如果F1没有规则会怎样？
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| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:00 | Formula 1 cars are already some of the fastest machines ever built. | 一级方程式车已经是 制造速度最快的机器了 |
| 0:04 | They accelerate faster than supercars, break harder than fighter jets, corner so aggressively | 它们比超级汽车更快,比战斗机更猛烈的破碎,角那么猛烈 |
| 0:08 | that drivers regularly experience forces that would make your average office worker immediately | 驾驶员们经常遇到一些力量 能够让你的普通办公室工作人员立刻 |
| 0:13 | begin negotiating with gravity. | 开始谈判重力。 |
| 0:15 | And that's with hundreds of pages of regulations. | 这与数百页的规章有关。 |
| 0:17 | So what would | 那又怎样? |
| 0:18 | happen if tomorrow, Formula 1 announced something slightly concerning? | 如果明天,一级方程式宣布了一些小事? |
| 0:22 | There are no rules anymore. | 没有规则了。 |
| 0:24 | No engine limits, no aerodynamic restrictions, no fuel flow regulations, no budget caps, | 没有发动机限制,没有空气动力限制,没有燃料流量规定,没有预算上限, |
| 0:29 | no weight requirements, no restrictions on wheel size, no limitations on power, | 没有重量要求, 没有限制轮子尺寸, 没有限制动力, |
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| 序号 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Formula 1 cars are already some of the fastest machines ever built. | 一级方程式车已经是 制造速度最快的机器了 |
| 2 | They accelerate faster than supercars, break harder than fighter jets, corner so aggressively | 它们比超级汽车更快,比战斗机更猛烈的破碎,角那么猛烈 |
| 3 | that drivers regularly experience forces that would make your average office worker immediately | 驾驶员们经常遇到一些力量 能够让你的普通办公室工作人员立刻 |
| 4 | begin negotiating with gravity. | 开始谈判重力。 |
| 5 | And that's with hundreds of pages of regulations. | 这与数百页的规章有关。 |
| 6 | So what would | 那又怎样? |
| 7 | happen if tomorrow, Formula 1 announced something slightly concerning? | 如果明天,一级方程式宣布了一些小事? |
| 8 | There are no rules anymore. | 没有规则了。 |
| 9 | No engine limits, no aerodynamic restrictions, no fuel flow regulations, no budget caps, | 没有发动机限制,没有空气动力限制,没有燃料流量规定,没有预算上限, |
| 10 | no weight requirements, no restrictions on wheel size, no limitations on power, | 没有重量要求, 没有限制轮子尺寸, 没有限制动力, |
| 11 | no limitations on downforce, no concern for human happiness. | 没有限制 降压, 不关心人类的幸福。 |
| 12 | What would engineers actually build? | 工程师会造什么? |
| 13 | Would Formula 1 become dramatically faster? | 一级方程式会变快吗? |
| 14 | Or would it accidentally invent a machine so | 或者它不小心发明了一台机器 |
| 15 | powerful that it immediately turns its driver into an expensive liquid? | 让它立即把驱动器变成昂贵的液体? |
| 16 | Well, surprisingly, | 没想到 |
| 17 | the first problem isn't speed, it's survival. | 第一个问题不是速度 而是生存 |
| 18 | The current Formula 1 rulebook is enormous. | 目前的一级方程式规则书是巨大的. |
| 19 | Thousands of pages tell teams exactly what they can and cannot do. | 上千页告诉团队他们能做什么和不能做什么。 |
| 20 | And at first glance, | 乍一看,我发现 |
| 21 | this seems ridiculous. | 这似乎荒谬。 |
| 22 | Why would you stop engineers from building the fastest car | 为什么你要阻止工程师建造最快的车 |
| 23 | possible? | 可能吗? |
