts 2 HANS device 3. External engine starters

Stuart, I think the reason why some folks are a little uneasy about the Autosport collaboration is that it’s causing a bit of confusion as to the best approach to take. Whether to watch on the Autosport channel, thus improving your viewing figures there; or to support you more directly by watching here. I’ve seen it suggested to watch the video twice, once on each channel. Great, for those with the time or inclination, but not an option for everyone, I’d think. You have a very obvious talent for what you do and it is good to see that being recognised with these colabs. I don’t think any sensible person would begrudge such things, so don’t get downhearted by the few naysayers. You’ll never please everyone and that will only be magnified as your success continues. Not really sure what I was aiming for with this comment. Just my support and thanks.

I make sure to always watch your video. Even if I saw Autosport's upload already.

That cough**** 😆😆😆😆 2:14

Love the clearing throat sarcasm with LEC’s damaged “ahem” being featured for under a secon

As much as people focus on helmets, HANS has actually saved more lives in racing. When HANS first came out and was about to be legislated in NASCAR , Dale Earnhart refused to wear " that noose". He died from cervical dislocation which HANS would have prevented. Stupid is as stupid does.

2:15 I think the halo is awesome, especially in formula e

"[...]before scientists invented color." Well played.

Once again a top notch video, very informative and done in an entertaining way.

2:11 ladies and gentlemen is why we adore Chain Bear F1: the typical cheek from Stuart!

Morning, I really enjoyed the overview, I didn't appreciate so much effort went into the mere helmet, which is a GOOD thing! Thanks! It's appreciated 👌 Matt

Chainbear did you see the F1 hour long interview with Toto Wolff.. respect ✊ Would love to see a chainbear video (or series) on what it takes (and how much) to run an F1 team.

As with all your videos, I found it fascinating. Despite having watched F1 for over 40 years I still like to learn. One comment you made about strapping the helmets down triggered a thought. I remember a race where Button said he'd had to drive with his hand on his helmet holding it down on the straight because the wind was raising it and he kept choking! Can't remember which one it was, and which team he was in - probably the BAR given the time he was there. Imagine blacking out towards the end of a straight because your safety gear is killing you! Thanks for these videos. I'm currently binge watching you :-)

I love your videos so much! I always watch them here as well if I had already watched them on motorsports youtube! keep it up!!

Great video as always, Stuart. Could you do one about the history of F1 car design over the entire course of F1? That would make for a really interesting top I think.

Briliant content as always Chainbear! as i commented on autosport upload... i find interesting that people in early 50´ were still used to deaths and injuries after war which reflected in motorsport too... No one cared about injuries and it took long time to reevaluate safety and ultimately value of human life. (hits replay 10times :D)

an excellent, informative, great video yet again dude

I know, I'm super super late. But I just wanted to say, how much I liked your video. I've just stumbled onto your channel, lookin for old touring car races...and now I'm subb'ed...

your videos have amazing and easy to understand great work

Quality explanation as always Chain Bear

2:22 _Steering wheel! Gloves and steering wheel! Hey! C'mon!_

I don't have anything against AutoSport Channel... But I waited for this and it felt too long... If I remember correctly you said this was the last video in the collaboration. If so, thank you so so much. Now let's just hope your next few videos will be able to bounce back into the suggested videos feed because KZfaq algorithms are a bitch and the fact that the this happened this way is going to affect the channel for a while.

really nice video... I would add the fact that they banned the water hose hole after brazilian Luciano Burti's accident on Blanchimont corner at Spa, where the chin guard was ripped off also would worth mention the Hans as a great safety improvement

With the visor port so small it would be quite fun to see how it fares if used when riding a motorcycle. We know it's not designed for riding motorcycles but it would be fun to see just how much vision a rider has wearing one. 😂

Now that's pretty neat. Good video yet again!.

3:00 Finnish Sauna my friend. Its Finland that has the Sauna culture ;-) Norwegians even wear clothes when taking a sauna LOL

And amazing job ! What ever knowledge I have is because of you ! Keep it up !

Excellent video. Thanks!

