10 genius F1 innovations that were outlawed

formula one is all about pushing the boundaries of performance but some innovations go too far over the years f1's regulations have become ever more restrictive yet still design geniuses find creative ways to make the cars faster often with the result that their ideas are sooner or later outlawed we picked out 10 innovations that had a profound impact on f1 some very short-lived some longer lasting but they were all eventually consigned to the history books thanks to being banned by the fia let us know in the comments which of these ideas you think should have lived on and whether f1 needs to reverse the trend of the past 40 years by adopting free regulations that will permit more new ideas and innovations a crude form of active suspension was first raced in f1 in 1983 with nigel manson's lotus 92 running with a pioneering system designed by peter wright in the brazilian and long beach grand prix lotus made active suspension a road car only project for several years after that but brought back a new version of the system in 1987. ed and senna claimed the first victory for an active car in the 1987 monaco grand prix following it up with another victory on the streets of detroit williams also had a system in development which claimed its first win in the italian grand prix at monza that year with nelson pique driving it wasn't until 1992 that what we think of as active suspension whereby each corner of the car could be controlled electronically to hold the car in the perfect position aerodynamically and optimize the ride height was perfected it was then banned at the end of 1993 as part of the gizmo ban that also eliminated traction control and abs four-wheel steering was banned before anyone raced with it as part of the electronic gizmo bands that kicked in at the end of 1993. but even after that decision benetton pushed on with developing its system that while never raced did run in testing and was briefly used in practice at the end of 1993 in a specially designated benetton b193c hydraulically actuated rear steering allowed the rear wheels two degrees of freedom in either direction but was never refined enough to produce a lap time gain as you can imagine the drivers found it made the car oversteer hence the decision not to race the system in the brief window before it was banned mercedes knew that its dual axis steering better known as das only had a shelf life of one season when it first raced the system in 2020. the idea was ingenious with the driver pulling back on the steering wheel to adjust the toe of the front wheels then pushing it forward to restore the normal settings this was used primarily as a means to improve front tyre warm-up the fia accepted that the concept was legal in a revised form after mercedes originally proposed to run a lever-actuated das in 2019 that was rejected the fia insisted that it would only be permissible if it was activated by the steering wheel itself this is logical given the principle of the steering wheel being permitted to change the geometry of the front wheels is well established hence red bull's protest at the first race of 2020 was rejected but amid fears that das would simply cost teams money and everyone would be forced to adopt it the fia had already ensured the regulations prevented das being used in 2021 this meant that mercedes was the only team ever to run with das renault first started running what is more accurately called the tuned mass damper in 2005. this was a massive 5-10 kilos which was tunable to the specific circuits located in a small cylinder between two springs that was placed towards the rear of the nose cone of the car the purpose of this damper was to react to the vertical forces created by hitting bumps undulations and curbs this improved the stability of the car and held it in a consistent aerodynamic window this was particularly beneficial to runno which had struggled with the raised front wing regulations of 2005. the mass damper settled the front of the car dramatically allowing the drivers to be more aggressive over the curbs and made the front wing work better once rival teams learned of the mass damper they all tried to copy it with varying success ferrari introduced its own mass damper but it couldn't gain the same advantage thanks to the fact it ran the stiffer sidewall bridgestone tyres the mass damper was more beneficial when working with a more compliant michelin rubber leading to ferrari lobbying against it the mass damper was eventually banned for good after the 2006 hungarian grand prix the brabham bt46b better known as the fan car entered one world championship race the 1978 swedish grand prix and won it from pole position in the hands of nikki louder the fan car was designed genius gordon murray's answer to the ground effect lotus 79 that dominated 1978. the chunky alfa romo flat 12 engine left insufficient space to maximise the venturi tunnels needed to generate the formidable downforce of the leading ground effect cars the answer was to strap a fan onto the rear of the car that was claimed to be there to call a radiator mounted above the engine that fan also happened to suck air from beneath the car creating a powerful low pressure area in harness with the side skirts the fan car was legal and the argument taken by brabham was that a greater proportion of the fan's power was indeed used to cool the radiator than to generate the downforce it was also not technically made illegal in 1978 with team boss bernie ecclestone agreeing to withdraw it and return to the conventional bt46 however there's no doubt it would have been made illegal immediately had the team not done so voluntarily and subsequent wording and understanding of the technical regulations clearly prevented any further fan cars the f duct is coming up next but first a quick thank you for watching this video our output would not be possible without your support so if you haven't already done so and