Theres a great cheating story with lead shot from Nascar in the 70’s. The crew chief filled the chassis rails with lead shot and sealed the hole with wax. When the race started and everything got hot the wax melted releasing the lead shot. The hilarious part is this hole in the chassis rails was at the jacking points so when the scrutineers inspected the car they covered the holes and never caught them.

@AndyFromBeaverton

2 жыл бұрын

Here's the interview of Waltrip taking to Jr. about it. kzread.info/dash/bejne/p4CCtpqYis7dkag.html&ab_channel=DaleEarnhardtJr.%27sDirtyMoMedia

I remember reading Brundle's recollections of that time and being rightfully bitter about the whole experience. He still has the podium trophy, he has the screws in his ankle and all to say that his season didn't exist. If anything I'd have been more bitter about the whole scenario. The 80s were great for innovation but they showcased some of the worst of F1's politics.

@AidanMillward

2 жыл бұрын

Brundle gets branded a crap f1 driver, but nobody ever factors in the smashed ankles.

@blacknailediowa191

2 жыл бұрын

@@AidanMillward agree it's often overlooked. Besides he definitely was no slouch regardless - to think he was fighting Senna pre-F1? Guy had talent, definitely one of those decorated but 'what could have been' careers

@heliumtrophy

2 жыл бұрын

@@AidanMillward I think that's generally down to a) people only looking at the statistical side of things and b) Brundle himself being more than self effacing about his time in F1. I've a lot of time for him and his race career is a catalogue of "what ifs" but just imagine trying to say to some people at one stage he was the man Senna feared would get beaten by that he launched his F3 on top of Brundle. These people would think we were taking the piss!

@AidanMillward

2 жыл бұрын

@@heliumtrophy Coulthard is the same. He knows he wasn’t good enough and he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. When he had a car capable of winning the championship his team mate was Hakkinen and the other guy was Schumacher.

@heliumtrophy

2 жыл бұрын

@@AidanMillward Indeed even if I I've found some of his rookie errors in his first full year to be highly entertaining. Having said that when they had the On The Marbles podcast, he was more often than not an extremely engaging in his views. I still think he's a bit Garth Crooks when it comes to commentating though.

I really enjoy these "Looks Back videos. How about a story on Jody Scheckter's 1973 British Grand Prix?

So strange how they tried to get rid of tyrell and had they really done it we wouldve never had the most dominant team of arguably all time in its current form as a result.

@damionlee7658

2 жыл бұрын

It is a highly questionable logic path to suggest that if they had managed to get rid of Tyrrell completely, Mercedes wouldn't have been able to become the dominant team in the Turbo Hybrid era.

@CD-Gaming

2 жыл бұрын

Funny how things work out, isn't it?

@TheEarth1874

2 жыл бұрын

Fitting that Mercedes’ dominance began in 2014 - 30 years after that disgrace. (Mercedes being one of Tyrrell’s successor teams.)

@Dilberto88

Жыл бұрын

Bellof was an amazing driver. Had he lived, his accomplishments would easily exceed Schumacher.

Hey Aidan, Probably something you could talk about is Phillipe Bugalski and the Xsara F2 kit car beating the WRC cars across multiple asphalt rallies in 1999! This is literally like an F2 car winning against F1 cars and nobody even wants to talk about this incredible story... (most likely because the FIA was so embarassed by it, they are still trying to cover it up to this day) it would be awesome to see you talk about this! The F2 kit cars are 20+ year old rally cars that are faster than modern wrc cars even to this day, as proven by Sebastien Loeb racing a 306 maxi kit car in a regional rally and leading against a hyundai i20 (2019 spec) wrc car until his car had engine troubles. These f2 kit cars were insane!

