 This is Think Tech Hawaii, Community Matters here. Aloha, how are you doing? Gordo the techs are here, welcome to another thrilling and exciting episode of Hibachi Talk. I got my good old buddy, Rick the Fundmeister, how are you sir? Hey, good, I'm well. We're still talking after a week away together on a trip, woo, pretty amazing. Anyway, grab yourself a chair and a libation and join us. We're going to talk about Formula One auto racing and you and I went to the Canadian Grand Prix. We did in Montreal. Montreal, was that fun or what? It was fun. It was as bad as it was. It was as good as we can remember it. Not that we had any libations other than the water. Our wives went with us. That's true, they made sure. They had a good time too. We made sure they behaved. If you want to call in and ask us a question, call in at 808-374-2014. We are by no means experts in Formula One, but I have a quick little video clip I took of the start of the race and so maybe we can get rich to pop that up and we'll give you a sense. We have pretty good seats at the S-turn. Can I turn up your volume on this one? Yeah, get ready. Turn up your volume on this puppy. It's kind of fun. How was that? It brings that great memory. Oh man, I'm still getting chicken skin thinking about it. That was the start of the race. I can tell you right now that the race was fun, but the qualifying was more funner. Yeah, more funner the day before. The more funner the day before because everybody was jockeying to get in the top five positions of what was going on. And they set new track records. And they did. During the qualifying. The qualifying. And then remember that one guy that went off the track came back home? Oh yeah. Yeah. We saw some great stuff. It was pretty amazing. Just wonderful. But Formula One is an interesting type of race in the fact that it has so many rules and it goes back to 1950. And it's called the Formula One Grand Prix and it's called the Grand Prix because translated in English it means grand prizes or great prizes. Yeah, but big prizes. Big prizes. And we're going to talk to you a little bit about the money that is spent in this. And I'm hooked on it now. You've been to three, right? Yeah, this is my third one. This is your third one. This is my first one. And my three goes, it spans millennia. Yeah, so you got a lot. So you go back to when it was fuel engine and not hybrid because now there's fuel and electric which is many people probably don't realize is that these Formula One race cars now are fuel and electric and they don't refuel during the race. You run out of gas. Your batteries have to get you the rest of the way all the way through this. So it's interesting. So it's the Formula One, it's a series of races and we'll talk about all the different races that go on over the course of the season. So it's like a baseball season or football season or hockey season. And there's winners. Winners are the drivers but also the constructors of the cars. So you've got two things happening here. It's like you've got the different car competitors and the different driver competitors to win the season to be the champions of the season which is kind of a really kind of a cool kind of thing because there's two things happening here. And some of the constructors actually construct cars that we can buy. It's not a Formula One car but so Mercedes is a constructor of Formula One, Ferrari is and another one McLaren. McLaren? Yeah, not as popular and as affordable as the others. But there's the constructors we've never heard of like Haas, H-A-A-S. That's an American firm, correct? Yeah. I think they're actually weak or at least I know of Haas and he was with, who was the actor on that? Paul Newman. Paul Newman. Newman Haas. Newman Haas. Different Haas though. Unrelated. Unrelated. But that was the name that would sound familiar. Right. And then Red Bull. Now everybody knows Red Bull and they're using Honda engines. So it's a Red Bull car using Honda engines. Kind of interesting, is there an American driver in the drivers? There's a Canadian. There's a Canadian. Hamilton's English. English, yeah. And I just don't remember a driver from the U.S. I don't remember. There's a U.S. Grand Prix in Texas. In Texas. In Texas. Yeah. And that's reasonable. One of the things we were talking about a little bit early is how popular the Formula 1 is worldwide. Not so much in the United States. Right. But you're bringing up a good point. I'm going to just read the quote here. Right? Yeah. From that. So that this sport, Formula 1 is lesser known in the U.S., right? Not that many people know about Formula 1. You maybe see it on TV and a little bit like that. There's no one in the United States than NASCAR and Sprint. Everybody knows NASCAR and Sprint. That Sprint Cup series. So you got NASCAR, Sprint Cup series, Indy and IndyCar series. But in terms of budgets and global TV audiences and such, Formula 1 outdoes them, both of those combined. You combine NASCAR and IndyCar together. And Formula 1 beats them combined. So that gives you a sense of the global reach that it has. It's kind of like soccer, right? The World Cup is coming out right now. Europeans and such are very much, they know their soccer, they know their teams and so on. U.S. has always been kind of lagging behind in that space. Yeah, in terms of its popularity. In terms of its popularity. So let's take a look. You mentioned it earlier. But I think the takeaway on that is this is very popular worldwide. Maybe not so much in the U.S., but worldwide. How many flags did we see being waved in the