Downforce monster RB7 300km/h flatout with DRS open

Silverstone pole 2024 vs 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmsUZUUTj_0

When taking T1 you can see how he rapidly makes a correction because the rear wing was lifting up because of the lack of downforce. Mark acknowledged this behaviour of the car and still went flat out. 2011 was such a season.

DRS being free to use anywhere you want so long as you can make the downforce to remain stable is so much more interesting than the current setup. No wonder it's not like that anymore.

Opening DRS in a high speed corner is madness.

Worth noting that Webber's biggest strength was high speed corners, Horner even said himself it was the 1 area he had seb really beat

2017-2021 had even more downforce, and I think these ground effect cars do as well but man, those light, nimble V8 cars were something else

The 2010s are the modern era of f1. Now it feels like we have gone one step forward and three steps backwards. And the sound 😊

In 2011 I remember also Seb doing on 2 of his pole laps 130-R with the DRS open and also Abu Dhabi turn 3😱, which was crazy!!!

The RB7 is also great in that it has a wicked blown diffuser sound. My all time favorite F1 car. Little fact, Sebastian Vettel used to call this car "Kinky Kylie".

that Drs opening gap is pretty small tho in 2011

What they lost in the double diffuser, they gained in Newey’s blown diffuser…

Great Video my Friend. Keep up the brilliant Work.Seb had the DRS Open through T1 in the Race in 2018 when he was chasing Bottas. He was the only driver to do so apart from Ericsson but he crashed.

In the 2011 British GP Q3 the track was still very slighlty damp, so that makes Webber's attempt even more impressive 😊 Button was however extremely cautious due to slippery track. There was plenty more interesting flat-out DRS running in 2011 and 2012 (from 2013 DRS was limited in quali)- the best are of course 130R, then turns 7-8 in Korea, Blanchimont was actually easily DRS-flat and finally I can recall turn 2 in Abu Dhabi - those are the big ones 😆 I might have missed something, though. Of course there were a lot easy corners taken flat 😉

Very well done for whoever produced this. Thanks!

Bring back these cars with the engines (the sound), the smaller size, the difficultly to drive (much more steering corrections)

This is a great reminder of how cool those V8 era cars were.

Absolutely positively insanely crazy and wicked

T1 at Silverstone saw a 20kph delta from the two cars. Astonishing.

@0:29 That looked like he was on an absolute knife edge. I almost forgot how daring Webber could be.

When the car didn't sound like a lawn mower.