@solitaryclusterofneurons598

Жыл бұрын

Hell yeah man, F2 Kit Cars imo are the ultimate drivers car racecars; NA 4 pots screaming at near 10,000 RPM, darty FWD chassis, ~950 KG, ~250HP (doesn't sound like a lot, but you need no more on tight twisty bumpy country lanes). Gave us some stunning and more importantly AFFORDABLE performance road cars; 106 GTI, 106 Rallye, Saxo VTS, Clio 16v, Xsara VTS, 306 GTI, 306 Rallye, 206 GTI. Actually road relevant, not the fever dream the FIA has today about road relevance

Bellof deserves his own episode.

@crusherbmx

2 жыл бұрын

He has some total hero credentials; held ultimate lap record at the Nordscheife for 35 years, still holds the official race record, was killed going backward, on fire through Eau Rouge.

@carstenschroder7054

2 жыл бұрын

@@crusherbmx IF he would have gone backwards there might never have been a Schumacher-Hype. 😟 But there are a lot of "what if's" in Motorsport.😔

@simonkevnorris

2 жыл бұрын

I recall the 1984 race at Monaco where Bellof was catching Senna faster than Wanna was catching the eventual winner Prost.

@jamesdyer7960

2 жыл бұрын

What often gets overlooked about the Bellof legend is that whilst Stefan had outrageous speed and bravery, Martin was also damn quick and ballsy and pretty much had him covered....

1:32 I recently had the same thought due to a post. I always heard it was 1200 bhp, now I'm starting to read 1500 bhp. So, I started to dig a little bit, and apparently this comes from a quote by Paul Rosche, the designer, who said "It must have been about 1,400 bhp, but we don't know the exact figure since our engine dynamometer didn't go beyond 1280 bhp." However, I can't find any original source for that (probably because it'll be in German). Both Bergher and Marc Surer have made the same 1400 bhp claim, the latter stating “Paul Rosche told me years later, when I said ‘we had about 1,200 horsepower’ he said ‘Marc, I have to tell you, it was 1,400…”. But the figure still comes from a calculation, and all we can ceirtainly know is that it was 1280+ bhp, if they were being truthful to begin with. In the display at BMW's museum (2:10) the power figure displayed is "630 - 790 PS". It may be worth an episode, the myth about the power figures of the 80s turbo era.

@AidanMillward

2 жыл бұрын

I think I already covered the engine power in a video where I debunked a bunch of F1 myths.

@crusherbmx

2 жыл бұрын

I have Road and Track from 1987 where they tested a 1986 Benetton with the BMW turbo and they rated it t 1100 bhp in qualifying trim, 900 in race trim. Maybe accurate, maybe a little game they were playing when they gave R&T these numbers.

@mark4lev

2 жыл бұрын

No race trim 80’s turbo had more than 700bhp.

The Early-Mid 80’s were a Golden Age of F1 Innovation.

@hellionus

2 жыл бұрын

80's were the golden age of motorsports in general. Group B, Group C, non hybrid turbo F1.

@Nascar995

2 жыл бұрын

@@hellionus it was also a golden age in NASCAR, though Indycar was in the midst of quite a bit of internal political turmoil.

@ZeroCrystal

2 жыл бұрын

By Innovation, most assuredly you mean Shenaniganry.

@CreamAle

2 жыл бұрын

Back then a lot of the technologies were immature and far from developed. So anything new seemed like a big deal as most folks hadn't heard of it. Now, we have some extremely mature tech and a ton of information available through years of development and the human knowledge base known as the internet. "New" no longer feels new as we have information on it already. It's pretty hard to invent something that feels 100% new. Let alone something that's 1. Legal, 2. Safe.

The video quality and content is just improving with every video,keep up the good work!

I'm loving how often you post new content! I just hope you aren't burning yourself out. I love the content!

I believe the shot of gold-pressed-latinum bars actually comes from an episode where they are full of sand, and are just 'worthless gold'... Kinda perfect for Brabham

@AidanMillward

2 жыл бұрын

Who Mourns for Morn? Watched it last night, funnily enough. Morn was hiding the latinum in his stomach the whole time.

