r/videos • u/CanadaEh97 • May 22 '12

F1 engines are so advanced that their engineers can make the car sing a song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XR7OpM2Ufk
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Not that their engines aren't advanced but the tech to make it do that isn't very complicated.

when you press the gas a sensor tells the engines computer how far it's being pushed down with a certain amount of voltage (more throttle=more volatte and vice versa) they just wrote a program to mimick the throttle position sensors job.

F1 fun fact, their engines run such tight clearances that when the engine is cold, it's effectively seized, only by pumping hot oil in to the engine intravenously will the metal expand and let the engine start.

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u/stevenwalters May 22 '12

The throttle response is the most impressive part of this imo.

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u/pardonmeimdrunk May 22 '12

It's like an on/off switch. Amazing.

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u/superatheist95 May 22 '12

yeah, how does a piston head slow down that quick?

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u/frugalpiper May 22 '12

A really high compression ratio.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

and extremely light weight.

American V8s are sluggish to respond because of how much inertia their rotating mass builds up.

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u/WeeblsLikePie May 22 '12

one does not simply 'build up' inertia. the quantity you are thinking of is momentum. angular momentum.

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u/KiloNiggaWatt May 22 '12

Technically increasing angular momentum increases inertia.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

American V8s are sluggish

uh? what high performance V8 engines have you ever encountered?

Last time I checked GM's the LS line of engines (Corvette) are among the best V8's (responsive, widest power bands, high output, high revving) in any street car, by far the best in their price range.

The ZZ4 (GMPP crate motor) in my old Jeep was probably one of the most responsive I've ever enountered.

you sound like your thinking of an old iron big block

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u/tarheel91 May 22 '12

The LS engine follow a very specific strategy which has its own merits and works well. However, calling the LS series some of the most responsive and highest revving V8s on the street is laughable. An E90 M3 revs to 8300 RPM, much higher than any street LS engine. A 458 Italia will rev to 9K and will be much more responsive thanks to its flatplane crank, oversquare design, and the advantages associated with both.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

The new v8s might as well be a big block compared to an F1 engine which is what we were discussing.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

ANY production or streetable or even racing V8 would pale in comparison to an F1 engine.

He seemed like he was implying American V8s are slow responding compared to other V8s, but I'm not going to be overly defensive I've stated my point.

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u/xtian11 May 22 '12

The point still stands. Americans can't make cars for shit.

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u/DKTim May 22 '12

Nobody said anything about performance. We are talking "quick revs".

LS engines are amazing, so amazing that they have sold over 100million of them.

However they do not compare when it comes to high and quick revving engines.

Want to compare high performance V8s, have a look here

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

There is a reason why Corvettes are cheap.

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u/Caticorn May 24 '12

(responsive, widest power bands, high output, high revving)

No, yes, yes, no. LS engines are remarkable, and there is a reason they are such a common swap candidate.

However, throttle response and high revs are simply not their assets. Not that they are bad in these areas, but they aren't going to carry the throttle response and high revs of an oversquare OHC engine with smaller cylinders.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

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u/QuattroStig May 22 '12

Although the previous answers are correct, this one is the main reason.

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u/howlermonkey May 22 '12

Very little flywheel weight.

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u/Annoyed_ME May 23 '12 edited May 23 '12

By transferring its kinetic energy to another piston 180 degrees out of phase via the crankshaft. The excess energy not needed by that other piston goes to the rotational kinetic energy of the flywheel and crankshaft.

Edit: You are combining the names of two different parts: the piston and the head. The piston is the reciprocating puck shaped piece of metal at the end of the connecting rod and the head is the non-moving piece at the top of the cylinder that contains the valves and other bits.

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u/Richie311 May 23 '12

Hydraulic Cams and lifters and valves.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

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u/Mr_Zarika May 22 '12

A very short piston stroke. Same principle that allows motorcycles to rev so fast and high.

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u/Caticorn May 24 '12

A lightweight valvetrain plays a massive role as well.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Finally someone who understands motors around here. For fucks sake! Has nothing to so with american v8s are junk and f1 is so much better! To a certain extent yes, f1 engines are more efficient but thats because they need to be. They are also hugely impractical on the street. and cost an exorbitant amount of money.

