Imagine if it just resulted in a race where the drivers could push flat out for the whole race rather than just managing their tyres.

Can't wait for Hulk to get his first podium with a Haas 1-2 when it turns out they designed their mobile tyre cooker as a Las Vegas circuit special.

Using Mazepin's car to demonstrate an unpredictable spin is equal parts savage and hilarious 😂😂

How it really happened: FIA: So the temperature is going to be around 50°, which is significantly hotter than Bahrain in 2005, but teams have gotten better at thermal management since then, so we believe... Logan Sargeant: 50° Fahrenheit, not Centigrade, you know that right? FIA: What the fuck is a Fahrenheit?!

I wonder what Haas can do in order to mess up the one race where their ability to scorch their tyres would be a benefit.

Not gonna lie, an F1 race with only Richard Hammond's would be a sight to behold

3:50 Putting Lance when you said "good driver" and Alonso when saying "great driver" is a different sort of savage :D

Haas' weakness of cooking it's tires, might actually be it's strength this weekend 😂😂

I’m out there working. It’s not as catastrophic to be honest. Even at 4am. 10-12C. What I’m more worried about is that pit exit. It’s completely blind if your exiting the pits and the corner apex is literally the pit exit!

Not just the tyres that will be negatively affected, but the driver too! I recall a race at Mt Fuji decades ago where the drivers hands would go numb and the visors would fog up.

Most people seem to expect that the low temps will result in a lot of action. However, difficult tire conditions usually results in a boring race, where drivers are afraid to push, and just take it very easy and stay single file. Qualifying could get more interesting though.

We will be lucky to see more than 15 cars finish the race :)

it's almost as if they went for a shiny and glitzy race and didn't really think of the practicalities beyond that..

the weather shows it to be 10c, which really isn't that unheard of. people where thinking sub 5c temperatures but now they're temperatures similar to a just dried up and cloudy spa day

The explanation of how toe in or out can help warming up the tires is very insightful. Can you also do a video explaining the ins and outs of brake bias? We often see F1 drivers adjust them during a race or lap.

I suppose, with all the potential difficulties, this particular event will show who excells at optimising a car and who doesnt, and which driver is skillful and has a high understanding of his cars dynamics. Everyone will have the same problem, and everyone will have to drive accordingly.

Racetime forcecast right now is about 14C, so I think Pirelli can put away the snow tires.

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GREAT VIDEO!! Thanks for the explainer

Maybe the cold air will give the engine a bit more horsepower seeing as they are forced induction lower inlet temp is always helpful. Or run with smaller brake ducts to generate heat through the wheels to help tyres warm up. Just a thought 😮

Why does higher tire pressure make the tire heat up quicker? Usually the opposite is true as lower pressure means more tire deformation and therefore more resistance and thus temperature.

Stroll will do well this weekend. When tracks are slippery and cars lack grip, he seems to thrive.

Terrific explanation, thank you so much,

Hey man I would like to let you know that I always had this curiosity about tyre temps and you nailed it. You spread a seed of knowledge today, sir, and I will bear your seed until the day I die

the cold will be awesome. they have to accommodate heat, altitude, etc at different tracks, this will be cool.

This race is the one where Haas has normal tire deg.

That’s what I was thinking about. It is one thing to drive on slippery tires. But another is when it is continuously changing. Cools down in straight for the breaking zone, but warms up and gets sticky again mid corner. And the extent of this change is different in each corner.

This race shows that Fahrenheit is an awful measurement for temperature related to weather: Celsius is easy, 0 degrees=freezing. 32 degrees Fahrenheit=freezing is so awkward.

Honestly it could be much colder too... i had a layover in vegas once and it god down to -1C overnight

Excellent video and insight. Another option for increased tire temperature would be to increase the compression stiffness of the dampers. This forces more energy through the tire carcass generating internal heat in the tire.

cutting to stroll when saying "the merely good drivers..." 😂😂

they‘ve really thought this event through haven‘t they…😂

Lewis might be able to run faster than less confident drivers but the mercs are going to struggle in a straight line. Sergeant could be interesting if the home race advantage and the straight line speed of the Williams come into play

You aLways give a great explanation with simple facts on what drivers can expect thanks

this has me very excited to watch the race!

Kind of amazed FIA didn’t decide it should be a sprint race weekend too.

It's wild that I have watched nearly every race this year, but know I will be sleeping when the lights drop on a race in my own country. Even for Vegas, 10 PM is pushing it. Midnight quals is plain stupid.

Look into 1977 F1 race at Watkins Glen. On Saturday there was snow in the air mid to upper 30s f. The cars were lined up on points. And they ran in the low 40s f. I hope helps and thank you for what you do on UKposts and other format's

At the risk of re-opening an old wound, this tire temperature issue is one of the analysis theories for the Senna crash in 1994. Cold tires due to a slow safety car and late braking coming into the corner causing a massive lack of grip and steering resulting in the tragic straight run into the barriers. Obviously there were many other theories, but the parallels are similar enough to bring the horrible memory back. Great channel as always. Cheers back at you sir.

