Friendly reminder that the F2004 was so good at the time that Ferrari started doubting their own equipment because they didn't expect it to be that fast

Ferrari: "fuck it, pull out the F2004"

F2004 off the line: "Bon voyage, slowpokes"

Sebastian Vettel: Bring back the f****** V12s. Ferrari: *Gives Seb an F2004* Seb: Close enough.

Now imagine the F2004 with DRS on Mexico's start/finish straight

These late V10 cars are sooo amazing. Everyone has to love them, there's no other way around.

I think you should remake the whole grid with their best cars from the past like Ferrari has the f2004, Renault have their r25, Williams have their fw14B, Mclaren have the MP4/4 and so on, but you gotta figure out how to make it balanced

The rev lights didn't like that

If you allowed ground effect tunnels, a massive low diffuser, active suspension and active skirt control with some seriously clever skirt designs plus a closed cockpit the cars could gain as much as 10 sec a lap, no questions asked because you could get double the downforce easily with no drag increase just by using optimal tunnels and wings, enclosing the wheels and cockpit and running active aero and suspension and so on. The regulations are there to stop modern cars from hitting 450kph and cornering at speeds where a puncture could very well cause a death 30% of the time

We are ready for 2022 season. The masterplan is going according to plan.

the FIA should actually let Ferrari do this for one race just to see what happens

It is just incredible because of the way that the F2004 is geared it just hits 330 with no problem at all.

that turned out way different than i expected

Just imagine how fast they could make a v10 with todays technologies :0

This is so awesome with the Vettel Helmet

Mattia Binotto be like: Write that down, write that down!

Yeah Santa Gillon has brought me a Christmas present. The F2004 with slicks hehe

I think its actually pretty impressive that a heavier, safer and more fuel efficient car like the current f1 cars are able to still deliver a similar speed to such beasts of engineering like the F2004 Ferrari...

Keep in mind that, besides the slicks and the weight, the F2004 has traction control

I thought he had a fake beard for his costume wth 😭

that engine sound is just satisfying

Don't forget that between 2004 and 2005 there was a substantial change in regulations(for example the front wing height) ...a V10 2004 car is faster than a 2005 V10 car(alonso in abu dabi with the r25 was 4-5 seconds slower than the mercs)...so it could be possibile that the old F2004 on slicks could be as fast as the 2020 mercedes especially with little fuel...

Try to do a video with the F2004 + ERS + DRS + Slick tyres, and the modern cars with V6 replaced by a V10 Awesome video btw mate!

The F2004 is the best F1 car made ever, as simple as that

I’d love to see how the Williams from the same era (the bmw powered one, I forgot the year) would do against the 2020 cars since it was worse than the F2004.

Man it would be cool to have all the modern safety but kept the v10 motors. These older F1 cars would be insane with modern equipment

Bring back the screaming V10s. Bring back the _wow_ factor.

That race was so intense! You have superb driving skills and your commentary is amazing! Its amazing you can do both so well at the same time!

We can only pray we get the V10s back 😔

They really didn't have much less grip with the grooves by 2004. With the tyre war between Bridgestone and Michelin the tyre technology was at a hugely peak level. Many race records were not broken until over a decade had passed to where the aero technology finally caught up with that 2004 tyre technology.

And also imagine a car with today's aerodynamic, technology and tires, but with the 2004 ferraris engine.. that would be a REAL MONSTER. 💥

These videos are really enjoyable to watch! Keep up the great content Alex.

Are we going to ignore the co-incidence to "He won in Spa, He wins in Monza" ?

Vettel (Russia 2019) - Brung the V10’s back He scrolls through his reccomended on KZfaq and sees this. He goes POG i want to do this irl

Keep up the brilliant work and hope you had a good Christmas

This guy is so amazing at commentating wile driving! probably one of my favorite Video Game drivers rn!

