Investigating Formula 1's WEIRDEST Crash

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Look at this image, it’s one of the most bizarre crashes in Formula 1 history.
The driver is Sebastian Buemi, and he is driving down the back straight in Shanghai for the Chinese Grand Prix in 2010.
At the end of the straight, travelling over 200 miles per hour - he hits the brakes. And BANG - both wheels fly off.
He lost both front wheels at the same exact moment - which is completely bizarre.
So I did some digging into what on earth caused this. Oh, and we spoke to the driver himself to find out.
First, this is clearly a suspension failure - but they don’t normally happen like this. Normally if the suspension is to fail, it’s a wishbone or a pushrod. The more fragile parts of the suspension, but this seems to be much worse than that.
So to figure this out, we need to look at a load of factors.
The first thing I thought, was about the track. Yes, I know it seems to be a car failure. But I had a slight hunch about what was going on.
Now the straight at Shanghai is extremely long - 1.1 kilometres long, one of the longest in Formula 1. But on top of that, the cars enter the straight off the back of Turn 13. A corner that gradually opens up - so the cars are doing 140 miles per hour at the START of the straight.
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@migy5031 Жыл бұрын

Seeing Buemi trying to steer a wheel-less car never gets old.

@Quattro_Joe Жыл бұрын

It was just the most reactive thing that you’d do but it’s still hilarious

@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13 Жыл бұрын

Like seeing the brake lights on when Mark Webber's Le Mans car decided it was an aircraft.

@aidarhelpswithenglish4160 Жыл бұрын

Come on, thats harsh 😂 All of us will be steering first seconds

@Quattro_Joe Жыл бұрын

@@aidarhelpswithenglish4160 and then changing some pants

@aidarhelpswithenglish4160 Жыл бұрын

@@Quattro_Joe yeah. I wonder if F1 history have any "shit himself" stories

@Obi-WanKannabis Жыл бұрын

I like how Buemi presents himself like he's not a WEC and Formula E champion

@danieljimenez1989 Жыл бұрын

One humble man, he has the creds of a top driver and knows his spot. He doesn't have to brag about what he has achieved. Most drivers dream of having a career like his (and talent to match it, too).

@AbrahamArthemius Жыл бұрын

Don't forget being a 4-time Le Mans winner as well

@BOABModels Жыл бұрын

Most Sebastiens in Motorsport end up as world champions!

@DanielBParada Жыл бұрын

Lmao not knowing shit the way he talked I assumed he had just faded off into mediocrity after getting booted from F1

@JLneonhug Жыл бұрын

Thanks, didn't know that.

@gerryjamesedwards1227 Жыл бұрын

So the braking zone became the breaking zone?

@danielkoskiluoto4499 Жыл бұрын

Ingenious

@shadowwsk3507 Жыл бұрын

Wait thats not a typo

@BLX187 Жыл бұрын

Da dum tishh!

@MisoElEven Жыл бұрын

@@BLX187 Ba dum tssss

@TamagoHead Жыл бұрын

👍🤣g1!

@IrocZIV Жыл бұрын

Never knew about the tarmac actually buckling under the force of braking, crazy.

@illwillsquared Жыл бұрын

tarmac waves my guy, moving it like water :'D

@isimon. Жыл бұрын

You can even see it on the road when there is a downhill section and then a stop sign, when the road is older, it starts to get wavy

@rdt1104 Жыл бұрын

I think something similar happens on dirt roads, causing a corrugated surface

@sportbikejesus6297 Жыл бұрын

Probably an issue with the track. It was made in China

@zilentzap Жыл бұрын

just like tires actually changing form with the force of the cars, so much stuff going on we can't appreciate at first sight.

@Frostfly Жыл бұрын

Nice to see Seb. he's been great fun to watch in Formula E and WEC

@harrycop7944 Жыл бұрын

Lmao that sounds so odd if you dont know for buemi

@PTFVBVB Жыл бұрын

Very big "yeah I'm just some dude" energy in his intro

@tjenadonn6158 Жыл бұрын

Well you see the problem is the front fell off.

