xChrisS41x *fuuuUuuUuuture* It would be amazing.

There's been some laser technology in the works for a bit...before intel canceled it. :( Claims of being always focused no matter what your eyes focus to. I've been dreaming of applications ever since I heard about it. Now this is on that list :)

Believe it or not that's far from impossible with todays technology. But would mean the helmets will be fitted with electronics, and the visor being partly a screen. I wouldn't be surprised if something like this is already on the drawing board somewhere.

Nachos TV there already have been prototypes of cars with AR on the windshield. Flexible, transparent OLED screens could be fitted in the helmets visor. Problem is the tracking (probably needs a camera or some kind of sensor system communicating with the track itself) and safety (what happens when the screen goes black/cracks/etc. and the driver can't see?)

Chris Yeah that's exactly what I'm thinking with the safety, but that's where some superb engineering comes into play. Engineers do different spectrums of how great the room for mistake is depending on what they're engineering. A jet-fighter's flare system for example has to work EVERYTIME, within milliseconds. No big room for error there, and I'm pretty sure the engineers thinking about that kind of stuff have solutions for it. It will definitely need a camera, since reading whatever's on screen has never been as easy as it is now. And there are already a fuckton of AR wizards out there. I think it would be, when all the faults and safety hazards have been sorted, a very nice addition for both the drivers and the fans at the event, since having a camera on the helmet would give direct POV to fans from their favourite drivers while providing useful info to the driver. Could be more stuff than just the VSC, could also show which flags are on, location on track, other drivers location on track. Ofcourse with that much info it is also important to not have it clutter too much, since that could just do the opposite for an already stressed out F1 driver. Also Edit: Thanks Chris for being a cool dude I love discussing pseudo-projects. :P

Do you have a source where I could read upon that? I'm interested in the details.

@@RonaiHenrik I'd advise you to google for : FIA confirms VSC loophole // OR Whiting Statement on VSC loophole. The TL : DR is more or less : Since the 50m Distance for the VSC measurements are based on Car travel Distance, you can in theory gain an advantage when traveling weird angels. Its not like you can gain seconds doing that, but a few tenths here and there are confirmed to be possible, which can be a lot in F1. Which is why Vettel was complaining about it in the first place i would assume.

Vettel is one of the smartest guys on the grid. I was thinking that he would not say something like this if it did not make any sense.

@@k4kes i thought VSC work by limiting the car power

​@@ditanugroho5654 I thought the same in the beginning, that basically every car would have an engine mode that can be engaged by the FIA throughout the whole track on every car when pushing a button. Which would simply lower the cars power by X%. And im pretty certain that something like that was in the talks at the very beginning, or rather i read an article about it at least, but that might have been false the whole time who knows. Anyway like i said in my other comment Its actually way simpler, but that leaves room for a loopholes like the one Vettel mentioned. And i know that a lot of the Fans just commented the whole thing as "Ah Vettel is crying againg" because for some reason there is a huge part of the F1 fanbase that for some reason doesnt like Vettel. But in the end, i cant remember a single Person, whether from FIA or from the paddock to ever say anything against what Vettel said that proofed he is wrong. So yea..

sure

This is what they should all be doing anyways. Unless they're slowing down to the point the encroach on other cars it's fine.

I'm from the future to tell you this is what Perez did exactly to Grosjean in Japan 2018.

Lol just commented the same but yeah imagine a driver is about to enter a curve when vsc ends they lose time compared to others who use the vsc loophole

@@phillipborja im from the further future to tell you Russel did that to Perez in Hungary 2022

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Basically if you turn the track into a perfect circle. And then you had another track that was a slightly smaller circle and you put a car on each track going the exact same speed, who would do more laps? The smaller circle. By changing your line to the absolute shortest length possible (e.g. cutting inside turns instead of a proper apex from the outside) you're effectively shrinking the overall track length so your time per lap goes down.

That actually makes sense. Longer lines means more friction and warmth in tires with the same "time". Also, more fuel burned which may be beneficial for some strategies to lose weight.

Couldn't agree more fam

Yep the time gaps increase by 30% also!

but each track is different, and you drive at different speeds at different places at the track (as far as I know)

The pit limiter(or any arbitrary speed limit that they would choose) would be a maximum speed for the cars, you're allowed to go below it for a slow corner. As for the overheating , I don't believe this would happen, the LMP1 cars are not that different from the F1 cars in the cooling department and they had no issues , also the conditions under safety car would be worse for cooling, as everyone is receiving turbulent airflow and going slowly around the track. However assuming that the cars will overheat , you can: (1)Increase the speed limit in straights. (2) Just ignore it, and force teams to use larger radiators in the off chance of a VSC . (3) As cars will take x laps to overheat, you can call the VSC only for situations that will last less than x laps. (4) Use the slow zones istead, then just a group of sectors are neutralized. The whole point is that timing every car each 50 meters and checking if they're below a Delta every marshal post is a overly complex solution to introduce something that the sportcars series have done for a long time .

Bruno Cassino You solutions have a lot of problems. (2) is something that won't ever, ever happen. (3) you can't know how long you need VSC. (4) some drivers will easily get advantage depending are they on the slow part or not when VSC starts and ends

Henrix98 why not just calculate the average speed of VCS and put a magic button that would limit the car to this speed, just like the pit line limiter, but higher speed to prevent overheating. I mean. If a VSC is doing a lap time of X minutes Y seconds, its average speed will be let's say 120 kmps. So a car following VCS must go 120 at average. So why make overcomplicated measuring system while you could have a button that limits a car to that speed. And a speed could vary from track to track, it's an electronic button, it doesn't take much effort to lower or rise the limit in car's computer before the next race...

Hower167 I don't see any gains then, it would be essentially the same system but smaller sectors and what if you lose time to VSC? How it limits your speed then?

ik this is 3 years old, but any thoughts on that Verstappen safety car title win?

@@oand10 the one problem i see with that is that it was gonna either end the championship in a sc, which would be anti-climatic or, as it happened, they would have to do these weird gymnastics in the rule book. Pity...

Yeah that's pretty much correct - the time gaps will increase by 30% also. I've covered pitting under SC/VSC before in other videos so I didn't include it here. Making a good start is tricky to do as the timing of the green light to resume racing is randomised inside a 5 second window so it's not easy to predict and ramp up for it.