Formula 1 For New Fans: The History Of F1 & Everything A New Fan Needs To Know EXPLAINED

history of Formula one goes much deeper than the official start of the championships we know and love today in order to get a sense for what Formula One is that its route and makes the most sense to break down the name but in order to do that we have to go back in time single seater racing had been taking place throughout the 1900s and as technology was advancing so were the risks elite racing series and events began to spring up as automobiles got quicker and drivers wanted to go faster one of the original elite racing series was the European drivers championship which held its first season in 1931 the governing body that supervised some of the most popular racing events began to impose strict regulations on competitive events like size of the car engine power and even the way of the cars to ensure safe race conditions but this was also a way to mitigate any unfair advantages that were being leveraged by those who could innovate significantly faster than the field for instance that first European driver's championship imposed many regulations like a minimum car weight of 900 kilograms these early regulations were in line with what was called formula Libre regulations and it's widely considered the oldest sanctioned formula recognized in Motorsports and that's where the named formula comes from therein lies the root of the name of the entire series but just as things were picking up global Motorsports was interrupted by an armed conflict a second world war later and Europe was ready to race again but to distinguish the top-level formula cars from the rest of the racing events for me the one regulations were formed in 1946 by the official governing body the FIA and the races beginning that same year that's not the only set of regulations that were codified formula 2 regulations were formed by the FIA in 1948 and was limited to two liters 750 CC supercharged engines just a couple of years after that and even smaller engine was officially designated for Formula three by the FAA with 500cc engines powering this formula because of the advanced engineering required to compete in the top formula teams struggled to feel the car in the premier category and formula two rules were even used for a couple of seasons in the early days of the championship this dynamic exist still today but has morphed into the series under former the one acting as a feeder series where younger drivers can prove that they can be successful in Formula one but by the mid 1950s the championship was more steady and teams began to consistently compete in Formula One through to 1950s there was only one championship that recognized the driver who placed the highest for each Grand Prix finished they were given an allotment of points that we conclude with the crowning of the driver with the most points as Formula one champion now that teams could build race cars that could make it through the season they could field more than one car it would take until the end of the 1950's but the FAA designated a second championship that was technically separated from the drivers championship it was designed to reward the team with the most points as the winning team or the winning constructors thus the Constructors Championship was born and the inaugural champion was vanwall crowned in 1958 so now that we've talked about the history of Formula One and how it began let's fast-forward to modern day for me the 1 f1 is big business the FAA is much larger than just simply the Formula One World Championships that has always been true and remains true today for instance here's a list of other sanction world championship events under the FIA umbrella and while the FAA is the governing body f1 is owned by the Formula One Group just recently in 2016 liberty media bought the controlling interest for billions of dollars so if you hear the name Liberty they are the American company that actually owns the underlying rights you can even go and buy yourself a piece of it at the Nasdaq under the ticker F walk like I said big business alongside Formula One in the group's business portfolio are the Atlanta Braves baseball team and Sirius XM oftentimes major changes to the sport are a reflection of the larger picture shifting this is all relevant to new fans or a long-term fans not privy to the shifting business side of f1 if you ever feel like there's an invisible hand there is inter names liberty media teams tech drivers and cars for the 2020 season the grid will be made up of ten teams over the years there's been an ebb and flow of the number of teams on the grid each team or constructor fields two cars according to the rules each constructor must produce a chassis to which they own the underlying IP and develop themselves just a kind of alluded way to say they built it just as we discussed the history of Formula One and those earlier Libre Formula regulations there still exist limitations on power now more than ever many of the technical advancements are being monitored and while of course we're not going to go over every single rule that the FAA has put forth full Formula One racing I will link to it down in description below feel free to head to that link grab it download it use it throughout the season because these regulations do change and they do matter something that is understood widely but never actually mentioned is some of the best innovations truly come from finding gaps in these regulations that have not been covered off yet to put ascetically finding loopholes really is the job of the technical directors of f1 teams a great example of this played out recently with the Mercedes dual access