stands from all over the world? Yeah. In Canada. Yeah. They were. Thousands. Yeah. Thousands. I don't think I saw any U.S. flags. I didn't see any U.S. flags. No. But they're based upon, you know, kind of if you were a Ferrari, you know, there were Italian flags, but for all the drivers. Ostrich flags. Yeah. England. Yeah. They were all there. And we have a slide probably later though that will come up with, but there's 21 races worldwide. We're going to show it right now. Oh, we are. That's the next slide. So you're, we're getting really into sync as host and co-host here. It's awesome. Anyway, there's 20 races over the course of the season and we were, we were at the Canadian Grand Prix, which was race number seven. Yeah. You can pop that slide up. Race would be great. Thank you. And so this is the, this is the essence of all the different races that go on around the globe. And look at these, look at these locations. I mean, I, I, I am so trying hard to get to one of the rest of this year and I can't. So I got away until next year before I go to my next one. But I mean, look at the places Bahrain, they're in China. Yeah. You know, Azerbaijan, you know, it's like, well, I gotta get my, you know, my map out to figure out where that is. It's a way up in the corner of some places. Yeah. Yeah. Somebody in Crimean Peninsula or somewhere in there, you know, and other, a lot of European are through their Singapore, Russia, Japan are, you know, the United States. Yeah. So, so this weekend. Mexico, Brazil. United Emirates. Yeah. Yeah. This weekend we got, it's in Austria. So I have a mobile app, so here's one, it's a Freebie, it's a Freebie Formula One mobile app. It's not the game. But it gives you, it gives you everything that's going on in, in Formula One. There's the free one and then there's one you pay for where you get to watch the races and so on. But it's got a countdown. I mean, it literally has a countdown on one day, 12 hours and 37 seconds to the next. The next one. The next race. I mean. And where is this in Austria? In Austria. Oh, you said that. I did say that. I did say that. Yeah. So. Probably the most, the most one that most people think about or have seen or something is the one in Monaco. Yes. That's the one that, you know, certainly gets the, the media, the press. Yeah. I hear the yachts that come in there with helicopters on them and we're talking money here. Yeah. We're talking big, big old school money. Yeah. And speaking of which, so we were doing the research like, you know, per car per year, it's about 150 million per car per season. Per season. Yeah. So that's what it takes. So we don't even know what other periphery costs are, but to run these 20 races, it costs each entity around $150 million for the season. That's a nice chunk of change. Yeah. It's nice to have that much money. Yeah. So I'm going to crash the car and you go, oops, a million here, a million there, what the heck. So, so pretty, pretty incredible. So we'll show up another, we're going to get the rules a little bit, but we'll show up another slide and this is like, we were talking about ranking of the car, the constructors. Yeah. The car manufacturers. The constructors and then the drivers. And the drivers and how much they get paid. Yeah. Right. So that's kind of an interesting thing that we started to get a really sense for. Because the fourth slide, I think in the deck, we'll get them to pop that up and see what, right now as of the end of France. Yeah. The race in France. So that was last weekend. France. Yes. France. That's the one, sir. Thank you. So here's the, so you see the, so the car ranking right now is Mercedes at one, Ferrari at two, Red Bull, which has Honda's engines at three, Renault. Who, here's a Renault anymore. I know. Well. Do you know anyone that drives a Renault? Actually. I mean, no. I don't. I think there's a guy around the corner from it. But it's a, but it's, no, I'm sorry. It's a French car. It's a Citroen. Oh, Citroen. Yeah. Okay. 11. Sorry. And then you got McLaren and then you've got Force India, which is an interesting Indian. Yeah. Indian based Haas, which is the US one we talked about. Yeah. Toro Rosso, Solber and Williams. Williams is a, are they American too? I don't believe so. Yeah. For some reason, I think they're, they're English. They're English. I think they're British also. Yeah. But you can see, so the, so we talked about how the season works, right? The constructors. But there's a question in my mind. Okay. And I don't know the answer for it. There's Red Bull. Right. And they're in third. But then in eighth is Toro Rosso. Toro Rosso. Red Bull in, in Italian. I never knew that. I think, I think that's what's happening. I think you're right. Hey, what's going on here? Exactly. They're pulling the Red Bull over my eyes. Yeah. Or the Bull over my eyes. Oh, that's pretty interesting. But the Red Bull is doing much better than the Toro Rosso. The Toro Rosso. Yeah. I don't know if it's just the, you know, the Italian version. Just be on the meal. Maybe that's where they do the testing. But take a look on the, the, the right hand side of this, of this chart and look at what these guys get paid. Yeah. And I mean. The disparities. Yeah. From the high end. $40 million a season. Yeah. To the low end. $150,000. Yeah. So, and there's like, there's not that many drivers. There's like 20 some odd. 20 drivers. 