I Drove The Worst F1 Car Ever Made
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Interesting fact: In a race, the mechanics noticed the engine made a strange noise.
They said it was because all 12 cylinders were working
Im sensing a disturbing resemblance among Life and Ferrari master🅱️lan..
The driver actually said this. Bruno Giacomelli.
I can believe that!
The mechanics just not bothering to put oil in the car because "fuck em" is levels of pettiness we love to see 😭😂
Should have used a Honda D15. Then maybe it would have lasted a lap.
At least it wasn't as bad as Andrea Moda who fitted Perry McCarthy's car a dodgy steering rack
@@AdamTheMan1993 they basically tried to Kill Perry McCarthy
@@jacobrzeszewski6527 can confirm, accidentally ran my d16 for longer than i would like to admit without oil and it's still kicking 😂😂
@@GRiiZZ McCarthy: "Guys, I stopped. Nearly crashed at Eau Rouge, steering is jammed, and it might be flexing."
Sassetti: "Yeah, Moreno had a similar problem before we replaced his."
McCarthy: "Why didn't you check mine?"
Sassetti: "We used yours as a replacement."
Seriously, from what I'm reading Sassetti should've been charged with criminal negligence, if not attempted murder.
Fun fact. This car had less power than the Lotus from 1979.
Itd probably get lapped by a go-kart. And not a racing one
Nevermind the '79 lotus, it has less than the *'67* Lotus when run in 'raceable' conditions! A 2017-2021 WRC car has as much power & that has less than half the displacement & *a third* of the cylinders! And even if it is a turbo, applying the FIA 1.7× multiplier for Gasoline Turbos only makes for marginally better reading.
@@ChaosqueenMaddy i can lap that car (I am morbidly obese)
@@RayanM50B25 My dead great grandmother could lap it
Go on, lap it then
Fun fact about the W12, it actually could produce 650 HP, but it would literaly blow up in seconds, and Bruno Giacomelli said at the British GP, one of the Life best performances, despite being 16 seconds off the pace, that he heard a weird noise coming from the engine while he was driving the car, and he believed that noise was simply the 12 cylinders working at the same time for once.
And at that same race, it was only three seconds faster than the cars in the F3000 support race. If that was its "best" performance, then I think Jimmer was right in that it was usually slower than the F3000 cars.
@@F1Krazy the best performance for the Life was at Monaco, it was 14 seconds off the pace in pre-qualy, but only 2 seconds slower than the Coloni - Subaru, that was the closest it got to actually beat another car on pure performance, without counting the USA GP, when the Coloni lapped the circuit in almost 6 minutes due to a clutch failure.
And I would say that in circuits like Monza or Hockenheim (that was still the old layout with the long straights), the Life would might be even slower than an F3 car.
The irritating thing is that teams like Life and Andrea Moda have basically made F1 much more boring. The FIA got fed up with chancers turning up with useless cars and spent the next 2 decades trying to price privateers out of F1 to prevent anything like that happening again, which is why we no longer have teams like Jordan and Minardi.
Still can't take away the greatness of Jordon's 1-2 at Spa 1998 ❤
Shouldn’t the price of entry match the budget cap?
Funny you say that because technically, those particular teams still exist but with a different name:
- The Former Jordan team is now Aston Martin (Which was formerly Racing Point, Force India, Spyker and Midland)
- The Former Minardi team is now Red Bull Sister team Alpha Tauri (which was previously Toro Rosso).
So they kinda are still but they just got bought up and renamed (Several times in the case of Aston Martin, who even changed entries). That said, the likes of Arrows as well were something interesting to see even if they had no chance most of the time.
but that’s good. i do not wish to keep watching seasons like 2010-2012 where there’s useless backmarkers with no hope in hell
@@RACECAR Yeah but who wants to work for some billionaire. When you can work for a Legend like EJ
There is a sim where you can drive the Life. It's F1 Challenge VB, which a heavily modded version of F1 challenge 99-02; which contain all the F1 championship from 1950 to 2021, with every cars/liveries/tracks/drivers with a bit of limitation of course, and a last thing, it's completely free. Put a thumb up to made jimmy reading this.
The rFactor mod is also good. Ferrariman601 made some videos on it
Ayy, got a link for the F1 Challenge mod?
Where can we find it?
you can search for it you should find it under the name of the mod
I was so looking for this kind of game, you have no idea how. Thank you very much !!!
Fun fact about that thing: it’s own designer described it as „good enough only for a very interesting flowerpot”
Also during their infamous 7 minut lap in Imola their top speed was stuck at 105km/h(a bit over 60mph), while others were passing the barrier of 300km/h. Imagine going into Villeneuve(and we’re talking about the old layout so it’s a proper corner not a chicane) and seeing that at the apex
Giacomelli had a gearbox failure during that lap tbh
my old dingy shitbox wagon car with 98 hp can get up to 120km/h, wtf is that car designed as ?