@blacktoothfox677

2 жыл бұрын

@@AidanMillward am starting to really find you bearable! - am just a few episodes ahead of you, 'valiant', with the kids of red squad... Great show eh

@AidanMillward

2 жыл бұрын

@@blacktoothfox677 in the pale moonlight is the best piece of writing in any sci fi show.

@blacktoothfox677

2 жыл бұрын

@@AidanMillward oh... there are so many! If you are watching in order, you got 'far beyond the stars' next. That has real heart. But you are right - And plain simple Garak is always a fave. When the Romulan says... "its a faaaaake!"

I already heard about this Tyrell lead story, but still learned a few things. Thank you, great video as always. As for "interesting moments" in Motorsport, I saw a video today about Ford's "boost tank" from 2003 in WRC. I'd love your take on that one if you haven't already covered it.

What a crazy story. Still funny to think about that a little bit of Mercs DNA in F1 lays in some checky bastards thinking a shoutgun could be good at racing :D

Lead shot was quite popular in NASCAR in the 70's and early 80's. Former driver Darrell Waltrip said the cars were weighed before the races and not after, so a lot of drivers would let the lead shot out and the banking would cause it to all go off the track on the apron. Apparently the hole to release the lead was where the jack would go. That way when tech would check out the car on jacks, the hole was covered.

Wow, does sound like Tyrrel were hard done by that year ! Great video :)

Ironically, Tyrrell was in talks with Renault during the mid-70s to run their turbos. Hence the yellow highlights on the 1976 P34. There was also an official Tyrrell concept image of P34 in all yellow. By the time they finally got those engines in 1985, it was far too late, especially after the events in this video. What might have been...

6:16 and Bellof wasn't far behind Brindle before he crashed at the chicane Edit: the reason why 1989 had so many entries was because of the turbo ban. NA engines were cheaper to run than the Turbo engines.

Always find it was funny that 1984 was the year that a team got “unpersoned.”

Hi Aidan would love too see a quick recap of the 1989 season the first year back for NA cars. I remember it being a quality season with Ferrari’s first paddle shift car, Bergers fiery crash etc.. I was a teenager around that time and lived half mile from the Arrows factory in Bletchley, I used to help them occasionally unload the cars from the trailer after school the Monday after a Grand Prix and clean them up a bit removing gravel from side pods etc.. Couldn’t imagine a kid rocking up at Mercedes front door now and doing the same! Different times😀

Well done on the 75K subs.

The Delonghi Tyrell was a thing of beauty imho.

Very good Russel Brand impression.

Great story! The 80s has to be my favorite era of F1

Spot on Brand impression 🤣

Thank you Aidan.

When i was working for a ASA stock car team I heard a story about a big name sent home because of a weight jacking system mounted in the car. it used mercury. sprung a leak during practice and started leaving a trail of mercury around the track. officials spotted it, and made them pack and leave in about 10 minutes. never said anything official about it. guess they didn't want to get stuck with a superfund site clean up bill... also heard about a stock car at Daytona that took 3 guys to lift the fuel can to refill it after a race. they had the engine revving to cover the sound of birdshot going into the tank....

In 10-20 years or so from now, a famous novelist will start a story with those words (butchered from Star Trek TOS) - about the farce that was 2021. Great video as always.

8:35 my mind processed this as, "3. Illegal holes in the bottom of the car, in violation of flat bottomed rules designed to make the rockin' world go 'round"

@EddieVanAidan

2 жыл бұрын

“Get in ‘yer car and driiiive”

Have you considered looking into the "forgotten" regions of motorsport (South Am., Asia, Soviet Bloc etc.)? Would love to get an overview of those places racing history and specifics. I know that Formula Easter was the Soviet equivalent to F1 and S. Am. has a Supertouring sibling, but not much more.

The timing of this video is amazing considering what just got released in AMS 2.

I smiled when I saw the protested car at 7:10, showing the Systime logo. Systime resembled Tyrrell in some ways, always had big dreams and some good products, but poor cashflow. Like Tyrrell, they were caught breaking the rules, but they actually were; in their case it was for infringing copyright.

