Livery Bites Pt.3

We return with another bite where we cover the liveries for remaining teams. We continue our discussion of liveries and aero packages revealed by teams so far.

In this episode we discuss the following teams:

1. Ferrari
2. Mercedes
3. Alpine
4. Williams 

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In this episode, the hosts discuss the liveries and aero packages revealed by the remaining Formula One teams for the 2022 season.

**Ferrari:**

* The new Ferrari features a darker shade of red, with a black and yellow prancing horse logo.
* The side pods have a unique design, with scales or grills that look like a dragon's scales.
* The front wing has a pointed nose and thinner air intakes.
* Ferrari has introduced a modular nose concept, which allows them to change the nose without having to do a crash test.

**Mercedes:**

* Mercedes has returned to their silver arrow design, with no AMG branding on the rear of the car.
* The side pods have crimps, which are designed to create a low-pressure area and increase downforce.
* The front wing is flatter and wider than on the Ferrari.
* The air intake on the side pods is located further back, towards the cockpit.

**Alpine:**

* Alpine's livery is a combination of blue and pink, with BWT branding prominently displayed.
* The car has a dual grill design on the side pods, which is unique among the teams.
* The side pods slope down towards the rear, while most other teams' side pods integrate into the back of the car.

**Williams:**

* Williams' livery is mostly blue, with white and red accents.
* The car has a narrow body and no grills on the side pods.
* The exhaust on the back of the car dips down with the body, which is designed to increase underbody airflow.

**Other Notable News:**

* Teams will now have show and tell sessions to explain their aerodynamic upgrades.
* The Q3 rule has been changed, allowing teams to use any tire compound in the final qualifying session.

**Overall:**

The hosts were impressed with the liveries and aero packages revealed by the teams, and they are excited to see how the cars perform on track. They also discussed some of the rule changes for the 2022 season, including the show and tell sessions and the new Q3 rule.

