Big ups to @Driver61 who we grabbed clips and team footage from to put together this video while in Montreal drinking too much beer. Also seen in the pits and/or shown on screen here: DeWalt DCF601 12V Screwdriver Metabo 12V Drill DeWALT DCBL722 20V Leaf Blower (for brakes) Bondhus T-handles Wera screwdrivers Maxiflex Gloves Husqvarna gas Leaf Blower (When it rains, for the pit box, so it's dry where they quickly stop) Beta, wrenches and storage

@TheOfficialOriginalChad

Жыл бұрын

I would love to see you two collab and test the torque performance of all of his sim racing wheelbases. They might be the most expensive tools you'll ever test on your channel! I always wonder if the 20nm claims are accurate, and what actually is experienced during driving at the end of the steering wheel.

@johnk8825

Жыл бұрын

Can't drink too much, it just comes out the overflow.

@tyrantworm7392

Жыл бұрын

@@TheOfficialOriginalChad Different countries may be an issue, think Tony Kannan has a Simucube Ultimate if memory serves.

@alecmillea4539

Жыл бұрын

This is the most fantastic thing in the world that you have a connection to driver61. Two of my favourite KZread channels in existence.

@kylesebring

Жыл бұрын

Out of all the collabs, TTC and Driver61 is probably the least expected, but most perfect

I've been an F1 fan for many decades. Never saw a video like this. Really enjoyed it. It will actually make my race viewing more fun thanks!

the crossover we didn't know we needed

Glad you went over the tools! I've been keeping a eye out on battery packs, lots of Makita. Aston Martin has a custom top air inlet which iirc uses 2x Makita 5AH or 4x 5AH. Regardless, its cool to see Milwaukee 1in being used

This is an absolutely unexpected intersection of my interests, and even the channels I watch. I love it.

A full day at the races and still time to get such a well-done video out? Kudos.

Excellent way to deduct a trip to the races as a business expense! Thanks for the details.

Regarding that cross threaded center nut it's quite interesting how those work. Now I'm not a racing nut, and I had no idea up until a week or so back when another channel posted a video about the wheel nuts used in F1. So there may be some things I forgot or misunderstood. First of all is the material used. They are made of aluminium (I'm from Europe, deal with the spelling :) instead of steel or some other high strength alloy. This is done to keep the unsprung weight as low as possible. Further they are not using a hex nut as they want both a more positive engagement and having to turn less before engaging fully. The exact design differs between the stables, or at least it used to. I might be wrong but I think F1 standardized the wheel nut recently for safety and cost reassons. And the cost reason should not be scoffed at as they can cost $5000 each, and they are swapped out for a fresh nut every time they swap wheels. So swapping all four wheels can cost $20,000, and that's the wheel nuts and you still have to add the wheels and tires to this figure. The high cost is partly because the extremely small series made so they are basically custom made on a piece by piece basis. But they are also all x-rayed to ensure there are no defects in the material. But that's not where the weird stopps. There's also a automatic retention mechanism that stopps the nut from turning unless a the tool first unlocks it. This was introduced after some bad crashes were caused by a wheel nut working lose in the middle of a race. This mechanism increases complexity of the nut and increases the cost further.

@FarmerFpv

Жыл бұрын

From what I have seen. They are titanium.

@kl1970

Жыл бұрын

​@@FarmerFpvthe tool is titanium nut is aluminium. Or the nut wouldnt get machined your wrist would come off.

@christopherbrooke2142

Жыл бұрын

We also use Aluminum nuts on the LMP3 cars, and it's actually specified in the homologation so we can't make our own out of titanium or something stronger. I'm not 100% sure but I believe the nuts on our LMP2 are also Aluminum. While the unsprung mass is lower, the weight of the 4 nuts on an endurance car matters a lot less than something like an F1 car. So I don't know why they won't let us make our own, but oh well.

pretty rad to see so many brands be represented. i wonder how muvh effort is really put into making some of those custom cooler setups some teams were running.

@wayneswonderarium

Жыл бұрын

Probably reflects the smallest effort - cooling is probably a "good enough" effort - as long as you can get enough air moving long enough then, great!

@ryu-ken

Жыл бұрын

Teams that aren't using Milwaukee are at a disadvantage

@ryanokeefe12

Жыл бұрын

@@ryu-ken I'm glad channels like TTC exist to disprove the brand bias out there that leads to comments like yours. To say teams are at a disadvantage because they aren't running Milwaukee tools is naïve. Note: I use Milwaukee tools, but I would prefer different brands for different tools based on their performance, but the disadvantage of multiple batteries and chargers outweighs this.

