The Life of a Bolt

We design, produce and inspect over a million Formula One car parts a year. This is the story of a humble front suspension bolt... RB12-FS-00663-02.

We followed a humble front suspension bolt on every step of its journey from sketch to drawing, machining to testing, assembly to racing. And now you can too, in our exclusive video...

[ChristopherFonseka]

Never thought I'd have an emotional attachment to a bolt

[KaiserLatao]

Ferrari:lets show them our new supercar
Mercedes:those guys will probably be amazed with our technologies
Redbull: *Bolt*

[KrisMcCool]

Meanwhile in Williams...

“Oi jeff, can you hop into the home depot for some bolts?”

[Ev-wjlm]

Redbull engineers: design a bolt, triple check it for the safety, being super cautious with it

Also Redbull engineers: slap the tire with the fists

[cursedcliff]

This is now probably the most famous bolt ever

[danielmoukli]

well.. I never felt an emotional attachment to a bolt before.

[jackjames]

Verstappen Crashes*
"Ope there goes that one bolt and a billion other pieces"

[saaketmanjrekar]

All I got to know is that the manufacturing team gets a wireless mouse and the designing team does not. Nice.

[rocketthink]

That bolt goes in a car that goes very fast...
I guess you could call it...




*Usain bolt*

[Gustavsson]

girls at midnight: sleeping

boys at midnight: life of a bolt

[kr_]

0:25 Remember this bolt?
2:36This is it now, feel old yet?

[MovieMan]

After all this, the mechanic drops the bolt and can't find it anymore

[jjj]

Now imagine the bolts that went into the machines that made the bolt

[XexJJ]

Apparently when I was drunk I watched this 33 times last night

I genuinely thought I watched a movie

[nsshing]

12 hours later,


Max: Bang.


The end of the life of that Bolt.

[dramatic]

Someone better confirm that this bolt is still in use and its safe.

[JoeMama-yqly]

I remember when I saw this video for the first time, I was entraced. I didn't understand anything but this video led me to study Mechanical Engineering. Now, I'm at the end of my studies and I can recognize most of the operations showed. I'm very glad that this video inspired me in a such amazing way. Thank You

[mrmilkshake]

bolt getting more love and attention then i ever will

[maxrockatansky]

And then the bolt went on to win 8 gold medals in Olympics.

[TDubsKid]

I bet that 1 bolt costs more than my whole car