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Formula One, often referred to as the pinnacle of motorsports.

It's been the face of racing for so many years now, and I, a very, very intellectual F1 fan, am going to attempt to explain it.

Except I'm not exactly very intellectual.

Now, Formula One, with all of its glamour, beauty, speed, adrenaline, and engineering, is essentially 20 rich guys driving in circles.

Thank you so much for watching.

Nothing, just an incident.

Now, of course, Formula One isn't just 20 millionaires driving in circles, but the circles are on crack.

Although, not gonna lie, it's kind of accurate.

But you know, Formula One is so much more than that.

And I'm going to bring you guys deep down the rabbit hole.

Obviously, some of you are probably watching this because you want to try to get into Formula One, which is relatively pretty easy, as you can probably tell.

But if you're already a diehard fan...

Okay, I kind of don't know why the hell you're still watching this video.

But hey, you know, this video is going to be one hell of a journey.

So grab your popcorn, clear your tears away if you're a Ferrari fan.

Grab your Red Bull or your Monster Energy.

And this is going to be Formula One Explained by an Idiot.

All right, so starting off with the basic stuff, F1 is a sport where 10 teams with two drivers each race for points that tally up to a driver's world championship,

which is equivalent to like the Piston Cup.

The F1 season starts in late February and ends in November.

December to February is essentially the season break where there's no F1, aka the time where I lose my sanity and curl up into a ball and start crying.

But it's also the time where some spicy F1 news gets released.

In work terms, it's like hearing your favorite manager got fired or a co -worker moved to the rival's business.

So there are 24 different races this year and in each race, drivers essentially score points and the one with the most points wins the championship.

Points are only given to drivers who finish within the top 10, essentially saying skill issue to the other 10 drivers on the grid.

But aside from that, these points also tally up to a constructors championship

which is the combined points of the two drivers in a team.

The team with the most points from both drivers takes the Constructors' Championship and the higher the team places, the more money that they get.

Now, every single team in F1 has two drivers.

There's no way around that.

You can't have three, probably just a reserve driver, which is essentially somebody to back up the other two drivers in case somebody gets sick.

So every team has to have two drivers.

Except for Aston Martin because Lance Stroll is incapable of being a good driver.

Now each team before the season starts develops a car that follows the regulations set by the FIA.

If you don't know what the FIA is, it stands for forever an insufferable pain in the ass.

So the FIA basically makes these regulations

that all teams have to follow to make their cars

and each team has to try to develop the fastest car

which will help their drivers win points now the development of the car also involves engines

so far there are four engine manufacturers in f1

which are mercedes ferrari honda

and renault teams will have to choose an engine to work with

and they have to create the most aerodynamically efficient car on the grid because if they don't something like this happens

all right guys so ready up for me to nerd out i'm straight up gonna look like this

and this time i'm gonna be speed running some f1 terms

you need to know pretty much the ones you need to know to understand everything

that i'm gonna say because

if i don't include this part i'll actually just sound like a professional yapper throughout the video okay

so here we go pole position it's basically where a driver qualifies with the fastest time

and starts first on the grid charlotte is very familiar with that but is incapable of winning from that position.

Next is a podium.

No, it's not the thing that Joe Biden stands on when he's trying to deliver a speech.

Big emphasis on the word trying.

America is a nation that can be defined in a single word.

I was gonna foot him in a foot.

Instead, a podium in F1 is where a driver finishes within the top three, essentially second or third, as they get to stand on a podium after a race and potentially break another person's trophy.

Another term is backmarkers.

The teams are drivers that are all the way back of the competition.

They're just there, all the way back there, which is something that Nikita Mazepin is very familiar with.

Moving on, we have P1, P2, and P3.

The P is for position and the number after that is, well, it's kind of obvious.

If you do not understand that, I swear to God, there is no hope for you to understand Formula One.

Pit stops are where drivers change their tires and you start to hear flies in your ears.

And finally, DRS, which makes your car go faster as its rear wing opens, which allows for less drag.

And it can only be active in the DRS zones of a racetrack.

If you don't know what it stands for once again, then this video will certainly help you out.

And then he, then they start catching up, he'll be grateful.

You know what DRS stands for, Noah?

You're putting a good distance.

Suck my dick.

Alright, so now we have the race weekend.

It's essentially the schedule of an F1 race, which takes place on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Friday is free practice, where drivers familiarize themselves with the track.