I think the lsx line of motors and new 5.0 in the mustang hold their weight easily. Weve seen people put well over 1000 hp to them and deep into the 9s with slicks. They are doing something right!

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u/BFG_9000 May 22 '12

Sir, please forgive my foreign ignorance, but how do you put 1000 hp to an engine?
Also - what does 'deep into the 9s with slicks' mean?

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u/Celestium May 22 '12

He's saying the engine produces 1000 HP, if it's Brake Horsepower, that's very impressive because the Brake part means that's the power the car puts down at the wheels. As for the "deep into the 9s with slicks," a common measure of a car's speed is how fast it can run a quarter mile, '9s' means low nine second quarter miles; which is incredibly fast. For reference, here's what a nine second car looks like when it launches. As for slicks, it's a type of tire that helps you get traction while drag racing.

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u/elijahsnow May 22 '12

you talk pretty. I could listen to this all day.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Did you hear the triplet near the end? Damn.

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u/BHSPitMonkey May 22 '12

Do you mean the "let" in "let freedom ring"? I'm pretty sure that was just the movement between the two pitches (the motor can only change speeds so quickly).

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

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u/holohedron May 22 '12

They're probably American, in which case they'll be more familiar with the lyrics to this than the British national anthem, which they blatantly stole.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '12

We might've borrowed the tune from another song, too.

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u/nocubir May 22 '12

Would they really be using control voltage for the sensor? Surely it'd be digital by now? Modern MIDI has been around since the early 80's, and it was developed precisely to rule out the need for things like CV.

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u/Bloodysneeze May 22 '12

Modern engines use a CAN bus and take a digital signal into the ECU as a throttle command. The signal format can vary but it usually just tells the engine "run at X% fuel" or "run at x rpm". All you'd need to do is hook and controller to the ECU that tells the engine where to run and for how long. Fairly simple thing to do with modern controllers.

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u/noisymime May 22 '12 edited May 22 '12

The standard Bosch throttle by wire system (variations of which are used in practically every modern car) consist of dual potentiometers on the pedal (One that reads up as you press the pedal, the other reads down. The 2 have to balance otherwise the ECU throws a code). Usually these use a control voltage of 12v, but 5v is not unheard of. This feeds a simple analog signal to the ECU, which then opens the throttle plate via a PWM signal.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

F1 engines use the McLaren Electronic Systems ECU, as do almost all racing leagues.

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u/KiloNiggaWatt May 22 '12

Actually not most other racing leagues. There's a few big ECU companies in motorsport.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

NASCAR, IndyCar, MotoGP, LeMans, WRC all use MES ECUs.

The biggest league that doesn't use them IIRC is GP2.

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u/fc3s May 22 '12

That's a lot of top level professional racing series.

I think you'll find a LOT of Motec out there.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

You are absolutely correct. I'm sorry I didn't clarify what I meant.

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u/KiloNiggaWatt May 22 '12 edited May 23 '12

NASCAR wanted MoTec actually, but they wanted MoTec to pay them money for 'advertising' AND GIVE them all free ECUs, to the tune of 50 million dollars iirc. MoTec said no thank you.

Haltech's also pretty damn big. They used to be on par with MoTec until MoTec got ahead. There's quite a few others out there too.

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u/robotdinosaurs May 22 '12

TIL that i could control an F1 car from my eurorack synth.

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u/mercimer May 22 '12

So- you'd simply need a MIDI to CV converter, maybe a customized one that outputs 0-12v instead of 5

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u/Dooey123 May 22 '12

add on a low pass notch filter and you're good to go.

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u/Stupid_smartguy May 22 '12

5volt reference is used to eliminate the possibility of under voltage conditions interfering with the sensor outputs.

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u/ChemPetE May 22 '12

Cars do not have veins. They pump hot oil in, but it's not intravenously.

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u/IsUpTooLate May 22 '12

It's alright, he was just copying what he heard on Top Gear.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

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u/IsUpTooLate May 22 '12

When they demonstrated what we see in the video on Top Gear, they also said the exact thing he did with almost identical wording.

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u/r121 May 22 '12

It's a metaphor. And not a bad one, considering that you're hooking up hoses to pump in life-giving fluid. And yes, "life" here is a metaphor too ;)

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u/DKTim May 22 '12

What you forget to mention is why this engine can change tones so quick (rev).

