Formula One is the most expensive and technologically advanced sport in the world. Behind the spectacle lies an endless pursuit of speed, where cutting-edge technology means the difference between victory and defeat. Picture this: terabytes of data every race weekend, cutting-edge materials that push the limits of both strength and lightness, sustainable fuels to ignite the most efficient engines on the planet. All of this in pursuit of 1/10 of a second, a fraction of time worth millions.
This is Formula One, and I can't get enough. (Dramatic music) (Engine roaring)
Today I am taking you inside the halls of Red Bull Racing, unveiling the secrets of their all-new RB20, and revealing the future of Formula One. Turns out there's a lot more here than just Drive to Survive. Watching on TV or even in person only gives you a small taste of what goes into Formula One.
Growing up, I was heavily influenced by my dad, who actually gave racing a shot in his twenties and very much ingrained in me a deep love of all things cars and specifically F1. I mean, seeing the scarlet Ferraris dominate week after week became a core memory for me. But there's no doubt that Formula One has grown enormously since then.
Tech is a huge driver of that. My friend, Myke Hurley, and I recently spent a couple of days at the Red Bull campus in Milton Keynes, England, to witness the cutting-edge tech firsthand, meeting legends like Verstappen and Perez. But one of the things that absolutely blew our minds was a drone. Forget just filming an F1 car. This thing races them.
If you're not aware, Myke and I have had a F1 podcast for the last couple of years. I think it's pretty safe to say we're excited right now. - I'm pretty pumped. I'm very excited. - All I know is the Red Bull will flow today and the content will also follow suit. (laughs) Red Bull teamed up with Dutch Drone Gods to create this.
It's tiny, but this is a drone that can reach speeds over 200 miles per hour in just a few seconds. Red Bull are helping to develop this with an eye on pushing it into live production in the future. Imagine following along with a qualifying lap to get that true sense of speed that nothing else can deliver.
Bye, little buddy. I'm glad I didn't wreck you too bad. One of the coolest parts of the trip as an F1 fan was the tour of the factory, where they build the Red Bull cars. Very, very understandable reasons since secrecy inside an F1 factory is paramount, I was not allowed to film inside.
But the scope of their operation blew my mind. What are you expecting going into it? - The scale, I'm excited for the scale. Like, what is the scale of an operation putting together an F1 car? Because I could imagine it's either huge or smaller than you think.
The scale of this place is nuts. Their control room looks like it was designed by ex-NASA engineers because it was. Each race generates those terabytes of data, and it's all actually crunched in real time to make split-second decision calls.
And the tech, I mean the huge CNC machines, resin printers that spit out wind tunnel models. I mean look, I've toured factories, labs, you name it, and nothing touches Red Bull. The sheer investment, the insane attention to detail is no surprise that they are currently crushing the competition.
If all that's not enough, maybe my favorite part of the trip was getting a sneak peek at Red Bull Powertrains. They've partnered with Ford to build their own engines starting in 2026. And holy duck quacking! Look, I again was super, super not allowed to film anything inside, but seeing the room-sized yons that they have for testing engines, and even more so, the hand-assembled parts, the fact that they have entire rooms dedicated to testing turbos. Not just like, "Look at this turbo," but an actual room full of them.
WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- Formula One is the most expensive,technologically advancedsport in the world.Behind the spectacle lies arelentless pursuit of speed,where cutting edge technologymeans the differencebetween victory and defeat.Picture this.Terabytes of data every race weekend.Cutting edge materialsthat push the limitsof both strength and lightness.Sustainable fuels to ignitethe most efficient engines on the planet.All of this in pursuitof 1/10 of a second,a fraction of time worth millions.This is Formula Oneand I can't get enough.(dramatic music)(engine roaring)Today I am taking you insidethe halls of Red Bull Racing,unveiling the secretsof their all new RB20,and revealing the future of Formula One.Turns out there's a lot more herethan just Drive to Survive.Watching on TV or even in persononly gives you a small tasteof what goes into Formula One.Growing up, I was heavilyinfluenced by my dad,who actually gave racinga shot in his twentiesand very much ingrained in mea deep love of all things carsand specifically F1.I mean, seeing the scarlet Ferrarisdominate week after weekbecame a core memory for me.But there's no doubt that Formula Onehas grown enormously since then.And tech is a huge driver of that.My friend, Myke Hurley, and Irecently spent a couple ofdays at the Red Bull campusin Milton Keynes, England,to not only witness thecutting edge tech firsthand,meeting legends like Verstappen and Perez,but one of the things thatabsolutely blew our mindswas a drone.Forget just filming an F1 car.This thing races them.If you're not aware, Myke andI have had a F1 podcastfor the last couple of years.I think it's pretty safe tosay we're excited right now.- I'm pretty pumped.I'm very excited.- All I know is the RedBull will flow todayand the content will alsofollow suit. (laughs)Red Bull teamed up with DutchDrone Gods to create this.It's tiny, but this is a dronethat can reach speeds wellover 200 miles per hourin just a few seconds.And it can do it a lotfaster than an F1 car.(engine revving)We're about to see the first run.What do you think?- I'm pretty excited.I'm nervous, but in a good way.- It's just one of thosethings where it's like,how often do you get anopportunity like this, right?Like, I mean, it is so cool.- Yeah.- They staged a drag racewith an older Red Bull F1 carpiloted by David Coulthardon an admittedly damp dayout at the Milford ProvingGrounds, and it wasn't even close.So I've gotta ask, what was itlike going against the drone?Because it feels like thatdrone is insanely fast.- Yeah, it is.It just gets up and goes upto its V Max very quickly,and clearly a Grand Prix car,it takes time to get speed,get down force, and then get grip.So in this sort of situation,there's no comparison.- The way the drone flies is wild.Forget autopilot or fancy stabilization.This thing is raw,entirely reliant onthe skill of the pilot.Takeoff is actually vertical,as the pilot has tocarefully bounce the throttleto angle it like a jet fighterand absolutely take off.It's outfitted with a pair of cameras,a stripped down GoPro for the main angle,as well as an analog camera,which is solely forsending the live feed backto the FPV headset.- It's incredible to see, actually.It looks such a simple device,but clearly the amount of moving parts,and for Shaggy to be ableto to handle virtually,you know, the direction.I've seen some footage,and we've been on track at Silverstone,incredibly precise how he canfollow the actual racetrack.- The setup is wild.Not only do they need an additional droneto relay the signal to make surethere's no loss of controlat over 200 miles per hour,but the operator has totrack an F1 car accuratelyon a racetrack as it accelerates,flies through corners,and brakes, and it has to do it reliably.This first version of thedrone drains its batteryin just a couple of minutes,AKA enough to make it one lap.To get even a smalltaste of what it's liketo fly a drone in first person viewat over 200 miles per hour,I got to try a much, much smaller version.I have never flown an FPV drone before.What do I need to know?- Have you flown normal drones?- I've flown some normaldrones, but not a lot.- Well, it's quite a bit different.Fingers on the sticks.- Got it.- Oh- Oh.- Oh, okay.I saw the piece of plastic flying.Look at that.Oh, hey, okay.That's actually kinda fun.Now I get to do it with the goggles.I'm going in.- Going up in the matrix.- I can't really see anything at all.Oh, oh, oh, yep. (laughs)It's really hard 'cause you have, like,no sense of anything.But when you see the footagethat they've captured withthis, it is truly wild.Red Bull are helping to develop thiswith an eye on pushingit into live productionin the future.Imagine following alongwith a qualifying lapto get that true sense of speedthat nothing else can deliver.Bye, little buddy.I'm glad I didn't wreck you too bad.One of the coolest partsof the trip as an F1 fanwas the tour of the factory,where they build the Red Bull cars.For very, very understandable reasons,since secrecy inside anF1 factory is paramount,I was not allowed to film inside,but the scope of theiroperation blew my mind.What are you expecting going into it?