The GENIUS Behind F1's Safety Barriers
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Racing is amazing when at high-speeds - but it comes with inherent dangers. A component failure, bad weather, or driver error can send a car flying towards the barrier at insane speeds.
In my racing career, I had a crash at well over 100mph, so I want to explain what it felt like to hit a barrier like this and how technology has helped save drivers’ lives.
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Barrier technology has come a long way since the beginning of F1, back then they had very little protection for the drivers - often only using a few hay bales dotted around the circuit.
However, as technology has progressed, more and more advanced barriers have been used to protect both the drivers and the spectators.
For a driver, it’s not the speed that does the damage - it’s the sudden stop when they hit something. So it’s about acceleration, and the barrier's job is to keep this as low as possible whilst protecting the marshals and spectators behind them.
Acceleration is the change in speed, divided by the time taken to slow down. A equals v - u over t. We often use the units of G for this, if you jump out of a plane - that sudden acceleration is one ‘g’.
However, when hitting something in an F1 car, you can go from over 100mph to zero in less than a tenth of a second - this creates massive acceleration. And, the larger the acceleration, the larger the force that is placed on a driver's body.
The barriers work by three main mechanisms to reduce this acceleration - Deflection, Deformation, and Momentum.
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Emilio Martin
2 päivää sitten
@Creed Lawrence Damn! It took roughly 20 mins but it actually worked!
Creed Lawrence
2 päivää sitten
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Huracan Media
24 päivää sitten
There is no "genius" behind the F1 barriers, they partnered with the company that originally developed them for Nascar several years before F1 even thought about using them-sorry but Nascar track safety is lights years ahead on F1-One only needs to look at Romans nasty wreck in 2020 as proof. No Nascar track has steel barriers like bahrain, nascar eliminated those kinds of barriers in 2003-2005 for all tracks so F1 is only 15 years behind!
Zhong Ze
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@Smithy of 98 Deceleration is often misused as a term for slowing down. Technically speaking, deceleration doesn't exist and it's a made up word. You can experience a negative amount of acceleration, which is what people refer to as "deceleration". Because acceleration refers to the change of velocity of an object, it applies to objects speeding up and slowing down.
Smithy of 98
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It's deceleration not acceleration
sdfs sds
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ToughAncientSpark
2 päivää sitten
It amazes me how these cars can hit barriers demolishing the car and sometimes the barrier and the driver gets out, waves to the crowd and walks away.
CiEra Washington
2 päivää sitten
This is technically telling the f1 kids that there gonna die immediately
RedWolf0709
4 päivää sitten
R u Nigel Mansells kid
Prithvi Kadam 8AP6
4 päivää sitten
So donut media is not 5he only one to put a sponsor end line Happy
KLIPP3R
5 päivää sitten
6:40 This clip pissed me off more than it should of.
Randomdude8
5 päivää sitten
I have to think about Grosjean right now
Clint1x
5 päivää sitten
At 1:12 it is 9,81m/s^2
Daniel Adcock
7 päivää sitten
okay but going into that advert was smoooothhh
Luís Bita
11 päivää sitten
Best Regards 🏎
Lukas Onrejas
13 päivää sitten
imagine preschool kids listening to this...
Quilir
14 päivää sitten
1:24 There should be ms^(-2)
McCoy BYZ
15 päivää sitten
At 9:50 you can see one section of the barriers transfer the energy perfectly, you can see the way all the water is thrown out of the tires perfect
Harvey Zerk
15 päivää sitten
You said Melbourne wrong mate
Flowers In Athens
15 päivää sitten
Rally barriers are the best
paolo corti
20 päivää sitten
Could bushes or small trees be an option for runoff areas? I think it could really work because little trees and bushes need a certain amount of force to break, and that force is just perfect to slowly reduce the speed of the vehicle. The only problem I thought about is a fire risk, but a healthy plant has enough water in them augmenting the time necessary for ignition. I guess there is a problem that I did not think about...