steering mechanism or simply das the FIA deemed it would be allowed for this season and the loophole was closed making dual access steering unavailable beyond 2020 but let's go back to the chassis so while each team must produce one the rules do allow for each team to purchase an engine technically these are referred to as power units due to the multiple sources of power flow that releases an incredibly high amount of brake horsepower over the years there have been major changes to technical rules that go as far as to change the type of engine used by each team we're in the final year of what is called the turbo hybrid era and there are many eras that represent the type of engine being used mostly and while these names aren't technically designated officially they've just become known as such this era began in 2014 due to the introduction of the 1.6 liter turbocharged v6 it was accompanied by the energy recovery system or simply ers which supplies extra BPH through electric motors because the internal combustion engine is supplying power to the car in conjunction with the ers supply this is now why you'll hear power units being used instead of engines in terms of power and tech we are going to stop there if you're sitting there thinking oh that sounded really confusing well that's because it is you're not crazy and it's wildly expensive to be able to successfully develop these power units it takes experience resources and heaps of cash but if you get it right it's precisely the kind of advantage that leads to teams dominating these quote unquote eras if you've ever looked through the record books you'll notice that a driver or team will go through spells where they dominate and then sometimes out of nowhere they fall off to put it simply and this isn't always true but more times than not they didn't adapt well to the new regulations in the last decade only two teams one that constructors championship and just three different drivers won a driver's championship Red Bull was Sebastian Vettel dominated from 2010 to 2013 with their design then the regulations change in 2014 and Mercedes unleashed their powerhouse power unit in overall unstoppable design with Lewis Hamilton shining for the rest of the decade only to be interrupted by his 2016 teammate Nico Rosberg in the twin car and if you are a new fan well you came at the right time because we are in the eve of a brand new era and the next era is meant to bring the teams closer together and create more racing opportunities so there's gonna be a number of regulation changes kicking off in 2021 now because of everything I just described some teams find it impossible to be able to develop four years ahead of a change to anticipate what is to come in 2020 there are only three constructors on the grid that actually make their own power unit the rest are customers of these teams in Red Bull and the Cystic are actually being slightly different in that both of these teams get their engines from Honda who doesn't actually feel the team but technically Red Bull in Alpha Tory do not actually make their own engines occasionally and actually this is how it is on the Formula One website itself you will see teams referenced by their chassis engine combination nomenclature so you'll notice the chassis first with the power unit provider afterwards for example Red Bull Racing Honda or racing point bwt Mercedes while naturally there's perks of being a customer team that purchases their power unit from a manufacturer especially in the cost and reliability front there's major drawbacks and chief among them the chassis power unit integration the better you can make these two things work together the better your aerodynamics are going to be on your car becoming a powerful team in f1 especially if you want a larger team that can afford R&D would require major innovations and it would likely be in the Aero department if you are a team getting your power from somewhere else you have to fit the engine style size weight distribution etc all on top of a chassis you are building specifically for your car and your aerodynamics customer teams do certainly get the same engine as their manufacturer and partner but it doesn't mean the same output Red Bull for instance is known for a strong chassis therefore despite them being powered by Renault in 2018 they had an advantage over the works team but you're not really going to see Haas ever beat Ferrari any time soon conversely this played out very famously and very publicly with McLaren when they were powered by Honda during the Alonso days McLaren wanted to run what they a size zero concept but because they weren't actually making their own power unit they had to work with whatever Honda gave them and yes they'd be working closely with Honda but it still is not the same imagine how much more easy it would have been had McLaren just built the exact power unit to fit their own concepts it's a lot easier said than done as we discussed as the rules move towards quote unquote limiting outright power and spent a lot more about the f1 cars being standardized while power units will never truly be standardized a vast majority of the loopholes able to be exploited will close and innovations will bring power units closer together so it's reasonable to think that a fairly standard power unit is on the horizon because of this dynamic you'll often see teams refer to as one of the following top three as of right now that's Ferrari Mercedes and redbull they are their top teams quote-unquote a midfield team or best of the rest or former the 1.5 these are the teams outside of the top three teams which again Ferrari Mercedes in redbull so when you hear a driver or team being referred