So as I recall (yes I’m old) a couple of things I read at the time about the water found on the tarmac of the Tryell pit it was reported to not have been just “chemicals” found in the liquid tested but the chemicals found in the liquid was in fact (alleged) nitromethane. This whole story about the water being used to spray onto the intake runners or tract to lower the temp to help create a denser air fuel mixture and make more power sounds plausible and the lead shot for ballast ok sounds reasonable enough but again as I recall it was reported the sprinkler system used to spray the “water” onto the intake track was actually spraying the nitromethane into the intake system thus creating more Power. Watching the races that season and as it progressed the Tryells seemed to be better able To hang onto the turbo cars at the beginning of the races but as the race progressed and the pit stop for tires happened the Tyrells seemed to lose pace. Again as you pointed out as the water tank was refilled or “rinsed” during the pit stop the thought was to purge any remnants of the nitromethane. So while one could look at this and brow beat Tryell for cheating this also casts shade on the engine supplier Cosworth as Tyrell had a customer agreement with Cosworth meaning Tyrell only leased the engines from Cosworth and as the engines would be sent back to Cosworth for rebuilding l, with the increase in heat and power created by the addition of the nitromethane discoloration etc Cosworth would have had to know something was different which makes them complicit. I would also add the comment I read about where the “water” and lead shot were pumped into the car, the pic I saw on the side of the car the pressure plate looked to be stainless or a polished aluminum. Whatever it was made of it looked like a golf ball from being hit by the lead shot as it was put into the car under significant pressure which makes sense if your goal was to rinse away any residual…… thanks for posting the vid

I heard from an old F1 insider that Tyrrell had a long-standing reputation as cheaters. So not only did the 1984 controversy allow the turbo teams to have their way but it seemed to be just desserts in the minds of many. He would never give any specifics and I wish I could find out what other type of cheating Tyrrell would be accused of. He did say it went all the way back to Jackie Stewart days which surprised me

@f1jones544

2 жыл бұрын

That's interesting. I've always wondered how Tyrrell could compete with the likes of Lotus et al straight out of the box as they did with their stubby little cars that never offered anything truly remarkable, technologically speaking, other than the best factory DFVs.

@MrSniperfox29

Жыл бұрын

All British teams back then cheated.

U mean 2021 wasnt the first year the teams and fia pushed the rules over at will? Who would have guessed? Funny how ppl expect the fia to be this beacon of truth and fairness when it never really has been. Lol. Just saying… Great video as always!

Bombshell at the end! I started watching F1 during the period of Tyrell's somewhat lamented death spural (Murray & Hunt never seemed particularly fond of the team), and I remember Ken Tyrell's leaving as a bit of a damp squib, especially compared to the way the Williams family were lauded out of the door as they were forced to give up after years of similar clinging-on-by-their-financial-fingertips. Anyway, I'd completely missed the fact that the Tyrell team is now on top of the world, winning 8 consecutive world championships! Tyrell -> BAR -> Honda -> Brawn -> Mercedes should be etched on the executive restroom mirror of every team boss and potential F1 investor. Minnows can win, it'll just take 15 years and many, many casualties along the way, not to mention a few genius engineers and a rule change or two.

@ChristianRThomas

2 жыл бұрын

How a group of blustering chancers managed to turn it into BAR is anyone's guess but it should never have been allowed to happen.

@benketteridge9150

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChristianRThomas The one thing BAR had in their favour was money, lots of money... at least to start with. Then they had Jacques Villeneuve and it all went pear shaped from there, until Honda put them out on their ears.

@ChristianRThomas

2 жыл бұрын

@@benketteridge9150 Yep, I remember. I think it was mainly having Villeneuve's management contract that allowed them to get their hands on the BAT money. Though at some point they must have realised that Tyrrell was being run on a tiny scale financially by comparison to probably all the other teams. I happen to know what Tyrrell's overdraft was back then and it was not big. It meant that BAT picked up the assets with essentially no debt whatsoever and Ken undersold it.