Kevlar is not knifeproof. Combination antistabbing and bullet resistant vests have a layer of leather-like or even chainmail for that purpose. 900 years old tech that's still effective for that purpose. There are very different physical phenomena at play in a knifing and a gunshot. When hit by a high velocity, copper jacketed lead bullet, the kevlar fibres keep togheter and the friction between the layers help dissipate some of the energy, preventing a tear and penetration but still allowing a massive concussive shockwave, enough to bruise you severely. Will save your life, but the pain and shock may knock you out. Kevlar vests often have a steel plate to protect your solar plexus, an area just under your ribcage where if struck with enough force, may cause you to go into cardiorespiratory arrest. When struck with a piercing/cutting device, the kevlar fibres "window" out of the way and the blade cuts them quite easily. Enough layers will stop a stab, just like enough layers of Cotton will, but even Level 3A bulletproof vests made to resist pistol calibers up to .44 Magnum (around 1500J of muzzle energy) won't. A rigid layer would help them become stabproof. You could inbibe a few layers of Kevlar in epoxy resin to make it so, but they'll loose their resistance to high velocity impacts.

275G. That's a lot of force 😱😰

No mention of the HANs device? Thought that'd be interesting to go into, especially as recently Kubica said it saved his life in the Canada crash

8:23 -> 8:24 must have been a hot day I suppose :)

I liked the video even before watching it. But I also want to say that those are really good animations and graphics.

Watched it on the other channel now on repeat here. When chainbear features too impatient to wait

Great video!

Waited for the video to be posted here for the awesome outro

Interesting. Thanks for another great video.

Amazing topic again. Didnt realize I do not know anything about helmets.

Thank you for producing what are IMHO the best (or at least my favorite) videos on auto racing. Fortunately I am late to the game so my emerging F1 geek gets fed when it wants. :)

the padding vs. no padding visual is backwards (difficult physics to portray like that though in my opinion with the brain, head, and helmet), otherwise an excellent video. Excited to see more!!!

Good video!

i hope this helped romain too! the halo was one thing. i didn't realize the helmets were so balls to the wall too

What a great channel!

When the brain crashes into a side of the wall, the main thing that gets easily damaged is the corpus colossum, since it's relatively tight and narrow and links two relatively heavy halves of the brain. When you fall and hit your head, you're much more likely to get concussions in a sideways fall than one where you hit the front or back of your head. If the damage was just general, you'd expect front to back or vice versa to be worst, since you have the most brain behind the smallest area of skull, since that's the direction the brain is longest. Generally a helmet that gives a few millimeters or even centimeters can't really do *that* much to reduce impact acceleration. What it can do though is allow your brain to rest firmly against the correct side of the skull *before* the severe deceleration occurs. The brain will expand less perpendicular to the direction of collision because the initial distance of stretching is afforded more time, and you'll get a reduction in corpus collossum stretching way out of proportion to the relatively small drop in outside head movement. Granted, this is not the only thing that kills people in terms of brain shaking, but it tends to be what causes brain damage in non-fractured skulls, concussion, and it tends to be what kills people *first*.

Hi Stuart. In the early 1980s, there was a bizarre, “Darth Vader’ looking helmet that was popular with Indy car drivers and was briefly used by Mario Andretti, Elio de Angeles and Marc Surer in Formula One. I thought the only benefit these helmets had was the ventilation slits at the front of the helmet that may have provided easier breathing for the drivers. However, they only appeared for about two or three years and then were no longer around. In your research, did you come across this helmet and if so what were the pros and cons compared with other helmets of its day? Great video. Thanks for the wonderful history lesson.

Great video as always, and great animation. Nothing about the HANS though? It's quite integral in the prevention of head deceleration, I understand.

Awsome vid!! ❤️❤️

Very good video :]

You should place something in the video's end saying that you're collaborating with Autosport. Many apparently have not understood that, and this situation doesn't help either one of you two. It may hurt your partner as they're being seen by a fair bit of people as the theif of your video. Great video as always, keep it up.

1:34 Nice charts bro.

Watched in auto sport but watching again. Would love to see more content like this.

The Halo snapshot and the intended COUGH - Way to make a point !!! Too good

I’m pleased about the autosport sponsorship but please upload the videos here first!!

Super interesting!

7:37 as a driver i have a visor sticker so i get distracted less. I think it is not bad to have a small visor

fun fact....well fun... kevlar and aramide yarns are used in a lot... in so much in fact there is currently a shortage that will be long term mostly because production plants can't keep up with demand, it's in tires helmets and in what I do; cables

I love this channel.

Daniel Sexton Gurney brought the Full Coverage Bell Star helmet to BOTH F-1 and Le Mans in 1967. The USAF used aluminium and then fiberglass flying helmets from the later 1940s/Korean War era < Purloined and/or surplus AF helmets were soon seen at the West Coast race tracks and out on the salt lakes Bell helmets were FIRST seen at the Bonneville Speed Weeks, ' along with roll over bars and automatic fire extinguishers.... 1959 -1960.. SOON to be seen at Indy! As seen in period Hot Rod magazines!!! History! J.C. Age 72....

this is so great

All that, plus, the hard shell is made to break at a violent impact, absorbing that way a high amount of energy. But it must keep its form.