[00:00.000 -> 00:05.100] But you're absolutely right. You're absolutely right. It just looks like a chewing gum.
[00:05.100 -> 00:08.500] It's packed on blue ink.
[00:08.500 -> 00:10.240] Yep.
[00:10.240 -> 00:18.900] Okay, BWT should change their, I don't know, whatever that's called, their punchline to BWT ruins everything.
[00:33.000 -> 00:35.400] Hello folks, this is going to be the last bite for library part 3 of 3. Continuing into the discussion, we are your hosts.
[00:35.400 -> 00:36.400] I am Akash.
[00:36.400 -> 00:37.520] And I am Sarang.
[00:37.520 -> 00:38.520] And let's get into it.
[00:38.520 -> 00:41.880] Sarang, pick a team out of the hat again.
[00:41.880 -> 00:42.880] Come on.
[00:42.880 -> 00:51.180] I think let's start with my favorite livery so far. I guess that's Ferrari. So nice
[00:52.980 -> 00:59.180] There we are I I mean we expected a red car and they gave us a red car so
[01:00.700 -> 01:03.300] Being consistent since 1950 sure
[01:08.700 -> 01:15.560] Being consistent since 1950 sure. Exactly. What are your thoughts though like Ferrari? I like it, I like it, I like it. They've gone to this darker tone of
[01:15.560 -> 01:22.140] red is what it is and I think they teased us with this black and red sort
[01:22.140 -> 01:27.760] of combination at some point last year. Like I forget now when, but, but,
[01:27.760 -> 01:32.480] but incorporating that into a full-time library going into 2022,
[01:32.760 -> 01:37.360] I really like how that black accentuates this now darker red
[01:38.240 -> 01:42.600] and the yellow prancing horse. So all in all, yeah, you're, you're right.
[01:42.600 -> 01:48.900] It's, it's up there and contention. Oh, by the way, speaking of contention, I don't want to leave it to later,
[01:48.900 -> 01:57.900] but folks, we're going to be running an audience poll library contest on our socials.
[01:57.900 -> 02:01.500] The pictures are going to be up soon after the episode release.
[02:01.500 -> 02:06.120] And you'll be the one voting and we'll crown a library
[02:06.120 -> 02:11.200] winner so stay tuned and check out our socials and make sure you follow us on
[02:11.200 -> 02:16.560] AdGarate F1 fanfiction everywhere. Coming back yeah I'm saying so all in all I
[02:16.560 -> 02:27.880] love I love the prancing horse red black and yellow combination. Yeah No, I'm, I'm, what I'm loving about this card is it so clean in the sense
[02:27.880 -> 02:37.240] that they have also kind of adopted a similar black band per se, you know, at the bottom
[02:37.240 -> 02:45.000] of the body where they have like kept most of the sponsors. I think basically those are probably like the ones who paid less.
[02:45.000 -> 02:46.000] Yeah.
[02:46.000 -> 02:51.400] And then you have those with that on the body.
[02:51.400 -> 02:57.200] So but, but yeah, overall it looks very sleek.
[02:57.200 -> 03:01.560] And man, like what I really love about it is the side part.
[03:01.560 -> 03:05.800] It's yeah, it looks like a dragon man, but those scales, those grills, they it looks like a dragon man but those scales those
[03:05.800 -> 03:10.760] grills they really look like you know dragon scales and it's an interesting
[03:10.760 -> 03:14.880] take on the side part to the right like I don't think we've seen it in the in
[03:14.880 -> 03:20.200] the previous five that we've discussed in part two of three and obviously the
[03:20.200 -> 03:23.240] ones that are gonna come up in this episode but it's a different take on the
[03:23.240 -> 03:28.640] side part where it sort of dips in to create probably this airflow which
[03:28.640 -> 03:33.240] comes back in and then flows into those those vents and the slits that they've
[03:33.240 -> 03:41.640] created. Yeah and also the way they have like the way they have created the body
[03:41.640 -> 03:45.360] as well if you see the gr, the way it bends along with
[03:45.360 -> 03:52.320] the side pods into that valley and then comes back up, man, it looks some serious shit.
[03:53.760 -> 04:03.040] I don't know. Yeah, that's true. What catches my attention though is the shell logo.
[04:06.440 -> 04:13.920] my attention though is the shell logo I feel like prancing horse itself is sort of shorter right and like smaller right in front of their air intake nozzle and
[04:13.920 -> 04:18.840] then the shell logo if you see from like a side view is bigger than the prancing
[04:18.840 -> 04:26.240] horse themselves that's an interesting one. Man, the Shell logo is earning the money.
[04:26.240 -> 04:29.000] The horse is probably not as much.
[04:29.000 -> 04:30.000] Fair point.
[04:30.000 -> 04:31.680] Yeah, I'll give you that.
[04:31.680 -> 04:36.400] But all in all, it feels like more of a toothpick-shaped car
[04:36.400 -> 04:37.040] to me.
[04:37.040 -> 04:39.440] I think it's either it's the same nose
[04:39.440 -> 04:40.680] or it's got a longer nose.
[04:40.680 -> 04:42.560] But there's something different that they've
[04:42.560 -> 04:44.280] done with their nose, too, because it
[04:44.280 -> 04:46.920] feels like it's more pointy or more longer,
[04:47.080 -> 04:51.120] or it's an attribute of having like a wider side body with the,
[04:51.120 -> 04:54.520] with the more flatter air intake nozzle,