The best mod so far, absolutely brilliant, Ferrari need to do this irl, this is top 3 best F1 car of all time, the engine, the noise, the era, well played Alex, well played

this ''monstrosity'' still holds a lot of track records from back then

Here's an idea. Race as Hamilton, and try to put every other AI driver in a classic car (appropriately assigned, Verstappen in the RB6, Kimi in the F2007, Ocon in the R26, Norris in the MP4-25 etc.), start from last at a rather balanced circuit to see how much you can get through the field

Raw skill and letting the G force guide you through the corner, old days best days.

Damn that was amazing. Making the engines smaller but the cars bigger was such a mistake for the sport but the technology in efficiency has tremendously helped the peripheral automotive world.

A race every F1 fan would love to see: MP4/4 vs FW14B vs MP4/12 (or 14) vs F2004 vs RB25 vs 2020 cars Just a nice time attack race, modern soft tyres and flat out.

Brilliant driving mate!!!

What about a career mode with this mod? is it possible? Imagine a maxed out f2004 with slicks. Would love to see that

The dislikes are from the FIA and the people in the V6 era

Yes with slicks the F2004 would be quicker. Also in a straight it's definitely quicker due to the wide barn doors we got now, at monza the last V10s could do 372kph more than post 2017 cars.

Great video love the idea of mixing old and new generation cars👏👍

Damn you're so underrated more people need to see this

fun fact: the f2004 still holds the lap record at Monza set by Rubens Barrichello

You're faster at Monza because all the Tifosi inhale when the competitors pass by to take away air for the wings and engines. Then they exhale when the Ferrari's pass by to reverse the effect.

That was a great race. Thanks heaps.

My goodness the sound of those V10s… brings back memories 👌

Pirelli, please, F2004 deserves slicks.

Well Mick drove the f2004 at Mugello with a Pirelli slick tire so it might be possible to make a comparison

happy holidays alex!

Not gonna lie, this is like the 15th video I've seen about the F2004 on slicks. It just REALLY makes me wanna try it.

I think, the modern cars are insane quali machines. Race pace is more of a combustion engine only game tbh

there is a reason they put limitations on the tyres back then, i think the F2004 would be quicker than modern F1 cars on slicks

Nice driving skills! 🤗

This was a really good watch I love your voice

Video idea: get pole against 90% ai, but you can't touch ANY kerbs

Vettel in F2004: I see you at the finish line, loser Hamilton: *cries on radio*

yo man, this video was posted in my birth day , thank you!

Epic fight with Legreg mate!

That's what I've always been talking about. These F1 drivers today have been restrained from their full potential. Had they been in F1 in 2004 they would've enjoyed tight competition 🤔

Mick ran his dads 2004 in mugello with the slick tires and alonso his 2005 in dubai with slick

My favourite mode in the channel yet

But you also gotta appreciate how great a v6 turbo can handle a v12 engineering definately made a huge progress

9:40 foreshadowing 👀

I'd love to see modern F1 cars running on the classic twin loop Monza.

This car made me fall in love with Ferrari and F1 back in 04

Apart from sound, what I loved about those formulas in 2004 was the lack of "push to overtake" buttons. And the races were more interesting, the cars looked faster... And the V10 sound oh my...

F2004 will always be the best car ever produced for F1 racing in my opinion.

i actually tried this in assetto corsa with my friend who is a similar skill to mine and i drove the rss hybrid 2020 and he drove the f2004 and there was very little difference to me and him who was a little slower than me (the f2004 needed more fuel which punished him a lot in the first half of the race (20 laps at spa))

That was awesome!

you could be a pilot or broadcaster. talent in both departments :D

When did the 2004 became classic? Damn, am slowly realising that I am getting old...

The grooved tyres they had at the time would have certainly slowed them down by a few seconds a lap. Because cars were on a whole lighter, running on heavy fuel would have meant worse relative performance at the start of the race also. What I'd be curious to see is how fast we could make a car by combining the best of both worlds; V10 engine, light car, slick tyres, modern day suspension and aero.

coming from watching 2023 alex, 2020 alexs beard is a jumpscare

The cars used to weight 605kg but at top speed some of them and depending on the configuration produced more than 2 tonnes of downforce. Monza though has always been minimum downforce for less drag and taller gears. Still even with the pushed down wings they still got above 900kg of downforce through Ascari and Parabolica.