@brad6630

2 жыл бұрын

I remember watching an old race once Ken had sold the team, Murray was talking quite fondly about him (He may have been ill). They were a team I had a soft spot for as a kid.

@ChristianRThomas

2 жыл бұрын

@@brad6630 Yep. Me too. As a bit older than a kid, too.

Actually, Arrows in 1984 ran DFVs in early-season races while they were preparing their BMW-powered car, so it wasn’t just Tyrrell and Spirit running DFVs that year.

I would love to hear brundles take on 1984

I always loved the lead shot stories, especially in NASCAR like what DW said in Dale Earnhardt Jr podcast

Great story well presented. . . again.👍 As you opened with money; How do you make a small fortune out of F1? Start with a large one. Something I think Lawrence Stroll may be starting to learn.

@skaldlouiscyphre2453

2 жыл бұрын

That was a Briggs Cunningham quote and he said it about sports car racing, not F1. If he got involved in F1 racing he'd of ended up broke instead of with a small fortune.

@ChristianRThomas

2 жыл бұрын

@@skaldlouiscyphre2453 I think Lord Hesketh said it also, didn't he? And I think he said it in the House of Lords, but that may be icing on the apocryphal cake.

@skaldlouiscyphre2453

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChristianRThomas It's been attributed to many people, including Junior Johnson but the source iirc is a Briggs Cunningham interview in Time Magazine in 1954.

Great Russell Brand reference.

Your make up was perfect for this vid!!!

Under the rules, teams were allowed to top up all fluids after the race but before weighing.

Tyrrell: 8 time defending constructors' champions, 2014-21

That Russell Brand impression 🤣🤣

Wondered when you’ll do this

Piquet and Rosberg were dq'd from the '82 Brazilian GP for that "water-cooled brake" system after finishing 1-2 since they were underweight for most of the race. Also, IIRC Bellof already had a Ferrari contract in hand at the time of his accident.

5:00 - parc ferme exists today in f1 partly as a muscle flexing exercise by the fia to limit the sessions and thereby ensure that their (newest) schedule whenever put forward can't be altered by the teams whatever the vote on it - because when parc ferme exists is only down to the fia - think of it like someone deciding to impound you car whenever they like even if for no practical reason - essentially they would be setting the timetable of when you could and couldn't use it.

The misuse of a/an bit is probably my favorite Clarkson running gag

I find it most funny that essentially the team the FIA wanted to kick out so they could have an all turbo grid is the same one that would dominate the Turbo-Hybrid era almost 3 decades later. Rather late but they got Mercedes like they wanted I guess.. One thing I am curious about though is how big were these pieces of lead shot? Very interested in getting some sort of visual context as its still kinda nutty to think about.

@coast2coast00

2 жыл бұрын

Shot is normally around half a cm, about 1cm at the largest.

Tyrrell had a good run of putting out some cult classics for ten years or so around this timeframe... Last DFV win Last aspie win of turbo era Bellof at Monaco '84 and Bellof generally ShotGate Modena's occasional flashes of qualifying brilliance Alesi Pothelthwaite Jim Clark Cup and Colin Chapman Cup winners in 1987

The engines were as thirsty as Tom Walkinshaw for Nigerian princes

I think a story on the 1982 f1 season would be good

@crusherbmx

2 жыл бұрын

Oh hell ya! First full season I followed, and what a shit show it was!

Nice vídeo Love the story

oooh an Antarctic GP... I think I actually like it

I had to go back over this about 20 times to make sure I'd heard right; 5:23 The Tyrrells were starting the race 40kg under the legal limit at 500kg while everybody else was starting at 450kg?

Ah, the FIA, together with FIFA, the IOC, WHO, EU, CCP etc, pure bastions of fair play and honesty, Balestre and Blatter, shining examples to us all.