@daifeichu

Жыл бұрын

@@ryanokeefe12 Agree that tool bias is a losing strategy. Best tool for the job regardless of brand. I do differ on owning multiple platforms, batteries and chargers. It's not an issue if the tools stay in one location as I have three brands and it works. When mobile that's a different story.

@UnitSe7en

11 ай бұрын

Uhhh, it's not really a lot of brands. Milwaukee, Snap-on and 2 or 3 others. That sounds like the opposite of 'many".

BEEN A F1 fan for over 40 years been going to AUTO RACE TRACKS since my dad took me in the early 70s

Very cool, thank you. When the World Rally Championship came to town we learned an incredible amount just watching them set up and how they worked. The 555/Prodrive Subaru team looked like they had standardized a lot of their fasteners so they had really small toolkits for each mechanic, and they were very fast and efficient.

Formula 2 also switched to DC wheel guns this year for the pitstops.. It's a semi bespoke Paoli gun, based on the Typhoon (Plus?) model, with some customised features developed in collaboration with FIA/Formula 2 teams.

@rkan2

Жыл бұрын

I want 😅

@ryanokeefe12

Жыл бұрын

@@rkan2 Get one - They're only 3,700euros.

@rkan2

Жыл бұрын

@@ryanokeefe12 Yeah, I still kind of want one but for that money I'd like an impact with accurate torque function!

this was awesome. Id love to see a breakdown of the tool spotting on this years 24h nurburgring. so much action in the pits over night, lots of tools to see from a wide range of teams at various funding levels, from factory down to amateur garages. subraru team was particularly impressive.. 2 guys above engine, 3 guys around engine, 2 guys below engine and another two doing axles. absolute madness

I like this type of industry analysis. It would be interesting to see what tools are seen in a variety of competitive sports.

@MarkTrades__

Жыл бұрын

agreed!

Awesome video, man! But be aware that the FIA is very jealous about others using their F1 images. Many KZread channels in my country have received strikes from them, unfortunately. Best regards from Brazil

@TorqueTestChannel

Жыл бұрын

We'll be demonitized. but oh well

Excellent analysis of the tools used in F1. You need to get one of those wheel guns on your test bench😁

Nice video… this reminds me of a story the president of the Scuderia Ferrari Club of Montreal told me when he was running the Minardi Club. It was Thursday before free practice and the team had just realized they had no blowers or carts to wheel the cars into the garage. Mr. Minardi being good friends with the club president knew he would be in the paddock on Friday for free practice. The team didn’t have time nor did the know where to get the special blowers needed. So, he called the club president to run this important errand, the hardware store opened at 8 and free practice was at 12. So the president runs into the store demanding specific parts and custom casters be installed on their shop carts, when asked why it had to be so detail and specific he responded “it’s for Minardi F1!” Funny how a professional racing team can forget such simple and vital things. He saved their weekend and cemented his relationship with Mr. Minardi

Idk if this would be possible but image going next year with a portable dyno capable of handling the toque of those center lock guns and doing in-the-garage- dyno tests. THAT, would be insane to see 😂

@googolplex2789

Жыл бұрын

He could do it at the Texas or Nevada race.

@ryanokeefe12

Жыл бұрын

The guns are designed to apply the desired wheel nut torque as quickly as possible (fractions of a second)... while they are capable of large-ish peak torque numbers, it's not what they're designed for. Meaning the performance characteristics are extremely specific and the gun would likely perform poorly in a standard use case test or a peak torque test, when factoring in the other metrics like price, weight, size etc. The teams also won't let their multi-thousand dollar wheel guns get used and strained by members of the public for the sake of a torque test graph. The guns are standard for each team and it would provide no benefit to the teams to see what the peak torque numbers are.

@ryanokeefe12

Жыл бұрын

I would say that the use of the clips in this video sit within Formula 1's fair use of the footage for commentary/education, they may take issue with the fact that the videos are cropped to remove the F1 graphics and logos.

@Gu1tarZer0

Жыл бұрын

haha Fabrega would be down for a tech talk with it maybe

What a crazy weekend so far! I bet it's something else being right there. Hope you're staying dry. Impressive to be teaming up with Scott as well!

Really great video! I’ve always wondered what those blacked out blowers were. Very interesting with the Milwaukee trend. And no surprise with the SnapOn ratchets. Thanks for putting this together!

