The Crazy Formula 1 Car That Went Over 400km/h
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2021
- Ever wondered how fast an F1 car can go when it's unrestricted and built for top speed? Well... wonder no more.
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I am surprised Red Bull haven’t done this, it seems right up their alley.
Exactly! They always do crazy stuff with their cars, so why not something like this 😄
@@Moerfel Seems like something Albon or DC could do in one of their v10 cars. They have them out and use them for events.
Lotus used to do stuff too
Still waiting for Red bull to be the one to drive an F1 car upside down 🤷🏻♂️
@@law5223 yup they cant find a driver who will trust the science tho
Now we know why the Medical Car was on the scene of Grosjean's crash so quickly.
😂😂😂😂😂 underrated comment
@@tanderbrown239 You are underrated
Very true
@@tanderbrown239 no
Nope, it was there so quickly because of Prof Watkins recommendations after Senna's fateful crash.....Grosjean and a few others have him to thank, and the dude with the fire extingusher obv's!......
If this isn't a Red Bull challenge, I don't know what is.
With Honda engine ofc
wow bruni
@@ivanjovanovic362 you know the car that has the record had a Honda right 🤨🤨🤨🤨
@@nounoukasber and?
Damn right Red Bull should try it, but I wonder how fast they can lap with flexi wings
Everyone has said it, and they're not wrong: this is the sort of thing Red Bull do; and I wouldn't be surprised if they consider it as a parting gift to Honda in F1.
that would be so nice to see
Coughs*
Budget cap
@@arnoldmbuthia2687 not a part of the budget cap m8, Red Bull has a separate acc for all of their stunts I’m pretty sure
I came here to read or write this
@@arnoldmbuthia2687 if they do it in an older spec car, not to mention, the car would be modified outside the regs, it wouldn't fall foul of the budget constraints or rules restraints. Budget only caps costs on spec race car development and materials; it doesn't cover driver or staff salaries, or anything else like marketing, etc. A lot of this could be shifted to the 'heritiage' side of the team, and the FIA may only check to make sure they're not testing anything that could be used on the new car; but most of the changes would be aero (simplified wing and stability fins to reduce the drag...things that would work more in Indy maybe, but not very relevant for F1)
Kimi you just set an average of lap time of over 400kmph can you describe the feeling of speed in the car : "didn't feel that different." -KR
bwoah
bwoah
FOR WHAT?
Alan Van der Merve: Holds the official speed record of an F1 car. More importantly, one of the heroes that saved Grosjean from a burning F1 car
@@Lunarfox I was watching this before bedtime and thus didn't write this as clearly as I should. Cheers! I'll amend it
Explain pls
@@battlebooms6429 he is the medical car driver for f1 and he was the driver of the medical car during the Grosjean crash at the Sakhir GP
@@BearmanBob Ah, I see, he was there? Nice! I know the crash, but I didnt know who saved him, thanks!
@@battlebooms6429 Always happy to share who a hero is.
This seems like a thing red bull could do
A nice way to say goodbye for Honda by beating their own record.
@@UYNiko with their engine LOL
I hope they would do this
@@UYNiko i mean the engine they're using today is honda lol
@@imibuks-replit with Mercedes 2022 engine lmao
I really want F1 to do something like Porsche did with their LMP1 car, just create a monster without restrictions
@Adam He is talking about the Porsche 919 Tribute, it was a one time thing just to do the fastest lap in the nurburgring, not to race.
@Adam its like not supposed to be raced its supposed to set lap records lol
Red Bull X2011
Surprised red bull haven’t sent DC out on the salt flats to beat the record
Honda should do it again given it is their last year and of course Redbull can do crazy stuff like this.
Technically, its not Honda's last year, their engines will be used beyond 2021....
@@Erikootje but formally it is. Or at least until they find way into F1 again in the future
@@paryudisaditya8845 dont think they will return, especially after their statement as to why they decided to leave and I predict more makers to leave in this ever electrifying automotive world, for the same reasons.
Mercedes recently anounced to stop making ICE from 2030, why would the be invoved in F1 than.
@@Erikootje part of me agree with what you said, but my optimistic side still hoping that somehow, sometime, they would make it back to F1. Also if EV really the direction our otomotive world is heading then i don't see why F1 can't become full electric aswell, which hopefully will give reason for big manufacturer to stay.
