Someone Designed The Perfect F1 Car (No Rules)

[@gfloyd2002]

I would watch the crap out of an unlimited race series where engineers could go wild.

[@RyanMcIntyre]

You do, that’s F1 and MotoGP

[@foxgaming76yt24]

​@@RyanMcIntyre Nah, that's nowhere near free to design whatever lol. Not that neither lack any sort of innovation, not that they're slow.

[@foxgaming76yt24]

I think that's the CanAm series btw lol, from back in the 70's and 80's lol

[@tenningale]

All the regs are heavily about safety, fair competition, cost control so it’s economically sustainable (big reason why CanAm failed), no pursuit of dangerous/impractical tech, ethical concerns… You'd just end up back with F1.

[@poweroftheweez]

These days it feels like I'm always looking forward to Pikes peak and Goodwood, to see cars like the McMurtry and Travis Pastrana's Subaru being run in anger. But i agree a league or series would be amazing.

[@nigeldepledge3790]

This sounds an awful lot like the Red Bull X2010. Ground effects? Check. Fan? Check. 1600 hp? Check. Wheels enclosed in faring? Check. Enclosed cockpit? Er, no, apparently. Given that this project has taken 15 years, and it's now 2025, is it actually an evolution of the X2010 using more sophisticated CFD analysis?

[@foxgaming76yt24]

Yeah, makes me think....

[@gaycha6589]

…which is in turn and interpretation of 70s F1,conceptual thinking. Gordon Murrays fan car. Gas turbines. Closed wheels. Etc. it’s the packaging.

[@nigeldepledge3790]

@gaycha6589 - I don't recall any closed-wheel designs ever being in F1. What did I miss?

[@gaycha6589]

@@nigeldepledge3790 Mercedes W196 Stromlinienwagen - closed wheel design

[@nigeldepledge3790]

@@gaycha6589 - is that the one where they had a separate bodyshell for the high-speed circuits like Avus?

[@quadrantalerror1121]

Get this man 30 million so he can build it

[@mateagoston8145]

There are 1.3 million subscribers on this channel, all we need is everyone giving him 23 quid and off you go. :D

[@F1ll1nTh3Blanks]

It'll cost a lot more than that.

[@fabr5747]

And 30 more million so he can buy an accent...

[@MuppetsSh0w]

It'll cost at the very least 300 million

[@firstmkb]

@@MuppetsSh0wbased on what?

[@daviferreira2197]

There could be a "Formula Zero" race category, with those limitless cars that could race, but drive remotely, like a drone, using a Sim Cockpit. It would be interesting.

[@althenea]

only problem with remote cockpits would be input delay and desynchronization between the car and the controls (and the screen too).

[@realElectroZap]

@@althenea Maybe that could be the motivation to create faster connections, with the lowest input lag possible and stuff. Communication innovation along with car innovation

[@amaizen4817]

@@althenea i mean FPV drones are getting around pretty well, in the middle of the city might be a problem but somewhere remote might actually work just fine with technology we have today

[@M0n4rc]

Good idea actually. So there’s no danger to drivers and they can focus just on speed

[@godsinbox]

that is silly! what size would the cars be (not human sized) and what is the race length (suit TV viewers attention span)? Taking out those 2 variables and you just have RC cars/drones - which have already been done (And no ones cares)

[@davidush31]

Now with this you can drive easily upside down in a tunnel :))

[@Schnickenpick]

😂

[@AndreA-yq4cu]

You could this already. This Main issue is the engine with the o ans the fuel...

[@Cloxxki]

@@AndreA-yq4cu Electric drivetrains are becoming cookie cutter. Fuel driven is just impractical upside down life. For such a SHORT drive, like a minute tops of which just a small number of seconds at high power, a really small power cell battery can be used. I'd borrow the Rimac 3.5 kWh battery from the Koenigsegg Regera (700 hp), and the Koenigsegg Dark Matter (800 hp/38kg?) motors. Those two plus HV cables ought to be lighter than most 700hp fuel systems, let alone with upside down provisions. And really, for just one upside down pass, that 75 kg Rimac battery is overkill. A one time use battery would be lighter and cheaper.

[@paulhope3401]

​@@AndreA-yq4cu Fuel pick up? If they can succesfuly do it on aerobtic planes, it's do able here too.

[@Driver61]

It's got a fan... That'd be cheating!

