Green: Send it Yellow: Someone sent it too hard, please slow down. Red: Someone sent it WAY too hard and the race must be stopped Blue flag: Someone is sending it harder than you. Black Flag: You sent it in such a way that the Stewards want to have a chat about it. Chequered flag: Your time to send it has come to an end, please return to the pits. Audible flag: "Valterie, it's James.."

I doubt they'll get rid of the actual flags any time soon; they're easily visible for the audience, and drivers really can't miss anything when there's signals everywhere. Plus, redundancy is always good when it comes to safety :)

The most recent black flags are actually Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean. During a practice session at the 2019 Monaco Gp they've lost radio to the team. The team needed them to come in and as this was the only way so, they asked the race director to black flag them.

Yellow flag : Slow down Green Flag: start racing Black flag : disqualified Red flag : Charles Leclerc on Pole

I wonder how long we will see flags in F1. While not always easier to see for the drivers, they are better recognizable by viewers on TV than the lights that replace them on many tracks.

Red flag means leclerc on pole

0:44 - Single Yellow Flag 0:47 - Double Yellow Flag 1:35 - Red Flag 2:12 - Green Flag 2:33 - Blue Flag 3:06 - White Flag 3:25 - Black Flag 4:02 - Black & White Flag 4:24 - Black Flag With Orange Circle 4:39 - Yellow And Red Striped Flag 5:00 - Chequered Flag

Thanks Matt, I'm sure proper F1 fans know all of these, but for someone like me who's just starting to see F1, this is really helpful

I’m loving the 2022 animated cars. So good

Basically Yellow: Mazepin spun Double Yellow: Max and Lewis hit each other Blue flag: Max or Lewis is behind you Red Flag: Max or Lewis crashed hard Black Flag: Maldonado was being Maldonado Black/Orange Flag: Haas's engine died Orange/Yellow Flag: Haas spilled oil Checkered Flag: Stop racing cuz race is over

Mat, I've been researching the f101s and one of them said you can't copy other teams survival cells. If all the teams made a safe one, there would be less injurys. Can you do an f101 on why?

04:25 respect the meatball

It might just be me , but I’m really glad that they’ve started to use more red flags , it just feels a lot safe and means more racing (normally)

White Flag also means indicate Leading car on Final Lap in American Racing. Such as Indycar and Nascar.

There was also a blue flag with a white X on it. That means this is your last chance to let the faster car behind you through, or you will get a penalty. Not sure if the flag is there anymore. It was there for some time when i saw racing.

I challenge Matt to NOT end the next video with "there you have it".

"And can be displayed at the end of the pitlane to warn drivers of a faster car on the racing line" Why tf do we not have that in practice and quali on the F1 game? Seriously has anyone else who plays f1 2021 have issues with AI on out/in laps NOT getting out of your way when you're right behind them on a fast lap?

Don't ask Mazepin that question. He has no clue.

1:57 "Nikita Mazepin fell out of the world."

Thank you Matt! I legitametly only knew red, blue, yellow and black flags before this….

I've been watching motorsports for actual decades now and never realized F1 used the white flag to indicate slow cars or non-racing vehicles ahead. Also interesting to see different flags for things that would all be simple black flags here in the US. I was going to make fun of Americans for being the target audience of this video, but here I am actually learning things. 🤦🏻‍♂️

It would be cool to have a video on how rolling restarts work and some notably good ones or bad ones throughout F1.

I'm new in f1 got into it at the end of the 2021 season so thanks for the video. I'm loving your channel.

3:28 *receive

Love that you have intergrated models of the f1 2022 car in the animation.

Its weird seeing the 2022 car at WTF1 video

I know the white flag, its used by the french all the time

"Do you really know your flags" First statement - Yellow flag is most common. Blue flag is truly the most common

0:32 that Palpatine was so random lmao, you cured my depression for a few seconds so thanks for that

0:37 Nice, already 2022 cars I’m hyped for the new season 👍

Fun with flags f1 episode

These F1 2022 cars look sick! 🔥

The yellow and red flag means that the stewards are from Catalonia

Chequered flag was also waved a lap or two earlier at 2018 Austin GP and Kimi of course was brilliant in radio