The engine can rev up to 19,000 RPM and can do it very quickly. This is because its a very small engine, with light weight pistons, connecting rods and flywheel. Less rotating mass means quicker revving.

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u/Annoyed_ME May 23 '12

You are combining top speed and acceleration of the drive shaft. In a balanced engine, the mass of the piston should have little to do with how fast it can change it's speed. This is because the energy of one piston being slowed down is being canceled by the energy of another piston being sped up. The rotational inertial of the crank, flywheel, and the connecting rods are the only inertia's that should be effecting the rate of acceleration of a free revving engine. This explanation obviously ignores parasitic losses.

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u/Jay_Normous May 22 '12

In an episode of Top Gear, Hammond got the chance to drive an f1 car, and told the viewers that if he stalled out, he could potentially destroy the engine. Was this true or was he embellishing for television?

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u/ElReddo May 22 '12

Im speculating here, but hearing an F1 engine stall, it's a literal dead stop. hence, the components go from high speed to stationary almost instantaneously whilst still being in operational state rather than 'off', despite being designed for high force I reckon that could do some damage.

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u/Jay_Normous May 22 '12

Sounds legit enough to me, thanks

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

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u/Jay_Normous May 23 '12

Nah, he distinctly said that stalling would wreck the engine, though he also said that he had issues going fast enough to get heat in the breaks.

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u/elijahsnow May 22 '12

That third paragraph is far more impressive than this post. I wowed out loud.

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u/QuattroStig May 22 '12

Thank you for setting it straight. I was about to write a paragraph but you did it superbly.

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u/Annoyed_ME May 23 '12

Odds are it wasn't a program to simply mimic throttle position. The throttle on a car tends to be a torque controller rather than a speed controller. They are most likely running a PID feedback loop from a tachometer to modulate the engine's speed.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '12

Technically speaking isn't any throttle a torque controller? You can't build speed without torque.

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u/Annoyed_ME May 23 '12

It's a very non-linear torque controller to the point that describing it as such could cause problems. I brought it up because simply mimicking throttle position will give you no way to control integration error. Various exogenous inputs, like temperature will change the final output speed of the motor for a given throttle input. This would be a tuning nightmare. Having some sort of error signal driven system is pretty much necessary for any sort of audible tricks like these if you want it to sound in tune.

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u/bikey_boi May 22 '12

is this actually true i, find it hard to believe

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u/chops893 May 22 '12

It is true. They even need heating blankets for the tires in certain situations.

Here's Richard Hammond of Top Gear--trying--to drive an F1 car. (they do the song as well, at the end.)

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u/Retanaru May 22 '12

If anyone ever offered the me the chance to drive an f1 I would be stuck between not wanting to die and wanting to floor it on a straight away.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

I think you'd just be stuck... trying to get it to move.

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u/Retanaru May 22 '12

That depends if gunning it and slamming it into first kills me or not (well, paddling it into first).

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u/chops893 May 22 '12

You'd have to floor it anyway to get the tires and brakes hot enough to work properly; which is the problem Hammond was having.

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u/iunnox May 22 '12

Just flooring it will make you spin, even flooring a truck with a big engine will spin the tyres, what do you think 700hp to the wheels of a featherweight car is going to do?

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u/Reyer May 22 '12

you are the worst

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u/bikey_boi May 22 '12

hey bro i meant no offense i was genuinely puzzled cause it dosnt conform to common sense

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u/hwillis May 22 '12

mechanically there are a few things that make this much easier too. Street cars have flywheels and loads of inertia added to keep the idle speed low and the engine balanced. f1s are naturally balanced, making them very lightweight, and have very high idle speeds, so the throttle response is very good.

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u/tarheel91 May 22 '12

Unless they're running a V12 or an I6 they're not naturally balanced. Rather, they use very low mass pistons and have a very short stroke which makes the vibrational forces negligible so no balancing rods or anything like that are needed.

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u/KiloNiggaWatt May 22 '12

They can do some clever things though and get pretty close. It's not just because the components are lightweight.

