How Fast Would Formula 1 Go at the Indy 500?

What do you think? Would Indy win? Or Formula 1?

"Ovals are incredibly tricky to get right", that's because they only turn left 😂

Well, I say it again, maybe Red Bull should test it as they love their marketing! Great vid btw

I think the top speed issue could be solved, by some modifications to the airodynamics and gearbox. But I have doubts that the engines could survive 800 km of running full throttle almost permanently.

I remember when Alonso raced at Indy, Daniel Riccardo was asked if he would ever do it, and his answer surprised me. He said, "ahh maybe Daytona one day, but Indy scares me."

A quick summation of this video. An F1 car could compete at Indy if it was modded to be an Indycar.

You missed an important point here: F1 engines are NOT designed to run on an oval. You would need special lubrication systems to deal with the asymmetric loading. Just ask Ilmor - when F1 returned to the Indy road circuit in 2000, Hakkinens engine failed due to those unique stresses on the banked part of the circuit.

Wasn’t expecting much but you did a nice job on the video. I am the Crew Chief for the current Indianapolis 500 all time track record holder. (Luyendyk 1996 239.26 mph unofficial, 237.498 mph official) The record has stood now for 27 years. One of the things that is not talked about is the experience at running at this track. No formula 1 team has the experience to “just” make it happen. Our track records were a compilation between myself and my engineer of 36 years of experience at the Indy 500. We developed some “secret stuff” over many years, and it all came together that day of qualifying. It would be very hard for any Formula 1 engineers to make any car go fast at Indy without the experience. And a quick note, maybe not 300mph, but on our 239 mph lap, a Little know fact is we broke 250 miles per hour on that lap going into turn 3 on the PI data…..250.216 to be exact. Won’t see that for a while again.

Both types of cars are gorgeous machines that are designed for two different types of tracks. And the speed they both can go is astounding! It is great to hear how and why each are designed. Fascinating.

This is either a re-upload or I'm having the biggest dejavu of my life.

Hamilton driving an Indy car: "My tires are gone"

This is amazing. Great job. I love IndyCar and F1 , both these series are awesome.

Great vid. I’ve always wondered how this would go. You’ve provided a fairly comprehensive presentation. Thanks!

Those iPad drawing segments were actually impressive. Typically the whole segment is animated together including the hand to look like someone is drawing in realtime, but it's all part of the animation. The drawing segments in this video all seem authentic. Which if so, wow. That's a commendable amount of effort. 🙇‍♀️

F1 at Indianapolis brings up bad memories. As a kid, I remember trying to watch that race with my Dad and it turned into a 6 car sham of a race.

Amazing video. Love how you discuss how complicated an oval race can be. To me being a fan of Motorsport. Each one takes a special kind of driver and crew to master. Makes having a variety of Motorsport to watch fun.

What people who only watch F1 don't seem to realize is that oval racing is about racing other drivers rather than racing a perfect racing line. Your line changes every single lap when you're surrounded by half a dozen other drivers. It still takes an immense amount of skill

Weird, didn't I watch this video already? Was it re-published? It's a great video, totally happy to watch it again. :)

That was a fun, theoretical analysis. On the point of the formula one tires being larger and I have to say that it it's not that simple. They couldn't use the tires that they normally do because they wouldn't last on the oval. Remember when they ran the F1 Grand Prix on half of the oval and the tires blew up? So to run an F1 car there we would need different tires, maybe the same ones that Indie cars use.

Not sure what the Dallara runs now, but the Reynard and the Lola days we had adjustable diff pressure from the cockpit, roll bars etc adjustable from the cockpit (Lola had hydraulic ARB), the wings also had the quick turn adjusters that F1 copied after a few years. This was all to be able to keep the car stable as the fuel load changed (Methanol = uses twice as much as petroleum) and the tyre wear (brutal on say Daytona or at the Brickyard. As for the suspension, they have a separate set for Long Ovals, Short Ovals and Road Course.