The flag system is basically the F1 equivalent of diver wearing good dive watch like a Rolex Deep Sea, or a pilot wearing something like Breitling Navitimer. Once upon a time, a dive watch was essential for divers, when militaries in the 20s and 30s, began to operate frogmen units with proto-scuba gear, they realised how critical it was, and courted all kinds of watch makers for something which could let divers know their durations, likewise, by WWII, it was deemed critical pilots had watch with high visibility and often times additional functionality, and Flieger watches became a big thing, literally, some air forces issued pilots with ones so big they strapped to thigh, rather than the wrist. Yet these days divers doing long dive times, or even saturation work, all wear dive computers, even moderate duration divers mostly do. Pilots have cockpits which are essentially supercomputers, and many still wear a smart watch or keep a smart phone to hand....... .....nevertheless, divers today all still wear a mechanical dive watch, mostly, and many many pilots, especially light aircraft flying private pilots, particularly if back country flying, wear some kind of pilots watch... hell even in the 80s, when the computers had all the information, and planes were moving to much more modern electronics.... Pan Am pilots still all wore mechanical skymasters, even as commercial pilots flying airliners. Why? Mechanical Watches are antiquated technology in the digital age... even people who still wear a watch, the majority are wearing a digital, or quartz, watch, powered by a battery, that is way more accurate than even the greatest mechanical movement can be. Well, because things can fail. A purely physical system, had less than can go wrong, and serves when more complicated ways fail. The watch maker Omega, for example, is very proud of its NASA Silver Snoopy. NASA you see adopted Snoopy, as their safety mascot back in the 60s... and all the astronauts that return from successful missions with NASA, are given a small silver Snoopy pin for their keeping it safe and getting home. When a little spaceship you might have heard of called Apollo 13 had oxygen tank explode half way en route to the moon, they lost a ton of systems... including anything which could be relied on as a chronograph. Fortunately, one of the astronauts was wearing an Omega Speedmaster wrist watch... a chronograph... aka.. stop watch (coincidentally, still a massive popular type of wrist watch at race tracks among pit wall types and in the garage, as it lets them time, and compare to the digital systems). Returning to Earth, they had to burn their engines for EXACTLY six seconds.. for the safe reentry which would bring them home alive, rather than dead, and that watch was the only 'system' they had which was functional.. and it served the purpose. So Omega got a Snoopy too. THAT is why we use flags and boards. The better way you mention, is being used. I am sure everyone has seen the LED signs all over the track, as well as lights which display the colours in effect the same as the flags. But then what happens in a black out? When systems fail? Maybe something central in the mains of the track, or maybe city wide, gives out, and boom.... those lights and electronic signs do not work. Digital communications fail. What then? THAT is why the flags and boards are there. All the Marshals have walkie-talkies, or they are available, with that simple old, almost toy, communication, and those flags and boards, Stewards can control a potentially very high risk, high danger, environment, if the more modern ways, which one might say are significantly better, but also infinitely more complex, fail. Hence their continued presence. We still use them, and will likely still use them going forwards for many decades more, probably always use them. Not because they are the best way to do it, but because they are the most reliable.

Great content thank you for all the hard work. Can you do a video on all the red flag incidents in the 2021 season.

Green - Send it, the track is clear Yellow - Someone sent it too hard, please slow down Red - Technical difficulties. Please stand by Blue - Someone is sending it harder than you White - Someone isn’t sending it hard enough Black - You sent it so dangerously that you've been DQed Black/White - Send it to someone else, you’re being childish Meatball - You sent it too hard and your car needs repairs Red/Yellow - Be careful sending it Checkered - You’re time to send it is over.

Big ups to using the 2022 car models for this. Love that level of detail.

Flags will probably always be used. They are a simple, non-electronic device that can serve as a backup should all other means fail.

i've been looking all over for what flag they use if they abandon the race while it's ongoing

I realised mid way through the vid that he has changed the car icons to suit the 2022 cars....daaamn

as a North American racing fan, It is always weird seeing the white flag not being used for Last Lap. To me, White flag means giddy up, get that last spot cause it is almost over.

3:01 that’s not what the pit lane looks like tho

Love how you use 69 as the number :)

Matt out there making content for us even though there's no grand prix's yet, what a mad lad

For anyone getting into a motorsport course, this is a pretty useful video. Thank you for making this!

I’ve already had the knowledge about all the flags but Matt slipped in some extra uses for some of them Thank Matt!

I absolutely love your F1 educational videos!!! I’ve been watching F1 for a couple of years, but there’s sooo much to learn. Could you do one on how races are officiated? Who are the people around the track waving the flags & how do they know when to do so? Who/where are the stewards? How does one qualify to be/become a steward? What is the stewards relationship with the director? So many questions!!! With the current FIA investigation, this would be great to understand better before the results come out!

Meanwhile nascar loves red flags even more and there’s only one kinda yellow. Also white flag is final lap

I have a couple of things to add 1) Stationary yellow flags aren't in the ISC and so aren't used in F1 or other internationals. A few of the national sanctioning bodies that used to use them don't anymore we used to have them in the UK but the rules were changed to be more in line with the ISC probably 5+ years back now, so if you see one the flaggy is being lazy and it's not a proper signal unless it bikes they're used more with those. 2) The black flag actually doesn't mean that the driver has been disqualified as a driver can not be DQ without having a hearing first the meaning of the black flag tells the driver that they must return to their pit or other area specified in the supplementary regs they will be getting bollocked but not necessary a DQ could be another penalty. 3) One you've missed that many F1 viewers won't be aware of is the national flag rarely used and I reckon probably unlikely to be used in F1 or at least will not be popular with teams, drivers and fans due to the visibility issues in F1 cars but It can be used to start the race if the start lights have failed. 4) Not quite relevant in this video but wanted to add it the ISC was recently updated to say that the checkered should be waved from behind the first line of protection which seems to suggest that they're outlawing the long-standing and also stupid tradition at Le Mans of waving it from on the track.