[@xpeterson]

Feel like this has been done before. The “formula one car without formula one limitations” idea never takes into account how bad the races are going to be if merely approaching the car in front of you sends you into an aerodynamic tornado, or any of the other million reasons they have added rules for.

[@jamesabbot-cole6814]

Or have a load of Mark Webber Le Mans crashes when the Aero lets go down one of the longer straights.

[@pashalq]

@@jamesabbot-cole6814 that specific aero problem was caused by rules of flat floors. Sure, not the only reason and Mercedes surely went to the edge with their design, but in the end it caused the louvres on the front wheel arches.

[@pashalq]

It would be an interesting thing for Time Attack though, maybe something of a 5 laps average time or something along those lines.

[@SilverSeraph913]

Exactly. This design seems too limited. Why have the halo? Why have the driver at all? Why not lasers to blind all other drivers and officials? Why not missiles to take out all the other cars, both in front and behind?

[@rahulsondi-xn4qy]

In terms of cost, you have to keep in mind that most of the money that an F1 team spends out of that 150 million is on salaries and operations like logistics, rather than on the car itself. The car itself is worth around the same as this one, around 10 million pounds

[@speedhunter25]

But it's only 10 million because the F1 teams already have the infrastructure, so you either need a lot more money or an F1 team that can afford to stop producing its own parts and build it for you.

[@FinessaryBob]

Also testing the actual car. This car hasn’t even been built

[@F1-Passion]

The engine alone in and F1 car is about 20 million.

[@davidwiles6042]

“F1 car with no rules” is an oxymoron. The rules are what defines F1.

[@MuppetsSh0w]

@@davidwiles6042 Exactly

[@Pitcher-T]

1:30 Nearly spilled my tea all over me when that engine roar came on 😂

[@CambrianExplosionContext]

Well well well

[@CambrianExplosionContext]

Well well well…

[@ChinZu]

😂😂

[@Jamie_06]

Looks like if it formula one had a vision gt car

[@devol3829]

Dude it looks like a Poweranger Robot from the visuals. So flashy.

[@pedinhuh16]

That car already exists, it's called the Red Bull X2010.

[@oblied]

@@pedinhuh16 X2010 is also 15 years old now lol

[@Nicholas-m7p]

@@oblied i wonder how the two would compare in speed on track

[@oblied]

@Nicholas-m7p this should be slightly quicker depending on what version x2010 used

[@thefrenchcarguy]

2:45 proud to hear a French compatriot here 😂😂❤

[@geicihg]

son accent fait mal aux oreilles n'empêche

[@WALLACE-vg4ny]

@@geicihg on s'en fout, on n'est pas la pour faire semblant d'être ricain ou anglais.

[@spruce8537]

baahahah je me suis jeté dans les coms quand j'ai reconnu son accent 🐓🍷⚜

[@alimanski7941]

Interesting that he still chose to have a halo and not just enclose the cockpit - which I imagine has more potential aerodynamically.

[@Jimmy_Moon]

I think it's more for the drivers. They trialed an enclosed cockpit and they said it made them feel sick by impairing their vision. The dirt and marks on the windscreen were distracting etc. Drivers have said, due to the design of the halo and the centre bar being in between their vision, they don't notice it.

[@poxtaz.]

Its also easier to get out of the halo than a broken closed cockpit

[@robotnikkkk001]

...AGREED..... ...AND ALL "but" THINGS ARE A bout STUFF WASNT GET MUCH DEVELOPMENT

[@abdullahsalman2200]

​@@Jimmy_Moonnot too sure about this, I mean LMP1 cars are closed cockpit cars and would run for a long time before each stop.

[@paulhope3401]

A curved windscreen with such a pronounced curvature would likely distort the view of the road ahead, leading to difficulty judging distances and potentially causing eye strain due to the uneven focus required to see through the curved glass... I suspect looking past something like the central Halo piller is much less intrusive to ones vision when focusing way beyond it... than actually looking through a very curved lens that would distort your view. Tbh... I think 'no rules' cars would soon end up being severely limited by the bag of bones and tissues trying to pilot it... kind of like how they have to use fly by wire controls on modern fighter jets to ensure they don't pull more G's than the airframe and pilots can handle.... If they ended up with jet turbines with side nozzle thrust vectoring the potential cornering G's could break people never mind cause them to pass out and it would probably become necessary to remove the driver from the car and to have him operate it remotely via ultra low latency FPV cams and possibly VR.

