The Only Car That Made F1 Look Slow

The Only Car That Made F1 Look Slow

The Porsche 919 EVO Hybrid is a car built with a single purpose in mind: break all records. Unbound by racing regulations, Porsche engineers went nuts and built this physics-bending machine that exceeded everyone's expectations and even broke some F1 records.

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[ChristopherGustafson]

If this is what a no rules LMP1 prototype can do imagine what a no rules F1 car can do.

[petersafwat]

The mercedes F1 car of 2017 that porsche beat was the W08 which is the 2017 car....the W11 is the all conquering 2020 car

[michaelbagus]

W11 is from the 2020 season, not 2017 season, that car was W08, while the W11 is still faster than the 919 Evo but with all due respect both of the cars were equally insane

[Drrolfski]

Speaking of defeating Formula 1: I've heard promising stories about Adrian Newey's recently revealed RB17. He told the press that one of their clients (not a professional racing driver) was already clocking 2 seconds faster in the simulator than any F1 car ever on Silverstone. So I would definitely keep an eye out when they will put Max Verstappen in that car when it rolls out of the factory.

[AaronBrownStudios]

What you came for starts at 11:40. The rest is backstory on the original car.

[yan]

18:40 this right here. Rally is more dangerous and people are like it’s the hardest form of motorsport. But honestly, driving on a track at f1 speeds isn’t far off. And, this is gonna piss some people off, but i say f1 is harder than wrc.
I’m not saying wrc is easy, but neither is F1

[blackout_x]

seeing uploaded 32 seconds ago is wild

[robfinney]

Vettel put up a 1:41.501 in Q2 qualifying in 2018, a few months after the 919 set that 1:41.77 lap. Nice try.

[Redsson]

Throwing out all safety rules is not positive. Understanding design objectives and constraints are important parts of Engineering. And there are always constraints. Relaxing constraints doesn’t necessarily make an engineers job more enjoyable. In this case it likely provided engineers a chance to explore a different design space which could be more fun.

[henriks]

Another nonsense comparison between these two.
Imagine something unrestricted competing against something heavily restricted, who do you think will come on top!??

[ceed]

The original CanAm cars of the late 60s and early 70s blew the doors off of the F1 cars of that day. The early to mid 1970 Indycars also easily outran the F1 cars if the day. But the first cars to make F1 cars look slow were the 1950s Indy Roadsters, and they proved it the few times they were able to race them. The F1 manufacturers were so scared of the Indy Roadsters that they only raced against them twice, and only a couple of the teams even attempted it.

[aaronkiran]

can we just talk about the writing for the

[pollemar]

AWD vs. RWD
Very few rules vs. many rules and restrictions
Still same lap times.

Nough said.

[Lilragnorok]

no way he said the porche beat the W11. This man trippin 😭💀

[RobertZimmer]

19:01 Great Video! But I would love to know which resources were limited? Money, Time? Both?

[Wit_Shunter]

G'day hound dog. Great story. I left it for a while because I liked the Mustang story more than the racing ones, but this was worth the watch. That #2 919 coming from 56th to win was nice to know about on a Sunday when I've just snapped a brass banjo bolt on the fuel return line of my diesel. Optimistically uplifting. The twelve seconds improvement and to beat the F1 record at Lemans also great news for tired old men on a Sunday afternoon. Thanks for the humour with the sepia tractor footage too. You do it very well, the narration part. See you next week

[swyoung]

Threw away the rule book and went POINT seven faster than the record holding F1 car. Image a no rules F1 team building a car...

[kennethprocak]

Comparing to F1 is silly. If you just build a vehical to be fast on a track it would look similar to LMP1 prototype anyway, because you will cover every area of drag with bodywork, no open wheels and maximise ground effects.

[giosimfra]

These "no rules" cars performance/comparisons are absolutely nonsensical.
If there are no rules, then there is no class. A "no rules" car isn't (cannot be) a F1 or a LMP car or a NASCAR or whatever. Because what defines each one of those cars are the very categories they compete in, which have a set of technical regulations which make the cars F1, LMP and so on.
A "no rules" F1 car isn't an F1 car. This car here, for instance, is based on a LM car, but it isn't one.
If there were no rules and somebody were tasked with designing a race car, the parameters would have to be: which track or tracks this car is going to drive on. At that point likely the first step would be to establish wheel base and so on so that it is the best for that track or the best compromise for the set of tracks the car would race on. Then everything would trickle down from that.
Definitely it would be a single seater, it would have an enclosed cockpit and cover over the wheels, things of which the last 2, for instance, conflict with F1 car regulations.
So, had you done this to an F1 car, you'd likely would have a faster car than this one, primarily because of the fact that there are some limitations in an F1 car that are innate of the formula series in itself. If you had to drive an F1 to do one only lap, for instance, my guess would be they would have a lot more power than what they do, because at this moment the engines need to last for a number of races. Case in point, back in the first turbo era, the BMW engine was putting out more than 1500 hp in qualifying trim. From a 1.5 L engine. That is more than 1k hp/L. 40 years ago.