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I finally understood what seamless shifting F1 gearboxes are. They're basically motorcycle-like gearboxes (straight cut gears and all) with dual selector drums for simultaneously engaging and disengaging gears. Thank you for the clear explanation!
Well to think that has to take about 1000bhp or so is astounding the amount of punishment that gearbox has to deal with is incredible!
The brutality of everything back in the manual days was insane. Those chaps were a different breed.
You add a lot to F1, mate. Thank you. And thanks to Ferrari for letting Scott into their building. This is pure gold, and F1 should broadcast this type of content before races.
@ 12:10 - this is pretty much how motorcycle gearboxes have worked for years....
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An F1 gearbox was fundamentally the same as a seventy year old motorcycle. The two gears at the same time is a new trick, sort of: nearly fifty years back we had special shift drums and ramps on gear dogs that would kick out the previous gear when you shifted. At full power. With no clutch. Still only one shift drum. In the eighties, I used to sell "shift timers" that would kill the engine for an adjustable period of time; you'd put pressure in the shift lever, kill the engine for some number of milliseconds, and in the slack period your gear change would occur. Now a feature on many street bikes.
Ahh, the beauty of the heel-toe. The footwork is what made some of that early racing so intriguing. So many skills needed.
my jaw dropped, when I heard that in 2002-2003 it was almost automatic gearbox. I didnt knew that
The drivers back in the day were something else, a true craft and passion
2:25 Bruh Senna's hands are wrapped because he crashed the day before. The 93' McLaren had a paddle shift box.
Hey Scott. 1989 was Jacarepaguá, in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), not Sao Paulo - Interlagos
"Bring back the real racing, no batteries and manual gear boxes" -somebody next week most likely
Same type of gearbox that motorcycles used since 50's? 40's? earlier?
As someone who has worked with f1 teams' on track gearbox department since 1997 till today, I really liked your video and appreciate how you explained this complex topic.
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0:35 Yes, the 2024 French Grand Prix, an all time classic
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9:45 Scott, that track is the now-defunct Jacarepaguá track in Rio de Janeiro, the CAPTION on the screen is proof (btw, nice to see Brazilian TV footage here), in the 80s Interlagos was dropped because the original layout was deemed unsafe. But by 1989 it was being renovated and the layout changed to the one we know today.
That barrel is very much alike to the motorcycle gearbox shiftdrum