I got money on Williams to win. They usually over heat tire and why their pace falls. In these temps they should be super fast all race.

Is it possible that the wet can be actually faster than the slick because it performs better at lower temp?

great video, made my day

It's not actually the sport's first event in Las Vegas, that came back in 1981 and 1982 at the Caesars Palace Grand Prix, I went to both! As a spectator, it was great the track was short 2.3-mile circuit was completely confined to the car park of the Caesars Palace Hotel so the cars went by in less time which kept the excitement up. Good Luck to all the Drivers, who would have thought it would be cold!

love your insight 🔥 banging video

I am also hoping for a spectacular race, and it will be... These conditions will just make Max look even more dominant.. dude was taught to drive slicks in rain by his dad, I'm not seeing anyone being able to challenge him.

That straight is huge! I’m definitely expecting a lot of things to happen at the end of the straight.

The coldest Indy 500 was 1992 which turned out to be a bloodbath, largely because of cold tires. Shouldn't be as much of a problem for F1 because 30 years later tire technology is presumably advanced and F1 uses tire warmers and IndyCar doesn't.

It could be worse. It could snow like it did at Spa a few years ago.

Pretty sure it’s going to be about 51-52 degrees, which is about 10 c I believe. From your F1 data that’s pretty cool but shouldn’t get too much colder.

Mazespin as the stock footage for what it looks like when the car loses grip was a choice.

Thanks for sharing.

This just all sounds like an entertaining race to me as there is a high chance of mistakes. Also, just a thought, when you run inters in the dry they suffer from overheating - maybe try inters in the cold to get temp in them

So interesting and not a boring race maybe? ...I'm for it 👍

I had a minor shunt feeling out some new high performance tires in colder weather than I should have. The grip cliff when my rears spun up mid corner was incredible, and the rate of yaw breathtaking. Thankfully I was exploring in a safe place so just some bent bits. First time on cold tires and hopefully my last. Wish I would have seen this video last month. Big cheers.

This is going to be chaos on track with the tight track.

Let them use intermediate tyres at Vegas.

I'm a Vegas local, I've heard so much talk about the temperatures. The low for Saturdays race is 50 degrees F, and that won't be until about 2-3 A.M. local time. I have a hard time believing F1 hasn't raced in significantly lower temps before. I think the race should be in the September-October area for the future, but I think there is way too much talk about the "low" temperatures.

Very interesting, thanks 👍

i love the transicion of the "the difference between the good and the great drivers" and the video changes from Stroll to Alonso

One of my favorite quotes from Jim Clark when asked how he drove so fast was he could not understand why the rest drove so slowly.

I wonder if they'll experience with using the intermediate tyres on the dry, it's a strategy that has been dancing in my mind every since I realized that those are the softest tyres Pirelli offers

Not just cold but the weather report has a 40% rain chance today. No telling what the crazy Vegas weather is going to do this week.

How do you figure "freezing"? ... last I checked, freezing is 32 degrees fahrenheit or less, and during the entire F1 "weekend" of Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in Vegas, the coldest temperature is still above 50 degrees fahrenheit!

I love how you used AM drivers for good&great drivers.

Sounds like they need to schedule this race earlier in the season.

"It's going to be really cold... 5 degrees Celsius" or like we in Finland call it, beach weather.

It is almost like this track was designed as a spectical rather than a race track.

I'm surprised I haven't heard anything about Tyre Blankets yet. Teams couldn't stop whining about it when they started restricting them... On another note, I think the undercut is going to be substantial this weekend considering how long it will take to heat up the tires.

They'll do the same as always. That's to say that they'll follow each other with very little overtaking happening as 75% of the viewers fall asleep on the sofa.

I wonder if teams will use more downforce (more than typical for a "high speed" track) to induce tire temp...

Imagine they used "heated roads" to keep the tyres and the track surface warm lol

It's going to be in the 50s and most likely the mid to upper 50s they'll be fine.

I predict Albon and Williams would get a podium in this race.

Beyond the unpredictable points of loss of grip, for the temperature, is the degree of that loss of grip, as in it’s affectively total, rather then, diminished, akin to hitting a ice patch.

i am going to love this race

imagine if you could check the weather forecast and see that Vegas won't be going below 10C all week/weekend 🙄

Imagine Williams winning the race and Haas scoring a podium.

On the up side the intercooler for the turbo is going to love life

NO ONE HAS MENTIONED THIS YET: Las Vegas is a odd one for temps. The air temp can be 45f and the city temp is 60-70f depends on time of day. It’s a massive concrete jungle with nearly ZERO air flow through out the city. I’ve been there during summer and it was saying 93f on the weather app. But in the city temp gauge was 108f

Classic F1, why does it need to be at night? Well it will look cooler of course... They don't care about racing just advertising

The biggest challenge is integrity and stewarding!