@Kalimerakis Жыл бұрын

Is that normal?

@simonrussell4986 Жыл бұрын

@@Kalimerakis Chance in a million

@princepsregem4006 Жыл бұрын

@@Kalimerakis generally they’re designed so that the front doesn’t fall off.

@CertifiedSlamboy Жыл бұрын

Well, the stewards towed it out of the environment

@afuzzyduck Жыл бұрын

that's not very typical, I'd like to make that point

@volleyballurrrr Жыл бұрын

This crash always reminds me of an article I once read either in Evo or Octane magazine, around the same time as this crash (iirc). The writer had the opportunity to drive a Formula 1 car. During his briefing with car’s engineers, when it came to the notoriously stiff brake pedal, they told him something like: “Press as hard as you can. Do not worry, you cannot break the pedal no matter how hard you push. If you break the brakes we will buy you a bottle of whatever champagne you like.” I wish I could cite the exact source, if anyone knows the article I’m describing please let me know!

@PTFVBVB Жыл бұрын

Not formula 1 but in my FSAE team the pedals were designed to be dummy strong. I think the force required for failure would be something like squatting 800lbs with one foot

@theKashConnoisseur Ай бұрын

@@PTFVBVB Don't let Hafthor Bjornson near those cars, juuuust in case.

@ChrisMisMYhandle Жыл бұрын

My favourite part about Buemi's incident was David Coulthard laughing at him for trying to steer the car with no front wheels.

@TamagoHead Жыл бұрын

It’s like stepping on the brakes in the air! 😁🤭

@MiniMii550 Жыл бұрын

I like how Buemi introduces himself as if most of us have never heard of him

@tiaraguy7705 Жыл бұрын

Surprising but not everyone viewing these videos are F1 enthusiasts, I literally searched for a video about this crash because of a meme

@willasrock1 Жыл бұрын

Funny, I always thought Buemi had a lock-up a few moments earlier and the flat-spotted tires generated vibration and stress on the suspension, then under load it all exploded. Dont know if and when I came up with that myself or if I saw it in any other place, though... Anyways, the reasons presented here also make a lot of sense.

@FL_2646 Жыл бұрын

wait, i saw somewhere that it was the flat spots too

@samuelromero4696 Жыл бұрын

Probably you got confused with Kimi Raikkonen's crash on Nurburgring when he flatted one of his front tires on a lock-up and then it snapped just at the end of the race, while he was leading and about to win

@willasrock1 Жыл бұрын

@@samuelromero4696 oooooh, thats exactly it! You nailed, it was indeed Kimi's crash and now I remember it clearly. Another one of those moments where my questionable memory makes me think I'm going senile. lol

@lsi3585 Жыл бұрын

Congrats to buemi for their p2 finish at the 1000 miles of Sebring

@turbo_brian Жыл бұрын

As an engineer I can say this is most likely either an issue with loads estimates/loads collection or simulations settings. A part like this should always be fatigue limited in design, and the fact that both uprights failed simultaneously means the design was laughably far from being strong enough. So either this load case wasn't properly considered for this design or the simulation showed better strength than reality. Usually this second scenario is caused by improper boundary conditions at the joint absorbing forces that wouldn't be taken by the joint in real life.

@MiguelAbd Жыл бұрын

Considering the story about how they had to restart their own development team, this kind of mistake can definitely have happened. You wouldn't expect it from veterans working years after year on the car, but from someone who was eager to lighten a part and hadn't really tested if the part they simulated would work the same IRL, I think you're spot on.

@conexant51 Жыл бұрын

@@MiguelAbd What happened most likely is that the track specific loads weren't communicated to the engineering/development department within the team.

@keisuketakahasi4584 Жыл бұрын

like he explained in the video, the left failed a few tenths earlier than the entire force was on the right and failed too

@Mladjasmilic Жыл бұрын

Best of Buemi - staring last in Buenos Aires and finishing second, overtaking everyone.