[04:54.760 -> 04:57.960] which makes the nose look a bit more longer,
[04:57.960 -> 05:00.520] but there's something different in just that.
[05:00.560 -> 05:04.480] No, I think you're right. It probably is thinner and it probably kind of makes.
[05:04.480 -> 05:05.200] And so the air intakes as well, right on the side ports are a lot thinner as No, I think you're right. It probably is thinner and it probably kind of makes sense. So the
[05:05.200 -> 05:10.580] air intakes as well, right on the side ports are a lot thinner as compared to other cars.
[05:10.580 -> 05:15.120] Of course, they are wider as well. But I think for that, they also have to keep the nose
[05:15.120 -> 05:22.120] a little thinner to allow the air to go in and not be obstructed possibly. And also the
[05:22.120 -> 05:25.460] pointed nose kind of helps split the air as well.
[05:25.460 -> 05:33.020] And also if you notice, right, the nose comes right up to the last plate on the wing, which
[05:33.020 -> 05:35.420] I don't think happens on the other cars.
[05:35.420 -> 05:40.300] Like most other cars, if you notice, first of all, they have like a more rounded nose.
[05:40.300 -> 05:41.300] Right.
[05:41.300 -> 05:48.800] And yeah, it's quite, quite quite interesting this is a toothpick yeah
[05:48.800 -> 05:53.880] also I don't know what the regulations are on I don't know what you call that
[05:53.880 -> 05:58.600] but like let's call that side fins on the front wing right I think where
[05:58.600 -> 06:07.080] they've got the Santander logo and the AWS symbol. Do they feel like more heighted to you?
[06:07.080 -> 06:11.440] Like maybe if the standard height is say 5 inches this feels like it's a 7 inch
[06:11.440 -> 06:19.960] block on the sides. I would guess that that section probably has some
[06:19.960 -> 06:30.320] regulation but yeah I don't know enough but yeah I do agree it does look a lot larger but I think that's probably because most other most other cars if
[06:30.320 -> 06:36.040] you notice actually even though Merc has a large logo I don't know but yeah I do
[06:36.040 -> 06:39.080] agree it does seem a little larger. Yeah maybe then it's just the way they've
[06:39.080 -> 06:43.320] branded stuff and like printed it. Yeah. Oh but that reminds me dude you gotta
[06:43.320 -> 06:48.680] you gotta educate our folks on how they've done this this nose bit different that you were telling me
[06:48.680 -> 06:54.320] before you started recording like a two-part oh yeah that's actually quite
[06:54.320 -> 07:02.760] interesting so I read this article by Giorgio Piola I don't know if you have
[07:02.760 -> 07:08.800] heard of him he's a pretty yeah of him. He's a pretty popular technical analyst for F1.
[07:08.800 -> 07:13.920] And he has those awesome drawings of his that he publishes, which is just too good.
[07:13.920 -> 07:15.440] Anyways, I diverge.
[07:15.440 -> 07:20.240] But yeah, he had written an article about this basically,
[07:20.240 -> 07:28.680] outlining how Ferrari has brought in this modular nose concept, which basically, if
[07:28.680 -> 07:36.440] you notice, anytime a car comes in with a broken nose into the pit stop, the mechanics
[07:36.440 -> 07:42.800] remove the entire nose right up to half of the nose, you could say.
[07:42.800 -> 07:48.760] But for Ferrari, they have split it into two parts now so that they don't, first of
[07:48.760 -> 07:50.560] all, don't have to change the whole nose.
[07:50.560 -> 07:53.000] Obviously it helps a little in the pit stops for sure.
[07:53.000 -> 07:57.440] I'm sure since they're carrying less weight, but that's not the main feature.
[07:57.440 -> 08:06.480] The main feature is that since they have separated both of those two parts out, they have amalgamated the part
[08:06.480 -> 08:15.920] that actually goes onto the nose so that they don't have to do a crash test of new concepts
[08:15.920 -> 08:21.600] of their wings every time they want to change it. So this way they save some costs as well as
[08:21.600 -> 08:26.240] that basically enables them to have a new wing for different tracks
[08:26.240 -> 08:29.840] without having to do a lot of testing on that.
[08:29.840 -> 08:31.840] Yeah, interesting.
[08:31.840 -> 08:40.240] I'd be interested to see some stats on how they differ from other teams if that ever becomes public.
[08:40.240 -> 08:47.200] It's a curiosity driven thing because I don't think any other teams doing this modular design on their front now.
[08:47.200 -> 08:55.200] So I definitely want to see if this ends up being as advantageous as we think and everyone's been speculating it's going to be.
[08:55.200 -> 09:03.520] So I think it might give them some edge, like, you know, obviously similar to like what Mercedes got with their DAS.
[09:03.520 -> 09:03.920] Yeah.
[09:03.920 -> 09:05.760] Right. Like nobody else had
[09:05.760 -> 09:08.880] anything like that so I'm pretty sure that's going to give them some edge but
[09:08.880 -> 09:15.600] let's see how much. Speaking of Mercedes I wanna take Mercedes next. They are back
[09:15.600 -> 09:27.200] to their their silver arrow design. First things first I'm glad there's no thousand AMG written on the back of the body.
[09:27.200 -> 09:28.800] So that's no AMG vomit.