I calculated a total length of around 4900 meters (4.9 km/ 3.0 mile) they can go flat out. That's gonna be a problem with the new asphalt, low temperatures in las Vegas and the many straits on which the tires cool off. Joy!

With the colder temps and the long straights, how are the brakes going to cope with this? I'm wondering if there will be lots of locking up/running off...

Has nobody making these videos checked the forecast? It's due to be like 12 degrees, not cold at all

The most casual drop of "yeah I've driven a few F1 cars before". Humble brag mate

Hi Scott, appreciate the video. As an amateur F1 enthusiast, it's nice to see professional input and opinions on F1 strategy and the like as it allows me to learn more about the sport. You mentioned in the video how Sergio Perez is gentle on his tires, and from your experience and knowledge of the industry I have two questions about that: 1: How can you tell that just from watching him? and 2: How exactly do you go about being gentle on your tires? Thanks!

this is definitely out of the oridinary but I'm all for it

How does the colder air effect the output of the power units? Are any benefits negated by the turbo?

It is going to be warmer than normal this weekend for the race in Vegas, so hopefully the tire issues they are predicting will not happen or not be as bad. Hopefully chaos can be avoided in that first turn at the start. Will be interesting to see how the teams adapt to this track.

I flew from Key West to Las Vegas in November once, meaning I was only wearing shorts and a t-shirt. Only time my luggage got lost and it was late at night. I was shocked at how cold it was.

Weather forecast for Las Vegas, Friday 12:00AM 12°C, Saturday 10PM: 12°C. Temperatures you can easily get on any northern European race track in summer....

This is what the ideal F1 calendar should be: -Season opener in Melbourne -Sepang -Istanbul -Hockenheim -Monaco -Silverstone -Montreal -Austria -Magny Cours -Hungaroring -spa the last race before summer break again -monza (with gravel around the parabolica again) -suzuka -CotA -season closer in Sao Paulo MAYBE throw in Bahrain, Barcelona, or Imola too, but that's it; absolutely no more races than that... March to October, like how it used to be. If a bunch of Arab oil sheiks want to drop some coin to have races around their fake marinas, then we can have "wild card" slots on the calendar with circuits that rotate every few years. If they come even close to adopting a calendar like that (with no Miami, no Mexico City, no Qatar, no Abu Dhabi, etc), along with going back to smaller, more nimble cars again that aren't these understeering, lumbering behemoths that look like parade floats when they're going through slow corners, and show signs that they are phasing out DRS, then I will go back to being as head-over-heels in love of a die hard fan as I used to be when I first started watching. But until then, they're on thin ice with me personally, and I'm currently counting my days for how much longer I'm honestly going to keep dedicating time to this sport.... and I say this as somebody who hasn't missed a single race since 2005 (and watched most of the qualifying sessions as well), for whatever that's worth. First and foremost priority before any of that other stuff though is completely scrapping these silly SpRiNt WeEkEnD sideshows... ugh. If they make those changes, then I seriously couldn't care less about anything else going on. They could still have celebrities I don't care about taking up screen time, keep the Netflix and Disney programs, increase the idiotic hybrid electrification, have one guy winning every race by a minute, Brad Pitt, whatever... That's all water under the bridge. But imo, they are on life support (increase in number of fans doesn't matter if all these new fans only casually tune in to an occasional race here or there, while they piss off & shove out the die hard ones. Quality > quantity) until they 1) get rid of the sprints 2) put the cars on a diet, and 3) reduce the calendar, and thus, viewer saturation. While we're at it, clean up the stewarding too, and stop trying to generate chaos. If you look at what happened with the decline of nastycar after that series peaked in the 90s, it's hard to deny that Formula 1 is taking the first steps down that exact same path with all the gimmicky changes they've been making.

Montreal 1978, where Gilles Villeneuve took his first win, might have been the coldest GP of history. At the time, the Montreal GP wasn't held in June as it's been now for a long time, but rather in October. Bad idea, I think the temperature was around 5C (41F) during the GP, cloudy and windy. Gilles being a former snowmobile racing champion was unfazed by it at all 🙂

I think the toe thing is spot on. Teams are going to realize they can crank that up without really sacrificing tire life.

they used to race in cold weather in canada in october. it snowed a few times.

Hahahaha I caught the subtleness and timing when he said the difference between good and great drivers and the video switched from stroll to Alonso!!!! Thats too funny

1. New circuit 2. No support races 3. Cold You know what, let’s make it a night race to add to this. Actually let’s be even stricter on track limits

Maybe the teams will prefer an specific setup for the suspension, with a higher use of tyre, to try keep it warm. I think it will very interesting

15C predicted for 10pm - 12pm Sunday.

I wonder if they will move the race after Austin/Mexico going forward, you may need to have warmer temps if it's too bad.