to as getting the best of the rest it really means they got fourth if it's a team or seventh if it's a driver and the last tier back markers now this can change depending on the race and how they're running but it's usually pretty evident who the bottom tiers are the technical term back markers represents those that are being passed by the leaders they're being lapped essentially there are flags that can be shown to those drivers essentially asking them hey can you move aside and let the leaders through if they are impeding any action at the top and this is the blue flag a bit of bias here but personally I don't like the blue flag but I understand why it's there and some people do one of the main reasons it's there also is to make sure that there's no fixing of any other races there's no one working together to slow another driver down because f1 really is a ruthless ruthless sport and not just with your other competitors with your teammates it's especially ruthless with your teammates and while it's pretty intuitive just like any other sport teammates should be working together they'd be amicable but that's where for me the one deviates from normal sport Formula One is unique in that realm and that your teammate is actually your fiercest rival on track because each of the teams are filled in to drivers and there's so many different types of cars with different types of parts upgrades varying degrees of packages power etc it's hard to compare apples to apples the only true way that one driver can fairly is test his or her pace in the technology they are given it's a look at their teammate they have the same exact car if you are consistently losing to your teammate in more than a few cents off in one lap qualifying pace well then that's one of the only important and reasonable objective measures by which your worth is determined as a driver but don't get me wrong there's been plenty of teammates that get on just fine just because someone's your fiercest rival doesn't mean it has to get nasty but it's often the way it goes it mostly rears its head with the top three teams it's not really commonly referred to though because no top driver on one of those top three teams want to be referred to as a second driver as you go down the midfield that battle for supremacy could be turned into well a good thing it could be something that elevates performance so long as they don't actually make contact and ruin the team's chances for gaining points and that's the big takeaway here the confusing thing that no one actually says out loud there's only one winning strategy per team both cars can't win so the top teams have to pick the driver in the most favorable position to win or whatever maximized team points tire talk there are a litany of other technical factors that affect the race car but none more than the tires as it relates that things a team have control over and can adjust strategically now don't get me wrong there's plenty of other nuances that have significant impact on the race but this is a good starting point through for me the ones history tiger manufacturers have changed and rule surrounding them with it currently Pirelli is the only tire manufacturer on record for the entire grid there was a time informative one though when there was more than one tire manufacturer on the grid it led to a very weird controversial six car start at the 2005 US Grand Prix I've actually made a video about this so you can find that in the upper right hand corner just up there a little I with a circle around it you can click it copy it open a new tab whatever you want to do but let's get back to tires the 2020 Pirelli compounds come in the form of five different compounds in three different colors so let's pay attention here you have c1 which is the hardest compound c2 the second hardest compound c3 the most medium compound see for the second softest compound in c5 the softest compound each compound yields a different level of performance simplest way to put this is the heart of the compound the slower it is on pace thanks to the grip or lack thereof in this case of the c1 tire but with that comes durability so while the harder compounds are slower because they can't grip the track and improve cornering speeds as much as say a c5 compound this lack of grip is also directly responsible for what is typically called tire degradation or most simply referred to as deck deg each team is given the same exact tires in terms of performance that is Mercedes doesn't have any better tire than Williams in any way shape or form how it works is Pirelli will elect a range of compounds that each of the teams are permitted to use the range will span three of the compound grades for instance 2019 Russian Grand Prix but rarely nominated c2 c3 and c4 compounds but at the 2019 Monaco Grand Prix they elected c3 c4 and c5 the compounds are always in succession like that hey you yes you be paying attention because it's about to get a little bit confusing make sure to be watching here's where the colors start to come into play so I just described all of the compounds and in an effort to make things simple as you're watching the race Pirelli have stuck to three different compound colors the softest compound at that specific Grand Prix is labeled the red compound the medium is the yellow compound and the hardest compound available at that Grand Prix is white tips but the tire colors themselves do not represent compound grades directly this really only changes slightly for the medium compounds for instance let's use the exact same example we used above here are the compound grades but now we've added those respective colors that are appropriate so that when you're watching