Saturday is qualifying, which determines where you place on the grid

and Sunday is the race day

but not gonna lie I'm kind of not really satisfied with

that explanation a more accurate way to put the race weekend

is essentially Friday everybody is delusional Saturday Ferrari fans are extremely happy

and on Sunday Red Bull fans are extremely happy as we

hear the Dutch national anthem for the 23rd time in a year.

okay so what happens once the race goes on what happens after it's lights out

and away we go well believe it

or not it's not just cars going in circles over

and over although most of it is pretty much that

but no you know there's something called tire wear

which i'm gonna explain as clearly as possible in bedroom terms there's the hard tires

which last the longest there's the soft tires which finishes the fastest, medium tires are kind of the in -between, wet tires is used when the track gets spicy and slippery,

and the final tire compound is intermediates which are used

when the track is somewhat wet

which is about one to three milliliters damp whereas for wets it's ideal for

when the track is really wet like something around four milliliters damp and above.

I just sounded like the biggest nerd in history.

My goodness.

Pardon my F1 addiction guys, it's actually incurable.

Like, I would be watching F1

while doing literally anything to the point where I would run out of content to watch

and start watching videos of a monkey putting out the fastest lap in a race.

Anyways, we have pit stops.

So this is where the teams switch out their tires in a race.

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Teams are required to pit at least once and change to a different tire compound.

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So once again, in bedroom terms, when you're hard and she's wet, you probably don't last as long as a pit stop, which is like sub three seconds.

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I have no idea if you guys understood that.

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But just as a rundown of what it's like when F1 teams pit, Red Bull's pit stops usually go like this,

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while Ferrari's pit stops are pretty much this.

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As for strategy, different races means different tires can be used.

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For example, there could be races that require drivers to have two pit stops

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because their tires don't last as long or some people would go on a one -stop strategy and risk it all.

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Strategies can change depending on the situation but essentially the teams opt for the most optimal tire combo except for Ferrari.

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Now with all of the info on Formula One

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which you guys just had thrown into your faces like Logan Sargent whenever he sees a barrier you're probably wondering

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which team should I support?

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And well, that's an amazing question because me being, you know, a very intelligent Formula One fan, I'm going to give you guys the most accurate guide on F1 teams and drivers.

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Trust me, you will never see more accurate information in the world than this video.

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It's a Ferrari.

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It's a shitbox.

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Ferrari.

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So this team has pretty much had depressed drivers and fans since 2007.

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They do completely abysmal team strategies that make you think

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that you're high on crack and has completely destroyed their past legacy of being the strongest team in Formula One.

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Their driver, Shao Laclea, has probably spent a million dollars on his therapist after the tragedy, also called the 2022 season.

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And he's probably going to spend more after his contract extension.

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Now, if you don't know how this contract stuff works, basically these drivers are like employees and can get replaced or kept when their contract expires.

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Like the other driver, Carlos Sainz, who is going to be replaced by Lewis Hamilton in 2025.

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Hey guys, is it habit time yet?

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Next up is Red Bull.

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Their theme song is pretty much the Dutch National Anthem or

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Some of their fans started supporting them probably because they're Dutch

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or their team has been losing too much to the point where supporting Red Bull is their only way of coping.

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Red Bull also has the literal F -35 fighter jet as

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their Formula 1 car since their chief technical officer has an entire research facility built into his head.

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As for their drivers, their main driver has daddy issues and their second driver forgot how to drive in 2023.

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I've crashed it.

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I've crashed it almost immediately.

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No, Mikey.

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No, no, Mikey.

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That was so not right.

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As for Mercedes, their team principal has a deep hatred for headsets and they used to dominate a couple of years ago, but now they completely forgot how to build a car.

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Now, Mercedes fans are some of the funniest people out there, but also some of the most ungodly annoying fans in the world,

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particularly Team LH, aka Lewis Hamilton Glazers, still talking about him being eight -time world champion, which I do understand if you find the 2021 season controversial,

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but these guys are literally putting eight -time world champion literally everywhere.

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Like, I would see comments saying

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that Lewis is eight -time world champion in a YouTube video

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analyzing the Cars movie now of course i'm not going to

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target all of you mercedes fans out there there are some of you guys who are you know actually normal

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but to all of the team lh fans out there instead

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of yapping about how the fia is racist instead use

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that energy to pray that lewis has a good therapist since he's going to ferrari in 2025.

