▶ WATCH THE FULL VIDEO: https://youtu.be/hx6owqDbTNs
F1 Drivers Lose Brake Confidence by Lap 30—Here’s Why
Two drivers got binned at Austin 2023 for a wooden plank under the car. Here’s why it matters. The FIA glues a wood composite to the floor as a wear gauge—it’s softer than the asphalt, so if your car bottoms out and grinds, the plank gets shaved down. You’re allowed to lose some, but past a limit, you’re illegal. Carbon brakes only work hot—they need roughly 1000 degrees—and when a driver pushes too hard, the car dives and scrapes. Those two had plank wear beyond the legal mark. Same car, same track, different throttle management. So here’s the question: should the rule stay, or does it punish drivers for how the track beats them up? The graphics and the data are our own, built to explain it better. Subscribe.
Our own script, analysis and graphics: we study real telemetry to explain F1 properly. Original narration and free-licensed images; no broadcast footage.
Images and footage: Pexels, Wikimedia Commons, Openverse.
#F1 #Formula1 #Racing #MotorSport #Shorts
source