[09:28.800 -> 09:31.400] Yeah, no AMG vomit this time around. So that's good.
[09:33.200 -> 09:39.400] Yeah, though, I like, honestly, I'm kind of liking the Liberty.
[09:39.400 -> 09:40.800] It is good. It is.
[09:40.800 -> 09:41.400] Yeah, right.
[09:43.200 -> 09:47.120] I thought I wouldn't, but somehow the one you were that wing
[09:47.120 -> 09:52.380] man that wing the rear wing just takes it away for me the there's a there's a
[09:52.380 -> 09:59.140] side shot of the of the car taken from like a lower angle and that just makes
[09:59.140 -> 10:06.320] the car look so sleek it's long's elongated, you have that nice curvature making it look like a racing car
[10:06.320 -> 10:15.600] and it's just so so beautiful. Yep, yep, yep and especially the way the way the patroness blue
[10:15.600 -> 10:21.040] like flows along with the black through the body looks really nice. Even the wings like the
[10:21.680 -> 10:26.000] red in your in the inner plate of the wing looks really
[10:26.000 -> 10:32.200] nice. Well, I'm not a fan of the red engine air intake that still looks weird.
[10:33.360 -> 10:36.920] It still seems, you know, for what it reminds me of every time,
[10:36.920 -> 10:39.000] like a joker having like the red nose.
[10:39.960 -> 10:41.880] Oh yeah. That's fair enough. Fair enough.
[10:44.640 -> 10:47.360] Although I do like the red streak that they've done.
[10:47.360 -> 10:51.680] I don't know what they are calling it, but like the flaps that come over the front tires now.
[10:51.680 -> 10:52.160] There's a little...
[10:52.160 -> 10:55.760] Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that looks really nice.
[10:55.760 -> 10:57.840] Red rim around it. That looks good.
[10:57.840 -> 11:03.360] I want to ask you about the crimps. Talk to me about the crimps.
[11:03.360 -> 11:04.000] Oh, the crimps.
[11:04.000 -> 11:04.500] Yeah.
[11:09.040 -> 11:09.920] Yeah, man. That's something very interesting and I think
[11:17.760 -> 11:23.040] Mercedes had tested this back last year as well and in fact a lot of people in fact a lot of analysts had kind of pointed this out when they first bought this in last year and everybody was
[11:23.040 -> 11:26.200] kind of speculating what advantage do they have with that?
[11:26.200 -> 11:30.720] Because it wasn't very evident in last year's cars, but it seems like they were
[11:31.200 -> 11:34.120] all along testing it kind of this year.
[11:34.720 -> 11:37.120] And I guess they believe in it.
[11:37.120 -> 11:43.320] So, I mean, you see it so prominently right on their floor, the entire, it
[11:43.320 -> 11:46.640] looks simply awesome, I guess guess like the way they have constructed
[11:46.640 -> 11:54.480] it how the I don't know what that's called again the intake flap side intake flaps or something
[11:54.480 -> 12:00.880] the front that like yeah yeah and then bend into and you can actually if you see a side view right
[12:01.520 -> 12:06.660] you can actually see the tunnels going down and then the crimp
[12:06.660 -> 12:12.160] coming up which is like further on the side pushing those yeah pushing those
[12:12.160 -> 12:15.640] tunnels together I guess that's basically to create that low pressure
[12:15.640 -> 12:23.640] area in at the bottom which like will gain them the extra downforce right I
[12:23.640 -> 12:27.360] guess folks folks in the audience like if you know exactly or
[12:27.360 -> 12:32.880] have some speculations on why those crimps are and what aero advantage they
[12:32.880 -> 12:40.040] add, write into us. Let us know from you aero geeks out there what
[12:40.040 -> 12:46.120] value could Mercedes gain from these crimps on the side skirts. But the
[12:46.120 -> 12:50.680] design itself, Sarang, is sort of interesting because they don't have
[12:50.680 -> 12:57.920] these vents or slits or whatever on their main body. Their belly seems
[12:57.920 -> 13:05.000] more tighter. It's like a racing toy car, which sort of like plays,
[13:05.320 -> 13:10.320] messes up actually with my, you know, noob aero sense.
[13:10.960 -> 13:14.060] Cause there is no outlet, inlet sort of stuff
[13:14.060 -> 13:16.060] that other cars have been doing.
[13:16.060 -> 13:17.200] Yeah.
[13:17.200 -> 13:18.040] Yeah, right.
[13:18.040 -> 13:19.360] It's very confusing to me as well.
[13:19.360 -> 13:24.360] Like everybody else, like seem to have, you know,
[13:31.360 -> 13:48.040] some form of output. For example, we talked about Alfatari last week, that they don't have a grill, but they do have a wider rear of the car, so that still allows the you know the air to escape but I guess that probably could also be some form of
[13:48.040 -> 13:51.920] aero magic that they are playing basically. Right but it's it's an
[13:51.920 -> 13:59.440] interesting design nonetheless on f1's own website they they talk about the
[13:59.440 -> 14:04.000] same where they've gotten like narrow pods wider side channels blah blah blah
[14:04.000 -> 14:07.720] there's there's a good article but what I want to talk with you next, Aarang, is,
[14:08.480 -> 14:12.920] you know, they've got this two images where, um, it's a side,
[14:12.960 -> 14:17.120] side image of comparing, um, everything, you know,