@groundedgaming Жыл бұрын

😂I remember he was steering without front wheels

@gn0015 Жыл бұрын

Total panic move. I bet he felt like he was gonna shit his pants. Or suit.

@tjenadonn6158 Жыл бұрын

Blind terror makes fools of us all.

@Mazmazi13 Жыл бұрын

I love Detective Scott 😂 keep investigating please. This is a great series keep it up ❤

@Biebs74 Жыл бұрын

It's crazy that you made a video about this because I was just telling a friend last week about it and showing him the video! Love your videos as always.

@thecompanioncube4211 Жыл бұрын

Getting the man himself on call is just legendary youtube content

@neo1711 Жыл бұрын

With this title, I would've thought that this was about alonso's 2015 pre season crash

@robbieels6628 Жыл бұрын

Let's just say that the track was made in China...

@landofantho4950 Жыл бұрын

Nice

@freerideshuttle Жыл бұрын

You deserve more subscriptions, visualizzations and likes. This article was astonishing (nut sure if wrote right) that as always is written with the highest details evaluations as far I could see. Great job, ty for sharing.

@964cuplove Жыл бұрын

Great to see Buemi again - fly safe !!

@sharonDeep Жыл бұрын

Where is "We put a subscriber in F1 car" video? You've crossed 1M subscribers!

@Kylora2112 Жыл бұрын

Looks similar to Derrike Cope's front end exploding at Watkins Glen in 2016 in the NASCAR Xfinity series. Just a massive WTF moment.

@tomaspesica. Жыл бұрын

very comprehensive analysis

@ethangrover5382 Жыл бұрын

Congrats on the 1 MIL!!! Heres to Overdrive reaching 1 mil

@kcb5150 Жыл бұрын

Might have been a materials layup issue with the carbon fiber. I have had a couple of hockey sticks from a defective run of composites basically explode in my hands.

@TellURide447 Жыл бұрын

I was just at the 1000 mile at Sebring. He’s not kidding about how bumpy that track is. His car came in 2nd and the sister car came 1st. I know Sebring is a piece of crap for a track, but is such a fun time for the spectators. Was my 10th race weekend out there. Many more to come

@NyanMafia Жыл бұрын

Congrats on 1 mill!!

@sampeers8854 Жыл бұрын

Think you’re absolutely right. Lighter components under immense strain that bump suddenly adds a jolt of extra pressure to an already loaded item and bang, in the tyre wall with no wheels.

@danielsgrunge Жыл бұрын

Love this kind of video!

@CrackedCandy Жыл бұрын

Interesting. Thank you as always

@Housestationlive 7 ай бұрын

your channel is simply amazing!

@BreakawayB Жыл бұрын

👏Such an entertaining video!

@theinspector1023 Жыл бұрын

A fine bit of research. I assume the team were not forthcoming with any information whatsoever. Excellent. Keep it up.

@arongecseg3523 Жыл бұрын

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@UngaBunga-zw1ik Жыл бұрын

Thank you I had been curious about this since I saw it happen

@bob_._. Жыл бұрын

A second important question you did not consider is, what happened to the wheel tethers? The internet tells me F1 was using them in 2010 and it seems unlikely both would suffer complete failures. Or was the team saving weight on them too?

@jgerard76 Жыл бұрын

0:03. Look at this photograph....everytime it makes me laugh...

@sohamsengupta6470 Жыл бұрын

The bumps at Sebring are absolutely something else. It's one hell of a thing watching high downforce racing machines bouncing like anything over those. It's even more impressive watching the Peugeot hypercar going over those, almost free of any downforce because ground effect don't work so good if you're not on the ground, and realising just how much all that downforce actually matters.

@soisaidtogod4248 Жыл бұрын

That "circuit " is 50 years overdue for resurface.

@andylambertz84 Жыл бұрын

Congrats to 1 Mio Subscribers!!🎉

@Kualinar Жыл бұрын

Just before entering that straight, Sebastian Buemi locked his brakes, causing flat spots. I've seen it live. You could see the suspension members oscillate a LOT for about half of the straight. It was even visible on a normal TV set.