20, 20, 20 drivers. They have to have these super drivers licenses too, whatever they may be. But you can't get it at the DMV because it's always down here. As it was again last week. Maybe I'll go down there and ask them. I want a super driver's license. Make sure you take down, you know, the piece so that they can make sure that it's going to be, you know, work for you. Driver's license will work for you when you go to the airport. When I go to the airport and I'll, I'll pull in my Formula One car into the parking lot. Sam here from our super driver's license. Yeah. And it only seats one person. And I don't know how this guy's going to track me around, driving around Honolulu. Yeah. We'll just send him, you know, on, you know, give him an electronic view of what we drive. Actually, and you can. They've got cameras on the back of the, of the cars. Oh yeah. So remember we were there? Yeah. We were watching the race and then had large screens where we were seeing what was going on. When you're not seeing what's on the track that we're visual on the rest of the race, we get to see what's behind the, the cars and what's happening. I think it's, you know, it's on our shirts actually. You know, it's like this, this little piece up here. That's a Canadian flag. Yeah. No, down the way. Oh, down over here. Yeah. Above the wing. Above the wing. Maybe, yeah, something like that. They're probably going to cut this piece out. I don't know. I'm looking pretty buff today. Anyway, we're going to take a break and make some fills. And we're going to come back and we're going to, we're going to talk a little bit more about the rules. We're going to talk about tires. Yeah. Spell with a Y. And then we're going to talk about the driver, the steering column. Yeah. And what has to happen there. So Gordo, the security guard guy. No, that's Andrew. Gordo, the tech star. That was on his show last week. Rick's the fundraiser. We'll be back in a minute to talk about Formula One racing. The pitch hallowed ground for players and supporters alike. Excitement builds. Game plans are made with responsibility in mind. Celebrations are underway. Ready for kickoff. MLS clubs and our supporters rise to the challenge. We make responsible decisions while we cheer on our heroes and toast their success. Elevate your match day experience. 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Some of them were the number of tires and the development of the tires too. So I'm going to read some things here. They rounded the profile a little bit. Now let's back up for one second though. But everybody has to use the same tires. Everyone has to use the same manufacturer. The same Pirelli is the FIA, form of the one... Tire provider. Yeah. And I guess they... I know in the past they used to be Goodyear, they used to be... Wet Michelin. But for several years I'll say, I'm not sure exactly what... They've been Pirelli tires. So Pirelli is responsible for supplying the tires but also manufacturing the tires and determining how they are going to manufacturers and what they will manufacture. So everybody's on the same playing field. Same playing field. This year, 2018, they made the profile a little bit rounder. The other thing is that they put in some new materials. They're not going to tell us what new materials I think that only Pirelli knows what that is. Which could end up being our tire that we buy in two or three years. Absolutely. Yes, it's testing. What works? What doesn't work? And they're... What they said they wanted to do with those changes was to improve the distribution of forces on the contact patch. And the contact patch is the patch where the tire is actually on the road. Okay. And I like to say gripping the road. Why is that so important is because the lateral force is equal to 5 times gravity. 5g. So think about that. When that car is making that turn, 5g's pushing you to one side, that contact patch holds up to 5g's of force. Now in the regular car, the sporty car that we would have that we could go to the dealership and buy, that's probably just... 1.1 to 1.2g's. So this is 5 times that. And when we think we go around a corner pretty good. Yeah, well, the way you drive. Well, let's not talk about that. I'll tell you how the nuns think you drive, but that's not the story. But 5 times... So tell me about that, because there's all these... this range of tire types. So what else... There are three... I'll say three kinds of types of categories. The two big ones are... are the rain tires, which you would use when it's raining, and then the dry tires when it's not raining. Last year, there were five different types of dry tires. And now they're up to seven tires. Seven different types. So you've got hard ones. Hard ones and soft ones. Medium soft. They start from the hard ones. They call them a super hard. A hard, which they also call ice. Just a medium. A soft. A super soft. And a hyper soft. So when we're sitting here talking about the technology that's behind all of this, we're talking about one of the most important things that I learned on this trip was the importance of the tires. But there's also rules on the tires on when and how you can use them. And those all have to be predetermined and resubmitted to the... It's like the baseball manager submitting the roster, the lineup. Here's the lineup. Here's our tire lineup as sanctioned by the FIA and all the things that happened in that. So this is amazing. And so Pirelli has to say these are the tires that we will have at this race track. And for the first race of the season, that's the end of March. They have to tell the folks... FIA. The tires we're going to bring on the first race, they have to tell them in mid-December. It's almost four months ahead. And these are on new