No rules, I'd be exploring a gas turbine electric hybrid, the two power systems are practically made to complement each other. That, and that liquid piston thing looks like it shows some promise.

Idk if anyone has said anything about the thumbnail. But that engine looks suspiciously like the devel 16, yea?

light hybrid v10 lol

If the simulator was that good they would identify the problems before the car is built. Think about that for a monment!

gas turbine powering an electric system. Its small, the battery system does not have to be huge if the tubine is running as a generator at a constant state. Only a capacitor to buffer the power release would really be needed. providing the battery drain does not exceed the output of the generator, you are always maintaining maximum output. the question is, what generator could we utilise in that space.

Now let it drive 5 full f1 laps

If only some German company didn't make a car like that already and called it a 919.

Drag racing engines reach 4-5000hp on alcohol using twin-turbos or centrifugal superchargers, but the packaging is all wrong for F1, and a lot of work would be needed to raise endurance.

WHAT ABOUT ROTARY ?

9:19 BMW m12/13. Or some would refer to as BMW "Megatron".

Is Isle of man the name of the island or the tournament?

Brm v16 by the sound of it sounded like "If would a NASCAR v8 can reach 12000 to 14000 revolutions per minute". That is British racing motor engines in a nutshell. Considering the brm v16 has a cross-plane and not a flat plane.

The engine in the thumbnail has Mercedes on the valve covers but is quite clearly an ls based v16?

I think whatever configuration, making it a 2-stroke could be interesting to make massive power relative to its displacement.

Just to have it pointed out: What VW (Audi, Bugatti) claims to be an W-engine, is actually a double-VR. Or a V-VR, if you like. A real W-engine is formed like W. So a real W12 has three R4 put together: One bank in the middle, one left, one right. VW just put their VR6-layout (15° V6 single bank layout) in a V-shape. V+V=W - that was the logic behind it. It's the same with W8 (Passat) and W16 (Veyron, Chiron). A cool engine, though...

Top Fuel goes from 0 to 100 MPH in 0.8 seconds. So still unbeaten.

Scott explains complex concepts so well!!! Would love to see a video explaining the difference between current F1 regs vs 2026 regs.

just bring w11 it will break records, fastest f1 ever made and will never back due some dutch guy this engineering master piece got forgoten

What about a 2 or 6 cycle engine? Remember no rules

Ha! An unexpected appearance of Jackstand Jimmy. Made a great episode just a bit more fun. Get the toolbox!

I want a radial engine because they are here to leak oil and win races, and they are all out of oil.

Let's see FIA relax F1 rules to the same degree as Formula E

Then it would be way better!

"f1 can't do it" why tho? it doesn't have to be an actual f1 engine, but the platform is solid... if piston engines have trouble being turned upside down, maybe a rotary would be better.

It took until the last few seconds to come up with what I was thinking from the beginning. You don't have enough tire grip to use unlimited power. a small V8 with twin turbos could easily provide more than enough power and spin the smaller turbos to make lag almost go away. Unlimited power has been tried before in CanAm racing. From the rules: Can-Am cars were classified as Group 7 racers by the International Motorsport Federation (FIA). Group 7 racers had very few restrictions placed on them. (Restrictions were added over the years, but it was pretty much an “open” formula.) No maximum engine size or turbocharger boost limits. No minimum weight. No tire limitations. No structure or material limitations. (Both monocoque and tube frame chassis were used.) The cars did have to be open-cockpit, closed-bodied cars with two seats and two doors. The problem with CanAm was brake technology was woefully primitive. Too many dead drivers.

Combustion engines for a few hundred years??

If there were no rules I would watch them.

I'd open it even more, would you run a fuel tank large enough to last the entire race, or smaller to save weight? Would you go full ground effects with the movable skirts, or compromise some other way? What size tires would you use? What kind of aero? Fully open, just have to keep to the current safety standards.

Make a series out of this? What it f1...?

just so you know theres no answer to the question at the end of the video

I was kinda imagining a ProCharged Rotary engine

Europeans can't help themselves with rpm...

Birdman had a special built machine, a Mercedes 700 V-14...

A big change with no rules would be moving KERS from the rear axle to front. More energy to harvest from the axle that does all the braking then claw off the corner with AWD.

A turbine-electric series hybrid might be the best you could do. Run the turbine at ~full power all the time and then use the electric system to handle surging out of the corners and such. It depends on how good you can make a small gas turbine engine (their big brothers are definitely not lacking), but turbine engines are generally more thermodynamically efficient than piston engines.

F1 is lacking this... they need to get back to pushing the envelope.

You forgot 2 stroke, you also forgot sleeve valves, desmodromic and feee vales were missing too. It is complex, but with no rules throw it away at the end of each race. Combine it with growing single crystal pistons in a simlar way to the way jet compressor blades are made, same for the con rods. Direct injection along with suplimentry intake injection and inconel exhuast and turbo. Ceramic bearings in a compond turbo setup bolted to a V12 of say 3 Litres, 2 stroke sleeve valave engine. With modern tech you could make insane power. This is based off the unfinished Rolls Royce Cressy engines, which would have produced twice the power of the mighty Merlin Engines of the same displacement. The war ended and jet engines came of age so development was stopped. Try to be more imaginitive and broaden the places you take your ideas from. F1 is surpisingly narrow on what it has produced over the decades. Just wait until you hear about quasiturbine engine. Those thing are nuts and could be extremely power dense.

7:09 Warframe titanium 😭😭

So a twin turbo V12, with an MGU-H (No MGU-K or hybrid battery), to produce 2,000-3,000hp without being too big to damage aero. Man ... F1 has gone in the wrong direction. I'd be happy with a V8 hybrid, just please no more V6....everyone has a V6.

I'm up for trying weird things like Napier-Deltic engines and turbo-superchargers..

I'd give anything to see a quad-rotary from the 787B in a F1 car, the noise too

Why would you have an MGU-H but not an MGU-K? What are you going to do with the energy harvested by the MGU-H if you don't have an MGU-K to put it to use?

Easy. Gas turbine generator, a basic supercapacitor "tank" system and 4 powerfull motors with full power vectoring, accelerating and braking.

When I hear "No rules" I think liquid oxigen. So... no turbo compressor. But posibly turbopumps

Well, this bets the heck out of yet another silly season paddock drama oracle BS video! 😊

The Donut pull 👌🏽

You forgot a gas turbine

Reminds me of Honda's VTEC but on a smaller scale!😎😎😎😎

they should just go with my fav and (currently used), 60* V6 ;) or since 6 cyl not really enuf, maybe a 60* v12 to keep it even, oh and make them all AWD to be able to take all that power!

Great video - but the fact you kept talking about keeping the Reciprocating Mass down with lower RPMs triggered me. The Mass is the same regardless of RPM. At higher RPM the acceleration increases on the components which means the *forces* increase. F=MA. M is constant, as A increases, F increases. Sorry but Physics nitpicking.