@@paryudisaditya8845 because there exists already a full EV 'F1', its called Formula E...and there are already major players active in that series: Mercedes, Porsche & Audi (VW group), Nissan (Renault Groupe), BMW, Jaguar, DS (Citroen-PSA-Stellantis), Nio.
You can see it goiw and evolve.
I'm curious to see how F1 will evolve in a few decades from now midst all of these developments of course.
But Honda will not enter back to F1 as long as F1 continues with ICE and Honda furthers puts effort and money into EV's as their cars become more electrified.
Just like all other manufacturers....
Its just a pure waste if money to put into a dying and expensive program such as F1.
And image building & prestige doesnt cut it anymore, its just not worth it.
It's crazy to see that a Williams has the top speed record in 21st century
Going 400kmh in a f1 car sounds like the most terrifying thing in the world
I would love to hear the Engine sound's from that Run. And the speed in Life time.
and than Hamilton hits you
@@anejz1637 True story
How about crashing an f1 car in 400 kmh?
@@thedeamonmeteor69420 😬💀
I worked on this project, and it was not as easy as you make it sound.
Different gearing, chassis damaged by the salt hitting it, unstable to drive in straight lines, special tyres, drivers refusing to drive it. It took over 2 years to complete, the race trucks shipped out there for the duration. Then they didn't promote what they achieved.
I still want to know the fastest speed an open wheeled car could do around a typical F1 circuit with either the current spec F1 power train or fully electric, no other rules. Ground effect, fan car, continuously variable gearbox, active suspension, moveable front and rear wings as often as you want, DAS... anything goes.
I kind of get it. But at that point it isn't an F1 car
Not a real car but I'm sure you are aware of the X2010 made by Red Bull, yes? You can try that car in Assetto Corsa.
@@bradleycruse2763 well everything he said was once in F1 except for electric
@@TinyBearTim or the active front wing. But my point was actually that F1 stands for Formula 1, which is a regulations set. Once it's anything goes they'll effectively be big budget time attack vehicles with huge gaps
@@bradleycruse2763 But what he was suggesting was a no regulations open wheeled car, not specifically an F1 car. So it could simply be the maddest open wheeled time attack car in existence.
Haas: Let’s make it slower :)
That is why I find silly when people say ""Buh, this year regulation made the car 1s slower per lap". Yes, racing car are made slower by regulation (formula) not because regulator hate fast cars, but due to practical reasons. 5sec per lap slower car can still provide a good race.
And then there is the question of 1 second slower... on which circuit?
1 second slower is a lot worse on say monaco than on say spa
case in point indycar
LMH: how about free for all but with spice of BOP
generally speaking, slower cars provide better racing. thats because the braking and acceleration zones are longer, giving more opportunity to overtake and cars being more slippery in corners increases the chances of making mistakes, so driver skills are more at play.
@@askeladden450 then why not just watch something like formula e?
BONNville?
I didn't know the name of this place could be mispronounced but... Somehow you did it lmao
Exactly what I was thinking. I have never heard it miss pronounced ever until now. I don’t get how he turned a 3 syllable word into a two syllable word
Yeah, they butchered it
Yup
@@351broncoii well the name is made up of two French words - "bonne" (good) and "ville" (settlement/town). Both of those words by themselves are single syllable words. So that explains how it's possible to get a two syllable pronunciation.
That being said, when the two words are combined into one, even the French pronunciation manages to add the third syllable in the middle of the name, so yeah, it's still a mispronunciation regardless. It just shows that language is quirky though. Two monosyllabic words coming together to form a trisyllabic word is definitely weird when you think about it.
@@coletrickIe How many times are you going to provide your B.S. excuse for it being pronounced right and the people who live in the Bonneville and the rest of the U.S. are wrong. The video is WRONG.
I could see this as Red Bull Honda's celebration if they win the title.
max van jongste wereldkampioen oooooit naar de wereldkampioen noooooit .
This car was tested at RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire. Closed the runway for a half day and sounded absolutely amazing. The whole team were really accommodating of anyone and everyone wanting to see what was going on.
I have one of the stop watches that was used to record the time and a complete merch box which was only given to the senior engineers from the event and honestly its my biggest flex
Reminder that this was also the guy who helped get Grosjean out of the car in Bahrein
R U sure?
Yes
@@telracsazyl1243 No doubt!
WTF1: "Fastest ever top speed by Bottas...
Me: Makes sense, I mean only him or Hami really
WTF1: ..In his Williams."