- The scale, I'm excited for the scale.Like, what is the scale of an operationputting together an F1 car?Because I could imagine it's either huge,or smaller than you think.- The scale of this place is nuts.Their control room, it lookslike it was designed byex-NASA engineers, because it was.Each race generatesthose terabytes of data,and it's all actuallycrunched in real timeto make split second decision calls.And the tech, I meanthe huge CNC machines,resin printers that spitout wind tunnel models.I mean look, I've touredfactories, labs, you name it,and nothing touches Red Bull.The sheer investment, theinsane attention to detail.It is no surprise that they arecurrently crushing the competition.If all that's not enough, maybemy favorite part of the tripwas getting a sneak peekat Red Bull Powertrains.They've partnered withFord to for the first timebuild their own engines starting in 2026.And holy (duck quacking).Look, I again was super, super not allowedto film anything inside,but seeing the room sizedynos that they havefor testing engines, but even more so,the hand-assembled parts,the fact that they have entire rooms.Look, they had an entire roomdedicated to testing turbos.Not just like, "Oh we'regonna run it in the machineor whatever."They had, like, freaking like,shipping container-sizedburners just to burn gasto spin these turbos attens of thousands of RPMsat these absurdly high temperaturesjust to simulate theload that they would getwhen they're running in an F1 car.I expected the tech andeverything to be fancy and new.This is a brand new operation.But the scale of it was unbelievable.Look, you probably hearthe words mind blown a lot,but touring these facilities,seeing the actual nuts and boltsof how an F1 car is designed and built,I've gotta be honest, it isone of my favorite experiencesI've ever had making videos.And then came launch day for the RB20,the 2024 Red Bull F1 car,which will begin racing this weekend.So we are just a couple of hours awayfrom the launch of the RB20,the latest Red Bull racing F1 vehicle.But before we do that,we're taking a look down memory laneat the last several generations.Really all the way from the RB1all the way through to the RB16B.It is really interesting to seejust how much the vehicles have evolved.You can see the sort ofthe low noses of the RB1.You can see all the way throughthese incredibly complicated wings.And then you can see howthe high noses came in.Like, it's a great view of how F1and how Red Bull haveevolved their vehicleover the last 20 years.- It's actually kind of staggeringto be in a room like thisand see not just all the cars,but all of the wins,all of the championshipsthat are in thesebanners around these carsshowing the incredible historyof the Red Bull racing team.It really is like quite a sight to behold.- Formula One cars lookquite similar to each otherat first glance, but almostevery part is custom built.Parts can be designed,test printed, manufactured,and completed in a span of just hours.And this happens all dayevery day the entire year.(triumphant music)All right, so we've justseen the RB20 in person,so now I'm going to have an opportunityto chat with not only MaxVerstappen and Sergio Perez,but also Christian Horner toget a little bit of a sensefor not only where the car is now,but also the past and the history of F1.Because to me the tech isthe most interesting part of this, right?Like I love the racing, but theimmense amount of technologythat goes into these vehiclesis fascinating to me.So it's something Ireally wanna talk aboutas far as kind of not onlywhere things have been,but also where things are going.Also, it's kind of cool.How do you feel likethe sport has evolved?Because not only, ofcourse, it's much larger,the teams are larger, the budget,like, everything feelslike it's a grander scope,but also the cars are somuch more complicated.Like, we got a tour ofthe factory yesterdayand it is unreal the amountof work that goes into it,the parts, the customization.Like, how do you feel like the sporthas sort of grown in that time?- Well, it's evolved massively.And if I look at the technology,that's been the thingthat's been most impressive.You know, the evolution in just 20 yearshas been remarkable.And the use of software, the use of data,and the way and the speed of datahas been unbelievable.So that's been the mostimpressive thing that's evolved.- As you can imagine,safety is a huge concernin Formula One.And the cars have,while they're much saferthan they were in the past,gotten incredibly large.And while that means that youcan have this incredible tech,you have the ground effect aerodynamicsto suck the cars down to the pavement,it also has some downsides.What are the things thatyou would love to seeif like, you just had like a magic wandand like, oh, 10 years from nowyou can kind of remakeF1 however you want?