Why is F1 better than NASCAR? I mean,
no offense. I like NASCAR a lot. We
didn't say that. That's, that's what you put
in our mouths. Haywired, we are Formula One
drivers. Let's answer the most Googled questions about F1
. OK guys, we're ready. We're ready.
First question. When did F1 first start? 1950
at Silverstone, it was called the Grand Prix de
Europe. Because I don't know that fire was French
, I think at the time. There was a
fire. OK. Why do F1 drivers train their
neck? Because we are strapped down with our whole
body except the neck. So our head is the
only thing that can really move. Honestly, nothing
beats. I don't train the neck. You don't
do it at all, do you? Never.
How do you do to a first test. I
die one day and then you're fine. Really?
It's the endurance, which is hard to reproduce,
basically. So we can get the strength in the
gym, but you can't hold, you know,
your neck for an hour. Do some F1 tracks
have more physical impact on you than others? Yes
, yes, yes. Well, the most one
Singapore, I think we agree Singapore is. There's
two tracks. Qatar and Singapore. I think the
sun is underrated. How much time is an F1
race? That's such an easy question. It's 1
hour 40, depends which exactly. OK, Monaco
is 150, 4 days long the race. Yes
. Why do I drivers drive zigzag to him?
Tires. The tires up. Try zigzag. Putting
energy on your tires, right. We can imagine
in a straight line, you don't put any energy
on the sides of the tires. So when you
do zigzags, you're loading and you're, you're,
you're, you're stretching the sides of the tires.
Why does the tire have more grip, Alex,
when it's warm and they're round because they're smooth.
IF1 cars. Manual, kind of I mean for
sure they're not automatic in terms of we need to
drive them. We don't clutch or anything to shift
. It's like your Tiptronic car that you can put
in sport mode. We are drivers. We are
Formula One driver. There's no pattern clutch for first
gear and then all up full throttle. Can a
phone cars reverse? Yes, they can. It's
a bit more difficult than my Alfa Romeo road car
. Yes, you can't see. That's the problem
. There's no reversing camera. The mirrors are very
hard to see as well. I think the problem
is when you need to use reverse, you're in
panic mode because that means you've done something wrong,
done something wrong. So you always are like.
Trying to find reverse and it's a simple way of
finding reverse, but it takes 55 seconds to find
it more or less, but it's precious time.
Why do F1 cars have the halo to protect our
heads looks like a flip flop. Yeah, yes
, it protects from cars going. It can happen
. The car, it can happen. It has
happened. Yeah, it has happened like uh going
into your head, like on your side, and
it's very, very resistant. I don't like this
question. No, you gotta read. What is
it? Why is F1 better than NASCAR? I
mean, no offense. I like NASCAR a lot
. Me too. We didn't say that. That's
, that's what you put in our mouths. I
, I think it's just different. We can't take
as many curbs as NASCAR. I would love to
take like the last chicane in Canada. Imagine if
we're in a NASCAR. Well, you make a
straight line. My only reason why I would say
if one is on NASCAR is because it's way faster
and you're faster for me, the better, but
I respect NASCAR drivers and what they do, and
I think it's a great motor sport to watch also
. Can F1 drivers see behind them? Um,
yes, we can. We have two very small
mirrors that vibrate a lot. That vibrates a lot
, and it vibrates so much that you see sometimes
5 cars in the same spot. But there's the
same, the same car just doing this. Who
is the Formula One movie about? Retired Formula One
driver Sonny Hayes comes back to an American team.
He was. Yeah, he was in the beginning
had a big. Crash, yeah, he had
a massive spoiler. So he comes back to Formula
One to help American team Apex GP to get to
be successful in Formula One. Try to hit this
screen nearly killed him. What G4 is the F1
driver's experiences. If you crash, you're not it
can be like 50 if you have a big shunt
on normal. I guess like 5 maybe 6 in
breaking sustained peak peak peak is 6 in breaking and
then sustained 5 in turn 3 in 6 for McLaren
, but biggest crash I've had is for the 6G
. Any big crashes the Miami one I had it
the year before in the concrete, no, yeah
, I peed right the following day. Oh,
nice. Sorry guys. It was like, is
that what he said or wow, it was a
high impact, yeah, I don't know. Do
F1 drivers ever think about anything other than the race
during the race? Yes, we definitely do.
If it's a very. Boring race. The party
afterwards. I did a challenge in Monaco to try
and do a full lap without doing full throttle.
Oh my God and I managed it. I didn't
lose any time actually. That's my reaction time.
F1 drivers don't fight. The F1 drivers drive with
both feet. That we right foot brake. Yes
, no, you don't actually right foot brake.
No, I brake right foot. No, he's
kidding. You almost believe me. Yeah, we
, we, we drive with both feet. So
right foot is a throttle, left the brake,
and the clutch is on the hands. So it's
just for first gear when we pull out the garage
or we do the right start. Otherwise we don't
need to use the clutch. Thanks. When does
the F1 season start? Late February, start of
March. What fuel do F1 cars use? I
have no idea. Petrol. There's 10% ethanol and
the rice is the race fuel that our providers,
but it's like Super 98, no equivalent. Super
98. No, it's 10 110 octane. So
the ethanol is 114. And then we have a
bit less. I had no idea. What's our
F1 driver's favorite circus? Can we all agree it's
Susuka? Yeah. Suzuki's pretty cool, yeah.
Can we all agree the next one might be Monaco
. Monaco is up there. Monaco on the.
I like Austin. I love Austin. Suzuko narrow
, I would say you feel like there's a chance
to crash, which gives you the adrenaline. Now
, the risk can reward, I would say when
you finish your lap and your heart rate's like this
, that's a good track. Are F1 cars all
the same. Yes, completely the same. They're
close enough so we can compete, but then they're
all completely, yes, yes. Every team makes
their own car, and we are currently in the
year of the closest ever year in F1. I
think all cars are within 8/10 of each other.
8/10 is that after a lap, I could do
a lap in a Ferrari, Mercedes, Red Bull
, and then I jump in another car and I
go 80 slower between first and last is between first
and last impressive. But what people need to know
is that between F1 drivers there's no more than 2
or 3 tents. So those 8 10s are still
quite a lot. Which F1 car is the fastest
? McLaren is the fastest. Everyone agrees, right
? It's quite close. This year's McLaren to the
2020 Mercedes actually. Why is Formula One called Formula
One? Because it's about Formula 2 and 3 and
4. No, I think the way a car
is built is a Formula one. For, you
know what I mean so it's a formula of things
and it's the first one and it's the one it's
the number one. Why are F1 ties smooth?
I think they mean why are they sleek. Yes
, I'm thinking of it literally like why are they
not square. To offer the highest level of grip
available, yes, yes, if you put your
hand like that, it's not gonna grip much.
If you put it like this, it grip more
. What F1 drivers are in the F1 movie?
You all of us in the movie. Yes,
you are in the title at the end. And
the title. Carlos is clearly the one featured the
most. He has, he has a whole sentence
. Yeah, he does. It's a great scene
, spoiler alert. Those are all the questions.
Thanks for watching.