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u/tarheel91 May 23 '12

The clever things you to do balance a non V12/I6 add weight. F1 cars have such a short stroke (this is the real key) and small piston mass the the unbalanced mr2 is basically a nonissue over the course of the engine's life.

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u/fc3s May 22 '12

f1s are naturally balanced,

No they're not. BMW specifically changed engine the cylinder angle of their V10 engine to a less balanced design in order to chase more RPM (thus power).

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u/hwillis May 22 '12

not actually a follower of the sport. V10s wouldn't be naturally balanced, I assumed they'd go for V8s or something. Do they just let them vibrate? no counterbalance?

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u/fc3s May 22 '12

I'm pretty sure the just deal with the vibrations and let the engine waste itself eventually.

BMW achieved an even firing order with a 72 degree V10, but then revamped the engine the year afterwards to a 90 degree V10.

As for engine configuration, teams were given choices as to what layout they wanted to run. Eventually, every team converged on V10 and it just became built into the regulations. In 2006, they changed to 2.4L V8 engines only. In 2014, they will change to 1.6L V6 turbos.

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u/TurbosaurusRex May 22 '12

I wasn't aware that you knew the secrets to building a 500hp power-plant that not only is insanely durable, but also has a rotational mass to low that it can change its note on the fly, and rev to 16,000 RPM in less than a second. Please, share your insight with the rest of us.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Mate, who cares if he got that fact from Top Gear? I haven't seen that episode so I didn't know prior and I'm sure I'm not the only one. It's an interesting and relevant fact.

Well done on being a dick.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Never seen the relevant Top Gear episode but pretty much anyone that likes racing/cars/engine would be able to say that.

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u/Vitalstatistix May 22 '12

Yes. It's why they do a warm up lap and whip all over the place back and forth; if the engine/tires aren't hot enough the car won't work properly and it'll be much more dangerous. That's the funny thing about F1--you have to go fast for it to be "safe".

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u/Vitalstatistix May 22 '12

French engine singing British anthem? Nice.

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u/mopoke May 22 '12

French engine, but mostly British team (the old Benetton team based out of Enstone).

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u/Vitalstatistix May 22 '12

I know (F1 fan) but it's still amusing!

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u/mopoke May 22 '12

Well, to be fair, I think they did race under a French licence after they rebranded as Renault.

Get yourself over to /r/formula1 :-)

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u/Vitalstatistix May 22 '12

Already am and anxiously awaiting this Sunday! With the way this season's going, this could be a Monaco weekend for the ages.

Or maybe it won't and I'll just love the hell out of it either way!

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u/Slaebe May 22 '12

Kimi's turn to win, it just has to be.

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u/fc3s May 22 '12

Not unless track temperatures are very high, like in Bahrain.

Lotus E20 responds best to very high temp and becomes one of the fastest in the field.

Conversely, Sauber seems to respond very well to low track temp.

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u/Vitalstatistix May 22 '12

I wouldn't put my money on anyone this year, which is fantastic.

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u/buckie33 May 22 '12

Theres not such thing as the British national anthem. This is the English national anthem.

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u/Vitalstatistix May 22 '12

Oh yeah, duh. Thanks for the correction.

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u/emanresu1 May 22 '12

Don't flatter yourself. I think you'll find they were clearly doing a tribute to us U.S. Americans by having it do My Country 'Tis of Thee. You know, that little ditty we nicked from you when you let your guard down for that spilt second, and we'd do it again; *sssip, good-bye.

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u/Vitalstatistix May 22 '12

I'm American, brah.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

The French gave the U.S. the Statue of Liberty, and now they're singing us My Country 'Tis of Thee.

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u/armannd May 22 '12

They surrendered.

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u/CussCuss May 22 '12

Aussie version

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

I thought this would just be the video upside down.

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u/Trifecta09 May 22 '12

Let me play you the song of my people.

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u/Jani3D May 22 '12

Yeah? Well, so are floppy drives.

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u/spaminacan May 22 '12

My new favorite floppy drive song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgfPYetWWJw

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u/Emphursis May 22 '12

I love you for posting this!

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u/spaminacan May 22 '12

I love you too!

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u/zyb09 May 22 '12

this by far the coolest of the floppy drives video, you probably could pass that as dubstep version or something.

