#FernandoAlonso #F1 #MercedesAMGF1 "You Should Look at me not the Renault V10" - Toto Wolff Subscribe for more contents about formula 1 and Generally motorsports (MotoGP, WEC, WRC, rally, IndyCar, Formula 2)
@ian Budget RC HA! They're that much faster because of custom made slicks, DRS and most importantly modern aero techniques using CDF systems which F1 engineers have said would shave 2-4 seconds off V10 era cars lap times alone. Add it all together and V10 era cars in the modern day, with regulations permitting, would be faster, more nimble, louder, have a greater sense of speed due to all of the above, being smaller and less planted to the ground - in conclusion, they'd be faster and the spectacle would be so much better.
The V10 era ended 15 years ago. Imagine how amazing those cars would be now with another decade and a half of development. Modern tires, aero, electronics, and hybrid systems.
Modern aero and custom slick tyres, I agree. DRS too, but none of the heavy battery power crap. F1 engineers have said, with the modern CFD techniques used to develop aero, they could shave off 2-4 seconds a lap just from V10 era cars lap times. Add it all together - custom slicks, DRS and modern aero and we'd be looking at about 5 seconds faster than Alonso achieved, but then you also have to account for the minimal set-up work on his Renault and the fact he's been out for a while and is old now, so probably even quicker for the top teams/pilots.
Fuck no! Modern aero, electronics and hybrid systems is what make the sport boring. I appreciate and respect the technology and innovation but it adds nothing to the actual spectacle of racing. Go watch Max's pole lap then watch Alonso in the R25 and you'll see how much more intense, lively, nimble and dangerous it looked. That's fun to watch. Modern aero prevents this including close proximity racing, which then makes overtaking harder hence the reason for DRS - a lame idea. Computers and hybrid systems also have no entertainment value. Ayrton Senna's statement on computers and technology: "The machines have taken away the character and it is the character that the sponsors and public are looking for. At the top, you have a few characters of conflicting personality; the rest, without good results, don't have any credibility. We must reduce costs so that we return to an era where the emphasis is on people not computers. I want to be challenged by my own limits and by someone who is made of the same skin and bone and where the difference is between brain and experience and adaptation to the course. I do not want to be challenged by someone else's computer. If I give 100% to my driving, which is my hobby as well as my profession, I can compete with anyone, but not computers."
You and your bitchy tik tok star girlfriend eating out , she is complaining about everything about you... smoking hot waitress comes smiles at you....... SHE'S GOT A V10 PERSONALITY-SMILE-ASS!!!!
My guess is that people like Wolff are told to toe the party line and not acknowledge the obvious lack of sound from the new engines. F1 is no longer a sport run for sports fans and merely a tool for selling more Merc's, Ferraris, Maclaren's, Renaults etc to the mass public using F1 as a proving ground to design, test and promote new technologies like energy recovery. Wolff's apparent nonchalence towards that incredible sound is in complete contrast with the emotional responses of presenters and drivers including Lewis Hamilton who clearly lament the demise of those wonderful engines. facebook.com/RaceOptimisedQualifying
You messed up BIG time F1.... you threw away the greatest sound in sport and in doing so lost millions of fans like me. facebook.com/RaceOptimisedQualifying
No one cares about your stupid interview Toto. Alonso lapping that V10 around the track for just a few laps, was more exciting and interesting than the whole damn actual race.
Nowadays' cars are absolute garbage. I dgaf if they are 2 s faster. They cost a shit ton of money to produce and sound like a crappy Dyson vacuum cleaner. Bring back the V10 & V12 na and leave those stupid hybrid engines to another type of formula.
@Dylan Smit yea, but it may also allow for interesting designs in the future. Regardless, I'm just speculating. Perhaps one day we could have a V10 or V12 again. Or at least V8
@Ben Kuyt If they ever go four cylinder it will be a V4. But there's not much point scaling down from a 1.6L V6. It won't be much cleaner or more efficient.
this is some prove that V10 with high revs is more 'desirable' for most of F1 fans..... as F1 fans I do miss the screaming engine sound, as they said " music to my ears "
@Jānis Ozoliņš Not exactly, it's also displacement and cylinders, the overtone series is different. The V8s live were not as deep and loud as the earlier V10s at similar rpm.
problem is not the v6 or v10, the v6 would sound almost as good as this but modern engines have exhaust energy recovery systems and they dont go higher than 12k rpms i believe while some of v10 went to 21k.
Look at the fuss this v10 has kicked up, multiple videos of people who just can't resist. That v10 is formula 1. U killed the soul of something when u got rid of it! Bring it back!!!
why dont you buy a v10 car. It has almost no use other than motor racing . Research that they do is only for f1 and can't be utilised elsewhere.thats why we have hybrid tech now.formula e and formula 1 has helped a long way in electric hybrid tech for road cars. They have some actual use unlike v10. I would give up the sound for more financially sustainable racing
No Toto. We will look wherever we want. You are a nobody, with 0 racing credentials, who simply lucked into Hamilton and Cowell with a team that has an astronomical budget. Toto Wolff is useless and entitled.
Bring back unrestricted engine regs! v6TT, v8, v10 and 12. All glorious sounds in one GP.. It would add a dynamic that hasn't been in f1 in decades and people obviously are longing for it. From fans, to drivers and principals, alike..
@FB Glitch Well, the best thing you'll get if they decide to go back (which they never will) is V8. And the reason it won't happen is because theres simply not enough money to warrant engine manufacturers to develop intricate V8 or V10 designs which will have no use what-so-ever in real life. My bet is that they want to take it even further but that they developed the hybrid V6 and it cost them so much they don't wanna spend the money to develop something new.
@Niklas Stenhall well it seems that a majority want it, and that's what truly matters. You have your opinion and that's fine. But most of us want it the other way around.
@Nomad Jedi The car had minimal set-up work, didn't have a slicks compound custom made for those cars, didn't have DRS and had a pilot who's been out of the game for a bit and is getting on in age. There's 2 seconds minimum from the 4.6 gap. F1 Engineers have said, if you had V10 era spec cars now with the advancements in aero tech and the CFD systems they use to develop, they could make them 2-4 seconds faster. Add it all together and the V10 cars would be more than competitive today.
@gweger uy jhtr These cars have also had years worth of modern research and development into engines, aero, running gear, tyres etc. that the old cars don't. These cars also have the advantage that V6s have always had significantly more research put into them because they're much more common. If V8s, V10s, or V12s had the same amount of research put in, they would be faster. When using the modern tyres, Alonso's V10 was only around 2 seconds slower than the modern cars despite being 10-15 years behind in engine, suspension, and aero research. Turbos have nothing to do with this, check out a turbo drag car. They produce up to 4x the power of an F1 car, and are also significantly louder. Efficiency is given as a percentage. Even if you have an engine that is 99% efficient, the more power it makes, the louder it is going to be.
@gweger uy jhtr no they do not only now are the cars as quick as the ones front 2005ish but that is due to regs, they are faster on straights but slower in corners. All tubing cars sound like shit compared to n/a only cars but turbos are efficient
