Everything You Need to Know about F1 Cars in 2022

so the next era of formula one is coming and the cars are changing a lot there is a lot that will affect how these things will look drive and perform so let's go over them and give you our take on how they will or won't change in 2022. oh and say hi to craig scarborough the man who really understands how these big f1 rule changes work happy new year how you doing yeah not too bad good to see you good to see you you in your your office i guess you could call it this yeah and he's got some incredible insights for us today let's get into it now the tires might seem like a weird place to start but the majority of the f1 car design is focused around getting the most grip from them as possible so they're kind of the foundation to the whole car wheels tyres and suspension is probably in some respects like a bigger change for the engineers um and drivers than than the aero the 13-inch wheels have become 18 inch wheels and with that the sidewall has been cut down previously the teams had so much sidewall that it made up the majority of the suspension travel in the car gone from what is actually more like a 14 and a half inch tyre to a 17 inch or 18 inch tyre you've kind of lost that much of side wall but the tyres gone from 660 diameter to 720 you've kind of gained another two of those inches back so the sidewall isn't actually as small as you would expect so you still got quite a big bit of sidewall to play with all these problems haven't completely gone away they've just been reduced by a small amount now with these 18s they still aren't like a low rider caddy or something but they have far less sidewall than before and with that lots of the current suspension tricks just won't work also the driving style needs to change yeah big bouncy bias to super low profile tires on a road car you get that more immediate steering there's less latency on the turning so you've got all of that and again some drivers might not you know uh like that you know having been racing on big fat tires or their career or certainly been in formula one for a long time this should make the car much more direct on turning which will take some adjusting too but probably a good thing on the whole on top of that the third damper system the mercedes we're using has been banned too so the teams will have to re-imagine the suspension then on top of that we have spec brake ducts and covers on the wheels so the clever rim heating and brake duct tuning won't be possible this is where the teams could use heat from the brakes or cool air from the ducts to either heat or cool the rims which then controls the temperature of the tyre when you look at the whole package it suddenly gets really complicated and then you throw an entire warmer ban over the next few years as well and it's like whoa all over the place the drivers may need to push much more on the front to keep them up to temperature but it could be harder to get the core of the tire up without this rim heating system so the tires could really shake things up then there are the new shiny aero bits we have the new regs have brought in wheel covers and over wheel winglets both are focused on cleaning up the airflow around the wheels the wheels and tires as we know are responsible for a loss of the dirty air which then affects the car behind so the wheel covers stop a lot of the outwash from the front wheels and the fins straighten up the airflow from the front of the wheel they also make the car a little bit more slippery everyone used to use them in 2008-2009 there is a gain to them of you know a tenth or something like that it's not a huge game but in terms of cleaning up the wake of the car behind they are really quite important which is why you see you know land speed record cars or you know super efficient cars have flat wheel covers then one final thing the fia will now have temperature pressure and vibration sensors in the wheels this will stop the teams from running pressures below what pirelli allowed as it's suspected the teams were allowing the cast to run below the minimum pressure requirements as this offers the car a little bit more grip so who knows this could stop the sort of tyre failures that we saw in baku right let's get to the big aero changes first of all starting with the floor so look at this 2021 car the floor is flat for the majority of the car then has the diffuser rise at the rear of the car and really the front wing and barge boards were there to help it work to its best but there were strict limits on the edges of the floor you weren't allowed anything to seal the floor but in 2022 this all changes to a ground effect tunnel style floor where air enters the floor section at the front and is then accelerated through these tunnels creating the majority of the car's downforce it also has these floor edge wings that are used to seal the floor and these fins at the front to tidy up the airflow none of these things were allowed before and it helps the floor create much much more downforce than before but the fia gave and they took away over body downforce has been greatly cut back and these were the aspects of the car that were most affected by dirty air so barge boards are gone the front wing has been greatly simplified and look at that rear wing