"Porsche beat everyone, but me", man, I'd never stop saying that. My wife would leave me and my family would disown me, but I'd never stop saying it.

I actually never knew you held the Brands hatch lap record. Props to you mate.

Casually flexes creating a record on brands hatch circuit 🤯😵‍💫

I would love to see a no-limits category with tiny budget cap. Like $100,000 per car. Imagine the innovation.

Dude, don't stop mentioning your record. That's something to be proud of.

Very cool of Porsche to allow this project, and give it enough budget and freedom to succeed.

Taking a space ship of a race car to laguna seca and only taking 2 seconds off a track record set by an indycar with no power steering from the time of grainy tv footage is mental and a testament to how good some race cars were.

Me: knows nothing about cars Also me: worth watching.

Driver61, the only driver to beat the 919 Evo. Still not as good as me of course but still good

Seeing this car in action at Rennsport Reunion in 2018 was unbelievable. It clocked 188 mph at the Laguna Seca speedtrap. Anyone who has been there knows the speed trap isn't that far up the main straight. Rocketship does not describe the 919 Evo, and seeing it up close in the paddock was something I will never forget.

23:09 "brake by wire or BBW" JAJAJAJJAJAJA

Imagine how much cheaper would F1 cars be if instead of making a 10 million dollar engine, you just evolved the suspension, aerodynamics and reduced weight.

I knew about this, but was surprisingly interested throughout the video in learning exactly how. Great details and interviews!

This is one of the best videos you’ve done on a specific vehicle. Thank you. This is awesome.

The high tire pressure in the corners is a must. I noticed this on motorcycle tires as well.

7:30 Regarding tyre width, increasing it doesn't increase the grip from friction. The formula for friction forces do not even include information about the contact area. However, wider tires are better for race-cars for two main reasons. Firstly, tyres, especially soft racing tyres, don't get all of their grip from simple surface interaction friction, they get some of their grip by smooshing into the gaps and cracks in the road surface which is HIGHLY dependent on contact area. Secondly, larger tyres experience less pressure because the force from the ground is acting on a larger area. This means they wear more slowly (and there's more tyre to be worn away) which lets you get away with softer compounds that have higher coefficients of friction, while still having a working tyre after a lap.

Excellent video team, it's great to see what goes on behind the insane Nurburgring lap!

I frigging love the 919 Evo, such a wild project even with the time and budget constraints. Managing to push the carbon tub and tires to their limit just from aero gains is just wild haha.

Love these videos dude. Would like to see your driving more too!

The takeaway here should be how insanely fast F1 cars are if an LMP1 car needs its fuel flow limit removed, energy deployment limits removed, skirts added, weight reduced, special custom quali tyres fitted and movable aero added just to match F1.

amazing video. Thank you so much. One can almost FEEL Steven's childlike enthusiasm. GENIUS

Absolutely love the Brands Hatch plug haha, love your channel and you and your team rock! Keep up the great work🙌⚡️🙌

This presentation provides a very condensed and on point picture of the why of engineering - Great subjects and lessons on how to balance competing requirements - Thank you for posting

I never used to be into cars, but racing sims got me deep down the rabbit hole. I still don't understand much of it, but I absolutely love the sport and have a huge amount of respect for those involved.

Excellent insights and video production. Thank you!

This was excellent. Nice job Scott👍👍

Freaken insane the work effort and thought that went into this project is phenomenal

That Mazda 🎶 though. Porsche: 🎵 ✈️

As a newly retired former Ad Man, and long time automotive fanatic, my life would be complete if I was to win this drive. Love this channel and this episode. ❤️👍🍷

19:35- that’s gotta be the ultimate butt-pucker moment for a driver in a predominantly aero car- getting that light over a crest. I watched(YEARS ago), the BMW LMR go ass over tea kettle at road Atlanta on approach to the downhill chicane on the back straight. I can’t remember if it was lhetto or their other guy. We left that race with the front clip of that car. The guy with us that took it passed away a few years later and his wife sold it for pennies because she thought it was “just some broken plastic”. We all know it wasn’t plastic and DEFINITELY not junk. It was a piece of history that was sold in a garage sale for $10. If you’re reading this and have that front clip- shame on you for taking advantage of her. You know what you did

great video by the way thank you for the amazing commentary!!!!

I was in the crowd at Brands Hatch when you broke that record over 20 years ago. It was great to watch.