Boktorinator
20 päivää sitten
Why is this man at a Linus-level of sponsor introductions
Andrea Rossini
20 päivää sitten
1:24 440 is m/(s^-2) not m/(s^-1)
676 767
22 päivää sitten
Nobody is annoyed by him saying acceleration instead of deceleration
Ben Bunch
22 päivää sitten
Fernando looking back at his crashed car putting his hands on his knees gets me every time.
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23 päivää sitten
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Jeremy Pajot
25 päivää sitten
deceleration
Dr.Mikizzle Therapist
27 päivää sitten
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Klappspaten
27 päivää sitten
Not to be picky or anything, but jumping out of an airplane you experience 0g. You're in free fall. Standing on earth you're in an inertial reference frame, meaning objects without an acting force accelerate in reference to you. It's you standing still (or earths surface) who is accelerating, not the one who jumps out of an airplane. Magic of Einstein's Relativity
Ibrahim Abas
27 päivää sitten
melboooorne ;P
barillius
27 päivää sitten
1:03 .... Aceleration? Odd way to spell ACCELERATION. Also, the opposite of ACCELERATION is DECELERATION, not ACCELERATION. Hope that helps.
The Transporter
28 päivää sitten
They don't call the Glen "the Widowmaker" for nothing.
TryHard FinessedYou
29 päivää sitten
It's not about speed... Ok but cars doing 10mph don't flip 13 times either.
Bon Vi
29 päivää sitten
Scott it's Isosceles trapezoid type of pyramid - Loads should be equal when car crashes, also diagonals help "ëat"the tension produced by the crash...
Racing With Martijn
29 päivää sitten
I had a car accident 3 months ago and yea we were travelling at 150 kph and we went straight on at a corner since the driver didn't see the comming up corner and yea we hit a tree everyone was fine btw but yea 3g I belive
nick mcgookin
29 päivää sitten
Cool vid
Sam Wellman
29 päivää sitten
i want to meet Scott Mansell
Patrick Andrews
Uukausi sitten
Acceleration has units of ms^-2 . This matters folks. fitop.info/build/videot/YKzNhLC0qMx83Xk
Trabant
Uukausi sitten
Operation rubber curtain
Sean C
Uukausi sitten
deceleration*
Nirmal Sekar
Uukausi sitten
It’s called Deceleration. Stupid guy begun with wrong terminology. Stupid guy.
Icrem Ibor
Uukausi sitten
I feel like i can do anything with my big brain now.
Black Flabungus
Uukausi sitten
Excellent explanation! Thank you!
Migs Mangaser
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When did you start racing
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Aurelio Tomas Turbao
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Asad Attily
Uukausi sitten
1:48 what he was thinking of
Ken Underwood
Uukausi sitten
Hi! Very interesting. I noticed at 4:11 there is water in the tyres. How does this affect the barrier performance?tia
Brian Hiles
Uukausi sitten
(5:20) _Polyethylene_ tire tubes, not polystyrene. Polystyrene would shatter into sharp fragments, absorbing little momentum, as well as creating much detritus for the crashed driver as well as littering the track for subsequent drivers.
GD TuzinBolado
Uukausi sitten
Nobody: Bahrain 2020 f1 Be Like: Guenther: Pronto Romain Romain: WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Guenther: S🅱IFIRE
CHARLEE SANTOS
Uukausi sitten
This guy races
Patriotic_ Car
Uukausi sitten
Grosjean might say otherwise...
Alex Burky
Uukausi sitten
F1 snobs: nascar is nothing but dumb america’s Nascar: creates the safest form of barrier in nascar that is now also used in F1 and has shown its importance in the Grosjean wreck where they have now replaced the previous barrier with safer barrier
Flowers In Athens
15 päivää sitten
No
Sawta
Uukausi sitten
It's fascinating to hear about the gravel traps and how they work. There are these things called Emergency Escape Ramps ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_truck_ramp ) that I've seen posted on extremely steep mountainsides. The ramps themselves are long, but not _that_ long, and I often wondered how effective they would actually be at stopping an out of control 18 wheel truck if it lost its brakes. It's good to know that there's actually a very good chance it would be effective, if not outright safe to use.