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also mercedes's other driver george russell has a crippling addiction of

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crashing into people to the outside to cover off carlo saints trying to go wide and there you go, George Russell just - He just suddenly turned into me.

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McLaren is basically the papaya team.

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They're orange and a team with a really, really rich history and a strong one as well, as long as we decide to ignore their, you know, McLaren -Honda partnership.

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Overall, they're a strong powerhouse in F1 along with Mercedes, Ferrari, and Red Bull.

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As for their drivers, Lando Norris can't finish P1 probably until he's like 73 years old

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and is mentally incapable of saying anything normal in an interview.

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Man's had a good mustache.

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It might be that.

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I'm not able to grow.

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While Oscar Piastri is really talented and so happy that he literally looks like this.

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Now Alpine is what I call the schizophrenic team.

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Like literally these guys are fighting absolutely no one other than their own imaginations.

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They're just a team that's just there.

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They don't stand out, but if you like a car that's pink, like one of my friends who doesn't know Jack about F1, then sure, you can definitely support them.

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Now, what about their drivers?

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You know, how good are they?

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Well, all you need to know about them is that they're both French.

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Okay, on to the next team.

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Valtteri, it's James.

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Please abort the fastest lap attempt before the end of lap.

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For Williams, money ruined their capability to keep up in recent times.

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They've had a rich history like the other big powerhouses.

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Williams used to be a backmarker team for a couple of years, but their comeback has been slow

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but strong i could say the same for my academics actually

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never mind not really i've actually been doing awful i'm just deluding myself anyways as for their drivers logan sargent

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and alex albin one of them doesn't know what a kilometer is

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and the other one is very nice

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that was honestly the best summary i could come up for

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these two i'm gonna kill myself aston martin showed huge promise

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at the start of the 2023 season until they scrambled like

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maniacs not knowing how to develop their car also yeah guys throughout the season teams

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and f1 can introduce upgrades to their car as long as they don't reach the cost cap

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which is a limit of how much they can spend throughout

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the year now most of the time upgrades work brilliantly except

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for whatever aston martin has been putting into their cars halfway throughout 2023

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when it comes to their drivers one of them is a

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75 year old rookie who makes tick tocks every day

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but still keeps up with the competition and their other driver is

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so consistently garbage that another team even roasted him in an interview.

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Haas, Salber, and the RB Formula One team.

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Now these three are just there you know.

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It's really sad.

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They don't stand out.

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They're essentially the back markers and when it comes to their drivers, one driver is allergic to finishing in the podiums, another got his wife pregnant after getting pole position, this one is the type to get friend zoned,

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the other guy is a Finnish Australian who posts pics of his butt online, another dude is planning to open a restaurant but never does it despite having millions of dollars,

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and the final driver is a high performance athlete.

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Now so far throughout the start of the video

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and until now i've been saying

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that f1 is literally the pinnacle of motorsports apart from the car's movie of course

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but what makes f1 so good well it's the crashes and accidents

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which usually go like this super soft rubber on now ready to attack wait wait what's the problem

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so crashes and accidents in f1 are not just entertaining

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but they can cause the track to be dangerous

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and this results in flags being waved during a session one of them is the yellow flag single ones

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which are usually waved when a car goes off track or a minor incident happens, while double yellow flags are for hazardous things.

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Next up is the red flag, which are for major incidents like Joe Guan Yu getting his car turned into a fidget spinner, Charles Leclerc crashing in Monaco for like the 50th time,

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and Sergio Perez in literally every race in 2023.

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Now there's also other flags like the blue flag which warns slower cars that a faster one is approaching them, there's the black flag for a penalty warning or a disqualification,

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green flag which means that the race is on again, and finally the checkered flag where drivers decide the winner through a chess game after the race.

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That was a joke in case you guys couldn't tell.

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Another amazing part of F1 are the team radios, which my boy Fernando Alonso here is known for some iconic ones like these.

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Don't forget that there's also Kimi Raikkonen,

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who talks more on the radio than he does anywhere else.

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Quite famous by you two.

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in f1 there's also rivalries like charles

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and max throughout the start of the 2022 season until ferrari

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completely destroyed charles's mental health there's also the iconic 2021 season

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which also had a rivalry between max and lewis where these two were

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so attracted to each other in the race that the FIA almost gave them a penalty for public display of affection.

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Alright so next up are the rules

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which are made by the FIA who decide on who gets punished when they break the rules.