Antarctic grand prix would just be license for Lewis to complain to Bono about lack of tyre grip. Maybe Pirelli will develop a superhypermegaultrasoft compound for the occasion?

awesome

4:56 You make it sound like the teams illegally altered the weight (total mass) of the car by adding water ballast during or after the race. The practice of topping up liquids that had (during the race) been wasted was only done after the race (why would you add it during and make the car heavier?) and was completely within the rules. The dodgy part was claiming that there was even such a thing as water cooled brakes. The 20kg (IIRC) of ballast never did a jot of brake cooling as it was all jettisoned within the first lap or two.

Jesus, you're on fire tonight, Aidan. xD

Do you think they'd allow naturally aspirated hybrids again? Now that they're ditching the MGU-K, they might as well allow for non-turbo and make that a separate class, but that would require a new points system...

We have had the world's fastest shotgun, so we need the world's fastest hand grenade

5:18 - I’m sorry but my understanding is that a water injection system is designed to reduce knock (premature fuel ignition) and hence allow for an increase in compression in the cylinder and thus more power.

❤😀🇬🇧 eeeh he reminds me of that nice young man who first did Ch4's Aitalian football show, all them years ago. 'Ave you noticed you never see 'em together? More tea Vicar?

Nice.

You could do a whole video on Ken Tyrrell himself.

I always thought that the lead shot controversy was to do with the 60 and 70 mechanics dropping shot into the exhaust pipes after races lol

@crusherbmx

2 жыл бұрын

That was Charlie Whiting at Brabham, "We never had a legal car". This is why he was appointed race director, he knew all the tricks and invented a few of them himself.

At this point they'd go to Antarctica before South Africa.

How about the 1970 championship year?

This was an old stock car trick from the 60s!!

3:20 Nice

So Tyrrell had Darrell Waltrip on as a tech advisor in '84 huh?

I laughed when I saw Quark from DS9 around the 2:30 mark 😹

@AidanMillward

2 жыл бұрын

Quark vs Odo was better than Prost vs Senna ever was.

@f1jones544

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, Quark. I thought that was Ecclestone.

Mad to think Tyrrell is Mercedes now

@f1jones544

2 жыл бұрын

But Mercedes isn't Tyrrell any moreso than your new house that was mortgaged with the sale of your old house is still said old house. BAT just bought the license for Tyrrell's grid spot and Mercedes bought it from Honda. BAT ne Honda ne Mercedes didn't use any of Tyrrell's resources, such as they were. Every semblance and piece of the Tyrrell team was gone at the end of 1998.

In terms of lead shot as ballast, check out what Darrell Waltrip had to say on Dale JR’s podcast about it! 😳😂😂🥳💥🏁 kzread.info/dash/bejne/p4CCtpqYis7dkag.html

I'd laugh my ass off if the Mercedes ownership papers have Tyrrell/BAR/Honda/Brawn scribbled out in biro with Mercedes written underneath

@MrSniperfox29

Жыл бұрын

A better one would be Toleman/Benetton/Renault/Lotus Renault/Lotus/Renault/Alpine

A controversy video? Lets go!!!!

NOTHING Aidan, I learned nothing except about the changing % of the same fluid... oh, and that you can call a racing car a shotgun! I thought that was done with doobies and cans of beer.

I honestly wish the bigger motorsports like NASCAR, F1, etc. Would allow more diverse cars, and I'm not only talking about governing bodys, I am also referring to team (*ahem* Ferrari). Its just more interesting to watch, and it's like everyone using the "meta" car in Forza. Think outside the box engineers, and if the opsitition doesn't like it it's thier problem.

@rexthewolf3149

2 жыл бұрын

Here’s the thing I don’t think you get the full implication of your metaphor. The reason why In games people eventually stat to use what is “meta” is the idea of Dominant Strategy. Use what has been proven to work rather than trying to reinvent the wheel. Same goes for Motorsport. And even if they did allow greater variety eventually everyone would start to copy what was the most successful design. Someone will find the most efficient car design.

