Comments by "Tim John Un" (@timjohnun4297) on "Driver61" channel.

  1. Great video and I'd often wondered how the seamless shift worked. It's cool to see that the gearboxes are still effectively an old school manual box, with a lot of newer technology incorporated into them.
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  2. People always seem to have the opinion that current F1 drivers have no skills. I have no idea why.
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  3. An older comment now, but deserves a reply; I read an article a while back where a guy said he borrowed a cherry picker, to watch qualifying from above the fence, at 1 of the corners in Canada (From memory). He said every driver but Senna lifted for the corner, Senna took it flat out. After quali he was in the pits and Senna saw him, and recognised him, and said "Hey, you're the guy in the cherry picker". I think time really did slow down for him, when he was driving fast, somehow, in his mind
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  4. Lewis hasn't forgotten how to drive, no, he is still very fast in clean air, in a good car, but he is not as good as George at wheel to wheel racing, in a car that is less than perfect. Could say George appears to have better racecraft
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  5.  @austineeze5491  Think Hill Vs Schumacher. Hill was fast in clean air and usually landed on pole. Schumi was much better at wheel to wheel racing, and regularly beat him. Just as an example
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  6. I couldn’t help but thinking that maybe it was the airspeed forcing it shut again, not that I have an intricate knowledge of its workings, but it just seemed to open initially and slam shut again
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  7.  @dkmotorracingnz8010  There's plenty of dirt ovals all around the world. No reason NASCAR can't run at Eldora or Knoxville or any of the other permanent dirt tracks. I am surprised they run them with windshields though...
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  8.  @randypecker6995  last I checked, seatbelts and the controls for raising and lowering the cars were in the cockpit...
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  9.  @Apollo_Sausage  What a joke! What about all the designers who have NEVER designed a championship winning car? It's like saying Senna was an average driver because of all the years he didn't win
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  10.  @streuthmonkey1  possibly, but I find it quite bizarre that people still seem to think the cars are somehow driven by computers. All the computerised driver aids were removed years ago, yet people still seem to think the drivers of those cars were more skilled than the current ones
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  11.  @mangalutv2928  That's been the way it works since forever. These drivers have all been racing their entire lives, Rich families? Possibly. But I would bet that any kid that had been started in karts at 3 or 4 years old would be a damn good driver by their early 20's. Even the least talented F1 drivers on the grid are probably 10 times better drivers than you or me.
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  12. Somehow I think with all the might of Honda and RedBull, and all the engineers they poached from Mercedes, they wouldn’t have been caught out by something as simple as ethanol compatibility. If they were, they are seriously over-paid 🤣
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  13.  @ItsDeffoScott  let me guess, you have undeniable proof of that, right? 🙄
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  14.  @alanjm1234  George has better racecraft. There, I fixed it for you. You're welcome
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  15. Merc supposedly stopped development of last year's car in favour of developing this year's car, so I would expect them to maintain their considerable advantage
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  16.  @MegaIronica  George did do very similar, in a 2020 car, would have easily won the race, had the team not given him the wrong tyres at his last pitstop. He was clearly faster than Bottas...
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  17.  @lorpal1  and remove trump
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  18.  @geemy9675  Yes, I understand that. But using a slower car (Hillclimb car which is lighter and has more downforce) allows them to use the electric powerplant, to avoid having to do the mods to an IC engine. This was all covered in a previous video. Keeping the speed down not only increases safety but also means they can use a shorter tunnel
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  19. Good point, I couldn't think of a worse place for a car to start bouncing!
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  20.  @dianamaioru497  except that’s not true. Go have a read on F1’s own website and it explains in detail why masi’s decisions were made and legitimate. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, if any rule was broken, Merc will successfully appeal it. So far they haven’t and they likely won’t
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  21.  @prickly-pear  And that makes him different to any other world champion, how?