[14:17.200 -> 14:21.720] in lengthwise with Ferrari. And it's interesting how, um,
[14:21.960 -> 14:23.120] you know, the, the,
[14:23.120 -> 14:27.500] the actual main body between the two tires is a tad bit longer
[14:27.500 -> 14:30.700] for Mercedes as compared to the Ferrari.
[14:30.700 -> 14:33.780] It's sitting a bit more down as compared to the Ferrari.
[14:33.780 -> 14:36.140] Oh, yeah.
[14:36.140 -> 14:40.940] But the front wing, as we've already discussed, for the Ferrari is more pointier.
[14:40.940 -> 14:46.400] So it's like punching into the air probably a bit more faster
[14:46.400 -> 14:52.540] yeah it's quite interesting right this image a lot of things that we see you
[14:52.540 -> 15:01.380] know you can actually play like that 21 differences game yeah but yeah right like
[15:01.380 -> 15:06.720] the air intake on the side pods as well. I think we had talked about this earlier, like, uh,
[15:06.760 -> 15:11.080] the Mercedes air intake sits a lot more behind almost,
[15:12.240 -> 15:16.320] uh, towards the end of the side pod, actually like the cockpit rather. Yeah.
[15:17.120 -> 15:21.440] And Ferrari's is right, right where the halo starts. So yeah,
[15:21.440 -> 15:22.960] that's pretty interesting as well.
[15:24.440 -> 15:28.800] Right. And then even like when you see those, this front, um,
[15:28.880 -> 15:32.600] air intake, uh, nozzles, the two nozzles,
[15:32.600 -> 15:36.120] like it's so much flat and wider,
[15:36.480 -> 15:41.120] like the main body on the Ferrari so much wider versus like, um,
[15:41.200 -> 15:45.600] yeah, this is quite narrow. Um, so yeah, this is quite narrow.
[15:49.800 -> 15:49.840] So yeah, going into a similar discussion,
[15:54.160 -> 15:58.840] let's let's pick it's B team. I mean, it's not a B team, but Alpine sort of is with BWT is a B team, right?
[15:59.160 -> 16:01.760] They've also gotten something similar with a tighter,
[16:02.880 -> 16:03.720] with a tighter.
[16:03.720 -> 16:07.600] Man, you really pulled that off I did because
[16:07.600 -> 16:14.480] you know what I while I was saying that my brain was processing BWT 2019 and
[16:14.480 -> 16:31.340] like them copying Mercedes and then being called like Mercedes yeah no I can You see what I did there. But Alpine man. Yeah Alpine. Okay first of all what the
[16:31.340 -> 16:39.200] fuck is wrong with you people? Why did you guys create a boomer car? If anyone
[16:39.200 -> 16:45.700] doesn't know boomer is basically a brand of bubblegum that we used to get back in India a long time
[16:45.700 -> 16:51.900] ago. I don't know, does it still exist? But you're absolutely right.
[16:51.900 -> 17:00.060] It just looks like a chewing gum, bubble gum, spat on blue ink.
[17:00.580 -> 17:07.140] Okay, BWT should change their, I don't know whatever that's called their punchline to
[17:07.140 -> 17:08.140] BWT ruins everything.
[17:08.140 -> 17:09.140] Yeah, BWT, you're right.
[17:09.140 -> 17:17.660] BWT needs to rebrand as a company, not as an F1 team, but as a company in Canada.
[17:17.660 -> 17:21.820] Like they just need to be like, we need to sit this one in and be like, let's, let's
[17:21.820 -> 17:22.820] plan this.
[17:22.820 -> 17:23.820] Yeah.
[17:23.820 -> 17:27.200] Also, it's a lot weird. I think they,
[17:28.000 -> 17:34.640] there's a lot of confusion actually going on about the livery. So first of all, they
[17:36.080 -> 17:44.960] showed renders of the first livery which is like 70% blue, 30% or rather 60% blue, 40% pink.
[17:45.000 -> 17:45.720] 70% blue, 30% or rather 60% blue, 40% pink.
[17:49.440 -> 17:53.160] And then there was this event going on indoors that they had. And then outside they had a show car, which was the other one,
[17:53.160 -> 17:56.080] which is basically mostly pink and a little blue.
[17:56.880 -> 18:01.560] And they basically said that the first two races will be
[18:02.200 -> 18:04.880] with this livery and the rest with the other.
[18:08.080 -> 18:19.200] two races will be with this livery and the rest with the other. And on top of all that, okay, story doesn't end there. They had another media day with Alonso recently, where they had
[18:20.160 -> 18:28.600] the second livery and the car that they have is completely different from the real car and the render.
[18:29.400 -> 18:33.600] So they basically have three cars or I don't know what's going on.
[18:33.600 -> 18:40.700] Yeah, probably there are two camps within that team just to be satisfying everyone and politically correct.
[18:40.700 -> 18:42.600] Maybe like, yeah, we'll run both of them.
[18:42.600 -> 18:46.520] You will be called the special livery, you will be called the regular livery.
[18:46.520 -> 18:50.440] You know, everyone gets track time, everyone's satisfied.
[18:50.440 -> 18:53.440] You know, but...
[18:53.440 -> 18:54.440] That makes a lot of sense.
[18:54.440 -> 19:00.440] But in all seriousness, I feel like them investing so much time in doing all of this,
[19:00.440 -> 19:02.440] I don't know.
[19:02.440 -> 19:08.120] I don't want to see how they perform on track is being all over
[19:08.120 -> 19:13.760] the place in the past two years yeah like them having copied Mercedes to the
[19:13.760 -> 19:23.440] T two years back. Wait, BWT was part of it Alpine wasn't. I don't care see when I