| 24 | Because engineers are insane. | 因为工程师是疯了。 |
| 25 | Not in a dangerous way, usually. | 不是危险的方式,通常。 |
| 26 | But give an engineer an | 但给工程师一个 |
| 27 | unrestricted goal and they'll happily create something that technically solves a problem | 毫无限制的进球,他们能创造出 技术上解决问题的办法 |
| 28 | while creating 17 new ones. | 同时创造17个新的。 |
| 29 | Which means the moment the rules disappear, every team starts | 也就是说,一旦规则消失了, 每一个团队都开始 |
| 30 | asking the same question. | 问同样的问题。 |
| 31 | What is actually slowing us down? | 是什么让我们减速? |
| 32 | The answer is almost everything. | 答案几乎是一切。 |
| 33 | Let's start with engines. | 我们从引擎开始 |
| 34 | Modern Formula 1 cars produce roughly 1,000 horsepower, | 现代一级方程式汽车 生产大约1000马力, |
| 35 | which sounds excessive because it is. | 这听起来太过分了,因为它是。 |
| 36 | A thousand horsepower is already enough to launch a family | 一千马力已经足够启动一个家庭了 |
| 37 | sedan into the afterlife. | 轿入来世. |
| 38 | But Formula 1 limits fuel flow and engine size. | 但一级方程式限制燃料流量和发动机尺寸. |
| 39 | You remove those | 你把这些拿开 |
| 40 | restrictions and things escalate quickly. | 限制和事情迅速升级。 |
| 41 | How quickly? | 有多快? |
| 42 | Well, back in the 1980s, | 1980年代时 |
| 43 | Formula 1 briefly experimented with turbocharged engines that were, for lack of a better term, | 公式1对涡轮增压发动机进行了短暂的试验,由于缺乏更好的术语, |
| 44 | completely unhinged. | 完全不鸣叫。 |
| 45 | In qualifying trim, some estimates suggest these engines produce over | 在修剪合格时,一些估计显示这些发动机生产完 |
| 46 | 1,400 horsepower. | 1400马力. |
| 47 | From a 1.5-liter engine, an engine small enough to fit inside your luggage, | 从一个1.5升的引擎, 一个引擎小到足以适应你的行李, |
| 48 | engineers were essentially discovering new forms of mechanical violence. | 工程师们基本上发现了新的机械暴力形式。 |
| 49 | And that was decades ago. | 这是几十年前的事了。 |
| 50 | Modern technology would push far beyond that. | 现代技术将远远超出这一范围。 |
| 51 | 2,000 horsepower? | 两千马力? |
| 52 | Probably. | 也许吧 |
| 53 | 3,000? | 三千块? |
| 54 | Maybe. | 也许 |
| 55 | At some | 有的时候 |
| 56 | point, the exact number stops mattering because another problem appears. | 点,准确的数字会因为出现另一个问题而停止重要。 |
| 57 | Traction. | 电车公司案。 |
| 58 | See, horsepower | 你看,马力 |
| 59 | is only useful if tires can actually transfer it to the road. | 只有在轮胎能真正转移到路上时才有用。 |
| 60 | So teams would immediately start | 所以,队伍会立即开始 |
| 61 | searching for more grip. | 寻找更多的抓抓。 |
| 62 | Which leads us to the second area where Formula 1 rules constantly hold | 这导致我们进入了一级方程式规则一直坚持的第二个领域 |
| 63 | engineers back. | 工程师回来了 |
| 64 | Aerodynamics. | 空气动力学. |
| 65 | And this is where things start becoming ridiculous. | 这就是事情开始变得荒谬的地方。 |
| 66 | Most people | 大多数人 |
| 67 | think Formula 1 wings push the car down. | 想想一级方程式机翼把车推下去 |
| 68 | That's true. | 没错 |
| 69 | But modern cars are actually generating | 但现代汽车正在产生 |
| 70 | most of their downforce underneath the vehicle. | 大部分都是在车辆下面 |
| 71 | The floor acts like an upside-down airplane wing. | 地板就像一个倒挂的飞机翼 |
| 72 | Instead of creating lift, it creates suction. | 与其创造升力,不如创造吸力. |
| 73 | Lots of suction. | 很多吸尘器 |
