Giant Bombcast Alt+F1 Presents: The 2015 German Grand Prix

would be great if they did these races more often, even a quarter or half race would be great!

an alt+f1 f1 season within a season!!

Edit: Hey, Pastor!

@steelknight2000@jagubrah@ohnooh: Left foot braking is a technique that front-wheel drive drivers can use, a lot of times, to help drag the car around a corner while keeping understeer at bay by controlling the weight shift while keeping revs up. I'm not sure I understand the physics behind it, myself, having only read about it and seen some videos..

It gets pretty complicated when you've got a standard. You've got to manage heel-toe and left foot braking. But it can get you around corners faster.

I'm not sure if it helps with rear wheel drive cars?

That was great.

@drewbert I know it's a huge time sink, and it can get super exhausting, but I would totally be down for you guys to do more full race features with different titles. This was so much fun to watch.

You know...iRacing has a driver swap feature now. :D

This is mental, and I haven't even watched it yet!

@oddparticle: Do you mean left-foot breaking specifically in clutchless-vehicles like an F1 car? I know about left-foot breaking in an auto, and right-foot heel-toe in a manual, but I've never heard of left-foot heel-toe in a manual. Which is what Danny seemed to be describing?

EDIT: By "clutchless-vehicles" I mean a vehicle with a semi-manual transmission, i.e. manual gear selectors, but an automated-clutch.

@jagubrah:I think he was just referring to using two feet in a manual vs single in an auto. So he felt more comfortable using his left foot here. That's not to say left foot braking is bad in a manual, it has it's uses though not so much on the road.

Literally could not care less about F1 but I will watch this entire damn video anyway

Oddly exciting. I watched this over regular sports today :)

Great stuff!

NYOOOOM

I'm more of a nascar fan, but I like all of the F1 stuff you guys do!

this is such a cool idea, not a f-1 fan but really like these videos you do so looking forward to watching this longer version

I'd like it if F1 didn't suck so much these days, it was really excited a few years ago with the new tyres going off. We had a few close years (despite Vettel winning) but then everyone kept crying about the tyres even though they delivered a better closer F1. Now we have boring tyres that last and crap engines making it Formula Merc.

This was great. I want to see full cockpit view for the next one though, that would be fun.

I'm not a big racing guy, but I really loved watching this show. Thanks guys, I hope you'll try to do more of this kind of thing.

The Fanatec Clubsport V2 (I think it is) is the Wheel you'd want to get that's still at acceptable consumer prices.

At least the MotoGP got to have it's German race this year hehe.

Yeah, the entire image exploding into some 1998 MPEG-4 keyframe nightmare has happened regularly in most GBWest videos since E3. They must have changed something about the setup. :/

It's such a shame that there was no german GP this year but this video content was pretty great. I hope to see similar content from Alt-F1 in the future

@fisk0: edgework commented that it was something they were working on.

That was a lot of fun. Now we need Danny to do some flight sims so Danny and Drew can fly some campaigns together.

Man, I need to start watching F1 again. I fell of pretty quick this season. This was perfect for making me excited again. Thanks Danny and Drew!

That was my first time watching a Formula 1 race and it was AWESOME!

@wrburb: Thanks I thought it might be. I just ordered one - can't wait!

I'm really impressed with Danny's manual skills.

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Man I wish they did a full season of full races. I love this!

RIP Jules :,(

Gutierrez is a madman, I love it.

This was exciting to watch. Glad you guys did a full race. Good driving Danny and Drew.

So mental. So good!

Yeah, this video seems like it was recorded several days ago, so before whatever fix they've implemented. The Smite quick look was unaffected by these glitches as far as I could tell.

This was great! Has me really excited to pick this game up when it releases next week

I'll also add my name to the list of people who would love for this to become a more regular feature, even half or 3/4 of a race would probably be long enough to do the trick

Wait, did Danny say he goes between the clutch and the brake with his second foot when driving manual? That's insane!

I don't like racing games very much but this was genuinely thrilling. Having two guys I like explain the context makes a huge difference.

I would love to see another full race feature like this. Maybe during the 4 week F1 break during the summer?

This was a lot of fun. I'm only just getting into racing (thanks to Alt+F1) this was still really cool to watch and had me on the edge of my seat a few times. It gave me a greater appreciation for each aspect of the race that you guys talk so much about and not just who's coming in first. I've been trying to understand it and this helped a lot.

Hopefully you guys can do this again in the future, it was great fun.

RIP Bianchi

Oh man should have pitted when they called you in, might have caught Button at the end.

This was a really enjoyable video, hope to see more like it in the future!

Please do more of these!!

This was pretty badass. No idea why whoever was running the stream decided to shrink the game window down so we could see multiple shots of Danny and Drew. That sucked compared to the headshots overlaying the full screen game view.

Hope you two decide to do more of these!

Well in regular cars downshifting actually helps you break. At least that's how I was tought to drive. Of course you don't want to use it in a high speed situation more like, when youre already stopping for a traffic like and rolling towards it.

Also: great video. I got very invested and I don't even watch F1.

What you're describing in the first sentence is trail braking, and It's actually really simple. Transferring weight to the front wheels reduces understeer (read: going too fast to turn at the rate you desire) in the same fashion that the front wings on an F1 car allow it to steer better at high speeds. Forcing the front tires into the road = better grip = better steering.

Dirt Rally's FWD cars are a ton of fun when you master this (especially in the snow and ice of Monaco!). There's no real need (or there shouldn't be) to do it in a RWD car because those naturally oversteer instead of understeer due to the way power hits the road. 4WD cars should be balanced to the point where you don't need to do it, but depending on your driving style you may tune the car to produce more understeer instead of oversteer and start trail braking more, especially on tarmac where oversteer is less powerslide and more power wasting drift.

this was awesome, please do more full races and also do qualifying.

Need to get a GB pCars F1 league

I loved this it was awesome

Dont watch f1, or listen to alt f1, but this was excellent.. sat through the entire thing.. Intense!

Left-foot braking is normal in race cars; nowadays most of them don't use a clutch except for starts. It's easier once you get used to it because you have twice the amount of input control.

Here's a video about it from the site called SAFEisFAST, where they have a bunch of videos aimed at kids who are trying to become racing drivers (interviews with mostly IndyCar drivers); kind of interesting because you can learn from it as a sim racer too:

You can left-foot brake even when you do need to use a clutch, too; here's a rally driver using his left foot when he doesn't have to downshift and his right foot when he does:

Also, if you like this type of video I'd recommend checking out some people doing iRacing on Twitch. It's like this but about 10x more intense because it's other human beings and you can't rewind :)