[19:23.440 -> 19:28.320] when I see this car right now Sarang all I see is BWT pasted
[19:28.320 -> 19:33.360] everywhere. There's two BWTs on the front wing. There's two on the belly. There's one on the rear
[19:33.360 -> 19:39.760] wing. I wouldn't see this car and be like, oh an Alpine's going down the track. I'd be like,
[19:39.760 -> 19:48.080] there is four BWTs on the track. Yeah, well actually if you look at the second livery, I'm completely
[19:48.080 -> 19:54.680] convinced it's Racing Point. Exactly. Where is Alpine? Oh, there's Alonzo in this. He's
[19:54.680 -> 19:58.720] going to crib about the Renault engine or Renault's rebranded to Alpine. That's how
[19:58.720 -> 20:08.160] many clicks it's going to take me to get to Alpine. Oh, man, yup, yup, I totally agree to what you are saying. I keep looking
[20:08.160 -> 20:15.060] at the other image but as soon as I look at the, you know, mostly pink car, it completely
[20:15.060 -> 20:21.280] reminds me of 4SoonCar. So there is still so much happening with this car that I am
[20:21.280 -> 20:28.460] just torn apart at this point. Like 3 years come by, BWT is back in the game I don't know how they're gonna fare this
[20:28.460 -> 20:34.340] this year but but about the livery right like they post this new interesting
[20:34.340 -> 20:38.960] engineering where they've got like a dual grill against nothing that another
[20:38.960 -> 20:46.680] team's done. I want to see like how their air intake and then how their aeros play into this interesting
[20:46.680 -> 20:51.360] dual grill slots that they have.
[20:51.360 -> 20:56.320] And also along with those grills, another interesting part I think is that their side
[20:56.320 -> 21:03.680] part basically towards the back like slopes down as compared to everybody else.
[21:03.680 -> 21:09.120] Most other side parts are like integrating into the back of the car. Right. But this is like still, you know,
[21:09.320 -> 21:11.600] very different. Right. Right.
[21:11.720 -> 21:15.120] The side view of the car makes it look very interesting because then you have
[21:15.120 -> 21:18.560] like this uniform curve going from all the way on the,
[21:18.600 -> 21:22.320] on your front wings to the pointed dips into the end.
[21:22.520 -> 21:32.720] You're right. Right. Now that you say it, I noticed that you see that very curved surface from here till there.
[21:32.720 -> 21:36.720] Yeah, it's unnoticeable at times because that BWT is blaring in your eyes.
[21:36.720 -> 21:40.480] But yeah, the curve goes very distinctly.
[21:40.480 -> 21:50.520] And then again, this being, I keep coming back to this being like a Mercedes B team, but even these guys sport some skirting and crimping at the
[21:50.520 -> 21:51.080] end, right?
[21:51.160 -> 21:56.640] Yeah. Yeah. I think, I think along with BWT comes some Mercedes technology.
[21:59.200 -> 22:05.520] I guess that is part of their deal. But yeah, it seems something similar that they're doing
[22:05.520 -> 22:10.200] to not at the front of the wing as much as that they are
[22:10.200 -> 22:11.520] doing at the rear of the wing, right?
[22:11.520 -> 22:13.680] Like they have some, I don't know whether they're slits
[22:13.680 -> 22:15.480] or like they're crimping it.
[22:15.480 -> 22:17.720] Either way, there's some features going on
[22:17.720 -> 22:20.520] towards the rear floor, which is quite interesting.
[22:21.600 -> 22:24.360] Yeah, and just to quote before we move on to the last one,
[22:24.360 -> 22:25.880] like just to quote before we move on to the last one like just to quote the
[22:25.880 -> 22:32.960] F1 article the engine cover at this point is obviously as the all-new power
[22:32.960 -> 22:37.160] unit with the new regulations coming in which is what they are calling like a
[22:37.160 -> 22:48.680] split turbo architecture. This was something that Mercedes introduced first in the first year of hybrid on the hybrid formula era.
[22:48.960 -> 22:51.480] So, well, yeah.
[22:51.520 -> 22:51.920] Yeah.
[22:52.280 -> 22:52.880] Anyways.
[22:53.000 -> 22:53.200] Okay.
[22:53.240 -> 23:04.600] Before we move on, I have to say something, you know, how they have massacred my boy from last year's best livery to arguably the worst livery now.
[23:05.760 -> 23:08.520] Yeah. The downfall has been tremendous, man.
[23:09.400 -> 23:14.480] I agree. This is, this is for me in contention with like Alpha Tauri
[23:14.480 -> 23:17.560] monochrome. Yeah. Yeah, I agree.
[23:18.040 -> 23:22.440] Do you know what? I'm not as mad with Alpha Tauri anymore because at least that
[23:22.440 -> 23:33.000] car doesn't hurt my eyes. On a
[23:33.000 -> 23:37.880] surprising note like I saw Yahoo as a sponsor on these guys where the hell is
[23:37.880 -> 23:48.240] Yahoo have bringing in all this money from anyways that's off topic of F1 at this point. But under the last one,
[23:48.240 -> 23:55.240] Williams, dude these guys are up there. Honestly, I mean in the first look the
[23:55.240 -> 24:00.900] car is not very spectacular, okay. It seems like a normal livery but once you
[24:00.900 -> 24:05.400] like look at it and you know really appreciate its beauty it like
[24:05.400 -> 24:11.760] comes to you how awesome this car is because yes it's blue mostly just blue
