Formula 1 For New Fans: The History Of F1 & Everything A New Fan Needs To Know EXPLAINED

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Formula One's History & Roots: 0:13
F1 Is Big Business: 2:53
Teams, Tech, Drivers, & Car: 3:48
Your 2020 FIA Formula 1 Sporting & Technical Regulations Download Link: 4:22
Brain Melted Apparently & Called DAS "Dual Access". It's clearly "Dual Axis": 4:50
Team Tiers: 9:29
Tyre Talk: 12:02
Get On Circuit Guide Mailing List: 15:52
Grand Prix Weekend: 16.23
QUALI TIME: 19:47
Points System: 22:43
F1 News Hub: 24:02

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Formula One's History & Roots: 0:13
F1 Is Big Business: 2:53
Teams, Tech, Drivers, & Car: 3:48
Your 2020 FIA Formula 1 Sporting & Technical Regulations Download Link: 4:22
Brain Melted Apparently & Called DAS "Dual Access". It's clearly "Dual Axis": 4:50
Team Tiers: 9:29
Tyre Talk: 12:02
Get On Circuit Guide Mailing List: 15:52
Grand Prix Weekend: 16.23
QUALI TIME: 19:47
Points System: 22:43
F1 News Hub: 24:02

[robertofontiglia]

I was like, "something's off about this F1 video" -- then I realised. It's the american accent. I'm not used to people talking F1 in an american accent...

[JG-ibxk]

All you NEED to know to watch your first F1 race - main points in *bold*

1. *F1 is a multinational motor racing series that takes place across 22 races in 22 countries.* Each race has a different amount of laps (times you go around the track) but each race must be at least 305 kilometres long and can not last more than 2 hours.

2. *There are 10 teams, each with 2 drivers, making a total of 20 cars.* Both cars on each team have the same livery (the paint and stickers) except the number on the car is specific to each driver.i

3. *Drivers are competing to win the Driver's Championship, whilst the teams are competing to win the Constructors Championship.*

4. *Points are awarded to the drivers who finish in the top 10 at the end of each race.* The winner gets the most points while 10th place gets the least. The driver who gets the fastest lap during the race gets an extra 1 point, but they only get the point if they finish in the top 10. The points won by both drivers from each team are added together and go toward their team's points in the Constructors Championship.

5. At the end of the year, after all 22 races, *the driver with the most points wins the Drivers Championship* and the *team with the most points wins the Constructors Championship.* The driver who wins the Drivers Championship is also allowed to use the number 1 as their race number the following season. Money is awarded to teams depending on the order they finish in the championship, with the winner getting the most and last place getting least. (Some teams like Ferrari get "Historical payments" at the end of each year because they have been in the sport for so long.)

6. *"F1" is short for "Formula 1."* The formula is the set of regulations (like a recipe) that the teams have to follow when building their car. There are several different championships that use the formula system, such as F2 and F3. F1 is the pinnacle, fastest and most expensive of these.

7. *The position a driver starts each race in is decided by Qualifying.* This happens the day before a race. Drivers try and get the fastest time around the race track. Whoever is fastest gets to start the race from 1st position, this is known as Pole position. The second fastest driver starts in second and so on.

8. *Modern F1 cars are fitted with a DRS system to help them overtake.* The wings on the front and rear of F1 cars are like upside down airplane wings. Instead of pushing a plane in to the sky, they push the car in to the road, meaning it sticks to the road and can go round corners very fast. However, wings can act a bit like sails on a ship and slow a car down in a straight line because they catch all the air and add drag. All current F1 cars are fitted with a DRS (Drag Reduction System). When a driver uses DRS it makes one of the rear wings go horizontal, so it stops pushing the car in to the ground and is less draggy) which makes the cars go quite a bit faster in a straight line. At certain straight parts of each track there are 'DRS Zones' (between one and three of them depending on the track) where drivers can press a button to use their DRS to go even faster and try to overtake the person in front of them. However, they can only use their DRS if they are within 1 second of the person in front of them. DRS was added to F1 cars because it is hard for F1 cars to drive really close behind each other because of all the turbulent air coming off the car in front, so it can be very difficult to overtake the car infront. DRS helps get around this problem by making the car behind in a close fight slightly faster than the car in front.

9. *There are 7 types of tyres used in F1.* 5 of them are used when the track is dry. Then there is an "Intermediate" tyre for when the track is a little bit wet, and a "Wet" tyre for when the track is very wet. The 5 dry tyres vary from very soft to hard. Soft tyres make the car stick the road meaning the car can go it's fastest when using them. However soft tyres wear down quickly so they can't be used for very long. Hard tyres are the opposite, they arent as fast as the soft but they last longer. The different tyres are called "compounds, " eg. The hard compound, the Soft compund, the Wet compound.

10. At each race Pirelli (the company who make all the tyres for F1) chose 3 of the 5 types of tyres that they think suit that specific race track. Some tracks make tyres wear quickly, some the opposite. *Every driver has to use two of the three types of tyres during a race.* This rule is cancelled if it is raining and teams have to put Wet or Intermediate tyres.