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And well, they are known for some pretty controversial decisions.

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Which really just explains the forever and insufferable pain in the ass.

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But anyways, here's me speedrunning some of the most important rules in F1.

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So track limits.

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If four wheels of your car gets off the white lines of a track, they blow you up.

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If you're speeding in the pit lane, you're going too fast, they blow you up.

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Overtaking rules, you kiss another car, they blow you up.

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And lastly, the final and most important rule, if you're Romain Grosjean, you actually blow up.

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Let's go and get him.

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Yeah.

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I have it.

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I have it printed out.

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All right, so the next aspect of Formula One are its team principles.

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Now, these guys are pretty much the leader of their teams

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and are the people who are guiding them to victory now

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the team principal of mercedes total wolf is known for printing things out

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and he's pretty much a mafia boss turned into pookie bear

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in recent seasons that's harassment next up is christian horner the

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team principal of red bull he got unbelievably roasted by martin

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brundle jane you're too old to have driven here really i am too old to driven here

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but uh you would have liked it yeah shanky wasn't fast enough to get to formula one

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and there's also the team principal of aston martin mike crack

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i'm not gonna say anything about his name next up is

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james vowels who still gives severe nightmares to valtteri botas it

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isn't really doing this he's found three it's james please abort

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the fastest lap attempt for the end of lap next is

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andrea stella the team principal for mclaren i honestly didn't even

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know this guy was team principal like i still think it's spooky bear zach brown

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because like he's just 10 times more entertaining despite him being cringy in some certain moments

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finally it's gonna be gunter steiner now i know he was replaced recently

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but piss off you know he's still in my heart anyway

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gunter is the type of guy to swear nine times in

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a sentence with only five words in it he does not smash my door tell him

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that if he doesn't want to come back he better tells me now yeah yeah he smashed my office door

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so that is formula one and the best explanation

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that i can come up for it it's obviously you know the most accurate explanation of the sport

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but i might still have probably missed a couple of things throughout making this video

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so if i did miss out on anything be sure to let me know

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but what i do know though is that even

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if i might have fumbled i didn't fumble as hard as lance troll did in 2023 thank you

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so much for watching Thank you.

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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questo video contiene 260 frasi e 3365 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 19:20. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 174 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 82% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

Parola	Pronuncia	Significato
formula sostantivo	/ˈfɔː.mjʊ.lə/	formula
tire verbo	/ˈtaɪ̯ɚ/	affaticarsi
essentially avverbio	/ɪˈsɛnʃəli/	in essenza
grid sostantivo	/ɡɹɪd/	griglia, grata
explanation sostantivo	/ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/	spiegazione, esplicazione
crack sostantivo	/kɹæk/	crepa, fessura
bedroom sostantivo	/ˈbɛdˌɹum/	camera da letto, camera
penalty sostantivo	/ˈpɛn.əl.ti/	penalità
intellectual aggettivo	/ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃʊəl/	intellettuale
controversial aggettivo	/ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/	controverso
pole sostantivo	/pəʊl/	polo
compound sostantivo	/ˈkɑmpaʊnd/	composto, miscuglio
addiction sostantivo	/əˈdɪkˌʃən/	dipendenza, assuefazione
iconic aggettivo	/aɪˈkɑnɪk/	iconico
smash verbo	/smæʃ/	frantumare, sfracellare

I phrasal verb che sentirai

Parola	Significato
blow up verbo	saltare in aria, esplodere
come back verbo	tornare
get off verbo	scendere
go off verbo	esplodere
keep up with verbo	tenere dietro a

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

Struttura	Nel video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — un’azione iniziata prima e ancora in corso	has been losing · i've actually been doing · has been putting
“Used to” used to + verbo — un’abitudine o uno stato passato che non è più vero	used to dominate · used to be
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa	are only given · be speed · can be defined
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa	One, which is · driver, which is · there, which is

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 71 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, don't, you're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

I suoni “th”: therapist /ˈθɛɹəpɪst/, anthem /ˈæn.θəm/ [ˈæn̪.θəm], athlete /ˈæθ.liːt/
I suoni “sh” e “zh”: essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, controversial /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/, addiction /əˈdɪkˌʃən/, smash /smæʃ/
Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, intellectual /ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃʊəl/, controversial /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/, anthem /ˈæn.θəm/ [ˈæn̪.θəm]

Come esercitarsi con questo video

Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come formula, tire, essentially.

Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.

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