@@bluejacketergazu2447 tractor
@@magnussencube Massey Ferguson built an F1 car to demonstrate how good their tractors transmissions were. It had a race win by Sterling Moss and he said it was his favourite car he ever drove.
Even a tractor is better than this thing.
Like a moose on the highway eh
The Life L190: the heaviest car with the slowest engine built from a design, it's main designer considered a death trap. Truly the marvel of engineering!
The L190 stand for Loser 190
Truly Marvel of engineering indeed.
That things almost street legal competition of bad
@@jamescarpenter855there's plenty of street legal cars out there these days that could beat it easily, lol
Wasn't it based of the First F1 (yes, that's the team name) car from the previous year?
@@PEPSIMaxMusic Indeed it was. The sad part is that the First F1 car was actually fixed by the time the team pulled out. A few months later, it was bought by Vita, modified (or butchered, would be more appropriate) and basically smeared his name across all F1 with the abysmal attempt at running an F1 team. At least they had the spirit
This is amazing. We need an online Event where everyone drives this thing.
Yes and multi-class racing. Putting this up against all sorts of random cars that could be faster
@@willemsebrechts4301 P50? Reliant Robin? Trabant?
@@hotelvictor the Reliant Robin is probably as, if not more stable than this😂
@@willemsebrechts4301 This and Reliant Robins around Spa, alongside everyone's favourite 90s mid engine Honda, the Acty as the 3rd class.
Until it blows up
That start was pure immersion
The levels of turbo megajank this car has gives me hope. Hope that one day, even a mechanic skill-less pleb like me could weld together some shit and run in a prestigious series like 90s F1 lol
keep on going mate xD
The original team that was gonna enter this car was called First Racing, but abandoned the project. So ironically this car was named after the two things it did worst, finishing First and Living.
It's worth bearing in mind that even the Coloni's and Eurobrun's were able to completely blow this away and they never qualified for a race in 1990 either.
It wasn't lost on me that Gachot was somehow fifth on the grid in the Coloni.
The Eurobrun qualified for a single race in 1990 (it was driven by Roberto Moreno, but still).
I'm pretty sure Roberto Moreno could've qualified a Pontiac Fiero at Monaco had someone told him to. He got performance out of cars they should not have been capable of.
Moreno could have been a champion if he was put into a good car.
You should totally hotlap and compare this thing on Nordschleife Jimmy
Trying to lap the Nurburgring with this unreliable death trap is 0-60 time in the old Fiat 500: probably won't happen.
Please Jimmer
Right. Can it last the 15 minutes it'll take to lap the Nordschleife at the edge?
I don’t think the universe will still exist by the time it completes the lap
That is actually highly inaccurate of the real car as the tachometer is working perfectly
it's moving, but I'm pretty sure it revs to 13k, not 10
I've been waiting for this day
The Life L190... The car had less life than a morgue and took an L so hard it put it in it's name twice.
It even had F in the name for us to pay respects. But I don't know if it deserves that
Fun fact: In the spring of 1990, Ernesto Vita, owner of Life F1 Team, signed an agreement with the chairman of the Leningrad cooperative "Pic" and amateur racer Mikhail Pichkovsky. He promised Vitya $20 million in financial support and technological assistance to the Soviet defense industry. In exchange for this, the Italian team was supposed to open their developments to partners from Leningrad and organize the training of Soviet personnel for the racing team. Then the team was rebranded as Life-Pic and its cockpit was decorated with USSR Flag. But, in reality, Vita's team did not receive any finances or technological assistance from Pichkovsky.
This car is what created the phrase "FUCK MY LIFE!"
Which fits the context perfectly because this car along with the Life team was an abysmal but hilarious failure of an attempt at F1 racing lol. We're glad that underpowered pieces of shits like this thing aren't a thing anymore in modern day motorsport.
With this vid and the Lola car now I am just waiting to see the Andrea Moda to complete the triology of weirdly bad F1 cars
Or the Coloni - Subaru
The Andrea Moda car wasn't all too terrible. Just had a bad engine...
It was the team and their boss that were the real reason for how awful they were.
Or HAAS VF21 (might not count since its only 3-4 seconds slower, but still a lawn mower)
@@greatsageclok-roo9013 - the S921 was designed by Nick Wirth, so it had some good minds behind it. However, the management of that team was a great example of how business magnates should NOT run an F1 team. It was possibly the most farcical entry in F1 history
ASR is making an Andrea Moda F1 mod for Assetto Corsa although it's currently in Early access.
That infamous contraption sure put paid to the notion of "Looks Good/Drives Good" Damn thing was so slow it seemed to be going backwards, provided the engine was able to function for one lap to begin with.