so the front wing has been changed a lot the vortices that used to be created here are gone and the end plates that used to deliberately create a load of outwash have also gone now we have this thing and my question is do they now focus on pure downforce rather than the job they have now directing air around the car the philosophy will kind of be the same but because the floor's creating so much more downforce and it's much more balanced the front wing won't need to be as loaded but where you do load the wing is still going to be critical because if you load it out by the end plate like mercedes red bull did um you haven't got a really effective end plate anymore that's going to be a really inefficient way of trying to create downforce so as craig mentioned the floor is the centerpiece of the whole system the floor rather than being flat has underfloor tunnels that allow much more air to flow under the car the shape of the floor then accelerates the air more and thanks to fluid dynamics creates a load more downforce but there's more to it the edge of the floor allows better sealing so the low pressure can't be disrupted by air flowing in from the sides so you're going to create lots lots more downforce because you've got a lot more air accelerating under the floor and this is really different it's it creates less weight compared with the old diffusers it works better in the wake of another car they're compared with old diffusers and it creates lots more downforce balance between the front and the rear barge boards have been spoken about a lot for the past 10 years or so and that's because they really matter they steer some wake away from the rear of the car as well as injecting some air under the floor to energize the air and squeeze out some more downforce but why now have f1 remove them essentially they have been replaced by two things the floor edge wings sealing off the floor and the over wheel winglets that manage the weight from the front tires clever and this change comes with the benefits of cleaning up the look of the car as well as cutting down on the components that can be easily damaged as well as littering the circuit with millions of pieces of carbon now perhaps the weirdest looking bit of it all is the rear wing i think it actually looks kind of cool again that's just about weight management so that's all just trying not to have the the big horrible vortices that you get on the damp days coming off the edge of the wing and just trying to throw all the dirty air upwards to avoid the car behind and before you ask yes they will have drs so your drs mechanism has got to be in the middle of the front the rear wing so you're going to have a pod and a little linkage and it's going to hinge just as it is now the only reason everyone's confused is that all of the show cars didn't have any of that mechanism or that you know the hinge and the fish plates put in the same with the front wing the front wing is adjustable but on all of these cars the front wing's fixed so everyone keeps asking more you know how do you adjust the front wing it's like you're just the same as now then there are the overall numbers the cars are 38 kilograms heavier for 2022. that's to incorporate the new wheels and tires as well as some more safety stuff particularly as a result of grojon's crash the fuel cell is now fitted in the car completely differently now heavier is never normally better in a race car but these changes are for good reasons so i guess we'll allow heavier f1 cars then there is the wheelbase which will affect 2021's longer cars more than the shorter ones everyone will be shorter the shortest cars like the hearth and the ferraris will be and red bulls will be a few centimeters the mercedes is more like 12 and a half centimeters but i think there's some pictures going around the internet which show that the car is like a whole tire diameter shorter than it was before and it's not the case it's more like a quarter of the diameter of a tyre 12 and a half centimeters for merc i mean that's that's still quite it's still a lot isn't it will it really yeah i mean yeah it's a big chunky car to lose certainly so packaging will be tough you're cramming more into a smaller car but it should make the cars more agile which should result in some great overtaking but the one thing that isn't changing is the engine the rules are the same but the teams are allowed to upgrade it once before things are frozen so i fully expect red bull to counter that rocket engine of mercedes and there is more on that rear wing which we covered in a previous video here so go and check that out thanks very much to craig for coming on you should really go and follow him on twitter at scarbs tech and i will catch you in the next one

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Length: 9min 50sec (590 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 05 2022

Reddit Comments

[u/lordra]

Wish we could hear more from Scarbs on the cars, doubtless he has ideas on where teams will be looking to discover new gains.

[u/--Bazinga--]

No rear dampers? That was one of Mercs unrivaled technologies. Interesting how that will work out.

[u/code-sloth]

The info is great but his speaking cadence is so jarring and annoying it's difficult to focus on what he's saying.