@imnicelikethat Жыл бұрын

quick snack before quali time

@Coastfog Ай бұрын

I can totally feel keeping your hands on the steering wheel, this was just too strange a situation to comprehend it properly.

@BritAcrossThePond Жыл бұрын

Just got back from a great weekend at Sebring, sad the WEC aren’t going back there

@QuigzDrifts 9 ай бұрын

Super interesting, I always wondered what those bumps were about right at the start of a braking zone at Sardegna in GT7

@baarum Жыл бұрын

Privacy on Zoom is a joke, but great content nonetheless. Keep up the good work.

@GwilsonDrums Жыл бұрын

I love how torro rosso is literally red bull in Italian

@black350Z Жыл бұрын

I know the idea of a driver crashing isn't supposed to be funny, but when I was watching that live and both tires just flew away from the car like that, I burst out laughing. It was the craziest thing I had ever seen in a legitimate race. It was like a cartoon.

@Dasman5624 Жыл бұрын

I had to laugh in 2018 when Hartley's Toro Rosso Had a similar failure to the LHF. And the team said "we have no idea what's happened. We have NEVER seen anything like this before!" . I was like WHAT lol

@katjoe1974 Жыл бұрын

For anyone that doesn’t want to wade through the conjecture and speculation and actually just get to the interview it starts at 6:20

@waverleyrocker Жыл бұрын

That advert was incredibly painful.

@k3corvette35 Жыл бұрын

Ever come to a stop sign or a stop light thats all washboarded asphalt approaching it ? Same thing really. I work for construction company that also has a Concrete Raising company. We use a combination of concrete and loom to flow under sunken concrete to hydraulically raise the sunken areas. Tricky really cause as you raise one side the opposite side drops like a Tettertotter effect. Im curious if thats was the socalled foam that they used to raise that muddy area of the corner at Singapore's F1 race track ?

@xartpant Жыл бұрын

Suspension was made of chinisium for this venue

@sykaradevour 11 ай бұрын

Gonna be honest, Kudos for making me believe you are Richard Hammond at the start of this video cause of your voice! Great video I watched this live!

@MrZrazies Жыл бұрын

Crew: “Um...I found those bolts, you were looking for. ” Crew2: “Quick! Hide it!”

@abzzeus Жыл бұрын

The load shifting instantly was like the Hotel New World in Singapore where columns failed transferring their load to others which instantly were overloaded & failed in turn.

@ojonasar Жыл бұрын

That’s one way of reducing the weight of the car.

@agreensnake Жыл бұрын

My theory is that it’s from timing of breaking, the point at which your at at the track and a failure of suspension all at the same time. I think at the moment he breaks he does it right before the bump and I’m talking milliseconds close. Right when he hit the bump the failure happens from just so much of kid coming from breaking and maybe the g force actually just ripped the suspension from both sides. That’s what I think of every time I watch the crash. I remember watching this live and was so confused and how the commentators were confused. No one had an answer for the first time in a long time about what happened in that scenario

@Phil_McCrevis97 Жыл бұрын

Buemi has done it all. he also had one of the scariest quali crashes for the Indy 500.

@simoneburini4036 Жыл бұрын

That's Bourdais, not Buemi

@Phil_McCrevis97 Жыл бұрын

@@simoneburini4036 shiiit you're right. 😅 thanks for the correction. get 'em confused sometimes lol.

@bonovoxel7527 Жыл бұрын

"Hello Sebastien. Which were your first words when u've been back at box?"