7:40 that guy was the driver that DNPQ most times without entering a single qualy, and he breeze passed. That's Life, everybody
9:11
“Ah God, Corners. My greatest Weakness”
- Man driving Formula 1 Car.
Little bit generous to call it an f1 car
"I suspect there's going to be a big crash in a minute, but I'm here for it" - Jimmy Broadbent, 2022
That didn't age well did it
Most Hamlilton fans have said the W12 was terrible and clearly they were right the whole time
😂😂
It's a name cursed through time. Osella's FA1L comes close, but that was merely an inadequate car, and that's lightyears from an incompetent one.
W13: allow me to introduce myself
This is the car that got me into F1, a couple of years ago I discovered this thing amd was obsessed with its awfulness, and fell down the F1 rabbit hole
🤣
Same 😂
The team had a very short life
“And basically it was just downhill from there.” Well it couldn’t go uphill, with that power and weight…
The POWER AND SPEED
That’s a very different kind of W12 from what we’re probably used to
😂😂😭
This was the original W layout though, the other one should be referred to as a "double VR" (or even WR if you like to be original) to be annoyingly pedantic 😅
Or I didn't get what you meant by this, which could very well be
Edit: ooooh... the Mercedes W12, not the W12 engine from Volkswagen. I'll show myself the door, disregard what's above
The “GOAT” Maurice silently judging in the background is like everyone’s dad at school sports day 😂😂😂
The best backseat driver
The car might go faster if the wheels didn’t spin backwards. 😂
Have you never seen that optical illusion before?
I know it’s an optical illusion, and I know what causes it. I was just making a joke, that’s all. 😊
@@sunman2566 ok Sherlock
@@sunman2566 wow new discoveries, eh?
@@sunman2566 r/woooosh
As my father told me:
"The Life F1 car was a Meccano set with a lawnmower engine"
I've built saltwater model kits faster than this thing!🤣🤣🤣
On the other hand.... It's nice to remember where there were more team than spots on the grid. Those were good days!
love how he went from driving some of the most powerful and fast cars to the worst of the bottom of the barrel
Just a suggestion. Put all the backmarkers of the 1990s in one race at Dallas Fair Park F1 track from 1984.
Osella/Fondmetal, Life , Andrea Moda, Forti, Pacific and Lola
Giacomelli never got paid for his time at Life, all the cheques bounced :/
Huge thanks! You did my Sunday evening. L190 is one of my favorite F1 cars. I would love to see it as an asrformula mod in rf2. Thank you Jimmy!
Normal Mr. Incredible: Williams FW32
Mr. Incredible straight face: Alfa Romeo C41
Mr. Incredible straight face black and white: Caterham CT01
Mr. Incredble with the scary face and piano music: Sauber C33
Mr. Incredible without eyeballs: Simtesk S491
Mr. Incredible internal screaming without eyeballs: Haas VF21
Mr. Incredible shadow without eyeballs: HRT F110
Mr. Incredible disgusting smile with creepy whistling: Andrea Moda C4B
Mr. Incredible skull exposed: Mastercard Lola T97/30
Mr. Incredible troll face: This car
My exact reaction to this car
Jimmy: uploads
Me: this does put a smile on my face
It still baffles me how this car got through FIA regulations
ahh so that's what it feels to drive for Haas
Haas is a F2004 compared to this
Not even close.
@Brett Alt Overrated*
But worse
even haas is like red bull or mercedes compared to this abomination of a car
Brilliant Bideo, Bimmer!! Genuinely great. An entertaining F1 History lesson - with a practical demo of this particular vehicle’s…er…shortcomings. 10/10.
This just makes me wish for a series where Jimmy drives his favorite cars, but has to ruin the setup by randomizing everything!
I did it with the limited options in GT Sport, and it resulted in a Mini that literally couldn't drive straight, as it kept "falling" to one side or the other all the time, coming from insane toe angles and a spongecake suspension! It was basicly impossible not to spin on the straights, as it also had insanely grippy front tires, but the worst tires in the game on the back...
Still better than my AE86, it flipped whenever i tried to turn
Jimmy making videos we didn't know we needed. Thanks Jimmer!
Seeing his lines through the corners in this makes me nostalgic for some Gran Turismo. Bust it out Jimmy!
Funny thing is, if they did give it some throttle when it started up, it would oil up all the spark plugs so they hard to change all of them again lol
Those names bring back memories.
The 91 season was when I first got into F1, and into simracing, after getting Geoff Crammond's F1GP on the Amiga.
This could be an amazing series of videos, trying this with many different categories and cars. There has been howlers of cars in all series...even in to the present day with the NISMO attempt on Le Man.
I love the intro, especially the "Rock!". It would be perfect if you would append the "Woohoohoo" from the end of the previous intro to the end of this one.
JIMMY SERIOUSLY RIGHT NOW? THE ROLEX 24 IS COMING DOWN TO THE WIRE!