@ViperPilot16

2 жыл бұрын

@@rexthewolf3149 If no one is aloud to inovate in anyway then there will be no break throughs, or whacky but effective designs. The only reason I brought up the idea of something being meta is because that's basically what auto racing has turned into. Everyone found the most efficient setup, and turned the race into who has the best variation of that setup (excuding the driver). I won't speak for you, while that can be fun, it's just not anymore. You can only watch nearly identical copys of the same car go around the track so many times before they blend together. Racing to me has always been about the more noticeable things, like the team has a bigger engine so the kill it on the strait aways, but struggles in corners because that car is also large. Opposed to this team also kills it in the strait aways, because their engine has a better computer. Variety is the spice of life.

Was there something about the legendary woodsman, Ken Tyrell that caused such animus? His arc through F1 has all the appearances of a person who, for whatever reason, just didn't fit in. That he would be so successful during the Stewart years only to slowly decline after indicates that either he didn't play well with others or that the "F1 Circus" looked down on him. Either way they clearly cut him "no slack" (as we Yanks like to say), eventually running him out of the paddock. Thoughts?

@MrSniperfox29

Жыл бұрын

You have the whole FISA/FOCA war in 1982 and the San Marino attempted boycott which was ruined by Ken Tyrrell and "sponsors", so come 1984 it's easy to see why the British teams might not have been keen to back him up even though Ron Dennis himself called the decision very harsh.

I suppose in a very sort of around about way you could say that Tyrrell became one of the most successful turbo powered F1 teams as Mercedes... Sort of...

That Russell Brand intro aged well.

@AidanMillward

9 ай бұрын

Funnily enough I thought about that this morning.

Im sorry im super uneducated on the subject so can someone explain how Tyrrell became Mercedes (Tyr-BAR-Hon-Brwn-Merc) if Mercedes was already Mercedes? Thanks

@yudhabagaskara98

10 ай бұрын

Mercedes returned to F1 after taking over Brawn shortly after winning the 2009 season

Tyrrell in 2022 would probably be a six wheeled monstrosity car on the grid

@AidanMillward

2 жыл бұрын

It would, if it wasn’t banned 🤣

My team how I wish the TYRRELL name was still in F1

Them turbo engines are the best sounding of all

Naughty millward

French racing blue is the best racing blue. Great with Jackie Stewart's red tartan on white.

@AidanMillward

2 жыл бұрын

The Gouloises blue on the 98 Prost is probably the nicest.

@vaclav_fejt

2 жыл бұрын

@@AidanMillward A bit dark for what I had in mind, but that one is nice as well.

Didn't Tyrrell also get thrown out in 1996? And then when they were BAR they were suspended for 2 races after having an illegal fuel tank at Imola 2005.

@AidanMillward

2 жыл бұрын

They finished 8th in 1996. Although at the Nurburgring Katayama was disqualified for a push start and Salo was DQ’d for being underweight. Then in Spain Salo was DQ’d for an illegal car change.

@f1jones544

2 жыл бұрын

Tyrrell was never BAR or vice versa. This is a new Mandela effect.

3:20 Noice

1:10 I think you mean EL PLAN

@AidanMillward

2 жыл бұрын

El forced meme 🤣

900 kg for an f1 is severly/comically overweight compared to what used to be the standard for most of f1 history.

450kg cars sounds crazy I weight 120 and my bikes wet weight is 279. With a passenger and panniers it's at 500kg no problem

@vintageman91

2 жыл бұрын

450-500 kg dry weight used to be standard in the 60s and 70s in f1.

Hey Aidan, your Stefan Bellof video has disappeared.

@AidanMillward

2 жыл бұрын

I know.

Look we've all had that guy at the office that nobody likes. It's not nothing he's done it's just the way he laughs or the way he looks or... we just don't like him he's not one of us. And even though he's done the job flawlessly and hasn't given us a reason to fire him we'll just make one up because we want him gone. He's just not one of the cool kids.