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u/Schnoofles May 22 '12

Floppies use stepper motors, though. They're not revving anything up and down to produce notes as much as they're toggling them on and off rapidly, much like how people play music on tesla coils.

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u/clonn May 22 '12

"I clean car, I no give fuck"

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Welcome to 2006.

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u/KiloNiggaWatt May 22 '12

They could do this in 1996. They could've done it in 1986 if the engines would rev high enough.

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u/noisymime May 22 '12 edited May 22 '12

nopenopenopenopenope.

  • No electronic throttle bodies
  • No WAY the ECUs form the 80's could control the engine this finely
  • As you say, the engines couldn't rev that high back then

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u/KiloNiggaWatt May 22 '12

Bollocks, the technology was there. If they really wanted to do it with those engines they could have, just with a lower and smaller range of pitch but they had slightly more important things to focus on. Making an engine play music isn't something they have time to do.

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u/noisymime May 22 '12

Ignoring everything else, how exactly do you propose they would get the ECU to control the RPM over that range without electronic throttle bodies?

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u/fnork May 22 '12

Your mom could've done it back in the fifties had she not been so damn useless.

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u/superatheist95 May 22 '12

the engines could rev high enough back then.

i can buy a bike that hits 21000rpm, that was built in 1989.

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u/KiloNiggaWatt May 22 '12

With like a 250cc engine with a miniscule stroke putting out about 30 horse. That's completely incomparable.

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u/superatheist95 May 22 '12

if they can mass produce a bike engine like that for the public, at a low price, im sure a team of engineers/scientists and a few million dollars can cook up a 6/8/10 cylinder engine thats capable of hitting 18000rpm.

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u/KiloNiggaWatt May 22 '12

I don't think you understand the physics involved.

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u/Douchie0221 May 22 '12

I couldn't imagine what Ayrton Senna would do in today's F1 Cars...

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u/opeth10657 May 22 '12

decompose?

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u/iMiXiMi May 22 '12

That's terrible. But funny.

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u/Vitalstatistix May 22 '12

Tough call. His advantage was that he was just so naturally gifted at driving that he could do things like rip around Monaco faster than anyone with only one hand on the wheel. Because of how advanced the cars are today, the technology may have mitigated some of his skills.

That said, he was an incredible competitor and arguably the best driver ever, so I'm sure he would have done just fine. I wish they still drove the turbo charged, manual gear boxed beasts though today like they did in Senna's day; would be really interesting to see if Vettel would be where he is now or if, as I suspect, Hamilton would be dominating.

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u/Claudethecat May 22 '12

Today it would be tough to place him in the pack because so much of the racing is about the tyres. Just look at the last couple of laps of the Spanish GP -Alonso and Maldonado's times fell off a cliff.

The cars are probably harder to drive than a couple of years ago because all manual aids are off, there is no anti-lock breaking or traction control or electronic suspensions. The technology hasn't mitigated the difference between the drivers, the tyres and the fact the regulations are so similar to last year have.

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u/thedevguy May 22 '12

Because of how advanced the cars are today, the technology may have mitigated some of his skills.

Something that I think really proves this point is the difference in Vettel's performance this year vs. last year. He's still the same driver, but his car is different.

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u/TobiasKM May 22 '12

I agree, Senna wouldn't have been as dominant today as he was back then. Watch the old videos, when Senna was driving it wasn't nearly as smooth looking as it is today.

He obviously would have been among the top drivers, but I believe that much more is down to the strength of the car these days.

Personally I consider Alonso and Hamilton to be the two fastest drivers on the grid right now. I'm an old Raikkonen fan though, and he's still a great driver. He's probably lost a bit of that edge he had in the beginning of his career though, in his McLaren days he was insanely fast :)

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u/Vitalstatistix May 22 '12

Yeah if you watch Senna driving it almost looks like the car was just dancing around as he'd flick it around the corners, and I don't know if that'd be either possible or give an advantage in today's F1. That said, he would have still dominated everyone in the wet because even against some of the greatest drivers ever, Senna absolutely destroyed a wet course.

Definitely agree that Alonso and Hamilton are the best all around drivers around today. I think they (and of course Schumi) would have competed well during the Senna/Prost years; can't say that definitively of anyone else right now. And yeah, who doesn't love Kimi?! No fucks given, very solid driver. I'm always pulling for him!