[24:11.760 -> 24:16.080] yeah but but the I think you had mentioned this earlier as well
[24:16.080 -> 24:22.320] especially the top view right the those V stripes that they have at that front
[24:22.320 -> 24:25.000] yeah that's very beautiful.
[24:25.000 -> 24:30.000] That combined with the rare red backward pointing stripes too. Yeah.
[24:30.000 -> 24:35.000] Oh, another thing I just noticed, if you see the way they have written William Racing,
[24:35.000 -> 24:40.000] where Williams is white and Racing is blue, that itself looks pretty nice on the wing.
[24:40.000 -> 24:47.160] I don't know. Oh, the yeah yeah yeah right. I like how they've used no I like
[24:47.160 -> 24:53.720] how they've used the whole three blue tones and made sort of like a mosaic out
[24:53.720 -> 25:00.760] of it on the belly. Yeah it's overly blue but it's still not overly blue enough
[25:00.760 -> 25:05.400] sort of thing so I I like how they sported and played with the red
[25:05.400 -> 25:12.480] as well not going for like the Joker smile red but yeah they're just like
[25:12.480 -> 25:20.220] squirted like a lipstick red. Also I think last year the car that they had
[25:20.220 -> 25:25.000] like they had a similarish design towards the end using two different
[25:25.880 -> 25:29.280] other shades of blue, but that wasn't as good. Right. Like this,
[25:29.280 -> 25:32.600] this year what they've come up with is just spectacular.
[25:33.120 -> 25:35.800] Last year, so at least I'd say, I mean, they've, they've,
[25:35.840 -> 25:38.720] they've been getting better, not just with their performance,
[25:38.720 -> 25:41.760] but even with their library. Cause prior to that, I,
[25:42.480 -> 25:46.400] I didn't like the whitish Williams that was there.
[25:46.400 -> 25:49.800] And then they came with a blue last year, which was better.
[25:49.800 -> 25:51.200] And then this year is better.
[25:51.200 -> 26:03.000] I think Williams overall, I have high expectations from them, especially with Albon coming in.
[26:03.000 -> 26:06.440] Like, I'm kind of cheering for him
[26:06.440 -> 26:11.840] because I like him as a person so I really hope William you know delivers
[26:11.840 -> 26:18.960] with their car. Yeah yeah true true true. On the car though there's there's another
[26:18.960 -> 26:26.200] thing that that sort of mimics their A-team so to say Mercedes which is again like a
[26:26.200 -> 26:32.080] tighter body that they have right like their side view towards the rear is just
[26:32.080 -> 26:40.280] so aggressively narrow. Yeah. The again. No grills again. Again yes yes no grill.
[26:40.280 -> 26:47.780] Again yes. It's the other thing I'm noticing now probably is how if you see
[26:47.780 -> 26:53.580] this F1's article right where they've done this analysis on the car. The first
[26:53.580 -> 27:00.940] image where they show the side body it's it's interesting how the the exhaust on
[27:00.940 -> 27:08.920] the back sort of dips with the body and it's sort of pointing downwards to flat. That's interesting.
[27:09.320 -> 27:13.120] And what they're calling is an underbody priority. So it's like a,
[27:13.480 -> 27:16.120] a higher front wing.
[27:16.640 -> 27:20.840] So as to sort of take in more air under the nose or whatever. Yeah.
[27:20.840 -> 27:27.880] It's going to be interesting how these guys, these guys, I mean like Williams, Mercedes, all
[27:27.880 -> 27:35.600] these side vent player teams, how perform in the wind tunnel.
[27:35.600 -> 27:40.920] And considering the fact that these teams, like the teams at the rear, like at the back
[27:40.920 -> 27:46.720] of the constructors table, they receive more time for the wind tunnel testing.
[27:46.720 -> 27:52.160] So I'm pretty sure they have used it up to their advantage.
[27:52.160 -> 27:53.880] And let's see.
[27:53.880 -> 27:55.360] I mean, just looking at the car,
[27:55.360 -> 27:58.040] it doesn't seem like they have anything special,
[27:58.040 -> 28:00.000] but that just might do the trick.
[28:00.000 -> 28:00.360] You know?
[28:00.360 -> 28:01.160] Yeah.
[28:01.160 -> 28:05.000] So it seems like they have done a lot of work under the body probably.
[28:05.000 -> 28:13.000] Yeah, yeah. Let's see. I think that sums up library part 3.
[28:13.000 -> 28:18.000] We're probably just gonna take, let Alpha, Romeo get a free pass.
[28:18.000 -> 28:26.720] Because these guys are just too late. I would probably not gonna wait for them. Yeah, they are embracing Kimmy's
[28:26.720 -> 28:33.360] attitude and they're like you know we're not gonna show up for the media event.
[28:33.360 -> 28:40.680] Because the track testing starts tomorrow as of this time of recording.
[28:40.680 -> 28:46.000] So they are gonna show up on the track I assume but they don't
[28:46.000 -> 28:51.920] wanna launch their car which is yeah very very weird so I guess they'll come
[28:51.920 -> 28:57.640] up with their last year's livery I guess which would like and then they'll release it
[28:57.640 -> 29:06.000] later but I don't understand why though but anyways maybe they need some more time for their homework. True.
[29:06.000 -> 29:09.000] Alfa, Romeo, yeah,
[29:09.000 -> 29:14.000] Botas is there, yeah, we've got Guangyu Zhao, yeah.
