Torque and Gears - Why F1's hybrid engines are more 'torquey'

What is torque? What does it mean? How does it work? Does it have something to do with power? How do the gears affect torque? Why do hybrid and electric engines deliver torque so quickly? What does this all mean? Let's find out with some Talk About Torque!

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Writing / Illustration / Animation / Editing / Narration:
Stuart Taylor

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[MrMichalMalek]

The part where you put live telemetry into torque graph is absolutely stunning!

[benhewitt]

Hopefully this guy will end up on one of the F1 TV teams one day. Great explanations for the f1 beginner and diehard alike. Keep it up.

[matthewvaughan]

I hope you never stop *torquing* about F1.

[Joa]

F1 aside, this is the best explanation of how a basic gearbox works I've ever seen. Great production overall!

[Andre-rcqg]

The amount of effort you put into your videos is crazy.

[mhilmyfauzi]

The animations are especially helpful in this video.

[sadiqsamawi]

Exquisite, If those who can't comprehend the difference between torque and power couldn't get itfrom your video, I don't know what will!

[dertodestoaster]

So far many People here on YouTube tried to explain how Torque and Power are connected, but couldn't quite do it. But you Sir, you absolutely nailed it! I think this may be your best video so far, it contains just the right amount of information to unterstand the topic, but it's simple enough not to lose the view over the whole topic. The effort you put into these videos is amazing, i really love your new animations especially the ones where you show the engine revs on the chart.

[emilemartin]

You're vids are changing my vision of F1 races, making them more and more interesting everytime
Keep up the amazing work !

[ferna]

You just made torque sound interesting. I don't know how but you did it.

[estebanisswimming]

The quality of these videos is just insane!! What a great channel.

[onlinetuna]

Congrats on 100k.

Three weeks ago I had no idea about any F1 rules or even watched an F1 race (or much other Motorsport). I watched your overtaking video and now I am hooked. I've watched all your vids, am posting on message boards, listening to F1 podcasts, playing F1 games and I stayed up far too late (early) watching the Austrian GP.

So.... thanks for that?

A new F1 fan from NZ, thanks to you.

[TheTobeyGaming]

Wow, great video as always!
And again awesome graphics, 3D-animation again, visualisation of telemetry... it's great to see how much effort you put in every of these videos!
And congrats to 100k! You deserve every one of them

[joewilliams]

Love to see the Patreons list getting longer and longer :)

[noer]

Hope I'm not nitpicking too much. But I think the example of finding the maximum torque output needs a annotation or alike to correct the example. The gearing is actually tuned to the maximum power output of the engine. In F1 cars it doesn't make much of a difference as they are tuned to have there maximum torque delivered high up in the rev-range. But if people were to apply the method to an engine with max torque delivered at low rpm, they probably won't be able to make sense of it, as the gearing will keep the revs higher than where max torque is delivered.

Would like to add that, as always, I loved the video and the way you manage to explain these complicated topics in a way that people without a big understanding of the physics can understand. As they say: "The better your own understanding is of a topic the simpler you can explain it to others". So huge respect from here, because you seem to understand these topics very well :)

[mihirpanchal]

Sir your knowledge is very deep and thanks for making videos and making us understand the F1 more. Greetings from India

[commentator]

This is what the community needs, to understand how the cars today work. Its not as simple as it was 30 years ago. Great work mate, keep it up :)

[joanrodr]

Amazing video as always, but you missed the opportunity to say "Let's gear up and torque about Gearboxes!"

[Werepie]

I love the animations, definitely worth the effort!

[olivert.]

wow this was great!! Always wondered what it was even for regular cars, glad you covered it!