you know whether that's the hard soft or medium tire notice how in the example you see here Monaco has a c3 tire which was the hard grade white tipped but in Russia c3 is the medium yellow these different changes to tire allocation across circuits are called steps Pirelli has a very rigorous standard to decide what circuits get what compounds and if they should make a step up from the previous year the ultimate goal of Mario isola head of Pirelli f1 is to create interesting racing possibilities with the tyre compounds while maximizing a stable race for the teams this gives teams who may not always have the car to win to be able to make a strategy choice that may be more advantageous to them some of the main ingredients to Pirelli deciding allocation comes down to track characteristics your five they habitually publicize on their Grand Prix preview they rank each of these characteristics with a grade of one through five tire stress lateral load asphalt grip asphalt abrasion and downforce this is a very important and often overlooked part of f1 racing and enjoying it so if you're interested in the sort of thing technical guidelines of the track what to expect go in the description click the link that talks about the race previews and tell me where to send it and I'll send you all the previews I make before the actual Grand Prix weekend kicks off the team will bring with them a set of tires that matches their potential strategy these tires have to make it through the full weekend through the rounds of testing the race itself which we'll get to in a second usually Pirelli will nominate tires well in advance so the teams can prepare their strategies they are usually told about five to six Grand Prix ahead here's what the nominations schedule look like for 2019 after it all came in we've talked a lot about the car and the teams and even about the race weekend now so let's talk about the race itself but for me the one Grand Prix takes place over the course of one weekend there are three practice sessions in a qualifying session the events are spread out across a weekend like so ofp one is earlier on a Friday FB two is later on a Friday Saturday hosts two sessions one practice session and the all-important qualifying session while sunday is official Grand Prix day and it's almost always a Sunday afternoon that's the general outline now of course there's a couple of exceptions to this and the most major one is the Monaco Grand Prix actually holds fp1 and fp2 on Thursday and resumes again on Saturday as normal and over the years f1 has actually adopted some night races so with that sessions will hold events in the evening to mirror the actual Grand Prix themselves these races include Bahrain Singapore and Abu Dhabi let's talk a little bit more about practice sessions as we're gonna go into the most amount of detail for the Grand Prix weekend free practice session 1 & 2 both last 90 minutes each only in the first free practice session can a test driver be allowed on track to test the car the third free practice session lasts 60 minutes and is just a couple of hours removed from the actual qualifying session between the Friday session and the saturday session the teams are allowed to work in the car but up until a certain point after that they're called after hours and the team will get penalized for that these free practice sessions don't actually count towards anything in terms of the actual race but it is a very good time to see how the cars are handling what driver looks the most come etc much of the first practice session is used to get the drivers react limited to the circuit this is really the first time any of the drivers have actually been on that track but it is good to pretend to it the second free practice session can reveal a lot about the race upcoming this is where the teams will run the all-important race simulations as well as the qualification simulations so if you were looking to watch one of the practice sessions to get a true understanding of who's gonna win the race probably the best session to watch is fp2 that Friday session we move on to Saturday and after the 60 minutes of fp3 is over there's about a two-hour break where the cars will turn around and run their cars in the qualifying session this session absolutely counts and is one of the most exciting parts of the entire quantum Prix weekend the qualifying session itself is spread out over three sessions that eliminate the slowest drivers as they progress inside these sessions teams can run as many laps as they want but they have to make sure that they get the fast time in before the checkered flag actually falls you'll notice many of the teams will wait until late in the sessions to run their times due to what is called track evolution you'll also hear the term rubbering in or just rubber ten after the cars have pushed speeds on the racing line this increases grip for the following cars the difference is in the times from the cars who actually run first before the rubber again and the cars who get out latest after the track evolution and revering in these can be pretty substantial sometimes if you don't have a shot at pole it's risky throughout the practice and qualifying sessions you'll notice that there are mini cars out on track all at once the later you wait the more you increase your wrist that your lap could be impeded by another driver it could be deleted you could just not get a clean run in at all people have to move out of the way the cars don't go back to the pit once they run their laps they have to cool the tires they have to cool a car and while other cars are doing out laps they have their own programs to run so maybe they're just now getting