@samcruickshanks6856 Жыл бұрын

I'm not a F1 fan or much into cars for that matter but my father and brother both very much are, one thing I've always found surprising with car's set up for speed and performance is just how hard the suspension has to be, you run over a beetle and it nearly breaks your spine! Must be a lot of force involved

@jamesrichardson5916 Жыл бұрын

I remember that race if I remember correctly the team changed the uprights and said they failed

@PBMS123 Жыл бұрын

The violence of the failure, and the fact it happened to both front tyres simultaneously makes me think this is not an issue with down force. Those components you would expect, if they do break, one member would break, or parts would crack, or bend and fail, not this. This has to require a sudden but large increase in the forces applied, and I don't think a bump explains it. This looks like a case of Newtons 3rd Law. Every actions has an equal and opposite reaction. I think the failure was from the sudden application of brakes, resulting in an equal torque force being applied to the calliper and thus whatever the calliper is attached to. I think you can see the failure too when you watch the video (seemingly missing from this video). If you freeze frame the first deformation occurs on the right hand wheel, you see one of the main members suddenly bend downward. Just before the whole thing self destructs. So when you spin something up, say with a motor, you generate a torque to do so. If the motor is held in place, the motor and the wheel will turn in opposite directions. Similar to when a helicopter loses its tail rotor and starts to spin. The same is true for stopping a rotating body. You apply a torque, opposite the direction of spin. I think the downforce loaded the suspension up, and the sudden torque generated by the brakes, exceeded the strength of the parts (by a significant amount).

@danieleziaco7092 Жыл бұрын

Would be nice to have a conversion of the mph in kph on the screen when cited, you know for the 90% of the world that doesn't use mph

@jordanclark4635 Жыл бұрын

Learn to convert like we do. 1 mile=1.6km (Also English speaking nations almost all use miles in population terms)

@karlj1717 Жыл бұрын

If you really want to know the mph to kph there’s a really useful conversion tool on google I use it when videos use kph because I’m used to mph, hope this helps.

@lucaskook9440 Жыл бұрын

@@jordanclark4635 english speaking COUNTRIES yes, but viewers (or english speaking PEOPLE) are not mainly brits or americans.

@danieleziaco7092 Жыл бұрын

@@jordanclark4635 mph are used on cars and roadsigns as a way to measure speed in ~15 countries (counting only sovereign nations) we arrive at ~22 counting the one were both as used, out of ~195 sovereign countries that makes little more than ~11% of the world that use mph. So while, yes, you can convert mph in kph more or less on the fly (excluding people that have difficulties in mental calcolous) if he want his videos to be accessible to all the world these details makes the difference in improving the quality of videos imo.

@Jazda1Jazda Жыл бұрын

It's quite easy to do on the fly, just keep in mind that 60mph is around 100kph, 50mph=80kph, 30mph=50kph (more or less) so lets say 180mph would be 300kph (3x60), and so on. You have to get used to these things since most of the car releted channels are based in the UK and USA which use imperial units. I can't get my head around MPG and inches yet, but I bet I will sooner than later

@MRHDOfficial Жыл бұрын

Nice to see the video of my Ferrari engined McLaren Honda at 1:23.

@boblevieux Жыл бұрын

Frame by frame, at least one wheelside lower whishbone link failed (and went up first) then you can see the upper twisted before breaking the link, and the nose goes down. Most of the wishbones being stil there make me think that it's a bolts problem

@GonzoDonzo Жыл бұрын

It wasnt the bump, it was mario landing on the nose!

@jamesgilbert124 Жыл бұрын

"Everything was going fine until the wheels came off." BEEN THERE.

@phil4986 Жыл бұрын

A truly excellent video examination of this bizarre incident. My assumption, at the time, was that the front A-arms were too lightly made. All of these open wheeled race cars have A-arms designed to break in an accident and to not have the suspension part spear into the driver cockpit or his helmet as happened when Ayrton Senna died. The track 'looked' smooth but all of the force complications you described are a perfect storm to pop both A-arms instantly to pieces and release both tires off the car. I was very surprised the tethers did absolutely nothing about keeping the tires with the car. But in this case,that may well have saved Buemi from injury. Just a very bizarre double suspension failure I hope we never see again.

@Sir_Uncle_Ned Жыл бұрын

Those uprights needed more time in testing

@infidelgastro Жыл бұрын

Red Bull Gives You Wings, and that can only be a good thing when both front wheels fly off simultaneously...

