Why Formula 1 Cars Take Hours To Start

Ahhhhh.....a proper F1 engine.

Great video!

I would never turn off my car if it was this complicated to turn on

youre only as good as your sponsors..

I was nearby a Williams FW29 (Alex Wurz 2007 Canada chassis) today when it got started up, those two cars (other one is the Rosberg car) are owned by Rajamäki from Finland but are now equipped with Judd engines. Same start procedure as here in the video but damn it was fun to follow all of it

My wife also takes a good few hours to get ready but doesn’t cost me anywhere near as much. Win win

I loved Minardi. They where always such the underdog but they worked so very hard for every Euro they had.

Rumor has it they use dot matrix printers for the readouts.

Oops I turned it off

Not sure why but this is one of the nicest F1 cars I've ever seen!

I don't know why but there's something about 90's F1 cars looks that gets me every time 😍❤️‍🔥🔝 so beautiful

Let me save you 5 minutes they got to warm the engine first.

Seems like more technology than the first moon shot.

And then the driver crashes it in seconds.

Those cars upon till 2008 are the best looking of all time.

Regular car - starts in 2 seconds, takes 1 hour to replace tires.
F1 car - starts in 1 hour, takes 2 seconds to replace tires.

So if you get spun and the car stalls.....you lost the race.

I have on good authority that tolerances are so small on F1 engines to mean that the pistons are seized solid in the cylinders at anything below 60 degrees centigrade. So maybe that is why this specific car did no perform well.

I don't think the Panasonic CF-28 can run windows 95 by default, that machine shipped with Windows 2000 or XP normally,

Unless of course they changed some settings in the firmware.

The M198 with the 99 livery

Imagine spending millions to develop and run a car, and then choosing to depend on Windows 95 as a single point of failure in your setup.

How could something be so high tech its outdated. I just don’t get it.

Smart enough to work on a F1 car, not smart enough to figure out data transfer rates? I think it’s really more of if it ain’t broke don’t fix it mentality. They admitted it themselves that they didn’t know if pre heating the engine actually helps but they do it anyways.

how honda civic owners with a laptop feel:

That sound is worth every second
hard working

What material they use for piston and block sleeve?

Couldn't avoid noticing the Quilmes logo at the sides of the rear spoiler.
Quilmes is a brewery from Argentina "where I'm from". It's crazy I've never noticed something like that before.

That’s crazy about the air controlled valve system!

the joys of a Terrible Ford power unit lmfaoooo

i guess it's obvious, but good lord do these techs know their stuff, huge respect

This Minardi still sounds way better than any current F1 car.... I really miss the sound of those V10's.

All of that and then get taken out in the first corner mayhem.

Seems like a bad design.

Seems like a lot of hassle when you could just buy a Porsche.

Only came across your channel about an hour ago and it’s already my favourite one 😆

Late for work again.

The idea that preheating a race engine was needed never occurred to me until I was in the pits at an American Le Mans Series race and saw them preheating an Audi R10 diesel engine. Then the light bulb over my head turned on.

Fantastic video Matt, and a proper old school car! Not a plug, but have a look at my videos for teardowns of some F1 parts of this era. Anyways, keep up the epic vids and greetings from Ireland!

So it takes Windows 95 running on a 2 inch thick, 25 year old laptop to start this car...

This is so cool
Thanks for this content !

Do they take all of this equipment onto the grid when the cars are off just before the race starts?

Supercool. So informative!

I say: "Hey Siri, start my car".

so basically: this car never placed well and was much slower than everyone else. we need an old, shitty laptop to adjust the car otherwise it doesnt work. car needs to be pre-heated or else itll shit the bed a lot sooner. then, after 2 hours of work, we're able to run a few laps much slower than any other car on the grid at that time...

fantastic!

That car was a beauty.

Ah it makes sense now why everyone calls a car a “she” !

What a great title…holy

Excellent and concise

To be fair, even when it was current that car didn’t always start.

so the title should be „how long it TOOK“ if they start up faster now, shouldnt it?