cars. And cars that they're putting together. Remember the car we saw the engine blew up and it was driving the next day? You guys were up all night putting this car together. So anyway, there's that. Of those seven, there are three that you can actually qualify on. And qualifying, you talked a little bit about the day before. That's where everything is going to go. It's better than the race. Because in qualifying, I don't think that there's any holding back. They're going. I want to be right up front. I've got to be in the top five because the chances are, for example, in the Canadian Grand Prix, even including after pit stops. After pit stops. So think about that. So even after a pit stop, if you were number two, when they came out of the pit stop, they were still number two. Now they don't refuel anymore. No. But you're 44 gallons you get for a race. And guess what? I was in the point system. You get points for how fast you change the tires in the pits. So Mercedes at the Canadian Grand Prix, no, the France Grand Prix, they were the number one and point-getter for the constructor changing four tires in 2.32 seconds. 2.32 seconds. 1,000, 2,000 four-tire changes. I'm sorry. I can't change my shoes that maybe they're taking that long to bend over. So we talked the tires because we could spend hours on the tires. But the tires thing is really kind of cool thing. But let's go, we'll bring up the next slide. Let's talk about the one more tire thing. One more tire thing. The type of tire that you use for qualifying, you have to use that type. So if you use that super soft for qualifying, you have to start the race on super soft. Now the other rule is that during the race, you have to come in for a tire change and you can't use a super soft. You have to use one of the other tire types. That's cool. There's some strategy that goes into this. Yeah, that's a really good, I'm glad you injected that into it because it's kind of a new thing. Because I think it's not only how fast will your car go in a straight line, it's how fast your car will go around a corner. Yeah, and we saw a few guys do some fun with it. Not make it. The one during the race, the guy that was in second place that missed an s-turn and still came out of the s-turn in second place. Now that was and there was car scouting everywhere. There was car, grass and everything and the guy still was in second place. Those guys know how to drive. Pretty amazing. So anyway, I'm going to get Rich to throw up what will be our last slide. Yeah, we said those guys know how to drive. Yeah. Some of them get some big money. Oh, yeah, well, 40 million. 450,000. 40 million plus bonuses. So we got two minutes and we're not going to get through all of this, but this will just show everybody. This is the driver's steering wheel. Now I'm the driver of this car and I got all this technology going on. And by the way, the technology is that they've got computer systems at the race and they've got the computer systems at the constructor country. Back wherever that may be. Real-time. Monitoring every aspect of that vehicle and all talking and advising each other on what things should be going on with that vehicle. Talk about the internet of things. Yeah. They've really got that they know they've got the car wired. They got a lot of sensors going on. They've got the drivers. They've got radios they've got. So even if you get a chance later on when you go look at this at this show, you can just just hit stop when you take a look at this and see all the different things that the driver has the ability to do. And we haven't even talked about curse. Right. And what that does as far as the air foils and everything like this. But you know, so you've got this steering wheel with all of these buttons and things going on. And I'm a driver. Yeah, I'm a driver. I'm in what? Fireproof gloves. And I'm doing 225 miles an hour. I don't really spend a lot of time looking down at this thing. I can't even change the channel and the radio. You say text don't drive. These guys are texting and driving constantly. Yeah. It's phenomenal. And the other part that's amazing is like when the race was over, the fans that leaped out, you know, the race is over. Checkered flag in the Canadian Grand Prix. The woman raised the checkered flag one way too early. Oops. My bad. It didn't change the outcome. But when the race is over and they come back to the pits, everybody leaps over the fences. They're going through across the It was like They're running across the infield. They get right next to the winner and be part of that celebration. It was pretty incredible. Be part of the winner's circle. So anyway, this has been kind of our little memory lane about Formula One racing, like our t-shirts or matching t-shirts. There you go. Our wives bought these for us. They mind about mine. Anyway, so we're going to begin to cover the details in Formula One racing and now that I'm hooked we might do a whole series on this. But the technology behind it is the part I wanted to get into. But thank you so much. I had a great trip. Thank you, Gordon. We had a good time. Be sure to watch us in the future who knows what our show is going to be. Fourth of July next weekend, no show. So we can take a rest. I'll be on the big island. I'll be enjoying myself. Thanks for the team who supports us and keeps us going. They got that video inserted in there nicely. That was very cool. We're getting that done. We'll see you guys in a couple of weeks. Have a great Fourth of July. And like we say at every show, I almost forgot. How are you doing?