Lando Norris & Oscar Piastri Answer Formula 1 Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED

Formula 1 drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri of Team McLaren answer your questions about F1 racing from Twitter. What is the hardest track in F1? Why are drivers weighed before each race? How do drivers know it’s time for a pit stop? Answers to these questions and many more await—it’s Formula 1 Support.

00:00 Formula 1 Support
00:12 Guessing Tracks
01:10 Weight Limit
01:51 Hardest Track
02:09 Greatest Rivalry
03:14 Front Wings
04:32 Visibility
05:47 Pit Stops
07:03 Car Shapes
07:54 Max Speed
08:39 Warming Up
09:25 Training
10:06 Curves and Corners

Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►► http://wrd.cm/15fP7B7
Listen to the Get WIRED podcast ►► https://link.chtbl.com/wired-ytc-desc
Want more WIRED? Get the magazine ►► https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/splits/wired/WIR_YouTube?source=EDT_WIR_YouTube_0_Video_Description_ZZ

Follow WIRED:
Instagram ►►https://instagram.com/wired
Twitter ►►http://www.twitter.com/wired
Facebook ►►https://www.facebook.com/wired
Tik Tok ►►https://www.tiktok.com/@wired

Get more incredible stories on science and tech with our daily newsletter: https://wrd.cm/DailyYT

Also, check out the free WIRED channel on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Android TV.

ABOUT WIRED
WIRED is where tomorrow is realized. Through thought-provoking stories and videos, WIRED explores the future of business, innovation, and culture.