The front diffuser is in fact a nozzle, the opposite to a diffuser. A nozzle accelerates the air and reduces the pressure. (Think of the nozzle at the end of a garden hose, in the hose the water pressure is high and the velocity is slow, at the tip of the nozzle the pressure is atmospheric and the water velocity is much higher than in the hose.) A diffuser slows the air and increases the pressure. The nozzle at the front accelerates the air relative to the car from car velocity to a higher velocity producing high velocity air going under the car with the subsequent drop in pressure. High pressure converted to high velocity and low pressure. The diffuser at the back slows the high velocity air and increases the air pressure back towards atmospheric pressure. High velocity and low pressure converted to lower velocity and higher pressure. Both nozzle and diffuser work together to produce the higher velocity and lower pressure under the vehicle.

Top notch video, good explanation of all the features, although no mention of the driver, takes a top driver, to pilot a car like that, at those speeds👍

Good video that shows how much there is to think about when making a car faster. Its incredible what Porsche did in that short time.

If they used wheel covers, would it go faster?

Thanks Scott, exellent video. That's an answer for the guys who says "unrestricted car, blah blah". Yes it isn't commited to any rules, but the huge time and money constraints make 919 Evo even more impressive.

Wow, Scott did a 0:38.032 with Benetton on the IndyCar layout, 6 turns for a 1.944 km long circuit

It’s a shame Red Bull Racing and Porsche couldn’t come to an agreement a little while back. Can you imagine Newey doing his aero wizardry while being powered by Porsche? If you think RBR is dominant now, then just imagine how far in front of everyone else they’d be. Instead of Max finishing 22 secs ahead like he did at the Bahrain GP he’d be packing his bags to leave the track with the winners trophy while everyone else is still on the circuit. It’d be a sight to behold.

I was at Brands for the Tandy fast lap, had a good look around the 919....... absolutely amazing.....

What a flex to have a lap record

1:43 Love Porsche but that Mazda 787b is still my fave Group C monster 🥰🥰🥰

I’m honestly tired of F1 thinking they’re the pinnacle of racing vehicles. The “LeMans” or “Prototype” cars are the true kings of racing.

Another great vid man

Great examination of the they did it and explanation of why...

Don’t ever let anyone forget that Porsche couldn’t beat you😂😂 that was great m8

Fantastic video, and I loved the reference to (I believe Gordon Murray said it) “adding lightness”

So sad mate that I can’t enter from Australia. Still love your channel. Cheers from Bundaberg.

Great video! thanks for making it!

Ridiculously fast because they can. That's the Porsche I love. I can't imagine the joy when they got the green light on that project.

That inset picture at 9:03 was fascinating. 😮

Congrats to you gor holding brands record. I was at brands the day that porsche went around the track & even got up close to it in the pits

This was very interesting, watched it several times

Mention it all you want - mad props!!!!

majority of the “suction” that diffusers produce is a product of lower pressure in the wake of the car. the bernoulli principle works to extract the most benefit from high pressure to low. not really related to airfoils

Amazing engineering on the car but I think the driver deserves more attention too what a lap. Hard to imagine cornering at those speeds.

HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT A TEACHING RACING BASICS PLAYLIST SERIES? it would be a cheap easy way to make a video, and make money.. LOVE WHAT YOU DO

Dude. If I had a lap record at Brands, I’d shout it out every chance I get. Amazing.

This car is absolutely mental to drive in a sim. Especially on Nordschleife.

The engineer is so laid back

I love how you address this topic with such honesty.

Indie car/cart/champ were all great series. Used to love it when they came to the UK to Rockingham speedway.... Which no longer exists 😩

Driving this car in the simulator with VR is an experience. It's crazy how far it can be pushed around turns that you'd normally crash on going 2/3rds the speed in any other car. I can only dream of actually driving something close to the real thing in real life one day.

I wanna see a high-end series with the biggest performance restriction moved out of the car. The driver. Put them in a sim-rig at the track (lots of marketing potential there), the amount of weight saved from all the crash protection and need to have a huge hole in the middle, would allow for much faster cars on current tyre tech. Then mix in WEC Hypercar style rules governing amount of downforce and such, but mix in a limitation on aerodynamic wake in critical areas (so the engineers work to reinforcing that intent, rather than against it). Not having a life on the line when things get pushed too far, would help liberate the regulators as well, so that engineers can really have some fun. Slashing the weight limit from F1's level, would mean existing catch fencing should typically be sufficient to deal with the increased speeds as well. The drivers would still have to be at the track to keep network latency sufficiently low, and guard against DDOS, but they also wouldn't be exposed to the harsh environment inside the cockpit. Sure, it wouldn't be for some, but I'm sure there's a decent audience that could easily grow.

I would be curious to know the current hypercar qualitying lap time in Nordschleife / Spa in comparison

2:09 I regret to inform this but the W07 Hybrid is a 2016 car. The 2017 car is the W08 EQ Power+.