| 74 | Enough that Formula 1 cars could | 足够让一级方程式车 |
| 75 | theoretically drive upside down if they were moving fast enough. | 理论上,如果它们移动得足够快就倒车. |
| 76 | Now imagine removing every | 现在想象一下去除每一个 |
| 77 | aerodynamic restriction. | 气动限制. |
| 78 | Engineers would go completely feral. | 工程师会发狂的 |
| 79 | Huge wings, massive tunnels, | 巨大的翅膀,巨大的隧道, |
| 80 | active aero systems, movable surfaces, fans, vacuums, probably witchcraft. | 活跃的空气系统,可移动的表面,粉丝,真空,可能是巫术. |
| 81 | Anything that | 任何东西 |
| 82 | increases downforce. | 增加降压力。 |
| 83 | Because downforce creates grip. | 因为降压会产生控制力 |
| 84 | And grip creates speed. | 握住会创造速度。 |
| 85 | In fact, we already | 事实上,我们已经 |
| 86 | know what happens when engineers are allowed to go too far because somebody already tried it. | 知道当工程师被允许走得太远时会发生什么 因为有人已经试过了 |
| 87 | In 1978, a car called the Bramham BT46B used a giant fan to literally suck itself onto the track. | 1978年,一辆名为布拉姆姆BT46B的汽车使用巨型风扇从字面上吸入赛道. |
| 88 | The fan generated absurd levels of grip. | 粉丝产生了荒谬的握力水平. |
| 89 | The car won its only race. | 这辆车赢得了唯一的比赛 |
| 90 | Then everyone collectively | 然后大家一起来 |
| 91 | decided this was a terrible idea and banned it. | 决定这是一个可怕的想法 并禁止它。 |
| 92 | Without rules, fan cars would immediately return. | 没有规则,扇子车会立即返回。 |
| 93 | Except modern engineers would make them far more powerful. | 除非现代工程师能让他们更强大 |
| 94 | The result would be a machine | 结果是机器 |
| 95 | that effectively vacuum seals itself to the circuit. | 吸尘器将自己密封在电路上 |
| 96 | At low speed, at high speed, | 在低速,在高速, |
| 97 | possibly while parked. | 可能在停车的时候 |
| 98 | Now here's where things get interesting. | 现在事情变得有趣了 |
| 99 | Because more grip means higher | 因为更紧握意味着更高 |
| 100 | cornering forces. | 包围部队 |
| 101 | And higher cornering forces create a very specific problem. | 而更高的角力 造成了非常具体的问题。 |
| 102 | The driver. | 车手 |
| 103 | Modern Formula One drivers experience around 5 to 6 G's in corners. | 现代公式 一个车手在角落里 经历5到6G左右 |
| 104 | That's already extraordinary. | 这已经很不寻常了。 |
| 105 | Your head suddenly weighs five times more than normal. | 你的脑袋突然比正常人重五倍 |
| 106 | Your neck becomes a structural support | 你的脖子变成结构支撑 |
| 107 | 梁am. | |
| 108 | Your eyeballs begin reconsidering their career choices. | 你的眼球开始重新考虑他们的职业选择 |
| 109 | But unrestricted aerodynamics | 但无限制的空气动力学 |
| 110 | could potentially push cornering forces far beyond that. | 可能会把力量推向更远的边缘 |
| 111 | 7 G's, 8 G's, maybe even more. | 7G,8G,也许更多。 |
| 112 | And suddenly we're entering territory normally associated with military aircraft. | 突然我们进入了通常与军用飞机有关的领土。 |
| 113 | The problem is | 问题是 |
| 114 | unlike fighter pilots, racing drivers don't get warning before each maneuver. | 与战斗机飞行员不同,赛车驾驶员在每次操作前都不会得到警告. |
| 115 | The track just keeps | 赛道保持 |
| 116 | throwing corners at them. | 扔角对着他们。 |
| 117 | Again and again and again. | 复次阿难. |
| 118 | For two hours. | 两小时 |
| 119 | At some point, the limiting | 在某些时候,限制 |
| 120 | factor stops being engineering and starts being biology. | 要素不再是工程,而是生物学。 |