Melchor Vincent Agot
Uukausi sitten
Why didn't he talk about the tyres containing water and that those tyres were recycled for the job after being pulled out of road cars?
Martin McQuaid
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fitop.info/build/videot/YKzNhLC0qMx83Xk "If you jump out of a plane, the sudden acceleration is 1G." Utter nonsense. I'm experiencing 1G sat here on my chair arguing on the internet.
Angel Reyes
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I wish Ricky Bobby would have seen this video before his accident.
Luis Fabricio Serrano Torres
Uukausi sitten
Isn't it technically deceleration
Dominic
Uukausi sitten
Watkins Glen race track 👣👌
grantz91
Uukausi sitten
I love your video. May I ask why they never use the rolling barrier?
Pavendax Veseiden
Uukausi sitten
in rally we dont need that
Kaan Lister
Uukausi sitten
About the Russian gp crash and carlos, what about Jack Aitken and luca ghiotto where they went under the barriers aswell
Tyler Evans
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ALLIGATION VLOGS
Uukausi sitten
Completely wrong physical formula.. acceleration is rate of change of velocity whereas velocity is rate of change of speed.. If u can't explain physics don't try to do that.. as audience we are happy seeing the races
Time Pasteque
Uukausi sitten
Ah yes, m/s acceleration
seshmarls
Uukausi sitten
Uh so the slide you show clearly starts the tires have polypropylene tubes inside not polystyrene
seshmarls
Uukausi sitten
And the news tech pro barriers are clearly filled with polystyrene not polypropylene
CloseCombat Clan
Uukausi sitten
M8. What Cars do when they Hit Walls is called decelleration
Yaka95
Uukausi sitten
@CloseCombat Clan Deceleration = slowing down, acceleration = change of velocity. But this definition of acceleration is more scientific, for everyday use people understand that acceleration is speeding up and deceleration slowing down. I just wanted to tell you that the way it is used in the video is correct.
CloseCombat Clan
Uukausi sitten
@Yaka95 but why is there even the Word decelleration then ? Doesnt make Sense to me
Yaka95
Uukausi sitten
Acceleration is a change in velocity, when a car hits a wall its velocity changes therefore it accelerates. Acceleration doesnt only mean speeding up, in fact turning is also acceleration as you are changing you speed in a different direction.
MacLain
Uukausi sitten
Should've maybe included last years crash in F2 at Russia
Liam van der Waag
Uukausi sitten
Anyone notice the spelling error with acceleration?
Kinang Eagle
Uukausi sitten
Mentions that the car does its own weight reduction to decrease momentum* Doesn’t mention the safety pod that’s meant to break off from the rear half of an F1 car*
Stephen Britton
Uukausi sitten
The foam in SAFER barriers is usually pink foam insulation boards. Cheap and effective. When light cars like INDYCAR runs at a track with them that was designed for NASCAR, every other foam segment is removed to make the wall "softer" because the light weight cars don't weigh enough to properly compact the foam the way a NASCAR or sportscar/endurance car would.
Tripwre
Uukausi sitten
"1G" is actually ~9.81 m/sˆ2 since it is unit of acceleration and not ~9.81 m/s, which is a unit of speed.
Kyle E. Henline
Uukausi sitten
Why can't I find Tecpro anywhere on the internet. Did they go out of business. I'm located in the USA. I have some at my track now and would like to buy more.
Just a simple gamer
Uukausi sitten
Curious if you have watched FORD V FERRARI showing the circuit races from the 60s. There are racing clips scattered around youtube where you can review even the car crashes at the start of the Le Man race, And the man himself. Tho not all aspects are accurate but still enjoyable to watch
Brian Burkard
Uukausi sitten
Can you do a video explaining the Mercedes das system and why its been banned?
Charlene Woods
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Ní Síocháin Gan Saoirse
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Erm, when a car crashes, its DEcelleration which kills, not ACCELERATION..