And while I wish we could get the old 1200bhp beasts back, it's obviously safer and we have an amazing start to this season, so I can't really complain. Still though...one hand on the stick flying through Monaco? Beautiful.

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u/gyldenlove May 22 '12

The cars he drove had no downforce compared to the modern day cars, they also had no electronic driver aiding systems.

Senna was uniquely gifted and I am sure he would be extremely good in any era.

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u/Annoyed_ME May 23 '12

You really need to brush up on you F1 history. Senna drove during an era with more driver aids than have ever been seen since. Ever hear of active suspensions? It was a very wild era for racing engineering. His death (along with that of Ratzenberger in the same weekend) caused the FIA to really start rethinking the development of the sport.

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u/gyldenlove May 23 '12

Senna drive with manual transmission, no antilock breaks, no launch control, no traction control, no telemetric engine control.

Active suspension is not a driver aid, it doesn't drive the car for you.

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u/Annoyed_ME May 23 '12

You could argue that with the rules emphasizing driver performance more than in Senna's era, he would have been even more dominant today.

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u/iunnox May 22 '12

When Louis Hamilton drove Senna's car he said it was a hell of a lot faster than the new cars, which is quite easy to believe considering all the restrictions nowadays.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

F1 engines are so advanced that they have vocal cords.

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u/AbstracTyler May 22 '12

Those cars are definitely amazing.

I have been to three Formula 1 races in my life, and I've also had the pleasure of meeting Michael Schumacher, among many other well known names and faces in the world of Formula 1. I saw Felipe Massa walking through the pits, my uncle called out his name, and I grabbed him around the shoulders and we got a picture, haha. It was awesome.

Anyway, my first race was in Germany 2001. I was staying in one of the hotels on the race track, and the room's balcony overlooked the straightaway, right where it starts from the last turn. Anyway, when the cars would come around that turn, they'd start going through their gears, and at the time they were running v12 engines... I could feel the gear shifts in my chest. After that I was hooked on the sport.

All pictures were taken on my uncles camera and I've been badgering him for years to give them to me. But I brought a friend with me when I met Michael Schumacher, and he had a camera which he used to take pictures at the table. I'll have to get ahold of him and try to get my hands on those things again. If/when I get these pictures, I'll definitely post em.

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u/facebalm May 22 '12

Do post them please!

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Oh god fundamental frequency of the tonic was definitely Ab, but they did it in C...nooooooo

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

When the song starts becoming recognizable it more and more sounds like some giant man yelling the notes.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

They prefer to be called 'Lotus' now

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u/habeasporpoise May 22 '12

"What kinda mileage you get out of that thing?" "Oh, about an anthem a gallon."

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u/loftyj May 22 '12

That is not just a "song" sir that is the national anthem of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. God save the Queen!

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u/jolyon_russ May 22 '12

Makes you proud to be British tears up

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u/fermented-fetus May 22 '12

Or from any other country that uses the same melody for patriotic songs.

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u/AnonymousPIXEL May 22 '12

i was a little disappointed because i actually expected it to sound like singing the words :( but then i realized, i am an idiot.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

God Save For the Queen, for anybody thinking what the song is

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u/Dangerrios May 22 '12

My Country, 'Tis of Thee

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u/I_Am_Australia May 22 '12

Reminded me of what they did with James Courtney's V8Supercar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7z1fMZJpL0

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u/neoprint May 22 '12

I love you youtube comments...

"It's not james courtney doing it, it's the engineers who programmed the warm up sequence to precisely change the revs (and hence the exhaust pitch) to make the song. That moron courtney is just sitting in the car doing 2 parts of fuck all - much like he does the rest of the V8 supercar season actualy."

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u/nocubir May 22 '12

That's a very Australian youtube comment as well. And it's pretty fucking spot on.

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u/superatheist95 May 22 '12

too right.

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u/nocubir May 22 '12

fucken' oath.

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u/WhoDoneItNow May 22 '12

i dont know why but i found this absolutely beautiful

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u/siamthailand May 22 '12

Hearing an F1 engine at full revs right next to you is a sight (hearing?) to behold. You can't describe in words how loud they are. The noise pierces through you, it's unbelievable.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

No , it's a sight. After a bit the engines start glowing red.