[@Kempy89]

Surely the transition between fans and ground effect at 150kph would be totally unmanageable in practice? Also, the biggest challenge to all of this would be to develop some tyres that would deal with the performance and aero load.

[@HeinrichJNel]

And can do 70 laps without being changed, not sure how they quickly swop tyres with the enclosed wheels

[@jasmijnariel]

The real struggle is not the car , its a fighterjet on wheels.... the driver is the limit. 7 positive G is already insane. Doing 7g sideways, for 1.5h is suicide on a body

[@spdcrzy]

​@@jasmijnariel that's how racing should be once again. The driver becomes the limit, not the car.

[@TimothyZanyk]

You don't have to run 70 laps or change tires. It can be a time attack series. Of course it's less spectacular than seeing drivers competing in a race but for a competition of engineers it's a more suitable format

[@Johnpaul-l6j]

@@jasmijnariel well what if the driver is a space marine from warhammer 40k

[@sdewey4152]

So a modern day RedBull X2010/11

[@MuyTuareg]

There was even the gameplay of the x2010 in the video ahah

[@AJZulu]

My exact thought.

[@Jojo_Bee]

Exactly right... Might as well call it Red Bull X2025... In other words. Adrian Newey's original concept is seen as the fundamental solution. Designs that followed it are just developmental versions...

[@IIGrayfoxII]

@@Jojo_Bee IIRC, the details for the X2010 was it was powered by a gas turbine.

[@Garrett_Thompson]

​@@IIGrayfoxII The X2010 had a v6.

[@crackasaurus_rox9740]

For the uninitiated, all f1 designers tried to build this car in their early years before realizing that it was infeasible to make the pit stops work (safely) with the wheel covers. Works for a hillclimb though.

[@stephenspackman5573]

But again, surely that's a rules issue? If I'm allowed to drive my car into a pitting robot, and I'm not constrained as to what exactly disconnects, I should be able to get sub-second wheel changes, regardless.

[@vornamenachname989]

​@@stephenspackman5573I feel like it's only a matter of time until people completely change the car and lift the pilot into a second one or sth if that is allowed...

[@jesperzeng]

So much faster than F1, question is can a driver take it over a race distance physically?

[@EarlHare]

Even more important question, can an F1 driver even take it around certain corners at the maximum possible speed without blacking out?

[@MrSchrootenstein]

Also, how long will tires hold up

[@ObnoxiusBrat]

@@EarlHare this is a level of g-force of fighter jets. So it's possible to handle for a while.

[@chefcc90]

@@EarlHare Probably. Modern F1 cars can get to around 6.5g in the corners. It's more about neck muscles than blacking out. Blacking out usually occurs in pilots due to maneuvers like sudden climbs that cause the blood to go to their feet. F1 cars don't do that.

[@twandepan]

@@ObnoxiusBrat true but a fighter pilot experiences mainly vertical g's while F1 drivers experience mainly lateral g's. So less chance of blacking out but it will be absolutely exhausting to drive with all the muscle you need to even keep your wheel pointing in the right direction

[@Get-Native]

Looks kinda like the red bull x2010 but with a halo not a fighter cockpit canopy.

[@Schnickenpick]

This is crazy imagine if there was a league for that

[@Nathan-y4r]

Have it like Group B in rally racing that would sick

[@phillipjames13]

F0

[@ChristosGamer]

Formula 0

[@johngalt97]

CanAm II DJT series Its back!

[@Jasongilliar]

F1 is on the limit of human abilitys. F1 would be way faster by now, but we slow them down every couple of years to not pass out

[@MuscarV2]

All those rules are understandable, but there should really be a chagegory that's just "anything goes, the crazier, more out of the box the better". They should make a formula X or something where every year is more a show of new developments without constraints than whoever wins.

[@SilvaDreams]

... So the original F1?

[@Denes2005]

1) wow that’s cool 2) nice video 3) i was first thinking about the Rodin F-Zero, which is already more than just a computer model 4) 9:22 thanks for showing a clear shot of the rear of the x2014, showing that there isn’t a fan there. There is a fan variant, but this particular video seems to be of the version without it. Yes, very minor nitpick, sorry

[@DANNYonPC]

10:10 those doors seem pretty ineffective? Wouldnt shutters be a more effective way than a flapdoor?

[@katieneubaum4284]

It’s probably just an illustration. As much money as he’d spending on this, it’s unlikely he’d use such a mechanism for controlling the airflow

[@d1nonlyjcob462]

Would tire manufacturers be able to create a tire that can handle the high loads of downforce this car creates?