Absolutely loved this video. Would be amazing to see what's used in the pits at other events (particularly of interest to me would be rally events). Regardless, really loved that you could turn a fun adventure in to beneficial content for your channel! Thanks for sharing the insight!

Great information and very insightful-thank you for sharing. Actually more brands and models in use than I might have guessed. Hadn't seven considered the use of cordless blowers.

OMG I was just looking this stuff up yesterday after watching your vids, thanks!

This is a video I was very excited to see show up! Combining my love for F1 with cool tools!

I didn't know I wanted to know this much about paddock tooling but I'm glad I know as much as I do now. Thanks so much!

This was such a good video thank you!! Would love to see more like this about other popular race series or industries.

Thumbs up!! Great look outside of the lab, thank you for this!

Thanks for making this video 🎉 I’ve been looking out for what tools they’ve been using in F1 for years and up until recently. I almost always seen just Makita and Bosch power tools. This was such a fun video to watch 😁👍

Actually thought this was the best video you’ve done to date since it involved Formula One. I’ve always wondering about the exact info you discussed.

Cool vid I am glad you put this out. I am suprised by basically all of it. I didn't have any expectations but seeing them using the tools the way you captured was really interesting. Gives those milwaukee die grinders some clout I guess haha

This is actually really interesting to see. Never really looked at what they were using, as I always just presumed it was non consumer stuff. 😀 👍

Very cool! Thanks for sharing!

awesome video and awesome idea for a video too. Thanks for sharing and enjoy the event

Can’t say I’ve ever really watched a video on tools or ever taken much interest in them. However, this video was great. It’s amazing to see such a different video relating to F1. Nice work 👌

Very nice to know this, thanks for the video 😊

Einhell is a European tool brand sponsoring Mercedes this year. But I haven't seen their tools used in the garages.

0:32 Pretty sure that’s a Bondhus hex or torx key wrench. I have that exact set if it’s hex key. Made in the USA and quite nice.

Eyyyyy! Had no idea you guys were at the GP! You guys should do the pit stop challenge and post your time! Would love to shake hands with you guys if I see you around the grandstands!

Thank you for sharing all these! Surprising to know that my team share a lot of tools with the F1 big boys.

Been waiting for someone to do a video about F1 tools! Awesome content I love it.

I did not know I would enjoy either until I watched your video. Thanks for youtube and their suggestions! Cool video.

F2 the junior series to F1.they began this year to only use cordless impacts for pit stops. Pit stops are a lot slower with only one person per wheel, but it is still pretty cool

Great idea for a video...Enjoyed it very much!

I have shop space 10 minutes from downtown where they close streets for F1 celebrations. I was planning to drive down tonight but the weather has been crappy all day. Now I regret not going. Thanks.

Thank you for this video. I love seeing Behind The Scenes content. I dislike how celebrity driven F-1 has become, this is the kind of content I wish F-1 and the networks would actually do.

been an F1 fan for years and never have I seen this type of content. Amazing!!! great video

This is very awesome footage on how everything works in a pit stop. Very cool. I never would have thought they used leaf blowers lol. Who would have known? Thank you for sharing. Pretty awesome video! 🤜🔥🤛

Really interesting video. I really didn't expect the leaf blowers.

I love seeing the OneKey call-out in this vid! The torque modes are legit 🔥

It was cool doing the same thing with the Indy car teams at IMS. Lots of custom driver blowers powered with M18 5Ah batteries.

Very cool, thanks for doing this.

Those Bondhus t handles are the very, very best.

Excellent video, enjoyed it!

Very interesting video, thank you very much!

I’m a white-collar worker, and I’m pretty sure I saw more of brands for the the tools I use in my day-to-day than I did of mechanical tools. Fascinating expose and thanks for sharing 🤣

That Bosch 12V is a beast. Never broke down on me yet at work

Cordless impact guns are becoming more & more common across motorsport now especially in the garages. They are also used in F2 for pit stops now & V8 supercars in Australia were planning to use them from 2024 onwards in pit stops

This was great! I have a question, it looks like the blower McLaren is using is the DeWalt 20v DCBL722, the one shown in the video doesn't appear to have the "gap" (for lack of a better term) is the intake that the DCBL772 has.

We use a one key on the gt3 and lmp3 cars. They work very well for our application

I have seen MotoGP teams use Bosch. I have also seen Aston use the Ego backpack blower.

Great video, really appreciate it!

Always wanted to see a video like this!