Me: *spits soda everywhere*
Ah yes, the days of the Martini Williams....a livery I still miss.
That car was all engine and no downforce tbh
Tbh with a merc engine so...
@@fkez0510 exactly. It had a superior top speed but lacked in downforce
More impressive is that Bottas drive 372.5 km/h in race at Mexico City 2016. And yes it was Williams.
getting a tow and drs is most likely how he did that.
@@Fokfeesspecial did you mean 'tow'?
@@qreemu yes i did sry, typo :)
Matt I first started watching WTF1 videos as just something cool to watch and now F1 is my favorite sport and I love the tons of content that comes along with it best decision to watch this sport that I’ve had in a long time
Hyped to watch this!
I'd love to see this with a 2016 car with a 2021 engine fitted in the back of it
Wouldn't work. The cars aren't built for other engines then they where used to.
To put the 413 km/h (256 mph) in context, the car would have covered the 1.6 km (1 mile) section in just 14.1 seconds!
Could go faster on a Flat straight highway with slick soft tyres.
At Michigan in 1996, Paul Tracy ran 257mph at an oval track! There’s a reason IndyCar doesn’t allow it anymore.., it was too dangerous...
Current Indycar is less powerfull than CART from those days.
Red Bull would definitely do this with their "track" record of stunts.
Imagine what last year Mercedes could do in these conditions
500 kph
If bottas drove it, not so fast because he would have to let lewis pass 😭
@@zrxnxmd lol
@@zrxnxmd funny enough he’s had as many team orders as Kimi did at Ferrari with Seb . Hmm , wonder why that’s never mentioned.
It's Bono...
Congratulations on 810k subs Matt and Tommy
Matt: Every year the teams try to built the fastest car possible
Editor: Inserts ferrari clip
In 1996, Paul Tracy recorded a trap speed of 256.948 mph (413.52 km/h) at Michigan International Speedway in a Penske - Mercedes Benz V8 Turbo Cart Indycar during the race weekend practice session.
Shhh, you’ll piss off the F1 purists who hate Indycar and oval racing
@@duncachinoahimiha3889
By saying that a top speed focused car went faster than a downforce machine? Looks like you've been berated for liking indy one too many times lmao.
@@ihavewaited90daystochangem51 no, simply by mentioning Indy, and he proved his point cos you seem annoyed in the least...
@@eduardoribeiro3605
Repeat my comment, it applies to you too.
@@ihavewaited90daystochangem51 nah it doesn't, I don't really watch Indy, only the 500 sometimes.
Mazepin for sure. They have to give him something to do. Plus there are no corners.
I'd subscribe again, but I already have subbed. Keep up the great work!
Congrats on passing 1 million subs :3
Sorry matt, but tiny nitpick, Bonneville is pronnouced "bon-uh-vill"
I thought so
@@coletrickIe it's bon-uh-vill regardless of the origins of the name, it is pronounced bon-uh-vill by everyone in the US and the people that live in the area.
@@garf117 Exactly: language isn't defined by the mathematically correct pronunciation of words, it's the way people use them and pronounce them that should be considered corred.
@@coletrickIe but considering everybody in Bonneville pronouces the E like the E in Porsche than i have to disagree
There are street legal production cars with number plates and air-con that can go over 400kph. This effort seems a bit pointless.
Imagine if F1 had no news
In 2004 Rusty Wallace took a completely unmodified (other than being unrestricted) race ready NASCAR stock car to 230 miles per hour. He could've gone faster but they were testing at Talladega. I'd love to see a mid 2000's F1 do a 1 mile roll race with a mid 2000's stock car at Bonneville
Red Bulls the only team that would look at this and say “ha hold my Red Bull”
Sounds like something RedBull would do. It'd be great to see those guys officially break the 400km/hr mark, maybe even shatter it. I think it's possible that those speeds can be reached w/today's technology
Amazing videoS Matt!
I miss this era of F1!
Loved those screaming V10’s.
The top speed was from Valtteri Bottas in a Williams.
Boy, how times were different back then :D
Red bull seems like the perfect challenger for this record. wait... red bull _ís_ honda? oh...
In 1938 - that's before WW2, 86 years ago - Mercedes set a speed record with model W125 for the aurobahn: 432,7 kmh / 268,8 mph. That was the measured average during a 1km straight, when driven in both ways. Needless to even mention how dangerous it was with the tires and technology available, absolutely mad achievment. Reaching 400 kmh in the desert with modified F1 half a century later is not bad either - but I somehow thought it would look easier...