I would love to see a 2000 hp rwd woody station wagon with the famous glueyear tires from the black hole go kart.
Jimmy is just too entertaining. Oh and a great driver too
15:05 Life aero testing programme, 1990 colourized
This was in the original Rfactor as a mod for 1990 season by SE. Then ported to AMS and RF2.
Pls do a full grid race of these when you can
Btw i noticed the Sonic R music,nice video
Im diggin the inspiration board on jimmy’s left (our right)
This is my new favourite Jimmy Video.
Finally, I can see some driving in this channel I can relate with.
(If we disregard the fact I drive this way with way easier-to-use cars, with assists and racing line, that is)
At 10:29, is that a Coloni in fifth place? That team holds the record for most failed attempts to qualify and for a while had the record of most attempts without a single point. Pretty sure they only had one car in 1990, too.
(I still love them)
A lifeless effort.
somehow i just saw this - but noticed you used one of my fave songs from Sonic R in the video!
Its a problem for a f1 team when their car cant catch the safety car. I think the name LIFE is some kind of prayer for the people getting into it. I wonder if they have any cars left, id like to buy one as a daily driver. One if your best jimmy
love your vids, could u do dirt oval or drifting again :)
7:57 rip traction! 😂
We need full grid of this racing with friends 😂🤣
Jumble Brungleborg's 1min 48.49sec laptime was at least better than Giacomelli's real-life 7min 16s lap. He'd have only been 20 and a half seconds off pre-qualifying and nearly 15 seconds slower than Claudio Langes' EuroBrun in the next slowest car, although the reduced weight from the lack of engine cover probably made it a bit faster :P
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Life sucks! New to the channel, enjoying, thanks. When are you racing with Roman G again?
9:43 now THAT'S a song only legends will recognize 😂
At around 1:30... Probably the biggest "driver" ever squeezed into any F1 car in any event or festival or track day. Absolutely painful to see that. 😬🙈
Still faster than the Haas VF21
Have you ever raced the 6 wheel Tyrell P34 in a sim? Would love to see if that could do the Nordschleife!
All of a sudden “Living in the City” came on and that made my day
hey Jimmy i watched your Which Era of F1 was fastest at Goodwood video and it gave me the idea of doing a Nascar Version of it
all these broken car videos jimmers going to be unstoppable in any car he drives
Surely the Lola hart driven by Alan Jones at Adelaide has gotta get a special mention here. He described it as" a mobile hand grenade"
Bro, the CHAD Gachot qualifying P5 in the Coloni (who also didn’t qualify to ant race in 1990 btw)
Jimmer give me your synthwave playlist please, i love ya
Great start! 😂
Nostalgia intensified at 9:38
Really love the Sonic R music in the BG, fits the car well. Lots of potential to be had, never utilized that much, and flopped just like the game.
Your front wing tried to run away!
Subaru Caloni/ Coloni V12 next please!
Great vid!
The definition of "That'll do"
Video suggestion, the life car but take it round the norschliefe. ANd drive it beside a Lotus 49 from 1968 to see just how slow it is
Just realized there is no coverage of your debut in the Praga, should show a clip when you won 🏆 😀 at the end.
This beast is slower than a modern GT3 car, even adjusted for track changes ~
It was slower than the safety car...
It's slower than the Peel P50
The car , the myth , the legend.
"Left oversteers, right understeers" describes my car perfectly.
If only Life Racing Engines ran their own formula series and not bothered with F1.
A full field of these cars would be so fun to watch
It wouldn't have lasted very long, the entire field would retire in four laps
Just in case this whole UA-cam thing doesn't work out mate, have you ever tried to get into announcing? You've got the perfect voice for it!
10:45 my favorite part of the video 😆 🤣 😆
Jimmy just vibin in the life car
Should make this a series; Driving the worst f1/race cars ever
The engine designer designed the V8 for the Ferrari 308. When he was fired from Ferrari he stated designing the W12. It’s actually based on a W18 design Ferrari turned down that was based on a W3 that was put in a bicycle frame.
Fun video, and entertainingly much as with the Lola this video makes the car both better and worse than it was IRL. Overall pace is off where it should be (IIRC the car was at least capable of getting within less than 20 seconds off of the leaders' pace on the rare occasion everything worked correctly) but the top speed is actually _too high_ (145mph was the highest speed it ever clocked IIRC) and the original W12 lasting three consecutive push laps was never going to happen. They were also the last single car team and the reason the FIA forced through the rule that every team has to enter two cars.
Extra "Life" charity challenge where everyone has to drive one of these would be hilarious
An all Life one make series, make it happen JImmer!!!
That's Life. This quote literally made my cry laughing lol it's perfect for this video :D
Just imagine what it took to get behind the wheel of this thing for real
Imagine a full online lobby racing with the Life F1 car only ...