[@TylerHarris-yy7uf]

Kevlar reinforced tires maybe?

[@illdeletethismusic]

good question, tyres are also holding back Rodin in this regard

[@harryarmstrong5728]

How do you even get to the tires to change them?

[@mirandahotspring4019]

That's only twice as much per tyre as each tyre on a Bugatti standing still.

[@jacobm2625]

​@@TylerHarris-yy7ufa lot of tires already are. Not sure if racing tires are, but I know some road tires are.

[@KaeserStatic]

Each deacade we strive closer nd closer to the Mach 5, its giving very much Speed Racer vibes in design, i love it😂

[@jespervalbjrn6932]

So like the redbull x thing

[@F1ll1nTh3Blanks]

Except without the enclosed cockpit and front wing.

[@JustAnotherAlias1]

Racing cars like this remote controlled might be the future of motorsports

[@88chrome]

Speed Racer Mach 6 type beat

[@westafoni]

Yes.

[@roniteklahare1670]

Yeah exactly. This literally looks like something outta the Speed Racer movie

[@metaliczic96]

Or Future GPX Cyber Formula.

[@monkeyfan250]

the T-180s XD

[@nodical802]

My peopleeeeee

[@foxgaming76yt24]

So what exactly sets this apart from the X2010 and its variants?

[@Arhange1790]

Ignorance of the channel author)😂

[@MrLeocars97]

15:15, so basically this would be F0

[@gabriellarsson9029]

F-1 if anything, since it's 2 steps

[@rajasaif9999]

Nope it would be a F car

[@headcrab980]

Ahh now I wanna play F-zero! quality game on the snes and N64

[@gmoneyp3672]

@@headcrab980n64?

[@nelsonjejd3188]

Captain Falcon is very happy to see this car

[@alexkemp9001]

Great video. This has answered the question I’ve had in my head for a long time and finally I get it answered! Very interesting to see that most of the solutions have actually existed in f1 already!

[@u.a.nugroho]

Consider.... 1. Does the tyre technology cope that 7G? 2. If there's no front wing.. how driver change the setup needed to suit his need. 3. Will the change between fan suction downforce and regular downforce will make the car unstable it self..

[@benoit9874]

@@robotnikkkk001 easy to talk, less to produce. we're waiting for your car as you seem so intelligent

[@robotnikkkk001]

@@benoit9874 ....HOW IS IT TOO HARD TO UNDERSTAND? ........IT'S JUST basic STUFF!!! .....FIRST OF ALL......ACTIVE SUSPENSION WILL allow to set different clearences!!!SO DOWNFORCE CONTROL ALREADY WILL GET HUGELY IMPROVED!!!ALSO..... *_THAT SKIRT DESIGN DOESNT WORK SO FAN ISNT EFFECTIVE AS IT SHOULDVE BEEN_* .......BESIDES,THESE VORTEXES ARE APPEARING ONLY AT huge SPEED......AND IF SPEED IS LOW, the suck is laughable....THAT'S WHY THIS CHAPPAREL WITH FANS WAS USING SKIRTS .....ANOTHER THING ABOUT active suspension .....COMES FROM *_it allows to keep angle to help skirt get properly sealed_* ......AM I CORRECT???.......AS WELL AS...... ACTIVE SUSPENSION IS VITAL FOR tire management AS IT DOES ALLOW TO DISTRIBUTE LOAD evenly SO PIT STOPS ARE less FREQUENT........ ....AND ACTIVE SUSPENSION IS ABOUT CONTROL OVER pitch AS WELL,RIGHT?????.....SO PERFECT CONTROL OVER STUFF DURING both ACCELERATION/BRAKING ...........is it correct??? .......NOW'S ABOUT ACTIVE AERODYNANICS.......THIS CHOICE OF flexible wing IS EXTRA LAUGHABLE......BECAUSE EVEN perfectly FLEXIBLE WING GOT the same drag AT ALL SPEEDS.......NOT MORE OR LESS,same!!!.....BECAUSE THERE'S ALWAYS A BALANCE BETWEEN drag AND flex....RIGHT??BECAUSE OF AT high SPEED AMOUNT OF AIR PARTICLES IS higher AND AT LOW SPEED IT'S lower.........AM I CORRECT??!.......SO DUDE basically DOESNT UNDERSTAND *_physical principle behind_* AS HE JUST SAW HOW MCLAREN'S WING FLEXES AND LIKE wow okay........ ....AND what ACTUALLY ACTIVE AERODYNAMIC GIVES????....A *_TOTAL CONTROL_* ........SO IT actually CREATES *variable* DOWNFORCE,SO AT CORNERS IT CAN SET HIGHER,AND AT STRAIGHTS IT CAN LITERALLY GET flat TO CREATE *NO DRAG AT ALL* ........RIGHT?????.........IN ADDITION, *_active aerodynamics can start work at ANY speed,greatly improving car's behavior during braking and EVEN COULDVE BEEN USED AS ADDITIONAL BRAKING SYSTEM TO HELP FURTHER REDUCE BRAKING TIME_* ...........SO ..... *_AM I SCIENTIFICALLY CORRECT???_* ............