So Tyrrell went on to become Merc and Benetton went on to become Alpine?

@AidanMillward

2 жыл бұрын

Toleman became Benetton in 85, Renault in 2001, Lotus in 2010, Renault in 2016 and then Alpine in 2021 Tyrrell became BAR in 1999, Honda in 2006, Brawn in 2009 and Merc in 2010.

@ThunderGoatz

2 жыл бұрын

@@AidanMillward thanks for the clarification on that. Much love from Toronto

“An emerging Sao Paolo Taxi Driver that didn’t like women” Uhhh…..

@AidanMillward

2 жыл бұрын

Piquet called Senna a São Paulo taxi driver that didn’t like women. Because piquet was a professional shit stirrer.

@ZeGreatStick

2 жыл бұрын

@@AidanMillward well, I’ve seen him show the finger on TV and yes, he does like to FSU

It appears that Mr Millward doesn't trust el 🅿️lan (Poe's law)

well lead had one other use when added to gasoline the fuel pollution law people threw a fit remove it so they did added to fuel lead lubed the valves in cylinder heads the guides and the seats of the valves ps what happen when your cars on low or no oil?? see it not good for those parts! they harden those parts & lower compression in a street car use oh in 1972-74 it went on the death of the 426 hemi in street cars died too the gas crunch in 1972 did not help!

@nerd1000ify

2 жыл бұрын

The main reason to add lead is to boost the octane rating and prevent knock. Protecting the valve seats is a fringe benefit, especially since you have to use valve seat inserts anyway if you want to run an aluminium head. Side note: You can't just add lead to fuel: if you did, deposits of lead oxide would quickly form inside the engine and gum everything up. Something else is needed to clean up the lead and carry it out the exhaust, in practice this was usually bromine and chlorine (in the form of dibromoethane and dichloroethane). Unfortunately, when these compounds burn they form strong acids that contaminate the engine oil and attack the exhaust valves. This is part of the reason why old cars running leaded fuel needed very frequent oil changes, and engines that ran hot and hard (like WW2 aircraft engines) needed frequent valve replacements.

@gatorred157

2 жыл бұрын

@@nerd1000ify yes but this new fuel today mixed fuel e85 or 10% ethanol normal fuel, i had to get a newer engine for my boat! i though it was a mess till i got a 2016 truck it run on that stuff fine!

@nerd1000ify

2 жыл бұрын

@@gatorred157 Funnily enough, they add the ethanol in part because it's also an octane booster. I'm in Australia, standard fuel here is 91 RON (about the same as US 87 octane fuel, you guys use a different system that gives lower numbers) but when they put 10% ethanol in it goes up to 94 RON and the cost decreases by a couple of cents per litre. Great for cars that prefer premium fuel because it's way cheaper than 95 or 98 octane premium, but only if they can handle it! Problem is, most pre-ethanol engines use seals and hoses made of Buna-N rubber, same as those blue plastic medical gloves. The stuff resists water, oil or fuel, but not alcohol! So the E10 fuel eats through your seals and hoses. Add to that all the stuff with water absorption, and it's a big problem, especially for boats. Nobody here uses E10 in their boat, we all run the regular ethanol free 91, or ethanol free premium if the engine has been tuned and needs a higher octane rating. A lot of people think it's more environmentally friendly to use ethanol, but in most cases the CO2 from growing the corn, fermenting it and purifying the ethanol means that running E10 probably emits slightly more CO2 than regular fuel. The only benefit is slightly less toxic emissions from the tailpipe (not a bad thing) and that cheap octane boost. E85 here is very rare, it's only sold at a few service stations and is used almost exclusively for motorsport. 85% ethanol boosts octane even more, plus the alcohol has a strong charge cooling effect that is very beneficial to a race engine (you make more power!. But the fuel economy is drastically reduced because the energy per litre is so much lower.

another example of why appealing against the FIA rulings is a futile and pointless endeavour.