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  22. Yep, I had faith in Honda when they came back, because of their history, but I have to admit, I thought Red Bull had made a big mistake when they went to them. Enjoying my humble pie now 😏
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  23.  @GoingRampant92  replace it with yet another boring predictable Tilke designed monstrosity perhaps? I thought having a couple of tracks that reward good driving and punish mistakes (Monaco and Baku) adds a bit of variety to the season. There’s plenty of other races to watch if you want to skip Monaco
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  24. 30 years ago the cars (I think) were quite easy to drive. They had lots of driver's aids like TC, ABS, etc. I'm sure the average person would still struggle in one, but I think for an established driver they weren't terribly difficult. These days the cars look easy to drive, because they are much more stable, don't squirm around much, etc, but they have no driver aids, plus, all the computer stuff, that a lot of people seem to think are aids, are the exact opposite. I couldn't imagine having to change computer settings on the steering wheel at 200 mph, just to extract the maximum from the car
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  25. Interesting video, I'm just wondering if some of the teams have new, stiffer floors to go in, now that they are back in Europe? Personally I can't say I'm too disappointed to see Merc struggling a bit, makes a change at least ;)
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  26.  @JakeM218  hadn’t thought of that, makes sense
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  27. @growlingbehemoth Couldn't be more wrong. there are no driver aids in today's cars at all, all the computer controlled crap is just extra stuff they have to learn to do. Comparing drivers of old cars to today's is kind of like comparing a pilot of a bi plane to a 747 pilot
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  28.  @FireEmperor_A  then why are you commenting, in the comments section of a video, if you don’t have an opinion? LMAO
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  29. I doubt it would do a lot of damage to the track, for several reasons, although I could be wrong...Firstly, if the skids are digging into the track, enough to cause damage, they are generating friction, which no team would want. I would bet they are designed specifically to NOT dig in and do damage. Secondly, skid plates have been used in F1 for decades; If they damaged the track surface I'd bet they would have been banned long ago. Thirdly, I'm not convinced that the titanium skids are any harder than steel anyway; the brinell hardness of regular titanium (70) is around half that of steel (121). I'm not sure whether the annealing process makes it that much harder, to be honest, but again, I could be wrong....
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  30.  @ASJC27  I can’t argue with you there, sounds like you know hardness more than I do 🤣 but whether it’s harder or softer than steel is still probably irrelevant imo because both are harder than asphalt anyway 🤷‍♂️
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  31.  @andyklush8446  He cops a lot of bagging because he's not as fast as Lando in the understeering McLaren, but put them both in a pointy car and I'd bet the tables would turn
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  32. His emotions are getting the better of him. He doesn't lack driving skills, but his "The world's against me" attitude is holding him back. JMO
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  33.  @MrEo89  apart from hillclimb cars, which is why they are using one
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  34. Plus I think with the teams' liveries on them we will soon get used to them. I found the halo the most hideous thing ever when it first came out, it kind of looks normal now. For example...
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  35.  @Rage1732  That's a good analogy. I've said for a long time, Max is more like Schumacher and Lewis more like Hill. Hill was very fast and clean, but wasn't great at wheel to wheel tussels against a more aggressive opponent, like Schumi. You could also swap Schumacher for Senna, and Hill for Charles, still the same comparison
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  36. I'm not a fan of DRS because it's kind of artificial racing, but have to admit, it does spice up the racing a bit, and is here to stay. The idea of moving the detection point to the corner exit makes perfect sense to me...
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  37.  @dianamaioru497  let us know how the appeal goes 😏
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  38.  @dianamaioru497  they are appealing 2 things -1 that you can’t overtake under the safety car and that at 1 point Max had his nose about an inch in front of Lewis - highly doubtful that will succeed, and 2 that not all cars were allowed to unlap themselves. Now you tell me, how it would have changed the result if Ricciardo was also allowed to unlap himself from behind the 2 leaders? And it’s not just the F1 website that lists the reasons, there’s plenty of others. Please let me know the result of the appeal, OK?
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  39.  @dianamaioru497  It was decided 2 years ago, by everybody involved, that races wouldn't finish under the safety car. RD was trying to achieve that but was running out of laps. He wanted a clean race between the 2, and Lewis could and would have won that, had he not left a big hole for Max to drive up the inside of and pass him. Personally I wish Latifi's crash could have been cleaned up a bit quicker to take away the excuses but hey.
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  40. I could have sworn Max's car was running a lot more rear wing angle of attack than Checo? Checo's was fluttering with DRS open, too, Max's wasn't. I may have been imagining things...
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  41. same :)
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  42. So Honda will lose out badly when the MGUH is scrapped? Is that still happening?
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  43.  @Chris-xl6pd  I'd bet he could outdrive you though, just the same
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  44.  @twandepan  Because most of them run out of money
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  45. Hope not…
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  46.  @alanjm1234  The video I watched told me that Lewis had more straight-line speed than George because he ran less downforce. Next?
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  47. I think they would adapt very quickly. The only area where I think they may fall down would be the fear factor, because today's cars are so much safer, in comparison. I think the drivers of yesteryear would really struggle in today's cars, because of the physical demands, the amount of grip and horsepower and the need to basically be a computer programmer while driving. They would really struggle with the g forces, too, I think , depending on era, of course
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  48.  @JoeJacksonGT3  Apart from being a basket type, with multiple plates. OMG some people are pedantic
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  49. That’s what I was thinking, that it was the hydraulics fighting against the air speed somehow
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  50. Undercut is where you stop for fresh tyres before your main opponent does and gain ground from being on the newer tyres. Overcut is where you stay out longer and go hard while your opponent is in the pits
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