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

I'm Lon Norris and I'm Mastri and we're from the McLaren team and today we're going to

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. We got a little question from the guy above. Is it true that F1? Drivers can know which route it is just by listening to an audio recording. 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. Yeah, long pit lane, okay. a very slow corner, I think it's Bahrain, yes, fast turn towards Stra. I think you're right, there you go, it's true, it's possible that the guy from Syria is true, yes, so that was done through our knowledge of pit exit and turning distance.

One, the distance from pit lane to the first corner is always different depending on the track, it sounded like we got into I don't know fifth or sixth gear and then went down a lot of gears, which means it's slow. The corner and then the next corner seemed pretty fast. I thought it would be a bar, so there you have it from JS Wallow 123. I wonder why F1 drivers have to weigh themselves after a race? You know why? So we have a minimum weight limit of 798kg including the car, that's why we gain weight just to make sure we're not under the weight limit because obviously that's an advantage, we lose weight because we're sweating working hard no It always seems that way, but sometimes we are you. you have a very hot race, you can lose a lot, you can easily lose 3 4 kg, the most weight I have lost is probably yes, three, three kilos and a little bit and yes, we often also weigh ourselves before the session because then The engineers have a good idea of ​​what we are going to weigh so as not to be underweight and not be disqualified by Juan4.

What do you think is the most difficult track in F1? I think Monaco probably Monaco Monaco or Singapore are the easiest to crash, yes you just want to make mistakes, yes, very demanding, you just can't make a mistake, simple as that, you make a small mistake, you are on the wall, you game over, game over on Ash likes to race what's your favorite F1 rivalry. I think for me probably Center against Frost I. I think he's probably the most famous we are rivals we are rivals yes I want to beat him and he wants to beat me yes but we have to pretend that we are best friends I think we both have the same goals uh we both want to win The way The quickest way to achieve this is by working together, helping each other, simply helping the team get as many points as possible as soon as you put on the helmet.

It's kind of fighting for yourself, but you're also fighting for the team, you just have to get the balance right. points you get 25 if you win you get 18 if you're 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 falling two by two until you get to tenth you get one point and then anyone finishes from 11 to 20 doesn't get any points, you also get a point for fastest lap if you get the fastest lap, sometimes you see us make an unexpected pit stop or push really hard during a lap, that's because we are trying to get an extra point for the fastest lap and points mean prizes and points mean prizes.

The more points you get, the more prizes you get, the more money you get at Nick Scotney. How important a front wing is in today's F1. Yes, it's huge. yeah, it's like as soon as you have a little damage you know right away, this is it, this is the front wing, yeah, get rid of the Y front nose and the front wing, everything on the car is pretty much aimed at trying to push the car into the ground that's the downward force it just pushes the car down it pushes the tires down it gives you more grip yes it basically makes you go faster so this is crucial when you're driving yes you get it you take off turn in a curve there is no load there is no grip on the front tires eh, you will continue straight.

Just as important as this is the rear wing that Oscar prepared basically does the same thing, but on the rear of the PES car 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. This is like everything for us and it is magical. The other thing is that the car is designed to have a front. The rest of the wing, if you remove the front wing, the rest of the car doesn't work either, but the air goes through the front wing first, obviously, and then it goes to the ground and gets to the rear wing, so if you lose the front wing or the air is not going where it needs to go and then you have even more problems than just losing the front wing in the middle asks what is the driver's visibility, pretty bad, you see your car, yes, the first one.

It's a bit like terrain that you can see probably 10m away when you drive, you just focus on what's in front of you, even like you know we have the Halo protecting our head, but you don't really see it because so similar to your nose, you're looking far enough forward that your mind just erases it, but since you're looking 20m ahead, 30m ahead, you have your own idea of ​​Gears like we have the gear number on our en our screen maybe you do. I never look at it. I know you just do it from sound. You do it from memory and feeling.

When we get to the pit stop, sometimes we have people around the car. You want to HT anyone, but you also want to gain as much lap time as possible, so you push as hard as you can, but we still make mistakes, sometimes we misjudge him, sometimes you crash, yeah you hit the guy, but he's ready. absorbs the impact a little bit and then lifts the car up, changes the tires, puts it back down and you go like the first time you do it, you know you go in very slowly and little by little you start to learn how much it can push you and exactly how far and wide is the car, but that is something that takes time.

