Why Don't Formula 1 Cars Drift To Go Faster?

Why is it that F1 cars are always slower when drifting in modern day F1 cars? It hasn't always been this way...

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[PaladinNL]

Because if they do then everyone would would be calling Bono

[YuwanThayakaran]

Here's a random video idea - How the onboard cameras of Formula 1 cars evolved overtime? Would be interesting and a topic that nobody really touches upon 👌

[Forza_]

Imagine if everyone was just tandem drifting through Monaco

[DyslexicMitochondria]

Lol if drivers drifted cars, Lewis would be complaining about his tyres from Lap 1

[dimitrimorselli]

The only one that go faster than the others, even to the point to pass Nasr is kimi in Hungary 2016

[DwarfLivingInTheMines]

As Keiichi Tsuchiya once said: "I drift because it is the more exciting way to get around a corner, not the fastest way."

I remember a lot of people back in around ~2004-2010 used to have misconceptions that drifting was actually a faster way to clear corners. With the exception of some super tight hairpins on surfaces like dirt or snow, 9 times out of 10 it's far slower, not to mention very hard on the gearbox, tires, cooling system, and tie rods etc.

[eshaan]

The why don’t series: Videos about questions we all know the answer to but we still watch.

[racedayrecap]

enter: Fernando Alonso’s epic driving style

[mXoXgyXi]

I was hoping you mention this thing with the aerodynamics of the F1 car. The whole downforce thing stalls in the instant they start to drift the slightest. This is why they lose sudden control over the car when a more serious oversteer occurs. The downforce loss isn't linear to the angle of the car to it's traveling direction.

[ZeroHedgehog]

Why don't Formula 1 cars drift to go faster ?
Me : F1 is not freaking Mario Kart!

[ryanwhitlock]

The physics answer: the contact patch of a tire basically isn't moving in comparison to the road, and the force of static friction (the friction keeping an object still on a surface) is almost always greater than the force of kinetic friction (the force on an object when it is sliding on a surface.)

There is usually an ideal "slip angle" where a certain amount of yaw in the car gets the most grip from the rubber. With old bias-ply tires, that slip angle was high. With modern F1 tires (and a loss of downforce when the car isn't pointing in the direction of airflow) results in a very low ideal slip angle.

[MrVronscki]

You forgot about Picquet overtaking Senna on the outside while drifting all four wheels and still having time to flip him the bird. Ah those eighties.

[rns.motorsports]

Easy: you’ll kill the tyres too quick and get worse exists

[omo]

Okay as next I wanna "why do F1 cars have rocketships at their back"

[bigpicture]

technically, tires have best traction when they are slipping just little bit. They have the most grip right before loosing traction. From what i know, in order to drive at absolute limit, you need somewhere less than 10 degree of slip angle.

[shadowphonix]

1:25 I like it how evreyone as a proper serious mask and then there is Daniel who wears a mask with a smiley face on it XD

[coldchikn]

If this is what it takes to get me through the off-season so be it

[zomboishuts]

Title: WhY dOnT f1 cArs dRifT to gO faSteR?

Engineers doing their best to improve grip: are we a joke to you?

[GuardrailBoy]

"smooth drifting" is basically just sliding or creating oversteer on purpose

[TheMarcscod]

I had my hopes up for a moment thinking I would see a video about slip angle and yaw on F1 cars.