[@benoit9874]

@robotnikkkk001 first step that you learn, is to write things appropriately and scientifically.

[@FacelessBillions]

@@benoit9874 yeah, robotnikk´s comments are impossible to read

[@FacelessBillions]

1: great question, guess its time to make kevlar-vibranium alloy reinforced tires or something like that 💀 2: great point, as soon as I saw it I knew it was gonna struggle with that and defo with Understeer 3: dont think so, they can engineer a way to transition smoothly

[@brucewayne5342]

That's a really cool excercise, but if you ask me, the thing that makes an F1 car distinct from any other kind of prototype style race car is: a) an open cockpit and b ) wheels without any real covering. The second one of these two things is not present it does not really feel like an F1 car anymore.

[@adrian7583]

FYI: The fan appears to be installed and running backwards in the render. Would also work better with a stator.

[@jakeparker8254]

Lots of flaws ahaha definitely a concept designer 😅

[@Vyzion2020]

If its installed backwards then put in reverse does that make it go forward but badly, like some of those weird dirt bikes. I don't know much about them but I've seen them launch in reverse 😂

[@am-e7967]

I'm... extremely skeptical. He hasn't added nearly enough structure to those little hole covers, and they'd probably immediately come off. Similarly, the skirting trapdoor thing would be ripped to pieces at even low speeds. There's probably tons of these issues that would need to be fixed, and those fixes would completely ruin the performance of the car. Additionally, the "I can do it cheaper than everyone else" claim is obviously wrong and extremely Musk-esque

[@akiravecchi]

I think the idea of switching from fan car to ground effect is brilliant but the danger of the hydraulics failing to activate on when you want to do a 7G curve might be too dangerous. I think considering all of the aero of the car and what it wants to achieve the fan is not ideal

[@tenningale]

100%. I mean if this was practical F1 would already be doing it. They could absolutely design higher-performance cars but the trade-offs around safety and other factors understandably aren't acceptable.

[@bogdanzorila6697]

Someone should start a F1 racing without rules and give green light to innovation and technology and have all these gigantic companies bring whatever all of them can think of . That would be an amazing thing to see.

[@cloroxbleach7554]

That dude has the most stereotypical French accent

[@KenWagner-nt1hi]

That car is insane:) From the front view it reminds me of the" mark 5" from the "Speed racer" cartoon. Just incredible. I love the way you think about futuristic racing 😊 this model is much more feasible than the Redbull or Ferrari version. Beautiful,pure and sexy. That's racing 🤗

[@RealSopwithCameltoe]

Can’t wait to see it on track one day as a demonstration

[@dark6.6E-34]

This is basically optimized to fully drain the clean wind and completely ignore what tornadoes are sent back towards the driver behind you. Races wouldn't be possible as people are suggesting.

[@AJZulu]

Red Bull has done something like this before in the 2010s. (4:53) And it's in the Gran Turismo games of that era. The Red Bull X2010/2011/2014

[@Arhange1790]

RedBull even built full scale model.

[@juliojorgeteles6105]

But the difference on these two is, as the video states, the "le pinacle" can be produced with today's technology. The X2010 and its other models cannot.

[@kristianangeloni]

@@juliojorgeteles6105 Nah, they can. There's nothing on Red Bull X that can't be produced today except for the tyre, but we are not talking about cars like the Chaparral X VGT or the Tomahawk. The hardest part to build would be a tyre that can cope that amount of downforce and stress, but it's a problem that would have the Le Pinnacle too (plus, we have to think about driver too)

[@quezdonivey5518]

Looks like a speed racer car, always loved the look of those cars, would love if there was a league today with cars like that.