| 121 | But engineers hate biological limitations. | 但工程师讨厌生物限制. |
| 122 | So naturally they would try solving that problem too. | 所以自然他们也会试图解决这个问题。 |
| 123 | One solution would be reducing | 一个解决办法是减少 |
| 124 | vehicle weight. | 车辆重量。 |
| 125 | And Formula One cars are already extremely light. | 公式 一辆车已经很轻了 |
| 126 | Current regulations require | 现行条例要求 |
| 127 | minimum weights. | 最小重量。 |
| 128 | Without those regulations, things get weird. | 没有这些条例,事情变得怪异。 |
| 129 | Carbon fiber everywhere. | 到处都是碳纤维 |
| 130 | Titanium everywhere. | 到处都是钛 |
| 131 | Exotic materials nobody can pronounce. | 没有人能发音 |
| 132 | Seats thinner than pizza crust. | 比披萨壳还薄的座位 |
| 133 | Paint becomes optional. | 画成为可选的。 |
| 134 | Air inside the tires becomes financially suspicious. | 轮胎内部的空气在经济上变得可疑. |
| 135 | Engineers would | 工程师将 |
| 136 | spend millions removing grams. | 花费数百万克去除。 |
| 137 | Not kilograms. | 没有公斤。 |
| 138 | Grams. | 爷爷 |
| 139 | Because every gram matters. | 因为每一格都很重要 |
| 140 | And eventually, | 最终, |
| 141 | they would create something terrifying. | 他们会制造一些可怕的东西。 |
| 142 | A Formula One car weighing about as much as a large motorcycle | 公式 一辆车重得跟摩托车一样大 |
| 143 | powered by thousands of horsepower. | 以千马力为动力. |
| 144 | This is not reassuring. | 这并不令人放心。 |
| 145 | Now let's talk about another thing | 现在让我们谈谈另外一件事 |
| 146 | regulations currently limit. | 条例目前受到限制。 |
| 147 | Wheel size. | 轮大小. |
| 148 | Which sounds boring until engineers realize that giant | 这听起来很无聊 直到工程师们意识到 |
| 149 | wheels might improve efficiency or tiny wheels might improve aerodynamics or six wheels might | 轮子可以提高效率,小轮子可以改进空气动力学或六个轮子 |
| 150 | improve grip or eight wheels or twelve. | 提高握力或八轮或十二轮 |
| 151 | At which point, Formula One slowly begins evolving into a | 此时,公式 一个慢慢地演变成一个 |
| 152 | and honestly nobody can stop it anymore. | 老实说,没有人能阻止它了。 |
| 153 | There are no rules. | 没有规则。 |
| 154 | But perhaps the biggest revolution | 但也许最大的革命 |
| 155 | would come from active systems. | 将来自活动系统。 |
| 156 | Because Formula One used to have some truly ridiculous technology. | 因为公式 一个曾经有 一些真正荒谬的技术。 |
| 157 | Active suspension. | 主动暂停. |
| 158 | Traction control. | 电车控制。 |
| 159 | Launch control. | 发射控制 |
| 160 | Automatic ride height adjustment. | 自动驾车高度调整. |
| 161 | Computers constantly optimizing performance. | 计算机不断优化性能. |
| 162 | Most of it got banned. | 大部分都被禁止了 |
| 163 | Why? | 为什么? |
| 164 | Because it worked | 因为它有用 |
| 165 | too well. | 说得好 |
| 166 | Without restrictions, modern computing power would turn F1 cars into | 没有限制,现代的计算能力会把F1汽车变成 |
| 167 | supercomputers. | 超级计算机。 |
| 168 | Thousands of calculations per second. | 千计每秒计算. |
| 169 | Constant adjustments. | 不断调整。 |
| 170 | Perfect optimization. | 完美优化。 |
| 171 | The car would effectively drive itself. | 这辆车能有效自己开 |
| 172 | Which creates an awkward situation. | 这造成了一个尴尬的情况。 |
| 173 | Because if computers | 因为如果电脑 |