I’m Lon Norris and I’m mastri and we’re from Team McLaren and today we’re going to answer some questions from the internet this is Formula 1 [Music] support we got a little question from at the alterior kid is it true that F1 drivers can tell what course it is from just hearing an audio recording of it I’ve seen people do it before I feel like I’m going to be terrible at this well this is coming down the lit Lane long pit Lane okay this is a very slow corner I reckon it’s Bahrain yeah quick turn to stra I think byin you’re right it is there you go it’s true it’s possible Syria kid is true yeah so that was just done via our knowledge of distance of pit exit y to turn one the distance from the pit Lane to the first corner is always different depending on the track it sounded like we got up to like I don’t know fifth gear or sixth gear and then we went down a lot of Gears which means it’s a slow corner and then the next Corner seemed pretty quick I thought it would be would be bar so there you go from at JS wallow 123 I wonder why F1 drivers have to get weigh after a race do you know why so we have a minimum weight limit of 798 kg including the car that’s why we get weight just to make sure that we’re not under the weight limit cuz obviously that’s an advantage we do lose weight cuz we’re sweating working hard doesn’t always look it but we are sometimes you have a very hot race you can lose a lot you can lose easily 3 4 kg the most weight I’ve ever lost is probably yeah three three and a bit kilos and yeah often we we weigh ourselves before the session as well because then the engineers have a good idea of what we’re going to weigh so that we’re not underweight and disqualified from juan4 what do you think is the hardest track in F1 I think Monaco probably Monaco Monaco or Singapore easiest one to crash yeah you just want to make mistakes yeah most demanding you just can’t make a mistake simple as that you make one little mistake you’re on the wall game over game over from at Ash likes racing what’s your favorite F1 rivalry I think for me probably Center versus Frost I think it’s probably the most famous one we are Rivals we are Rivals yeah I want to beat him and he wants to beat me yeah but we have to pretend that we’re besties I think we both have the same goals uh we both want to win the quickest way into achieving that is by working together helping one another just helping the team score the most points possible as soon as you put their helmet on kind of fight for yourself but you also fight for the team you just have to get that balance correct points you get 25 if you win you get 18 if you second 15 if you’re third 12 if you’re fourth and then once you get to fifth it’s 10 and then it keeps dropping by twos until you get to 10th you get one point and then anyone finishes from 11th to 20th they don’t get any points you also get a fastest lap point if you you get the fastest lap sometimes you see us make a bit of an unexpected pit stop or push really hard for one lap that’s cuz we’re trying to get an extra point for the fastest lap and points mean prizes and points mean prizes more points you get more prizes you get the more money you get at Nick scotney how critical is a front Wing in today’s F1 very yes it’s huge yeah it’s like as soon as you have a little bit of damage you know about it h you know about it straight away this is it this is the front Wing yep rid of the front nose Y and the front Wing everything on the car is pretty much aimed at trying to push the car into the ground that’s down force that just pushes the car down pushes the tires down gives you more grip yeah basically makes you go quicker so this is crucial when you’re steering yep you take this off you’ll turn into a corner there’s no load there’s no grip on the front tires uh you’ll just go straight on just as important as this is the rear wing which Oscar’s pre-prepared basically does the same thing but at the back of the car PES the car down gives you a lot more rear grip it would be difficult to even complete a lap you would spin a lot and probably crash a lot these are like everything to us y these are magical the other thing is the car is designed to have a front wing on it so the rest of if you take the front Wing off the rest of the car doesn’t really work either but the air goes through the front Wing first obviously and then it goes like to the floor it goes to the rear wing so if you lose the front Wing or the air doesn’t get directed where it needs to go and then you have even more problems than just losing the front Wing at n medium asks what’s the driver’s visibility like pretty bad you see your car yeah the first bit of like ground that you can see like probably 10 me ahead when you’re driving you’re kind of just focusing on what’s ahead of you even like you know we have the Halo protects our head but you don’t really see it because similar to like your nose you’re looking far enough ahead that it kind of your mind just blurs it out but because you’re looking 20 M ahead 30 m ahead and you get your own sense of Gears like we have the gear number on our on our screen maybe you do I never look at it I know like you just do it off of sound you do it off of memory off of feeling when we pull up to the pit stop sometimes we have people all around the car you don’t want to HT anyone but you also want to gain every little bit of lap time possible so you push it as much as you can but we still make mistakes we misjudge it sometimes sometimes you kind of lock up you hit the guy but he’s ready to kind of absorb a bit of the impact and then he jacks the car up they change the tires put it back down and you go like the first time you do it you know you enter very slowly and you kind of slowly start to learn how much you can push you and exactly how long long and wide the car is but that’s something that takes time we also have like a board that we kind of line our tires up with so we have like a good reference and we can’t see much out of the car but we can see a little bit sort of the top of the tires and a little bit above that otherwise you probably see a lot more people getting hit so our next question is from at before we kiss how do drivers know that it’s time for a pit stop our engineer just tells us ultimately we can decide if we don’t want to or not usually there’s a pretty good reason why they would cause into the pit Lane you kind of pit for two reason actually you can have three reasons one you got damage two the tires are wearing out the tires made of rubber over time that wears down the less rubber you have the less grip you have so at a certain point it’s better to come into the pits but new tires on they’re always talking to us about how our tires are going whether we think we can keep going and if it gets really bad whether we can keep the car on the track sometimes you might just pit because the guy behind you is pit undercard is when someone pits before you puts on Fresh tires and then by the time that you pit you actually come out behind them overcuts which is actually the opposite of that you put on fresh tires but really the fresh tires aren’t that much better or maybe they’re difficult to warm up it’s actually better to go for a bit longer bit later and maybe you overtake someone that way that’s when you get into the more technical stuff with strategy which is a big part of racing so there’s a lot of communication around that side of things so you kind of want to be able to communicate with your team without giving away too much information because all the other teams can listen to each other’s radio that’s why you never hear anyone say what lap they’re going to pit cuz then you tell the whole pit Lane what your your strategy is from Amber Lounge limited what’s your favorite F1 car shape well we grew up watching like 2010s or late 2000s so the old cars like Lando’s holding look really cool much more simple than what we have now the McLaren MP4 TB 1985 Frost car I think I’ve driven this one I think I drove it in Sona oh just everything’s cool about it yeah everything the the colors the look sounds incredible as well for me sound is a big part of everything cars nowadays sound terrible these sound way better very little technology everything here is to do with technology how they build it how they design it yeah make it it just drives differently very different like no power steering now we have power steering so from step one to the end basically everything is changed or a lot more advanced nowadays from at Maybelline Grace do all F1 drivers have a max speed of 241 mph fastest clocked has been 241 mph it feels pretty quick going at that speed depends on the car you’re in depends on this track depends if you’re in a a slipstream as well if you got a car in front of you literally punches a hole in the air for you um so you have less drag and you can go faster you don’t really realize how fast you’re going until you see like on on your dash we’ll just hit the throttle pedal as hard as we can it’s not down to asses down to the car depends a lot on the track as well how long the straight is so when we race in Monaco for example race with the most amount of downforce on the car so the top speed is very low but when we go to somewhere like Monza we run the lowest amount of downforce we go much faster on the Straits from T an high land and ask piastri I have a question for both of you what are your rituals or warm-ups you do before going onto the race I always do like a a physical warmup Before the Race some skipping some stretches and I lie on my bed I have a little massage I listen to some music the more chilled I can be the better one other thing we do a few days before the race is walk the track to see if there’s anything new that’s changed from the year before or if it’s a new circuit or a track we haven’t been to just looking at the curbs what things to avoid what places you definitely don’t want to over push what places you can push you know places you don’t want to make mistakes or you can afford to make mistakes different things like that we talk a lot about the strategy Before the Race so we have some some plans about what we might want to do in the race if there’s one pit stop or two or three we’ll have plans that might have different amount of pit stops next question we got from a summarize s Frey how does one train to become an driver so that they can also have cat-like reflexes we trained from a very early age but luckily I got a pair of balls let’s put it to the test I’m going to test you there’s many different ways of doing things is one of them yeah are you ready as ready as I’ll ever be uhhuh there you go oh three you got it every driver does something different I use these lights switch come on you have to react to the lights you can also get these glasses which like flicker this also helps your reactions a little bit more next question is from at by Brandon white do F1 drivers accelerate or break on curves on the corners what’s the strategy with that normally you break before the corner if you’re coming from a really long straight into a slow corner you need to break a lot more than if you’re coming into a fast corner or you know you’re coming out of a slow corner and then you’ve got another Corner that’s why you see it’s lock up because where we’re trying to break as as much as we can that’s the strategy with that one so those are all the questions for today thank you very much for watching Formula 1 support