11. During races *flags are used by marshalls to communicate with drivers.* Marshalls are volunteers who stand next to the track to help make sure the race goes smoothly. There are a number of different flags, but the most common are:
- *Yellow flag:* waved if there is an incident on track to warn drivers (for example if a piece of a car has broken off and is on the track.) When drivers see this they must slow down a little bit. If two yellow flags are waved by one marshall that means the incident is more severe and drivers should be extra careful.
- *Green Flag:* these are waved when the track is clear to let drivers know that any previous incidents have been cleared up and they can return to normal racing speed.
- *Red flag:* this means the race is being stopped (usually if there has been a particularly bad crash that will take a long time to clean up.)
- *Blue flag:* this are waved at a driver if he is being "lapped" by a car that is ahead of him, telling him to let the driver behind past. Being "lapped" or "lapping" is when a driver is so fast they go all the way around the track and come back up behind slower cars who are actually behind them in the race. The slower cars are lapped when the fast car overtakes them.
- *SC:* this stands for Safety Car. The Safety Car comes out if there is an incident on track that needs clearing up by Marshalls. It drives around the tack slowly, with all the F1 cars in a line behind it until the incident is cleared. Then it goes back in, and the driver in first position then decides when to start the race.
- *Black flag:* waved at a driver telling them they are disqualified from the race. Is waved if they are driving dangerously or are causing danger to other drivers.
- *Chequered flag:* this is waved at the end of the race to signify the race is now over. Once waved all cars must complete the lap they are on and then stop.

12. At the end of the race the *drivers who finish in 1st, 2nd and 3rd all go on to the podium* and receive trophies and a bottle of champaigne. The winner gets the biggest trophy and 3rd gets the smallest. Being in the top three is known as being "on the podium" and is a big deal to drivers and their teams. some drivers go their whole career and never get on the podium.

There are always more details to learn about F1 as you become a bigger fan, that's what makes the sport so fun, there's always more to learn, but to get started that list of 12 is all you need to know to enjoy your first F1 race. (There are a few answers to questions new fans have asked in the replies below, so if you have a question it might have been answered there, but feel free to ask anything that you want below.)

There are a few channels which are great for explaining all the different parts of F1 in simple videos here on YouTube, including Cranky Yankee!
1. Chain Bear (has weekly videos on all the main parts of F1)
2. Marc Priestley F1 Elvis (ex-Mclaren pit crew, weekly Q&A and explainer vids)
3. THE RACE (motorsports news channel with with discussions about current F1 issues)
4. Formula 1 (the official F1 YouTube channel, has become a great source of fun and interesting videos about the sport, races and drivers)

Some of the questions that have been answered in the responses below:
- Do the same 2 drivers represent each team for all of the races in a year?
- How does a new F1 driver get selected to drive in F1?
- (in 2020) Which drivers haven't been on the podium yet?
- Why have Ferrari been struggling recently?
- Could the Williams team make a comeback soon?
- Does "season" mean "year"?
- Is Netflix's F1: Drive to Survive good?
- What's the difference between the Virtual Safety Car and the normal Safety Car?
- What are the "Historical payments" you mentioned?
- Why would Ferrari ever leave F1?
- Will the upcoming cost-cap help level the playing field and give us closer racing?
- What does GP2 mean?
- Does the order of the 22 Grand Prix change each year?
- How is the order of the Grand Prix decided each year?
- Why do cars go in wavy line sometimes before racing?
- Can cars go to the pit anytime they want?
- What are crash tactics?
- Why Pit during SC / VSC?
- What are some of the new rules for 2022?

[kimi]

Drive to survive on netflix got me into f1. Ive binged several 2019 grand prix’ over the past few days and its just exciting to watch 20 chaps risking their lives exceeding speeds of 320km for our entertainment.

[divinatilden]

"I don't like the blue flags"

*Sebastian Vettel liked that*

[boomjonggol]

"You're never going to see Haas beat Ferrari"
Kimi Raikkonen: *finishes ahead of both Ferraris in an Alfa Romeo*

[stereotype.]

Lets face it:

Most of us here aren’t new F1 fans

edit: since I’m somewhat wrong, I’m glad to see so many new fans! For those new fans: Please don’t limit your interest to only F1, there are some amazing high-level series, that are less well-known and that are struggling because of a decline in interest, and are struggling to attract manufacturers, like the DTM, WEC, and numeral regional/national touring car championships and GT championships. Let’s support those so we can enjoy a variety of motorports in the future!

[stratis]

Imo we have Merc, Ferrari and RB as the front runner
Then we have the midfield - RP, Mclaren, Renault, AT/TR
Then (imo) Sauber/Alfa and Haas are kind of in a different (slower) class
Then theres...well...Williams - in a another universe

[briaw]

I never EVER thought I’d get into this but Drive to survive on Netflix got me sucked into F1! 😂 great video!

[Samuel-xsyv]

Just realized at 29 years old that F1 is really interesting to me. Thank you SO much for this video. Really needed this.

[viandramonisyaf]

6:48 I was like wait why is the Merc one so big? And then it shows I was like "Ahh ok I get it 😂"

[Taylordrifts]

This was a great video! Thank you for making it. I hope to see it go viral as it should.

[bigbaderek]

I think you should do a video about on track terms when i started watching it took me half a season to figure out what DRS was and how it worked (the 1 second away in a detection zone then in another zone you get to use it. Not that you push a button and a flap opens)..stuff like that

[HerbieFL]

Nice to see a fellow American making great F1 content. I'm the only F1 fan I know of but I'm sure I'll turn some of my friends eventually, that or they'll stop talking to mebe because of my F1 talk all the time hahah

[suorastas]

That wandering Haas was so sad I just want to give it a hug. Way to make me feel bad for a logo.

[alexxenos]

"Haas won't beat Ferrari anytime soon"
Me after seeing the first 3 races of the new season: "Are you sure about that?"

[joshserro]

the netflix series on F1 has me hooked just trying to learn as much as i can :)

[doubleboy]

Playing F1 2019 has me consuming all things Formula 1

[leadiodide]

Watching this in 2023, is probably the funniest thing you can do. "Bring the teams closer together" when Max Verstappen exists😂

[pedrotirelli]

Man, it is so nice to see your evolution!! Even knowing the history it is so pleasant to watch!! Cant wait for your videos this season!! 💪🏻💪🏻