| 174 | are faster than humans, why are humans still inside? | 为什么人类还在里面? |
| 175 | And that question opens a very dangerous | 这个问题打开了一个非常危险的 |
| 176 | door. | 门。 |
| 177 | Because once regulations disappear, there is absolutely nothing requiring a driver. | 因为一旦法规消失, 绝对不需要一个司机。 |
| 178 | At all. | 一点都没有 |
| 179 | Think about it. | 考虑一下 |
| 180 | Drivers need oxygen. | 司机需要氧气 |
| 181 | Drivers need safety systems. | 司机需要安全系统。 |
| 182 | Drivers need visibility. | 司机需要可见度。 |
| 183 | Drivers complain when experiencing 12Gs. | 司机在经历12G时会抱怨. |
| 184 | Computers do none of these things. | 计算机不会做这些事情。 |
| 185 | Remove the human and | 移除人类和 |
| 186 | suddenly engineers gain enormous freedom. | 工程师突然获得了巨大的自由。 |
| 187 | The cockpit disappears. | 驾驶舱消失了 |
| 188 | Safety structures shrink. | 安全结构缩小。 |
| 189 | The car becomes smaller, lighter, faster, more aerodynamic, more aggressive. | 车体变小,变轻,变快,空气动力更强,攻击性更强. |
| 190 | The machine starts | 机器开始 |
| 191 | evolving toward its natural form. | 走向自然形态 |
| 192 | A guided missile. | 制导导弹 |
| 193 | At this point, Formula One teams would be facing | 此时,一级方程式小组将面临 |
| 194 | an uncomfortable realization. | 令人不快的觉悟 |
| 195 | The fastest race car no longer resembles a race car. | 最快的赛车不再类似赛车. |
| 196 | It resembles | 简直像 |
| 197 | a weapon. | 一个武器。 |
| 198 | But let's say Formula One insists on keeping drivers. | 但假设一号方程式坚持要保持驾驶员. |
| 199 | What would the actual performance | 实际执行情况 |
| 200 | look like? | 看起来像? |
| 201 | How fast could these unrestricted monsters go? | 这些无限制的怪物能跑多快? |
| 202 | Well, top speed is largely a battle | 那么,最高速度基本上是一场战斗 |
| 203 | between power and drag. | 在权力和拖动之间 |
| 204 | Current Formula One cars reach around 350km per hour under ideal conditions. | 当前公式 1节车厢在理想条件下达到每小时350公里左右. |
| 205 | Impressive. | 厉害 |
| 206 | But unrestricted cars could potentially generate several times more power. | 但是,不受限制的汽车可能会产生数倍的功率. |
| 207 | Theoretically, speeds above 500km per hour become possible. | 理论上,时速在500公里以上成为可能. |
| 208 | Maybe more. | 也许更多。 |
| 209 | Much more. | 还有很多 |
| 210 | The exact limits | 确切的限制 |
| 211 | depend on aerodynamics, tires, and how much the driver values continued existence. | 取决于空气动力学,轮胎, 以及驱动器价值有多少继续存在。 |
| 212 | And now we arrive | 现在我们到了 |
| 213 | at the biggest obstacle of all. | 这是最大的障碍 |
| 214 | Not engines. | 不是发动机 |
| 215 | Not aerodynamics. | 不是空气动力学 |
| 216 | Not humans. | 不是人类 |
| 217 | Tires. | 轮胎。 |
| 218 | Tires are the unsung | 轮胎是无人驾驶的 |
| 219 | heroes of motorsport. | 汽车运动的英雄 |
| 220 | They endure enormous loads, extreme temperatures, massive forces, and they do | 他们承受着巨大的负载,极端的温度,巨大的力量,而且他们有 |
| 221 | all this while being aggressively attacked by physics. | 这一切同时受到物理学的猛烈攻击。 |
| 222 | Current Formula One tires already | 当前公式 一个轮胎已经 |
| 223 | near their limits. | 接近他们的极限。 |
| 224 | At 500km per hour, things become complicated. | 时速500公里 事情变得复杂 |
| 225 | The rotational forces become | 轮调部队变成了 |
| 226 | enormous, temperatures skyrocket, structural loads become absurd. | 巨大的,温度飞涨, 结构负荷变得荒谬。 |