Loved the tool break down hope there is more pro sports tool break downs in the future

Completely different category of vehicles but I'm the finance manager for a company that owns a big fleet of trucks, and of course depots with workshops and fabrication stations for parts. The company used to own the tools (mostly Makita, Dewalt, snapon, various German hand tools etc) but I changed that because of some misappropriations that were happening, and instead I gave the mechanics a pretty good allowance to buy their own tools. They all went cheap and kept the difference, all I can see these days is Ryobi everywhere. 6 years later the quality of the work as measured by service intervals, parts costs, frequency of breakdowns, longevity of the vehicles etc did not drop in any way that I can see. I'm a bit of a weekend warrior / amateur craftsman myself, and I try to buy the best tools I can afford because I always thought it makes a difference in the result, but I'm starting to question if it does past a certain point. As long as you don't get the cheapest, most tools seem good enough these days. Companies that make tools have definitely cheapened their products in some ways, but they've also made tremendous strides in design, technology, materials, accuracy and quality of their tooling and machines.

@tomnewham1269

11 ай бұрын

Nothing wrong with Ryobi for the home DIY. On social media, some people are going crazy for their cordless vacuum cleaner and say it is better than Dyson's cordless version. I knew a tractor mechanic who would own cheap tools. I ask him why and he said the expensive tools are too dear to be losing.

@SP-nx8qx

11 ай бұрын

@@tomnewham1269 Yeah those guys I'm talking about are definitely not home DIY guys, it's their livelihood on the line. But they're also pragmatic, they're not gonna spend more on a tool than they have to.

@nonegone7170

11 ай бұрын

@@tomnewham1269 Kind of a low bar to set when it comes to Dyson though, seeing how it's all fluff and marketing at that brand.

@Demoralized88

5 ай бұрын

Manufacturing is so consolidated to less and less big factories that brand means less and less, especially in segments like power tools and hand tools to a slightly lesser extent. Ryobi/Ridgid cordless tools are sold by the same company that owns DeWalt (and others), and share most if not all parts, usually from a generation ago depending on how powerful it is. Crucially, Ryobi cordless tools use the same quality housing/bearings/motors and electronics as the 'premium' brands, and often the only difference is using a less powerful motor on the cheapest models from DeWalt's slightly older or entry-level models. Nobody makes their own parts anymore, in any market outside industrial, and even brands like Makita that aren't owned by the same company use nearly identical or identical components from the same one or two suppliers. If you go looking for parts and diagrams for different brands it becomes very apparent that they all use the same stuff from the same manufacturers. 120v Air Compressors, for example, basically are all identical inside the clamshell with every brand using the same pumps/motors (if they specs are similar, it's because they're the same) and now days even Laptops of most brands are all made by some anonymous factory with no real difference in design to differentiate brands. With no one making their own parts, there's been a massive drop in innovation and engineering better stuff with 'name brands' being bought out by investors to squeeze out 'brand equity' with higher prices until consumers figure out they're paying more for nothing. While I find this depressing and symptomatic of terrible economic policies, you can take advantage of this with a little research to find the OEM products for way less than what they sell for branded. A good rule of thumb is that tools/parts (including auto parts) made in Taiwan are usually high quality/good designs while mainland China has a way higher quality variance.

@SP-nx8qx

5 ай бұрын

@@Demoralized88 Maybe it's not necessarily a bad thing, sure we lost some useful variability, but we also got rid of a lot of useless one, and we certainly brought the cost down. And yea those tools are more fragile than they used to be, but the old ones were too overengineered and unnecessarily heavy

Thank you so much...

This last weekend i saw someone what looked to be one of those dyson hairdryers, but with the heating element removed to cool off one of the drivers

Congrats boys!

nicely noted. I want to mention that although Bosch and Mercedes have there own partnership outside or the F1, I've notices that they are present in most F1 factories and occasionally randomly in F1 garages without any sponsorship...

@Demoralized88

5 ай бұрын

Bosch is to Europe (and a lot of the world) what snap-on and Milwaukee Fuel is to us in the USA. Meaning, they're perceived as the benchmark in quality/design and Bosch is way more global than our US brands with maybe only Makita coming close.

Much appreciated!

In Europe, Dewalt collaborates with Mclaren. You can buy dewalt 18v tools right now that have mclaren scheme/theme on them. There's currently a promotion that if you buy and register a tool you can win a trip to Italy to watch grand prix.

I wonder if Makita has the upperhand in reliability? I mean, this is the pinnacle of autosports, and if theyre using so much Makita, its for a reason.