[@mattw_929]

i mean this in the best way possible, Sebastian is sooooo French and i love listening to his English pronunciations lmao

[@niskanen19]

Damn using natural flexibility to reduce drag on high speed is genius and something i havent heard of! 🤝

[@Dharshan-One]

Would be nice if Gordon Murray reacted to this

[@jakobusvdl8395]

or William Toet

[@bwalker4194]

I’ve always dreamed of a true American unit “One-to-One” series…one horsepower per pound of vehicle weight. It will put an end to the disturbing flat-out laps around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. I want to see heavy breaking down from 300 mph in order to make the corners. 1700 lbs and 1700 reliable HP should be no big deal. I’m 66….don’t wait too long!

[@MrLeocars97]

Looks like a Speed Racer car... I love it

[@monkeyfan250]

yep the T-180s

[@redTanto]

mini-RDE piped straight into a tesla turbine all encased with ferrofluid convection current stirling (these are pistonless and take any shape, if you were imagining pistons, look up the terms first). Diesel-propane-hmx based emulsion fuel. You can switch hmx for dinitroglycoluril if you want to be environmentally friendly / non-toxic but it drops the detonation velocity, or you can jump for heptanitrocubane for higher detonation velocity but its less stable. Use multilayer graphene-borophene heterostructures in the RDE to withstand the shock and pressures. I have an even more powerful engine setup based around the shkas machine gun (quite different, its two opposing interlocking revolvers back ported into a magnetically geared turbine to power their spin) but it expends thousands of tons of solid fuel in seconds and if you increase slip rate to lower fuel expenditure the efficiency decreases to the point of it being less volume efficient than the originally stated engine. So its not feasible for anything that's not a burst.

[@DJChappie001]

wow, he should make a AC mod or something.

[@Baribrotzer]

Look up Robin Shute's channel and his series about building a Pikes Peak racer. Open class in the Pikes Peak Hillclimb has few rules, and Shute came up with a car similar to Lamour's in its broad outlines: high on downforce, light in weight, having a typical mid-engine race-car layout, and using rear wheel drive with a small turbo engine (a NZ-made 2.4L V8 involving BMW motorcycle parts, in his case).

[@adilsongoliveira]

The scenes with the old F1 cars remind me of when I was a kid and watched the races with Emerson Fitipaldi, Niki Lauda, Clay Regazzoni, and later Airton Senna, Nelson Piquet, Alain Prost, Michael Schumacher, etc.

[@irmaobarbado]

It looks like the Speed Racer's T180 era is closer than we could have ever imagined

[@samuelgentry4125]

Man made a mach 6 speed racer reference

[@chingompiew1]

With a car like this, the next thing to do is the upgrade the track and make it like a Hot Wheels track. Tracks that twist, loop and negative banking tracks that pull upside-down g's :)

[@deco5442]

7:54 And you know what else is massive?

[@musiccritic8467]

Looowwwwww taperrrr fadeeee

[@BigfootNewEngland]

I love the edit @ 14:40. Red Bulls bendy wing. Iykyk.😂😂😂

[@kevinbarnard3502]

Aren't pit stops going to be annoying? How fast can those tires be changed? Dp they have a quick release and just drop out of the bottom of the enclosures or something?

[@yongling9825]

Seeing as the wheels are inserted into axles where the Centerlock lockrings would thread onto, they can't simply drop out from the bottom. The wheel covers have clasps.

[@kevinbarnard3502]

So the only a couple seconds long long pit stop wouldn't happen. How quickly could the wheels be changed? Wish they would have covered that. Performance of the vehicle is probably the biggest factor of a winning race, but there are other factors, too.

[@nightshadelenar]

@@kevinbarnard3502 it would be a second or two longer when nailed down the procedure to pop them off, however a 5-7 seconds stop minimum seems feasible.

[@iephoto]

I attend PPIHC every year and it's glorious to see those unlimited class cars. Works of engineering art.

[@fuhiyo]

Please talk about the new FIA rules 🙏🙏

[@Dakkyun]

You mean the 2026 rules or no swearing rules, question ?

[@fuhiyo]

@Dakkyun The new swearing Rules

[@MayumiTheKimura]

The fuck they said now??? Can't turn the car on anymore or some shit?

[@fuhiyo]

@@MayumiTheKimura 1 month Race Ban,30k fine and -5 Points If you swear, do an religious or political Statement and If you criticize the FIA in any kind of Form.

