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As a long time F1 fan, knowing their secrecy and paranoia, the access she gets in this video is NUTS!! Great reaction, guys.

Watching her being such a fangirl around F1 is sooo infecious. In addition, her knowledge and ability to impart her knowledge is incredible.
You can see, how all the people she interviewed were as much "infected" by her sincere enthusiasm as we are whilst watching

In October of 2020, Honda announced its plans to pull out of F1 by the end of 2021, later deciding to stay on as a paid contributor for Red Bull until the end of 2025. This is why Red Bull decided to go ahead and make its own engine.   The Honda CEO at the time of deciding to pull out of F1, had done so because Honda was spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year in F1 (before the cost cap), resources the CEO thought were better spent on EV development etc.  That CEO shortly after passed away, and the new CEO reversed course, hence why Honda will develop for Aston Martin in 2026 and beyond.

Max was only 17 when he 1st started racing F1 and he won his 1st race at 18. he's the youngest driver ever to win a race and his record of being the youngest driver to compete in a race at 17 will never be beaten because the rules have changed to state that a driver must be at least 18 to compete
he's 28 now and has won 71 races , he also holds the record for most races won in a single season with 19 out of 22 races , he's also in 2nd place for most races in a season with 15. (he's won 30.5% of all races he's entered, 233 total) he truly is next level and one of the best f1 drivers ever.
the dude is just a machine that was born to race cars, it's pretty much been his entire life (it's kinda sad tho because his dad Jos was also an f1 driver, and not a very good one at that, he never won a single race , he pushed max beyond what any parent should put their kid through, it did pay off tho but max's success still has it's dark side, there was no childhood except for racing, he was racing go carts at 4 years old and competing by the age of 7) he literally knows nothing else.
and yes I am a huge Verstappen fanboy 🤣

Also, I love how many women are involved with all aspects of RB’s team..as a father with 2 daughters into F1, it’s good to see.

On rare occasions you'll get a team stumbling on a bit of a loophole and designing a car which just destroys everyone other team, you'll get the big teams complaining and trying to sue everyone and the regulatory body scratching their heads trying to work out if they're breaking any rules or not, then if the new design is deemed legal there's a race for everyone to copy them to try and catch up, this happened with Brawn GP in 2009 with their rear diffuser design, basically they bought out the existing Honda team who had been working on their new car design for longer than normal because their previous car was so bad, and when Brawn GP swapped the Honda engine for a Mercedes unit the car turned into a beast, the team only existed for 1 year but they won the drivers championship with Jensen Button, after which they were bought by Mercedes to become the team which went on to be dominant for years with Lewis Hamilton.

She was skipping through the workshop, giddy school girl
❤ from Northeast England ❤️

One thing always overlooked is driver's training, they're athletes, races take around 2h to complete, their heart rate is 160-170bpm throughout the entire race, they loose 8-10 pounds each race in sweat, the cockpit is 50-60°C (120-140°F) during the race, 5g of lateral force while cornering, and so on...

Fun fact: F1 drivers even train to blink at very specific moments based on the way the track twists and turns because at 200+mph, a blink taking half a second means the driver might make some mistake and lose a position or even crash.

They train to control their blinking because their race can literally change in the blink of an eye!

This show rocked! I'm an old gear head who has followed racing my whole life. I learned some things i didn't know. My mission of learning something every day is complete.   Thanks you two for a great watch. rock on🤠.

Seeing as Mike is also interested in the human aspect: Max Verstappen is a pretty interesting character to delve into. As you could see his father was also an F1 driver, but only succeeded in ever getting 2 podiums. His father has become a pretty controversial character within F1 because of how tough he was on his son Max growing up (leaving him at a gas station in Italy for example after a bad race when Max was 14).

Max started karting at only 4 years old and became F1's youngest driver ever at 17 years old. Which was a big controversy at the time and even forced F1 to change its rules to say that drivers have to be 18 years minimum. Max immediately proved how talented he was though and became the youngest F1 race winner ever at 18 years old on his mid season debut with Red Bull. The past 3 years he's been smashing nearly every record in the book and now has 3 World Championships / 59 race wins / 104 podiums and is now considered to be one of the greatest ever at 26 years old. He'e also pretty much the most blunt (Dutch roots...), honest guy on the grid, which makes him fun to listen to. In a nutshell ;)

Cool watching now, hoped you guy's would do this reaction! Thank you!

After the boring race in Monaco this is a welcome sight.

The role of an F1 driver has somewhat changed over the years because of technology. In the early days, the only information a team could get about the car as it was being driven was to stand on the start/finish line with a stopwatch. During testing, the driver’s ability to communicate how the car handled through the different corners of the circuit was therefore critical. Without accurate feedback from the driver, the team couldn’t tweak and adjust the settings to make the car go faster. Drivers like Niki Lauder and Jackie Stewart were brilliant at communicating these handling nuances back to the team. The reason they became F1 champions was not just because of their race craft on race day, but because of their ability to make the car as good as it could be. One example: Niki Lauder drove into the pits and told the team his tyre pressure was off on one wheel. The team tested the pressure on that tyre and it was off by one pound - no telemetry involved, but Niki could feel it. Fast forward to today and a myriad of engineers can sit in the pits and watch every aspect of a cars performance on computer screens as it is being driven. They can make immediate remote adjustments or instruct the driver to make adjustments with the in-car controls. So, while the overall objective of F1 has never changed, the approach to achieving success has changed dramatically.

If you want to watch a race, next weekend (7-9 of June) they race in Canada. Good timezone for you in the US. Friday is practice, saturday is an hour of qualifying (usually almost as exciting as the race itself), and then the race on the sunday. Highly recommend! (And now you know at least two of the drivers, plus there is an american on the grid as well)

The strategy team is CRAZY!!!! I've been watching F1 for years, and I never realized they now have basically, a 'mission control' team like NASA, calling the shots throughout the race.😲 That's just nuts! What a production....

You both should pat yourselves on the back. Getting a sense of your characters, your calmness on screen, your enthusiasm, humour, undoubted kindness of heart and dashed flipping human decency (We need more people like you on the spinning ball). No matter how good a video is, your presence is the cream on top. Greetings from Bonnie Scotland.

My Dad would make me and my younger brother as kids to watch F1 to cheer for his team in the 90s. It's good to see the reaction of people getting introduce to the beauty and beast of F1.

Thank you for giving F1 some American love guys!!!
Big hugs from Sweden

I'm also a machinist and the "milk bath" the cutter gets is not only rest prevention but also heat control and cutting assistance. The teeth of the cutter cut through the material easier with a thin film of oil, this in turn reduces friction which in turn reduces heat. Keeping everything cool stops the metal from expanding during machining resulting in undersized parts. It also increases tool life and the teeth on the cutter need changing less often. It also has antibacterial solutions in it to prevent bacterial build up and to protect you if you cut yourself on a metal chip.