| 227 | At some point, the tire simply | 有时候,轮胎只是 |
| 228 | stops being a tire and starts becoming a fragmentation grenade, which is generally | 停止成为轮胎 开始成为破碎的手榴弹, 这通常是 |
| 229 | considered suboptimal. | 被认为是次优。 |
| 230 | So engineers build stronger tires, then stronger wheels, then stronger | 工程师造出更坚固的轮胎 更坚固的车轮 |
| 231 | {\fn黑体\fs22\bord1\shad0\3aHBE\4aH00\fscx67\fscy66\2cHFFFFFF\3cH808080}然后是更强的刹车 {\fn黑体\fs22\bord1\shad0\3aHBE\4aH00\fscx67\fscy66\2cHFFFFFF\3cH808080}每一次改进都会让性能提高 | |
| 232 | which reveals another weakness and another and another. | 揭示了另一个弱点,另一个弱点,另一个弱点,另一个弱点。 |
| 233 | The process never stops. | 这一过程从未停止。 |
| 234 | Because unrestricted engineering is basically an arms race against reality itself. | 因为无限制的工程基本上是与现实本身的军备竞赛. |
| 235 | Eventually, | 最终 |
| 236 | after years of development, Formula One would produce something astonishing. | 在经过多年的开发之后,方案一将产生令人惊讶的东西。 |
| 237 | A machine capable | 一台机器能够 |
| 238 | of cornering harder than fighter jets, accelerating faster than most supercars can comprehend, | 比战斗机更猛烈的逼近 速度比大多数超级汽车能理解的要快 |
| 239 | generating enough downforce to challenge architecture, and reaching speeds that make | 生成足够的降压力,以挑战架构,达到速度,使 |
| 240 | current Formula One cars look conservative. | 当前公式 一辆车看起来很保守 |
| 241 | It would be the greatest racing machine ever built. | 这将是有史以来最伟大的赛车机器。 |
| 242 | It would also be completely impossible for normal humans to drive. | 正常人也会完全无法驾驶. |
| 243 | So what would Formula One without | 那么,什么是公式一没有 |
| 244 | rules actually become? | 规则真的变成了? |
| 245 | Ironically, not Formula One, at least not the version we recognize today. | 讽刺的是,不是公式 第一,至少我们今天所认识的版本并非如此。 |
| 246 | Because rules don't exist at slow innovation. | 因为规则在缓慢的创新中并不存在. |
| 247 | They exist to keep innovation pointed in a direction | 它们的存在是为了把创新指向一个方向 |
| 248 | humans can survive. | 人类可以生存 |
| 249 | Without regulations, engineers would optimize for one thing, speed. | 没有法规,工程师们就会优化一件事,即速度。 |
| 250 | And speed | 还有速度 |
| 251 | doesn't care about tradition, or spectators, or budgets, or neck muscles, or consciousness. | 不关心传统,或观众,或预算,或颈部肌肉,或意识。 |
| 252 | The ultimate unrestricted Formula One car will probably be faster than anything we've ever seen. | 最终无限制公式 一辆车可能比我们见过的快 |
| 253 | It might exceed 500 kilometers per hour, it might corner at forces no human could tolerate, | 它可能超过每小时500公里, 它可能向任何人类都无法容忍的力量倾斜, |
| 254 | it might not even contain a driver, and after spending billions of dollars creating the | 它可能连驱动器都没有, 并且花费了数十亿美元 创造了 |
| 255 | fastest race car in history, Formula One would discover something rather unfortunate. | 有史以来最快的赛车 一级方程式会发现一些不幸的事情 |
| 256 | The fastest | 最快的车 |
| 257 | possible racing machine isn't built for humans. | 可能的赛车机器不是为人类建造的 |
| 258 | Humans are simply the slowest component, and | 人类只是最慢的成分, |
| 259 | removing them was the easiest upgrade of all. | 移除它们是最容易升级的 |
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