@ryanokeefe12

Жыл бұрын

They explain in the video why Makita is used. It's the most commonly available/stocked product throughout the world. It's simply an ease of access situation.

@luisprieto4589

Жыл бұрын

@@ryanokeefe12 these teams have HUUUGGEEE budgets. You don't think they can stock plenty of equipment?

@ryanokeefe12

Жыл бұрын

@@luisprieto4589 It's not about stock. It's about exactly what I just said. They have a maximum allotted cargo volume. Why use that space for something when you got just utilise a product that you know you can purchase throughout the world? You would be naive to do that - you'd use that space for spare parts for the car where it actually matters.

@luisprieto4589

Жыл бұрын

@@ryanokeefe12 then why use Milwaukee 1 inch impacts then? I mean, Makita does have some impacts that make the torque they're looking for, too.

@ryanokeefe12

Жыл бұрын

@@luisprieto4589 makita doesn't make a 1 inch impact..

Awesome to have you guys in our area. Sorry for the weather. That race is cursed. It always hot and beautiful before and after the race weekend lol.

@TorqueTestChannel

Жыл бұрын

I don't mind the rain. Shakes things up

@beardedchimp

11 ай бұрын

@@TorqueTestChannel I've been watching F1 since 1994 and the 2011 Canadian Grand Prix is the most incredible I've ever watched precisely because the rain shook things up. What a race!

@TedMan55

21 күн бұрын

@@beardedchimpnot a bad race in 2024 either!

Very cool idea. I love to see what brands they use when they're not sponsored by them.

Awesome insight video!

I love those little bosch drivers, they will do a lot. They are really 10.8 not 12v. but are really good.

@AndrejaKostic

Жыл бұрын

Actually, Bosch rebranded all of their 10.8 V stuff to 12 V. The actual battery voltages are the same.

@elpolaco7654

Жыл бұрын

3S Li-Ion cells for 10.8/12 V, 5S for 18/20/21/whatever V tools.

F1 & power tools w/ cameo by Milwaukee 1"er.. getting dangerously close to nirvana here brother.. you had me at penlight spike testing. Keep it up boss! 🤠

I’m a pretty recent F1 fan (this is only my second season) but I am absolutely obsessed and this is probably the most interesting video related to F1 that I’ve watched in a while

@6:37 maxiflex gloves best breathable gloves on the market. Last up to 5 weeks in a UPS warehouse

We have got to get a F1 pit gun on the dyno!!!

I also spotted what looked like one of the pro line Dyson hair dryers being used as a blower on a driver a few races ago.

This was awesome to watch

I really want that DeWalt McLaren kit for some dumb reason...

TTC X f1 crossover was not expected, but really interesting

Thanks. I found this very interesting.

Loved the video, you could do more for other types of racing if you really wanted to put the time into it.

This channel combined with F1 was unexpected and incredible!

The drivers with the clutches, particularly the bosch but the dewalt are ok tend to be much better for installing small sensitive fasteners that aren't very impact friendly. Construction screws and bolts often have shear resistance, but machine thread ones do not and snapping an aluminum or titanium bolt off is a pain. I've not really been happy with Milwaukee's clutches in this regard, they're often too high torque; Electronic clutches also tend to follow this trend and I worry about their ability to not over-torque fasteners. I'm sure other tools work too.

@Demoralized88

5 ай бұрын

Electronic 'clutches' are literally useless for delicate fasteners and can't do less than like 10 lb/ft (a ton for anything smaller than an 8mm head bolt). Mechanical clutches like the Bosch driver and lots of drills adjust down to

Very interesting and fresh video, thanks

Awesome video! I liked it a lot. Never paid enough attention to these details before this video. What about doing the same type of video for WRC or Nascar, maybe?

Cool, thanks!

That was awesome !!!!!

This was very interesting. Big F1 fan here, but had no idea about most of these!

Good video! Thank you

Interesting! Thanks.

Ironically they use 2 stroke leaf blowers over at formula-E.

Ha wow awesome video, never seen an F1 pit tool expose! 😊 Good crew prank would be replacing all their snappy ratchets with Icon lol 😆

As a fan of both, this was interesting!

One big reason why one team went to the Milwaukee 1" was saving cost in shipping. Instead of sending more air bottles and compressors and leaving hoses all over the garage. It was cheaper to buy 60 of them with batteries and ship them via sea freight to overseas races and in the lorries for European races.

wasn't to far away from where these pictures where taken. Nice video super interesting

Cool to see and hear that you have some proper knowledge of the F1 world ;) Cool and interesting video, thanks;)