The wider the tire the less shear force the rubber has to deal with because of the larger surface area. Which means less wear and less heat which in turn means you can run much softer compounds without them falling apart. So more grip! If anyone wanted a more detailed explanation.

I love how every time he talks about what he did, he has a huge smile! 😁

At this point it’s just a reverse airplane

Awesome from Tasmania 🇦🇺✅

There is also a solution to the side skirt paradox at the road surface interface.

Great video!

I wonder how long it's gonna be until Scott mentions his Brands Hatch lap record once more

Not the kind of bbw I'm used too. 😂

Id love to see an F1 team do this with a turbo hybrid powered car as they are all under run for longevity and without limits those engines could be monsters.

He did do that at Brands Indy. Me and my spar Addie seen him do it... I thought my cheap stopwatch must be dodgy. If I'd done it, I'd mention it at every opportunity.

QUESTION: why not a brush system of bristles as a skirt.. it flexes without losing contact and if thick enough will stop unwanted airflow... not an engineer but seems like something to explore for cost effective research .. idk

Hi! I don't know nothing about you but i love your knowledge and the way you share it with us. I have some very interesting ideas and I have need to share it with someone. It's something new and related to drag. Would you spare a few moments with me to explain? Thanks for all!

AWESOME! Thanks for sharing and explaining so well! I'm just going to have to watch the record breaking lap at the Nurburgring for so many times that I've lost count as it's just so F***King epic. And apolitically Fast! 🙂😎🤓

I would love to see an f1 team do this. Set up their car with no fuel flow limit and max engine power setting and rip it around a circuit to see how much they can obliterate a lap record.

Finally this video comes🙏

What a video. Thanks for it! 👍

diffusers don't accelerate air, it expands and slows down, but in the middle, where it is constricted it bennefits from a bigger difuser, thus creating more downforce. (*Edition*) Also, low pressure doesn't suck, it simply doesn't match the force of the highpressure when pushing the car up. That's why we call it a pressure difference.

Brilliant! Been so curious about how they pulled this off! Smashing the content mate 👊🏻

Can u guys make a video on those cart cars?

The 919 EVO did not break the lap record around Laguna Seca. Earl Bamber said he did a 1:07, but the unofficial outright track record is held by Marc Gene at 1:05.786 in an F2003-GA.

NASA develops state of the art race car with the most advanced technology in history. Conquers every lap record at every well known track. All except Brands Hatch. Record set by a KZfaqr still stands.

Those 3 spots you show, they are called an arch when a live wire is severed

the thing about wider tyres is that there's more area to dissipate the heat, so they can be a softer compound. Now there is also a little more traction given when there's less weight per square inch too, but that negligible. The crux is the wider the tyre, the softer it can be

"Adding lightness" is a funny phrase

Id love to see things being built with time in mind like how a driver gets more tired the car gets lighter the skirts get shorter etc etc in a way that works with the changing situation of the vehicle the longer its out there. If you were truly using everything to the max you should leave nothing on the table at the end of the race. Although I can understand wanting consistency since it's easier for a human brain to adapt but still.

All those car to car shots of the 919 on the Nürburgring where filmed by me :)

You know because of the comments he's been receiving I'm genuinely tempted to go through a deeper explanation on tires beyond what people like donut media said that people have been going by because it's much deeper then what people explain and how balance of tire width and everything works and why race tires are different it doesn't take an engineer to explain or figure it out it just takes a wide perspective and a deep thinking you don't even have to research it just think

In 1966 the Ford GT40 MK2’s were doing 217 mph. Then the Porsche 917’s were doing 220 plus in the early 1970’s so this is not new . Note The LeMans cars have been slowed by a couple of Chicanes.

Great video, thanks. One question though ... WHY IS THERE NO OPTION TO CHOOSE SLOVENIA IN THE DROPDOWN MENU WHEN ENTERING THE COUNTRY IN THE DRIVE THE REAL F1 CAR GAME?

Anyone know where the clip came from at the :01 mark right at the start? Climbing El Rogue?

Great success story of the Porsche 919. Just like with the 917, they rewrote the rules on how to build a car. Repeatedly. Focus on creativity, structural integrity and budget to build the fastest track car they could within a year. More power, more grip, more aerodynamic features, less weight and some other things helped.

The wide tire thing is technically true. As it's just a division of the normal force. However, a wider tire can divide the heat over a greater area.

When I watched the 919 lap of the ring, I was gobsmacked that despite the insane time, there were a few spots where the driver was leaving a lot of time on the table (plenty of places he wasn't too), it could go faster with someone who cared less about waking up tomorrow at the controls.

7:31 "tire width doesn't affect grip..." a quackademic says what?! 🤣 24:11 many years ago, the best engineer I studied with (former tire engineer) proposed an active geometry suspension which could give better control over the contact patch