[@kingkasma4660]

Would love to see and engineering focused racing sport, where also there are episodes that bring light on the Engineering desicions

[@1rondeficiency]

3:01 massive you say

[@80infiniti_]

yeah no massive

[@Justin666i]

Add 4wd, all wheel steering/braking, cvt, dynamic ride control and 'unlimited' car would be unstoppable

[@smiff-it7840]

That's just a straight up speed racer car

[@King-hs9zc]

My exact thoughts lol

[@onetonpun]

I believe the chaparral 2j had side skirts attached to the suspension to maintain clearance from the ground. If the whole undertray was attached to the suspension it would maintain clearance and not translate the downforce produced through the springs.

[@vlsblades3245]

8:18 but then, hefest got this run

[@LDSKRVODs]

😭

[@uberschnilthegreat22]

Damn thing looks like a cyberpunk'd Speed Racer machine and I am all for it

[@snoepjejul]

But how do you do a pitstop?

[@Dakkyun]

Have a look at 2009 cars with wheel covers

[@K1ngHandy]

What a great concept. Those variable cooling inlets have me anxious about longevity. I wonder if any aero is designed like fish gills - with layers of flexible material that spread at speed and compress during braking.

[@max_verstappen33]

Let me drive it.

[@icarlosfernandez]

Why? You’d probably just crash it into another driver.

[@EamonDorrian-lo1ne]

Just fantastic, what a car, but what a top, top engineer this chap is. Fabulous thinking 👍👍👍

[@samuelgarrod8327]

If there are no rules it's not a formula.

[@provonic9187]

This is definitely a Speed Racer car, very similar to the designs from the live action movie. I love it, i want it, give us Speed Racer F1

[@wyskass861]

Now let's find a human who can handle 7g lateral loads. Not sure if that's even drivable.

[@yongling9825]

What car pulls the highest lateral load so far and how high?

[@wyskass861]

@@yongling9825 afaik, F1 cars hit 5g lateral at the apex of corners as highest in motorsports. These top pro drivers spend much of their training on their necks to be able to last for a race.

[@FacelessBillions]

fighter jet pilots, however they are more used to sustained Gs and not going from a 5G corner to a 1.5G straight to a 5.5G braking zone in 6 seconds

[@yongling9825]

@@FacelessBillions What about air racing pilots? I think they can hold 9 Gs (Red Bull Air Race's regulated limit) for a short while.

[@wyskass861]

@FacelessBillions They don't deal with lateral Gs at all. All forces are along the body axis (vertical G forces), positive G's drain blood from brain and can cause loss of consciousness.. Negative g's are very rare and avoided, during pitch down and would damage the eyes. In contrast cars don't deal with Vertical G's at all, and all forces are horizontal along the ground plane. Bodies handle different directions of G forces very differently, so irrelevant to compare, cars to airplanes, as there is no overlap in G force directions.

[@CydoniaEX]

Give it an integrated AI and you can call it Asurada, gotta love those concepts

[@MenaceASL]

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, LA FRANCE!

[@iXiwar]

😂😂

[@GonzoDonzo]

U can actually get incredible throttle response with a hybrid electric axial flow turbine engine. If the compressor stages are powered by electric motors u can gain alot of efficiency in the compressor portion as well as instant response since they are independent from the power turbine. Now getting all the electronics, generator etc into a racing car would most likely be unfeasible. My favorite thing about this car is the size. Its not massive like modern f1. Its wide but not long

[@80infiniti_]

8:25 yeah no massive

[@deadlystalker7483]

You know what else is massive?

[@spicynoodle7419]

4:25 I hate having to shift gears in my CVT transmission. I'm glad he went with an automatic gearbox instead!

[@paulsalter3099]

I hate to point out the obvious, but with no rules (formula) it's not F1!

[@samuelgarrod8327]

Absolutely. "Let's play football but with no rules"...😂

[@Brad-dx9fd]

This is what I've been wanting for awhile now. A Formula Racing series that has no(less) rules would be amazing to watch and also provide so many tech ideas for F1 and road cars. I just feel like the engineers have been forced into a box and I want a series where they shine for creativity instead of just how well they can work within/around the rules. Maybe call it FX for experimental like X type aircrafts. Or FU(unlimited) 😂

[@bobbart6498]

I'm interested in why he decided to keep it open cockpit? If there were no rules, you wouldn't have to make it open, which would increase aero. He didn't keep it open wheeled, so it shouldn't be a tradition issue.