Qaiser The Cuber
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Nah it's the sudden stop
Hayden Redmond
Uukausi sitten
Holy crap I've never seen that crash at 9:45 from that angle. Holy crap
Alex Kibis
Uukausi sitten
Pretty sure no major race org uses tire walls anymore. The most common one is air fence.
Gábor Miklay
Uukausi sitten
Speed and momentum. This is the start of a beautiful relationship. 😂
Gokul Balaji
Uukausi sitten
@linustechtips got competition with these ad segues. That was smoooooth.
Carlo Fioretti Rizzante
2 kuukautta sitten
Brilliant episode! Thank you!
19future91
2 kuukautta sitten
Next: Deployable parachute
a921DJI
2 kuukautta sitten
Princess Diana would be alive today if there had been a barrier in the tunnel. I always wondered why that was never brought up in the post crash analysis.
John Mitchell
2 kuukautta sitten
Racing drivers want and choose to race, like rock climbers, dinghy sailors, etc, etc. Why should people not be required to take responsibility for their own chosen actions, and not expect others to save their skins?
Sharcc
2 kuukautta sitten
Okay... That segue was SMOOTH.
Martin Scheuter
2 kuukautta sitten
Did you use a de-esser on this? Seems too strong, you're lisping :) just an FYI!
Assuming_one
2 kuukautta sitten
Yes, technology has definitely improved.... It hasn't JUST improved the safety, it has ALSO improved the speed ridiculously. Higher speed = faster crashes, I just hope the technology that goes behind safety is improving faster than the technology that goes behind the speed. Anyone know if the safety is getting better than speed?
TheYeet _Channel
2 kuukautta sitten
Man this guy is good at math
Ali Fazal
2 kuukautta sitten
Driver 61 awesome vid mate! Can you make a video explaining acceleration and top speed in depth and how f1 teams decide which one is more essential.
IIGrayfoxII
2 kuukautta sitten
No mention of Armco?
Ziggy the dos Not the droid you are looking for
2 kuukautta sitten
in short track racing we often use Styrofoam as a safety barrier
Ziggy the dos Not the droid you are looking for
2 kuukautta sitten
we usually just call it a soft wall, my home tracks Fremont and Attica were some of the first soft walls to do this after a driver at Fremont Speedway in Ohio lost his life. I don't know what year it was but it was well over 20 years ago
michael hayden
2 kuukautta sitten
Again another great show/statement! Im really glad 2 c that Nascar was a part of this .. I so hope one day we can have an event with both #F1 and #Nascar at same place and weekend!! I know #Indycar and Nascar are doing a race weekend in the 2021 racing season.. MY dream is for all #Motorsports diciplines can help further the sports we love day in and day out!
Nilav Kumar Jena
2 kuukautta sitten
'Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you' - Jeremy Clarkson
Maxime Dur
5 päivää sitten
In France, we use "a fall never hurts people, it's just the contact with ground which does"
kapten awesome
2 kuukautta sitten
Its not the fart that kills you it's the smell.
d3Rm0Nk
2 kuukautta sitten
Those sponsor transitions lately *chefskiss*
Gecko
2 kuukautta sitten
you slid that ad in so smoothly
avada
2 kuukautta sitten
My awesome idea that they are apparently unable to think of: Instead of gravel use fibers like an artificial hay field. Wouldn't be possible to skid across so it would always work, even if there's a brake failure. Also wouldn't allow for corner cutting like it is standard at present. Also the Safer barrier could be further enhanced with overlapping steel panels and a much wider space for it to move.
Shepard Zumbrennen
2 kuukautta sitten
You mean deceleration🤦♂️
rgm480
2 kuukautta sitten
This video gave me goosebumps! GO ENGINEERS.
srinitaaigaura
2 kuukautta sitten
So why did Grosjean have to crash into a steel decapitator?
hlitharland
2 kuukautta sitten
The acceleration you feel just after you jump out of an aircraft is 0g although the actual acceleration is 1g. The acceleration you experience while sitting down is 1g.
Akshansh Singh
2 kuukautta sitten
🔥🔥🔥
Codie
2 kuukautta sitten
"Its not the speed that will kill you, its the sudden stops that will."