- Well, there's quite a few things.I mean, but they're not realistic anymorein the world that we live in, you know?So for example, bringinga V10 engine back,it's a lot lighter.And look at the size of this car,it's so much smaller thanwhat we have now, right?So I think this is actually, like,a really beautiful size for a racing car.- Yeah.- Something a bit smaller, cleaner.- Yeah.- I mean that for me, yeah, less weight,lighter cars, that would help.- I think lighter carswill be a good thing.- Talking with both Max and Checo,they're both like, "Oh,lighter cars would be great."'Cause I mean the cars these days,they're incredibly fast, but they're huge.They're heavy, right?- If you compare 'em to thecar that we had 20 years ago,it looks like a go-kart in comparison.(Austin laughing)- The closest I've ever gottento driving a Formula One caris playing F1 in a simulator.But what's interesting is,is that not only does of course Red Bulland every F1 team have aninsanely impressive setupthat I will tell you noone is ever, ever, everallowed to film, much less even see,but it was interesting talking with Maxabout how he treats videogames, not only in his off time,but also how he used it growing upto learn more about howcars actually maneuver.So obviously, 20 years of Red Bullis like an enormous amount of time,but I know that you alsospend a lot of time off trackdoing like sim racing and stuff.Kinda like, how do video games play intonot only your sort ofenjoyment of the sport,but also just beingprepared and just like,where does that kind of come from?- I mean, I did start drivingalso virtually alreadyfrom a young age, but that was, you know,at the time just on the controller.Then you get a little steering wheel,and it slowly got moreand more professional.And of course at the time, you know,the games are not where they are today.And I have to say,nowadays I think you canrelate on them a lot more.The only thing really missing is, like,the G forces and stuff, but I have to say,there are a lot of great gamesout there that, you know,really focus on on the physics of the carand the tire models and stuff.So yeah, it's gettingreally, really serious.I've tried, like, motion rigs and stuff,but it's just slower.'Cause you'll, you know,it's easier to make a mistakebecause of the movement.Of course for here it's goodat Red Bull, the factory,because that's how you, you know,you're fully driving a reallife to get a bit of a motion.And it's not about pure lap time,it's about making it fully 100% accurate.But yeah, for sure, you know,in the coming years also there,there will be more and more developments.And at the end of the day,if you set up a championshipwhere everyone is in a motion rig,then it's the same for everyone, right?- Yeah.- But at the momentit's better just to havea fixed, stationary rig.- That makes sense.It's funny, I actually had asimilar experience growing upwith games such as "Gran Turismo,"to the point where the first timeI got behind the wheel of a carand tried to drive it remotely quickly,I was shocked at how muchthat games like "Gran Turismo"had actually informedme in the way that carsactually maneuver in the real world.And it's interesting thatit's sort of the sameon the F1 side, althoughit's probably, like,a decade of driving go-kartsbefore you really get good enough.But it's still, it'svery interesting to seethat F1 drivers feel so,like, superhuman, you know?I mean, you see thetraining that they go through,the G's that they experience,the kind of just, insane environmentsthat they have to perform in.But at the end of theday, they're driving cars.And I think it's really importantto sort of ground things.Because most other sports,I could kick a ball, I could throw a ball.Like, there's a lot ofthese things that are like,I could sort of comprehendand get my head around.But Formula One feelslike it's this exotic,absolutely otherworldy sort of thing.But in reality, they're drivingcars very, very quickly.And for all the tech inthe world you've got,ultimately it comes downto the feel, the knowledge,and the sheer determinationto drive the fastest cars in the worldbetter than anyone else out there.And that, my friends, that is Formula One.And I really wannadrive a Formula One car.So maybe next year I can convince someoneto let me drive the car.Y'all, you got my number.Hit me up if you got, youneed some extra testing,I'm available.(dial tone humming)(crickets chirping)So much happens here,and I am incredibly excited tohave gotten this sneak peek,like-- Privileged.- As Formula One fans...- This has been unreal.- Unreal.- Unreal.- Unreal.- Never, unforgettable.- Now you go home andwatch it back on TV again.(Austin and Myke laughing)