Indycars were breaking 250 mph (402 km/h) on the back straight at Indianapolis in the early 1990’s. The qualifying lap record was a 239 mph average (384 km/h) in 1996, at which point the series started to slow things down before too many more drivers got hurt.
indycar:i have now become speed,destroyer of worlds
honda f1 car:lmao no
In 1996, Paul Tracy recorded a trap speed of 256.948 mph (413.52 km/h) at Michigan International Speedway. A real unmodified race car racing at a real event.
If one team is crazy enough to break that record it gotta be Red Bull, right? With all the stuff they’ve done it seems the most likely they would step up to the task
F1: we are the pinnacle of Motorsport
Le Man's: hold my car
I saw the team and car when they were testing it at RAF Lyneham back in the day, what a sound that v10 made!
This would be a nice annual side event for the pr teams that travel with older cars to compete in. I’d watch for sure
Easy way to smash that record: use the 1950 rules. The limit for displacement is 3.0L for a naturally aspirated engine and 1.5 for forced induction. No other rules
We all know that red bull is the most likely team to try this in the future
Drew putting in an appearance in meme form. Hey Drew!
Can I just say I cant want for WTFDAKAR XD. This channel got me into F1 I want to get into Dakar too XD
Great video. As an F1 fan, seeing that car at 400KPH is thrilling. But I urge everyone to witness an NHRA event at least once! The brute power (11,000 HP!) and watching a car pass by at 540KPH (in 304 meters!) is almost hard to comprehend!
Really… just like driving upsidedown, Red Bull will add that to their list of accomplishments
Especially now with the Halo, I don't see why no one tries the upside down thing
"Specially built F1 car"
A few moments later :"Slightly modified F1 car"
Top speed is mad for F1. Tell that to the Apollo 10 people, which reached 32,000 Km/h on reentry with their crew module.
It would just be Red Bull Honda going to finish what they started if a modern team did this
Too much highspeed isn’t that good, it has to be adjusted to the braking speed and traction of the car…
For instance a Bugatti Chiron could overtake an F1 Car on a straight line, but it could never lower its speed fast enough to hit the chicane perfectly…
So if F1 Engines weren’t restricted, their brakes and wings would have needed to be adjusted to the former balance (speed-braking)
A bugatti would indeed overtake the F1 car, but it would need a very long straight line to do so, even if there is around a 600 hp difference between the 2
No shit sherlock
@@multigames767 f1 has better power to weight ratio tho
@@fukers2stop indeed, that’s why a bugatti would not stand a chance in a 0-200 km/h and even more despite having way more HP, and the weight really makes the biggest difference in braking zones and corners
I would have loved to see the same spec car on a track and compare the lap times between the normal spec and the top speed spec
02:57 Nice touch with actual Honda gear knob gear shift
"Bonvil."
It's pronounced "bon-a-vil."
hank you.T
At least he didn't say boonvil ha ha
Actually Bonvil is the correct pronounciation, as it is a french word originally.
The wikipedia page for the Triumph Bonneville (named after the lake) includes the phonetic transcription, which says bonvil as well.
@@muifly4892 Actually, you are dead wrong. It's pronounced baa-nuh-vil. Since it's in the US that's how Americans say it. British people say it slightly differently. Instead of baa it's bo. But it's not Bonvil 😄
@@muifly4892 Even French people don't say Bonvil 😄 it's more like bo-neh-vil
a waste trying this in a open wheeler, peugeot did 405km/h in the 1988 at le mans
??? I'm struggling to see your point. It's a test to see how fast an F1 car can go, what has a terrible Group C sports car got to do with anything?
@@SMlFFY85 the point is it would be more interesting to do it with a different car and people are stupid for thinking it's impressive
i wanna see a current gen F1 car try this. One of the pre 2021 Mercedes or the 2021 Red Bull fully unleashed with no restrictions would be very interesting to see
Alan van der Merwe . . . absolut hero with the Grosjean crash , nearer to the flames than the firemen who are in full gear and him in the racing overall !!!!
Salute , Mr. van der Merwe.
Mostly to try and beat it is definitely the forking Red Bull’s
I´ve heard that downforce is so immense that can hold an F1 car upside down.Has this been tried?
It would be a sight to see.
