Why do they bank race tracks? On this explainer, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore banked turns and angular momentum in race car driving. How hard is it to steer?
Why are race track’s turns banked? How steep are they sloped? Can you race an oval track without turning? What happens if the car goes too slow on the banked track? We discuss Mario Andretti’s racing philosophy and how does air pressure impact the weight of the car. All that, plus, Neil shares an at-home experiment with moving air.
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Real race track's corners are not banked.
13:15 That does not explain why planes can fly upside down.
Neil, Formula one is way more interesting than Nascar. Both on a physics and technological side.
Hey, Neil. I know you are a pretty mainstream scienctist, but I would love to hear your thoughts on pole reversal and magnetic "excursion." Particularly, the theories put forth by Douglas Vogt (Diehold Foundation) and Suspicious Observers on YouTube.
AGree? Disagree? Why?
Not all racetracks are banked. Circuit racing (in USA "road racing") has "banked curves" i.e. postive camber, and also negative camber curves which tilt in the opposite direction, to make the curve more difficult, along with radius changes, elevation changes, chicanes, etc to really challenge the driver or rider.
Physics and motor racing, I love when my 2 favorite subjects merge 🥰❤️
On water craft, it is called side force. The closer you are to the dock the mass of the water changes, so your rudders and thrusters must compensate; but not always, depending on how the sea wall is constructed.
31 degrees at Daytona.
The corners are banked at 31 degrees couldn't find the straight angle though it is a trioval
@StarTalk It's called a "Burnout". When they spin the tires to warm them up or to increase their friction coefficient.
Bout right
F1 cars may not take turns at 200mph, but they do at 190mph.
F1 drivers have to withstand up to 6.5g of lateral acceleration while cornering, 5.5g+ while braking, constantly for 1 hour and a half.
An ordinary person would just faint and lose consciousness by simply enduring the rigors of keeping an F1 car on the track.
13:03 FYI what you're describing is not called a spoiler, it's actually just called a wing. A spoiler doesn't add downforce, it directs airflow to reduce drag. That's a common misnomer.
some formula 1 tracks have banked curves
amazing!!!
My dad designed rubber. It was like having a converstaion with him again. Thanks guys ❤️
Do you have so few viewers from outside of the US that you really can't be bothered with a simple conversion to SI units during the edit? When you say some number, like 180 mph, takes us non-muricans time to calculate it to something we'd understand… Why not have that info on the screen? Is that soooo hard to put a simple note "180mph = 290 km/h"? Is that so much to ask?
In Australia there are no banked racetracks and in F1 neither
I'm with Chuck on this one. My high-school physics teacher helped us remember a basic friction formula by saying friction is fun. With the force of friction represented with F, friction coefficient being a Greek u looking thing, and force normal/force perpendicular with an n
"Push it to the limit"
a disturbance greater enough that the cohesiveness of the surrounding space will cause that to dissipate and before it repairs itself – the supporting structure will be revealed… u matter cannot exist in a black hole…. ? all that is, is…. the Matryoshka doll !!!!!
Really loving these videos guys thanks 👍😊
This was a blast, so funny to listen to! My dad actually is a friend and fan of Mario Andretti, they talk on the phone every now and then to catch up (since we live in Italy), so when I heard Neil knows the guy, I got really really excited as Neil is one of my personal idols hahah!
I essentially embarked on the journey in Theoretical Physics thanks to Neil, so the slight chance of getting a message through really got me jumping around =)