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Richard Hammond's F1 connections (9 posts)

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Skett said 2 years ago:

Just found this on iplayer, seems pretty interesting. Anyone else checked it out?

EDIT: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011dcb2/Richard_Hammonds_Engineering_Connections_Series_3_Formula_1/

(This is Tommy, you forgot the link :P)

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JT19 said 2 years ago:

Yeah i watched it, kinda good. That Manfred Winkelhock crash was ‘something’!! It floated up into the air!

I was fascinated how the pistons work in an engine, the tighter they are, the more faster and powerful they become.

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Zadak said 2 years ago:

That was ground effect gone wrong

tell me if I’m wrong

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Calum said 2 years ago:

The fuel tank bit was very interesting, I’d never seen the kevlar bag before.

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DavidS said 2 years ago:

People outside the UK won’t be able to watch it.
I’ll keep an eye out for this elsewhere though, looks interesting.

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Mads said 2 years ago:

@DavidS http://www.vidxden.com/79bdvam4u6by/Richard.Hammonds.Engineering.Connections.S03E02.HDTV.XviD-FTP.avi.html This works outside UK.

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foocode said 2 years ago:

Saw this two weeks ago on Discovery channel in Aus (on Foxtel – which is what they call Sky here).

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brendant said 2 years ago:

Pretty good, really liked the Team Lotus guys and their hi-tech method of getting the fuel tank in! And was that Coulthard driving around Silverstone?

I wish the show had some better writing, though…

“So this stuff is really stronger than steel?”
“Yes, it is much stronger than steel.”
“Wow, I can’t believe this stuff is stronger than steel!”

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Movement said 2 years ago:

Its a bit simple, and repetitive (i.e. F1 cars go fast thanks to eighteenth century cannon technology is not quite true. And then saying again and again, wow, that went 25% further, wow, that went so much further, wow, that made such a difference!)

But, the tenuous connections aside its fairly interesting. If I had a child between the age of 8-14 it would probably help make them find engineering exciting, which I guess is its purpose.

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