[29:14.000 -> 29:20.000] Let's see, let's get any wrapping thoughts before we sort of close this down.
[29:20.000 -> 29:25.360] I think couple of interesting things like I came across in the last few days, one of
[29:25.360 -> 29:30.000] them was like, they're going to start having these, what do you call it?
[29:30.000 -> 29:38.640] Like show and tell sessions where basically teams that introduce new, aerobics or anything
[29:38.640 -> 29:46.400] basically have to kind of do a show and tell so that audience kind of understands what upgrades
[29:46.400 -> 29:47.400] they're going to bring in.
[29:47.400 -> 29:49.400] Which seems pretty interesting.
[29:49.400 -> 29:52.920] I too am not sure where or when will they air it.
[29:52.920 -> 29:57.880] I don't think like they'll show each and every part, but I guess they'll like pick and choose
[29:57.880 -> 29:58.980] from it.
[29:58.980 -> 30:01.000] What seems interesting and kind of they'll show it.
[30:01.000 -> 30:07.240] To cut you off there, if I understood what you're saying, you're essentially
[30:07.240 -> 30:13.040] saying that instead of experts speculating on what these error changes are, it's like
[30:13.040 -> 30:19.520] the teams come out of their garages and then show and explain, this is what we've done
[30:19.520 -> 30:25.200] and you know, this is what it means. Yep that's exactly good that's actually good because we
[30:25.200 -> 30:32.240] get to learn from them rather than have experts right exactly yeah no that's what i'm quite
[30:32.240 -> 30:38.720] impressed that they came up with this idea i mean uh i would love watching that like that's pretty
[30:38.720 -> 30:45.400] awesome teams themselves telling what upgrades they are bringing in seems pretty awesome so that that
[30:45.400 -> 30:49.480] seems pretty interesting another interesting bit which I saw was I think
[30:49.480 -> 30:56.560] Q3 rules have changed a bit where basically they're not going to force you
[30:56.560 -> 31:01.440] to use your Q2 tires anymore so basically you'll have a free tire choice
[31:01.440 -> 31:06.240] that's going to really change things up.
[31:06.240 -> 31:12.000] So you could just go for some new set of tires and power through.
[31:12.000 -> 31:16.480] I don't know how I feel about this one yet because it's new information to me.
[31:16.480 -> 31:21.280] Because yeah, the thought in my head right now is sure.
[31:21.280 -> 31:27.120] Sorry, I'm just talking to myself in my head, but the thought in my head was like
[31:27.120 -> 31:32.960] probably everyone gets new tires, so it takes off the edge of close racing.
[31:32.960 -> 31:38.000] But then I'm also thinking like sure everyone has the free will choice of doing the same
[31:38.000 -> 31:40.640] as the A team or being the B team.
[31:40.640 -> 31:42.360] So then that also levels things up.
[31:42.360 -> 31:45.980] So yeah, I think we'll have to see how this one plays out.
[31:45.980 -> 31:52.880] Yeah, I too am not entirely sure because I think like I kind of understand where they're
[31:52.880 -> 32:00.080] coming from. Like if they really want to make this a true competition, then you have to
[32:00.080 -> 32:05.360] have a level playing field per se. Even from like other teams perspective, like think about
[32:05.360 -> 32:11.680] if Williams gets into the top 10 somehow, they still suffer with the tire rule and are not able
[32:11.680 -> 32:17.120] to, you know, make best out of their opportunity. So from that perspective, it does make sense to me
[32:17.120 -> 32:24.480] that, you know, scrapping this rule is kind of good for other teams, but at the same time, I feel
[32:24.480 -> 32:27.440] that gap would possibly still increase.
[32:27.440 -> 32:30.400] Yeah, because Mercedes is also going to come back with the new tires.
[32:30.400 -> 32:36.480] Exactly. So, yeah, I don't know. Let's see how it plays out.
[32:36.480 -> 32:48.320] I'm excited for the testing that starts tomorrow. Yeah, man, I hope there's just too much close racing this season.
[32:48.320 -> 32:55.360] There's too much overtakes and everything. More so, I feel like I hope the aero plays a big role
[32:55.840 -> 33:00.800] into how cars speed up and, you know, cut through the field.
[33:03.040 -> 33:04.520] Yeah, let's see.
[33:12.600 -> 33:17.480] the field yeah let's see yeah bytes was a good experiment we've done hopefully you guys have liked it folks yeah let us know let us know yeah please let us know
[33:17.480 -> 33:23.280] please let us know you may still see a byte coming in but that would be season
[33:23.280 -> 33:28.960] 2 this is season whatever 1.5 or whatever you've called it doesn't matter.
[33:28.960 -> 33:30.800] Next episode of... It's a ghost season.
[33:30.800 -> 33:32.400] It's yeah, it's a ghost season.
[33:32.400 -> 33:39.360] Coming up next episode, we'd officially be going into season 2.
[33:39.360 -> 33:41.200] You know, it's gonna be a surprise.
[33:41.200 -> 33:52.280] You have no clue what's waiting for you as a season 2 banger we've gone crazy recording that one for sure yeah it's a
[33:52.280 -> 33:59.760] guest episode let me at least give you that guess who's the guest I guess all
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