up to speed most drivers do a pretty good job of staying off the racing line and out of the way and if they don't they usually get penalized but it's not always a guarantee even if they do get penalized you still are the one that was left out in the cold now let's talk about the specifics as it relates to qualifying because again the most exciting part is also one of the most confusing parts the three sessions are called qualifying one qualifying two and qualifying three and you'll definitely only hear them referred to as q1 q2 and q3 naturally q1 is the first qualifying session and last about 18 minutes all 20 drivers are permitted to enter the stage of qualifying with each driver having a fair shot at the top barring any grid penalties they may be under q2 is next so after those 18 minutes from q1 the 5 slowest cars are eliminated they are lined up on the back of the grid in their relative order position 20 or more simply P 20 is a furthest back with cars being staggered closer to the control line as their qualifying times improve in all the second qualifying session lasts 15 minutes after that the 5 slowest cars are yet again eliminated now we're down to 10 cars in one session another very important thing to note here is if you make it to the q3 session that is if you are p10 or better you have to start the race on whatever tires got you into this session that does really start to matter especially if you're someone like P 11 or P 12 you get choice of tires you have a very strategic advantage over someone who's in p10 or p9 if they're stuck on a strategy that they don't really want to be on so with only those 10 remaining cars there are 12 minutes put back on the clock for q3 it's typical for this session to be split into two although this is not really official now this happens for a number of reasons but the easiest way to think about it is track evolution the track gets faster the longer they wait that simple after everyone's final attempt in the checkered flag is dropped whoever has the fastest time whether it be from provisional or just whoever set it right there at the end of the session they are on pole p1 the next placements are staggered across from each other so if you are on p1 on the right p2 is on the left's just a little bit back p3 staggered back from there and so on and so forth all the way until B 20 is placed after the session ends the teams call it a day and the drivers turn up the next day for the actual race we've done all of that we still haven't even raced the number of laps must exceed 305 km/h many laps it takes to satisfy that depending on where the race is that becomes the set number of laps the exception again here is the Monaco Grand Prix the race must also not go beyond two hours barring any major lengthy red flags as mentioned the Grand Prix has held most Sunday afternoons unless it's one of the specific night races on the grid now throughout the race itself there are a number rules that are gonna be important to help you understand and enjoy a pond racing but we're not actually going to get into that portion but if you'd like it make sure to request it in the comment section below and download the FIA document which goes through the sporting regulations but for the most part once the lights go out they're just racing that's something that we all know whoever wins wins but we're going to talk about the points now over time there's been some pretty substantial changes in the point system but right now only the top ten drivers actually score points and they contribute to the championship tallies since 2010 the breakdown is as follows as you can see here it gets really difficult after say p5 to start amassing any sort of real gap between you and the nearest competitor and this is exactly why the best of the rest is such an important designation in Formula one albeit informal these points accumulated at each Grand Prix go towards the drivers total for the driver's championship they are also combined with their teammates to form an aggregate total this total as a team forms a basis for the Constructors Championship after the race is completed the top three drivers will have an award ceremony at the event itself it's there they take part and the famous champagne spray the logistics of what happened next in Formula One could be a video all by itself but the teams have to pack up immediately after the race and ship everything off to the next destination Congrats that's it you got the basics of Formula One down again I repeat the basics there are plenty of things that I did not cover but if you're to watch this video take notes understood everything you would be able to survive nay thrive in a Formula One Grand Prix weekend but let's stay grounded there are endless and lots of things I'm even still learning everyone's still learning a lot of people always ask me well how do I actually go about learning more but first to get deeper into f1 you really have to understand what draws you into f1 your main concern in priority should be just fall deeper in love with the sport I'll leave a link below as well to the f1 news and the f1 write-ups that I do over on the website so you can make sure to check those out if that's something you're into those will be ramping up significantly the second Melbourne actually is here with that said I really appreciate your time you being here thanks for checking this out and I will be making more videos soon so subscribe if you like f1 news and I'll see you very very soon [Music]

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Length: 24min 26sec (1466 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 04 2020

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