2:54 that's a serie A game Milan vs Lecce. Lol

Well. The wave flag system allready is complemented with the LED system. These days it is much easier to directly communicate with the drivers, as it should also be possible to light up their MFDs with the respecting flag on track.

Well i thought i might never see the black with the orange circle flag but it appeared on tsunoda in baku

Man it made me feel old when you said that 2007 was 15 years ago :(

"Yellow Flag, the most commonly used flag in F1". Mazepin disagrees

Simple, orange means smoke on track

Great work on the new cars, they look amazing!

I think the current setup of having both flaggers and the warning lights is the best format for informing the drivers and fans of what's happening. I don't see any reason to change that format at this point in time.

When you already know what all the flags mean, but still watch the video anyway.. just bcos it's WTF1. Nice video! Consider making video on Delta Times... " Keep the Delta Positive" 😁

At a lot of tracks they have lights and people constantly talking in driver's ears to indicate what's going on but the flags are just there for extra guidance

This is a useful guide to newcomers!! And way more easier than trying to explain them by myself! Thank you!

In NASCAR though, a white flag is used to signal that the race is down to its final lap.

Also noted, (in nz, maybe elsewhere too) if race is under safety car, marshals can use their 2nd yellow flag to warn everyone else that the incident is in that area of the track, and to be careful.

Prime off-season content. Keep it up

I wanted this video from you years now

" Ocon needs to know the flags " Horner,2018

3:33 nice

Flags are part of tradition. Now radio communication is far better, cockpit indicators do the job.

The white flag caught me out because in NASCAR and Indycar, it signals 1 lap to go... 😅

2018 - 2019 was a weird time for the chequered flag. After Winnie Harlow waved the chequered flag a lap early at Montreal in 2018, the sporting regulations were changed for 2019 for the end-of-session signal to be the chequered flag displayed on the start gantry lightboard, possibly to prevent eager celebrities from ending the race too early. And then the aforementioned incident happened with the flag being displayed a lap early at Suzuka that year, which caused them to change it back to the physical waved chequered flag. And a black flag for car 69? Not nice.

I've been wondering for a while.

Probably worth mentioning that these days the circuits also have coloured lights and the drivers have them on their steering wheels as well.

Next the FiA will introduce an orange and green flag to mean there is a fish on the track

Should've seen a black flag at Silverstone this past summer, but I guess running a red light at slow speeds is much worse to the FIA

i appreciate the use of the new cars in ur diagrams

The white flag also means that you reached the last lap of the race.

2:15 “this is the flag we all love to see” Well not if your Lewis on the last lap of a championship decider!!

blue flags out of the pitlane would have bewn handy with Hamilton on Monza

Guys amazing work over these past years and i gotta say, i love the new "22 car design

Finally I was waiting for this a video

Maybe spend a weekend with UK marshals. Really get to know what we really get up to and what happens behind the scenes 😉 🏁 🇬🇧

I'm glad you made a 6 minute video, and not a 30 minute one as most KZfaqrs do

Honestly, I knew most of them but it is always nice to learn the specific of the least frequent ones.

If I had a penny for every inaccuracy in this video, i'd have a lot of pennies.

I'm going to memorise these now! #notafanboyjustpassionate

First WTF1 cars for presentation that are the 2022 ones.Very cool matt

in american racing series, the white flag usually indicates the final lap of the race. So that varies from european racing

3:14 Actually for miscellaneous vehicles, such as the medical car, rescue cars, ambulance etc. since not that long they use a white flag in combination with the yellow flag. This is to emphasis that this is not a regular slow moving race car up ahead.

Black flag with orange circle should've been waved to Seb in Arabia

2:43 why is there an ertugrul gazi clip here😂

Thanks for this. I am used to the white flag from NASCAR which means "One lap to go". I wasn't ready for the different usage in F1.

Blue flag is wrong. It’s not just for cars that are a lap down, it’s just for slow cars to warn them of fast cars behind

I know in :cough cough: NASCAR, a blue flag is a local caution (on the road courses), we use a blue flag with yellow diagonal stripe for moving slower cars over; black with white X is no longer scored and the white is one lap to go (and we never use the meatball)

Verstappen was shown Black and White flag in Brazil for weaving in the straights.

i ve actually heard that the 3 blue flags arent officially a rule, a driver can be punished after 2 or 4 as well, 3 is just a reference point most of the time

4:25 RESPECT THE MEATBALL

Precommitng so i can check later: White: slow car ahead Red/yellow stripes: slippery track Orange meatball: go to pits to fix damage

Matt, could you do a video on the race track warning system. I've noticed that sometime numbers are displayed????

F1 should do like in wec, each driver has a little screen, if it's yellow = yellow flag. Then it would be easier to see

Blue does not necessarily mean you are being lapped, simply that a faster car is approaching. In reality this is often when being lapped but not necessarily. F1 is one of the few elite series where the blue is instructional and a driver can be sanctioned for ignoring it - it is advisory in most UK series with no penalty for ignoring it alone. The surface flag (stripey red and yellow) is not waved conventionally as to a driver it would not be clear, and could be seen as red or yellow instead. It can be stretched and ‘rocked’ for emphasis though.