We also have a board that we align our tires with, so we have a good reference and we can't see too much. the car, but we can see a little bit of the top of the tires and a little bit above, otherwise you'll probably see a lot more people getting hit, so our next question is before we kiss, how do drivers know it's time to a pit stop, our engineer simply tells us that ultimately we can decide whether we don't want to or not, usually there is a very good reason why they would go into the pit lane, you go into the pits for two reasons, in Actually, you can have three reasons, one for you. it got damaged, two, the tires are wearing out, tires are made of rubber over time, that wears out the less rubber you have, the less grip you have, so at a certain point it's better to pit, but they're always talking to new tires.

It asks us how our tires are doing, if we think we can keep going and if things get really bad, if we can keep the car on the track, sometimes you can just pit because the guy behind you is on the pit billboard. , is when someone comes into the pits before you put on new tires and then the moment you come into the pits you come out behind them, which is actually the opposite of putting on new tires, but in reality the new tires They are not much better or maybe it is difficult to heat them.

In fact it's better to follow a little further and maybe overtake someone that way, that's when you get into the more

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nical stuff with strategy which is a big part of racing so there's a lot of communication around that side of things, so somehow you 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, because then you tell the whole pit lane that you, your strategy is from Amber Lounge Limited, what is your favorite form of F1 car?

Well, we grew up watching them in the 2010s or late 2000s, so old cars like Lando's look really cool, much simpler than what we have now, the McLaren MP4 TB 1985 Frost. I think I drove this I think I drove it in Sona oh everything is good yeah everything the colors the looks sounds amazing and for me the sound is a big part of it all. Cars these days sound terrible. These sound much better, very little.

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nology, everything here is about technology, how they build it, how they design it, yeah, do it, it just drives differently, very different, like without power steering, now we have power steering, so from step one to The ending, basically, everything has changed or is much more advanced.

Today, since Maybelline Grace, all F1 drivers have a top speed of 241 mph. The fastest speed recorded has been 241 mph. It feels pretty fast at that speed. It depends on the car you are in. It depends on this track. It depends on whether you are slipstreaming. Also, if you have a car in front of you, it literally punches a hole in the air for you, so you have less resistance and can go faster, you don't really realize how fast you're going until you see that on your dashboard, we will just press the accelerator pedal as hard as we can, it doesn't depend much on the track and the length of the straight, so when we race in Monaco for example, we increase with the greatest amount of downforce on the car, so that the top speed is very low, but when we go somewhere like Monza, we run with the least amount of downforce, we go much faster in the Strait from T, a high land and I ask Piastri.

I have a question for you two, what? What are your rituals or warm-ups that you do before going to the race? I always do a physical warm-up. Before the race, I skip some stretches and lie down on my bed. I get a little massage. I listen to some music. The more relaxed I can be. Another best thing we do a few days before the race is walk the track to see if there is anything new that has changed from the previous year or if it is a new circuit or a track we haven't been to, just looking at the sidewalks . things to avoid which places you definitely don't want to push too hard which places you can push you know places where you don't want to make mistakes or can afford to make mistakes different things like that we talked a lot about strategy before the Race so we have some plans about what we might want to do in the race, if there is one pit stop, two or three, we will have plans that might have a different number of pit stops.

The next question we got from a summary is Frey, how does he do it? a train to become a driver so that they can also have feline reflexes we trained from a very young age but luckily I have a pair of balls let's put it to the test I'm going to put you to the test there are many different ways to do it things are one of them, Yes, are you as ready as I will be? uhhuh, there you have it, oh three, you have it. Each driver does something different. I use this light switch. Turn it on, you have to react to the lights.

You can also get these. glasses that like to blink this also helps your reactions a little more the next question is from Brandon White do F1 drivers accelerate or brake in the corners in the corners what is the strategy with that you normally brake before the corner if you come from a very long straight into a slow corner, you need to brake much more than if you enter a fast corner or you know you are coming out of a slow corner and then you have another corner, that's why you see that it is blocked. Up because we're trying to break as much as we can, that's the strategy with that, so that's all the

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