Has never been tried
yet
I could definitely see Red Bull attempting this. They flew a plane through a tunnel (a lot more to it than just the tight confines). Why not set up a temporary half pipe on either end of a tunnel for the car to be able to make it onto the wall and subsequently ceiling of the tunnel and back off again? Either an F1 or an LMP/SRP1 car (probably the safer option, and is capable of the same speeds).
It's theoretically possible but it's not practically possible
Indycar and champ cart: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power!
😂
This car is basically the Formula NASCAR Mod for F1 2021 without the requirement of being behind another car to go that fast (If you've never used this mod, look it up on racedepartment)
Remember they had not changed the gear ratios
It's pronounced "Bon-uh-ville"
Oh and Alan's name is pronounced "Merv-uh"
Why do I feel like this was inspired by a top gear episode 😆
did he rlly just say bonville, omd lol, gr8 video tho
Fun fact the Indycar speed record is almost identical. But on an oval with regulations.
Also Nascar's speed record is even fastee around 436 kph.
436 🤣🤣🤣
????
Incorrect, nascar record is around 341. It’s a *stock car*
@@duncachinoahimiha3889341kph in the 1980’s until they instituted a restrictor plate after a car almost went into the grandstands. But without a plate about 370 kph at Talledega by Rusty Wallace in 2004, with an average lap of about 350 kph. Mostly because the steel box with no downforce or brakes was too fast for the turns. Which makes a CUP car probably the most difficult race car to drive in the world.
Seems like something mclaren would attempt
Red bull would like to say hi
Ever since I discovered the 99 Reynard (CART car), I’ve often wondered what an F1 car set up for superspeedways might actually look like (given that CART had a superspeedway package that used wings far smaller than even F1’s Monza wings (for reference Monza wings are roughly equivalent to Indycar/CART short oval wings)). Perhaps this is the closest we will get to that.
I subscribed because a voice convinced me
Red bull would try to beat it
Obviously since they have tried pretty much everything
Matts pronunciation of bonneville is hilarious. He’s pronouncing it “Bonville” but it’s actually pronounced “Bon-eh-Ville”
that's mind blowing, now imagine That new EV car, Rimac Nevera going 412 Kmh without the roaring engine :D I mean, I'm sure there's noise from electric motors as well.. probably sounds like a spaceship at that speed
You know the channel is British when you see Aston Martin, McLaren and Mercedes at the end of the video 😂😂
"We'd said it wasn't possible"
lol 400 km/h was broken 70 years prior to this, is he really trying to say that just taking most of the cornering aero off and changing the gearing won't put that car past 400 without even braking a sweat?
The thing about this car was, and what wtf1 get wrong as well - This car was completely legal for the 2005 rule set. It was not an car designed only for top speed. They took an v10 f1 car, and modified it whithin the rule's on which the car was built. No wheel covers. No extra aerodynamic shape. Still a huge amount of downforce. They could have raced this car in 2005. It would have been of the pace, but it would have been legal. And no other legal f1 car can hit those speeds
1:31 where verstappen fanboys hang out
I actually heard (from Alan), that they were supposed to do another day, running the car full speed. However, it rained during the night in the surrounding mountains, so the salt lake turned mushy; making it impossible to run the car safely for next weeks.
Considering there wasn't any fatalities on recent races (that i'm aware of), pushing the speed further would not be advisable. It's alredy fast af, and keeping them alive and safe is the priority.
the auto translated captions are so funny😂
This is SUPER COOL, SUPER FASCINATING. I liked the video very much. This might be the corner for guys who liked this video💗💖💓
F1 WAS the pinnacle of technology.
Red Bull: And I took that personally
Us US 'Muricans pronounce Bonneville "Bon-eh-vill." Not trying to be pedantic. The Bonneville Salt Flats are getting smaller and smaller, due to environmental issues. When I take the train out to California, the train runs right by the Salt Flats. They're eerily beautiful.
Almost at 1 mil 💪
That is the world of Indy. Let them give it a go.
haha Drew Scanlon spotting
Given how Red Bull has the fastest PU in a straight line this season, this Summer, I could definitely see them doing something like this
At least you've talked about Km/h so I could understand this video🤣
Wish I could see a video of this so I can hear the sound of the engine
Sebastian Vettel drove a Red Bull F1 down a mountain, in the snow!!! I could DEFINITELY see Red Bull taking a shot at it!!!