want to make sure you don't miss any of our f1 videos make sure you subscribe to our channel and to be told the moment there's something new to watch shine the notifications bell when the mclaren mp426 first appeared ahead of the 2010 season many spotted a letterbox-shaped intake at the front of the chassis this was the famous f-duct which directed airflow to the rear wing but when the driver covered a hole inside the cockpit with their elbow the airflow switched and was directed across the top element of the rear wing stalling it this cut drag and increased straight line speed it was an ingenious idea but was challenged by rivals on the grounds it was a movable aerodynamic device but as it was simply a case of the driver moving their elbow and the airflow itself changing it was perfectly legal rivals scrambled to copy it with different cars activating the f-duct switch by different means using variously hands elbows and legs sauber ferrari and red bull introduced their f-ducts in very quick succession the f-duct was banned for 2011 amid concerns that teams would develop ever more elaborate versions requiring drivers to activate different fluidic switches depending on the corner characteristics the tyrell p34 was developed in the utmost secrecy and it shocked the world when the derrick gardner designed machine first appeared in september 1975. it didn't race until the following season but in the 1976 swedish grand prix it became the only grand prix car with anything other than four wheels to win in the hands of jodie schechter the idea was simple by reducing the size of the front wheels and running four smaller ones this would reduce the lift and drag created by conventional larger front wheels this had both aerodynamic and straight line speed advantages and created a car that could work very well particularly on smoother circuits but there were problems goodyear didn't put a huge amount of development work into the tyres mounted on the 10-inch wheel rims at the front of the car there was also the problem that it was possible to lock the four wheels on the front axles independently playing havoc with the car dynamics the tyrol p34 was the only six-wheeler to rate in f1 before they were banned for 1983 as a result of the outlawing of four-wheel drive following experiments by march and williams to run six-wheelers with four rear wheels the mclaren brake steer system also referred to as the fiddle brake was revealed by legendary f1 photographer darren heath he spotted the rear brake on one side of the car glowing mid corner and when mika hakkanen retired from the 1997 luxembourg grand prix at the nurburgring heath took a photo inside the cockpit of the abandoned car revealing the famous extra pedal the concept was simple conceived by steve nicholls and worked on by paddy low the system allowed the rear brake on one side of the car to be applied mid corner which side could be altered depending on track characteristics for 1998 the system evolved to allow the drivers to select which side rear brake was activated using a switch but brake steer was ruled illegal at the second race of the season in brazil because it was effectively a form of four-wheel steering the double defuser was part of the famous brawn package that dominated the early stages of 2009 and went on to win both the drivers and constructors championships the rules permitting the architecture of the double diffuser weren't in question but the problem was providing the necessary airflow to make this work the solution originally conceived by a honda aerodynamic working group was to create holes in the floor where there should have been none in the transition between the reference plane the lowest part of the car's bodywork and the step plane 50 millimeters higher than the reference plane and running down the car 250 millimeters either side of the center line the rule stated that the transition between the reference and step plane had to be solid hard and impervious but this interpretation allowed multiple transitions with gaps between them to supply the airflow williams and toyota also hit upon the concept with the rest having to clone the design before double defusers were outlawed ahead of 2011. using exhaust gases to energize the rear diffuser was not a new idea when red bull brought it back in 2010 having paved the way by repositioning its exhaust exits in 2009 the concept was first used on the renault re-30 in 1983 and teams used it well into the 1990s but when red bull brought back exhaust blowing it began a lengthy battle with the fia which repeatedly attempted to outlaw the practice by modifying the exhaust regulations in 2011 red bull simply relocated its exhaust lower to the floor of the car to get around changes a brief attempt was made in the middle of 2011 to ban the trick aero maps that allowed both cold blowing whereby the throttles in the engine stayed open to allow air to be pumped through but the fuel and spark was cut saved for the down changes and hot blowing which involved the ignition being and fuel fired directly into the exhaust where it ignited and energized the exhaust gas flow but this proved unworkable so for 2012 the exhaust will move to a higher position only for red bull and mclaren to pioneer the coanda exhaust named for the coanda effect the tendency of a jet flow to attach to surfaces to get the exhaust flow to the diffuser area it was only the arrival of the v6 turbo hybrid engines in 2014 and another repositioning of the exhaust at the centre and rear of the car that effectively ended the exhaust blown era but to this day teams still use the limited freedom to use the gas flow to create small aero effects which banned innovations are your favorites and what outlaw designs that we left out also caught your imagination and don't forget to like and subscribe you

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Length: 12min 25sec (745 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 04 2021