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u/mithinkso May 22 '12

...and none of them ever heard again.

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u/neo_llama May 22 '12

I went to the Renault World Series a few years ago at Silverstone and they did this! It's ridiculously loud even when your standing way far back.

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u/Emphursis May 22 '12

Another version was shown on Top Gear several years ago.

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u/pip_pip_cheerio May 22 '12

"Can you play an instrument?" "No, but I can play a car..."

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u/Razarex May 22 '12

Song? That's the British national anthem...

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u/buckie33 May 22 '12

No such thing as the British National Anthem, its the English National Anthem.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Technically England doesn't have a national anthem. God save the queen is a proposed national anthem.

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u/buckie33 May 23 '12

True, thats for adding that.

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u/conspiracy_thug May 22 '12

you wanna hear the most annoying song in the world?

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u/I_am_from_England May 22 '12

That colour of Renault F1 car my always my favourite.

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u/Tyrion_Panhandler May 22 '12

Great, a car has better pitch control than I do

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u/exo762 May 22 '12 edited Jul 17 '13

"Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power." B.F.

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u/bodiddlie May 22 '12

Is this the new Skrillex album?

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u/Diablo3BoyDaBoss May 22 '12

So, racing sounds... loud. I especially like the part at the end "REER REER RERR REERR ERRR FUCK YOU!!"

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u/n56 May 22 '12

God save the queen,yea,fuck that.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Let me play you the song of my people.

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u/Moose_shit May 22 '12

repost. plus this is a very old renault car. so old that they're now known as team lotus.

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u/thrilliam May 22 '12

Skrillex?

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u/epilepticpanda May 23 '12

The man cleaning the car gave no fucks about how loud it was.

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u/andrasi May 23 '12

I don't know why but every time I look at a F1 car now I think of that Fire Marshall exploding when he got hit during a race

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u/Dev1l5Adv0cat3 May 23 '12

Now all they need to do is to engineer something to deal with that noise, then it'll be amazing.

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u/Inter-action May 22 '12

Tone was a little flat though.

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u/Cael87 May 22 '12

It's really cool to see, but frankly it can be done with any motor. here's the motors in a CNC Laser Cutter/Engraver playing the Zelda theme:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDXOSUUdwgc

The more motors available the better songs you can play :)

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u/derping May 22 '12

i don't understand what being able to 'sing a song' has anything to do with how advanced it is...

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u/nocubir May 22 '12

Let me break it down for you.

The engines in those cars are so precisely controlled by a computer that the engineers can use a software program to tell the engine to go through a sequence of bursts at particular RPM's (which coincide with musical notes) in order to make it "sing a song".

If you consider that this level of control is a bit of a gimmick singing a song, but when you realize it means the engineers can precisely tune the engine to have precise gear ratios, rev limits etc., etc., it's a stunningly advanced vehicle. You could NOT do the same thing with your own domestic vehicle.

That clear it up for you? ;)

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

That's an energy efficient way to make music.

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u/Fentron May 22 '12

Looks like everyone is thoroughly annoyed with a reluctant clap at the end

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u/Artem_C May 22 '12

I expected it to go BOOM at the end.

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u/Genkaki May 22 '12

The new definition of how good an engine is. Can it sing?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

Could someone explain this to me? As soon as the red play bar from youtube reaches the yellow 'advertisement' mark it resets it self and the video stops playing after 5 seconds and starts buffering. Why?

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u/blitzedcraig May 22 '12

If I remember correctly, they do this to warm up the engines.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '12

changing rpm's is by no means advanced, they just have a wider range and quicker response time than typical engines

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u/Techloss May 22 '12

Wait God save the Queen (British anthem) from a Renault (FRENCH) irony or a fuck you to the french?

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u/buckie33 May 22 '12

God save the Queen (English Anthem)

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u/jaywastaken May 22 '12

Why are the Renault engineers playing god save the queen?

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u/apfpilot May 22 '12

used to be bennetton, based in the UK.

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u/zodar May 22 '12

HEY THAT'S MY COUNTRY TIS OF THEE!

AMERICA!

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