[@deltacx1059]

3:11 generator, battery, electric hub motors, done. You can run the turbine steady state and you get torque vectoring, if your doing racing like f1 your engineers can sort the rest.

[@madMARTYNmarsh1981]

This is really cool. An idea for a future project could be to get an advanced AI to develop a car following the same rules, then compare it to Le Pinnacle. A simulates track run of both cars would be very interesting.

[@kwl189]

I would be interested to see some sim runs of it riding bumps and curves or how it reacts in collisions/bumps and scraps. My guess is instability riding curbs disturbing the seal for airflow under the car and certain fragility in small collisions or bumps with other cars when it comes to those wheel covers running as close as they are to the tyres.

[@EQUAL2]

im surprised the redbull x201x series was not mentioned in this video, it's the exact same idea.

[@AssassinGT]

I would be so curious to see the air simulations with two cars side to side. The turbulence has the potential to make wheel to wheel racing very difficult. Although as a no limits machine it would be amazing; I wish f1 would go back towards this direction.

[@tysontaggart7246]

It's like a Le-Mans Hypercar, an IndyCar and a F1 car had a giant hideous love child.

[@deltacx1059]

I love a giant bar in the middle of my view, makes driving so much easier.

[@andyelliott1984]

I think pullrod front suspension would be better than pushrod as it's aerodynamically more efficient and it would have a lower centre of gravity.

[@miggssamonte5292]

Speed racer type car. I love it

[@lordvadar6104]

If you allow side skirts that touch the track surface, internal mass dampners, active aero, rear extruder fans, and active suspensions you could decrease the available horsepower by half and achieve lap times better then what were possible in the 2024 F-1 spec

[@-trigger--strider1-600]

Gives me some speed racer vibes, it’s awesome.👏

[@picksalot1]

Beautiful design and inspired engineering. I'd love to see F1 with no rules, except regarding size, maybe weight, and a restriction that the design should not interfere with other Cars or their drivers.

[@JayTobas]

I think a league where engineers are allowed to make these unrestricted cars would be neat. Make it so every development's base working model is shared with teams, and they're allowed to make adjustments or improvements as they see fit. Any new technology needs at least a season's advance before being implemented to enable other teams to pick up and develop their team's version of any new tech that comes about.

[@mymoviefilms]

This was already done years ago and it even ended up in previous Gran Turismo games. It even looked almost like this.

[@OtesOtesOtes]

3:00 this is a total non-issue if it's a hybrid. electric motors for torque & acceleration with relatively small capacitors, just slightly more than necessary for acceleration.

[@thebearded4427]

Quick question: wouldn’t a variable transmission that disengages completely when breaking with a magnetic clutch be able to run a gas engine with having it slow down? That way you have double “extensions” to reduce the high impact of the re-engage. That or maybe double magnetic clutches? Or maybe the weight is just too high to incorporate that kind of solution?

[@SanderPM]

WELCOME TO F0!!

[@absolarix]

This thing looks like it came straight out of Speed Racer.

[@griptopia]

So many amazing french engineering companies.. "pipo"... where would WRC be without those guys! note the flaps opening and closing in on the tunnel... bit like how they stall the floor out on f1 cars... and meta materials that respond to electric current... (oops i shouldn't have said that out loud) great video dude!

[@johnkilo3]

If you want to get really nuts just remove the driver entirely and then have it driven remotely, or autonomously/semi-autonomously by AI like a drone. That way you cut down on the weight and drag of the driver and the stuff needed to keep them safe. I feel like the biggest limiting factor in all of this, as always, is tire technology. It stinks we can't get a truly unlimited racing series where the only limitation is safety, and we could really see the unlimited prowess and ingenuity of engineers.. I guess that is why they got rid of LMP1, though. It quickly becomes a battle of who throws the most money at their race car, and before you know it everyone has left the series and you only have Toyota as an entry.

[@jeffreyroth7517]

I think this could be the way. Have them "drive it" from a sim rig, there could even be 2 drivers, and the guy/girl that's not driving that stint has to physically run a foot race against the other drivers and whichever of the footage winners places best, there could be an on track advantage given at the pitstop. That way, they'd be physically worn out when it was time for their stint to start.

[@virgiliomariochiono232]

Interesting concept. That's why every race has rules. If you make a formula without rules, your limit is, clearly, how money you want to spend. So on this base, there's a plenty of things you can further enhance, like new materials for everything, software, an so on.