Think you flipped the padding & energy absorbing portions of the helmet. With the exception of cheek pads & a bit around the ears the padding is quite thin. The foam/energy absorbing materials actually make up the bulk of a helmets volume.

Hi, great videos, do you know how the team radios work? Can you explain them, can everyone hear what is happening, or like do other teams scan on the frequencies? Or like, only the officials can? Thank you! I searched but you do not have any videos about it.

@2:15 you fucking got me there, I was thinking "wow of course those dumb dumbs would make fun of a safer helmet because it looks different" and then the cough and the flash and I realized I HAD BEEN THAT DUMB DUMB. lmao, good one.

i dunno if this happens for anyone else, but at various points in the video, the audio cuts out for a second before coming back in. good video though.

Good vid that m8

Very informative. I still have one question though. Airflow? Are those two holes just above the drives mouth for airflow ?

This is great news and very interesting. I'm afraid parking heavy equipment in a run off zone or anywhere near a plastic race car will still eventually kill a guy though. RIP María de Villota and Jules Bianchi both. There will never be a crane-proof hat.

As always, outstanding video. How much does it cost a 2017 helmet? Salutes from Argentina 😁 😁

It's so good how only ayrton senna, 25 years ago died in an F1 car. F1 might have come to an era with no fatalities. (Jules didn't die in his car, he died almost a year after his crash, so not instant death which I was talking about)

awesome vid but you forgot the HANS system in the evolution of helmet

Hi, I just watched a couple videos on your channel in the f1 car series. I guess I'm just like you like dig into engine and stuff. I like watching they racing, but part of it I also like how it was made. The problem is I am building just fun drone, and I was thinking is it possible to like... provide the energy source and immediately receive it back from the motor then it will loop forever?

i watched this video via advanced screening on autosport's youtube channel. not to brag or anything.

I would love to see a video about some of the strangest/most unique helmet designs, the likes of 3:14 or 7:25

How are the decorations applied? Is it paint or adhesive labels?

Would it be a good idea to add something like the ability of the helmet to float on your head on straps, like in a medieval helmet, in addition to this padding ?

It's important to mention the HANS device. Severe neck injuries can be as bad as a severe head injury.

Liked that diagram showing brain movement. I wonder in F1 with hard acceleration and braking if the brain moves to any degree of danger?

Can you do a more up to date 2020 helmet vid?

4:23 Am I the only one that noticed the reference to Felipe Massa's 2009 accident?

Can we have a follow-up video on the Hans device please?

2:51 specifically a norwegian sauna. Next level is the Swedish sauna and the level after that is the Finnish sauna but at that point your head might as well be on fire

No mention of the HANS? That's an essential extension to the helmet, which is also mandatory in F1.

Wasn’t the Zilon strip added from siennas crash in immola 1994? Since that is exactly where the steering rod penetrated his helmet

At 1:54 I think that helmet on the left looks really cool

The zylon strip prevents projectiles from penetrating the upper part of the visor and letterbox. What about the lower part of the visor and letterbox, no extra protection needed?

Kevlar needs to be specially treated to resist sharps. It's by default no more protective against piercing wounds than a similar thickness of cotton. That's part of why rifle grade vests use kevlar much less, and instead mostly us rubber and steel plates or use thick layers of kevlar for backing a plate of ceramic.

That halo reference joke was a sneaky one

Honeslty I'm fine with Autosport uploading your videos before you, probably some sort of agreement. What I'm NOT fine with is that youtube decides I want the autosport video suggested, and not Chainbear F1. Even though this is the channel Im subscribed to

do the hans system next

Basically the primary effect is to make the brain rest firmly flush against the right side of the skull before the hard part of the impact, not really to spread the deceleration over that much more distance.

Out of interest, does anybody know why Indycar doesn't have the wing on the top of the helmet? (I think Alonso mentioned it in his road course test)

How does one stop the neck from going twang? Is the head strapped in place? Awesome video

4:50 B E J G K H D C A L F I _damn thats deep_

I have found the following facts: first driver who wore full face helmet - Dan Gurney at 1968 German GP. Last driver who wore open face helmet - Leo Kinnunen at 1974 Swedish GP. First GP winner who wore full face helmet - Graham Hill at 1969 Monaco GP. Last winner who wore open face helmet - Clay Regazzoni at 1970 Italian GP. Source: @t

Where you featured on another KZfaq channel named Autosport? Or was that without your permission ?