@MMorgattto Жыл бұрын

Interesting enough, str had another suspension failure with brendon hartley (in usa i think) under similar conditions although not as dramatic

@nick4506 Жыл бұрын

Is there a separate master for each wheel? Seems like once one broke off and cut the brake line you would loose all the front braking pressure and the other wouldn't go.

@marcunbut1058 Жыл бұрын

at least it was in accordance with the name: breaking zone 🤣

@roflchopter11 Жыл бұрын

0:40 a wishbone failure could easily cascade and cause loss of the whole outboard assembly.

@troybockhop1351 Жыл бұрын

The torsional force of braking at maximum speed and maximum downforce was obviously more than the suspension could resist. The weakest link failed.

@i_dodge_trees Жыл бұрын

He accidentally mapped the brake pedal to the "jettison front wheels" switch

@user-vg3rx6bv5e Жыл бұрын

in the 2023 saudi arabian gp i saw a weird movement in lewis hamilton"s hands. then the steering wheel moved closer to hamilton. i am not sure if its DAS or not. can you check that out?

@eidodk Жыл бұрын

"a few tenths" Just no - if it's anything it's in the thousands.

@travisdavid7606 Жыл бұрын

I dunno what happened I hit the brake and all the wheel come off

@JohnWiku Жыл бұрын

They put the nuts and wheels backwards 😂😂

@jacobringgaardmikkelsen5103 Жыл бұрын

The wishbones were underdimensioned and produced with very precise tolerance. So a hard symmetrical braking caused both wishbones to fail

@jbremc22 Жыл бұрын

He breaked and it breaked

@Mtlmshr Жыл бұрын

Truly the most bizarre failure ever however there was a Nascar race car that had a very bizarre incident as well when it was stopping the front tyres exploded! You should check that one out!

@jarikinnunen1718 Жыл бұрын

One driver in his first start lost rear wing before first corner and crashed. No more race, said dad.

@UncleManuel 11 ай бұрын

Breaking the car and breaking the car are two totally different things. ... Ah yeah, the lovely English language. Splendid! 😁🤟

@wilsonrawlin8547 Жыл бұрын

The drivers can also adjust braking force, on the fly, for each wheel or front to rear. It is possible he had too much braking force input for the front.

@doublesidestephustler6094 Жыл бұрын

He simply drove the wheels off the car 😂

@Bluth53 Жыл бұрын

What happened to last years F1 competition you were running?

@stephenbritton9297 Жыл бұрын

It's "ejecto seato cuz" not "ejecto wheelo"! :)

@MrKiruliS Жыл бұрын

1:50 kubica!

@procatprocat9647 Жыл бұрын

They built the track on top of builders foam ?!?!?!?

@IIGrayfoxII Жыл бұрын

Do the wheel teathers not prevent the wheels from becoming missiles?

@TamagoHead Жыл бұрын

Seems not ☹️

@janicmeier1 Жыл бұрын

I think there where a wheel block the force which that creates could bracke the suspension

@mikem6549 Жыл бұрын

Torque from braking ? Front part of the suspension will have load counteracting the weight and rear would have torque increasing load. Or is it the otherway. Then once one bit fails everything else goes out of limit in milliseconds. The uniformity of manufacture plus unifority of load left and right.

@unsatisfiedfans7422 6 ай бұрын

Playing F1 games with realistic damage mod and accidentally touched an atomic speck of wall be like:

@mrdraw2087 Жыл бұрын

The rules were changed drastically in 2009, so Toro Rosso wouldn't have been able to copy the (rather unsuccessful) 2008 Red Bull for that year. They ended in last place in the constructors' championship, even behind Force India. In 2010, they arguably did even worse, even though they scored more points as the points system had been changed. They still finished last of the established teams in the championship, even though this now meant they finished in 9th instead of 10th. From there on, they would improve until they had a very good chassis in the mid-2010s.