The F2004 was so impressive , no one's talking bout his white beard

The 2004 cars were insanely fast. That's why they slowed them down. And that's why they switched from V10 to V8 ans later V6. Honda had over 1000 HP, BMW reving up to over 20k rpm. And the cars were perfectly designed for racing. The cars were going over 360 km/h. The record was 369 km/h I think.

How did you edit the game as you like? i just bought F1 2020 and theres no feature to edit the cars like you did here

That what F1 needs. Simply pure racing pace, no electronic aids such as DRS, KERS, ERS, ABS, Traction Control, ESC, MGU-K, MGU-H, etc. F1 2004 was defining golden era of F1. Awesome.

Can you try with the Renault RB25?

AI don’t use ERS on the back straight leading to the bus stop chicane at spa

You can see it's much much better though the slow corners because of the shorter wheelbase, and its SO much quicker off the start cos of the traction control. I'm pretty sure this is pretty realistic - an F2004 with slicks would probably beat todays cars. I do like the smaller sized F1 cars - obviously dirty air was still a huge problem back then, but at least they didnt take up half the track sometimes as the modern cars do. I am all for slowing the cars down a little though, taking some downforce off, if it improves the racing.

The end of spa race reminded me of Senna and Prost battle's. Surprised me about the speed difference.

That beard is comedy man hahaha

Imagine someone making a 2004 season mod 👀

first time watching you and didn’t see your face cam at first, didn’t see that you had a beard and thought you chin was massive 😂

There is a reason why nearly all track records were set with this car until 2020

Papa gillon😂

Use all of the teams that have a classic car and replace their 2020 cars with them

Old but gold 🔥🔥

Nice wheel btw

The mod is far from reality as the F2004 on grooves (copied from Quora) was slower than 2019 card which were slower than the 2020 cars. On these tracks (they didn't do Interlagos) Melbourne In Q1, everyone bar Kubica was faster than Schumacher’s Q2 time, which was the fastest of the double session. Hamilton took pole 3.978s faster than in 2004’s fastest Vettel was 3.298s faster than Schumacher. Sahkir in Q1, only the Williamses were slower than Schumacher’s 2004 pole Leclerc took pole 2.273s faster. Monaco In Q1, everybody was faster than Schumacher in 2004. Schumacher qualified 5th, but Trulli (Renault) was still slower than Kubica. Hamilton took pole, 3.819s faster than Trulli, and 4.350s faster than Schumacher. Montreal in Q1, Schumacher would, again, have only outqualified the Williamses. He started 6th. His brother, Ralf (Williams BMW), got pole, but was still slower than 18th placed Stroll. Vettel took pole, 2.035s faster than Ralf and 3.115s faster than Michael. Hockenheim Schumacher would’ve made Q2 by 1/40 of a second, and his time was faster than Stroll in Q2. Hamilton took pole, 1.541s faster than Schumacher. Monza In Q1, Barrichello would’ve been fastest! He would’ve been fast enough for 7th in Q2 and Q3. Leclerc took pole, 0.786s faster than Barrichello. Suzuka In Q1, Schumacher would’ve been the slowest qualifier, over 3 seconds shy of Kubica. Vettel took pole, a whopping 6.482s faster than Schumacher. (NOTE DAMP TRACK) Only the 2 Schumachers and Mark Webber (Jaguar) were faster than the 107% time in Q1. Due to typhoons, qualifying in both 2004 and 2019 was run on Sunday morning. It’s interesting to note that despite there being a chicane before the final corner in Barcelona, quali times were roughly the same this year as in 2004. The chicane made a difference of about 4 seconds between 2006 and 2007. So the slicks would have to bridge a gap as big as 3 seconds to be in range of the top cars at some tracks.

Ferrari must put this car with slicks,to race on next year.They probably will beat Mercedes

How do you modify the tires? Nice content

Great video but did you play this on 110 difficulty?