Why F1 Engines EXPLODE

🔧 Thanks to Scarbs for joining us once again! Go follow him on Twitter for F1 Tech news! 👉   / scarbstech   Formula 1 engines can go bang occasionally, sometimes just by grinding to a halt with some smoke. And sometimes pretty spectacularly, with a fair bit of fire. And we saw this recently with Carlos Sainz in Austria. But what causes these failures? Well, we’re going to wrap up the three most common failures - and explain how you can spot the tell-tale signs in a race. So you can know have a good idea about what’s gone wrong, before everyone else does. Firstly, we’re not going to cover the hybrid stuff in this video - purely the mechanical bits about the combustion engine. And because they are so insanely complex, there are probably hundreds of different components that could fail. So we are simplifying it down to the three main areas, and they are: Bottom-end failures, top-end failures and turbo failure. So the bottom end is things like the crankshaft, rods, bearings and sometimes even the crankcase. Think of it like anything below this line. Then there is the top end, and thats the stuff above that line. Pistons, valves, gaskets, the head of the engine itself. Then the turbo, we know what that is… But what’s most interesting about this is that the all show different signs after they fail, you can often get a good idea of which it is by hearing the failure, or even looking at the smoke coming from the back of the engine. ➤Follow Driver61 on: ➤ Instagram- @official_driver61 - https://bit.ly/D61Insta ➤TikTok - @official_driver61 - https://bit.ly/D61TikTok ➤ Follow Scott on: ➤ Twitter -   / scottkmansell   ➤ Instagram - @official_driver61 - https://bit.ly/D61Insta #Ferrari #EngineFailure #F1