?? To get started for free, visit https://brilliant.org/DRIVER61/ or click on the link in the description, and the first 200 of you will get 20% off Brilliant's annual premium subscription. ?? Thanks to BRILLIANT for sponsoring this video! Join our F1 Mailing List! ?? https://driver61.beehiiv.com/subscribe This F1 car has two brake pedals - and one of them didn't just slow the car down… As always in F1, there is a VERY thin line between cheating and innovation. And one of my favourite examples is McLaren’s genius ‘Brake-Steer’ system. The system was so clever it was banned. This is the fascinating story of how McLaren outwitted the F1 world with £50 worth of tech , how Hakkinen and Coulthard had to change their driving entirely, and how this technology was so ingenious - it was banned. In 1996, McLaren chief designer Steve Nicols was trying to figure out how to make his McLaren quicker. The tyres at the time were a bit bizarre. Compared to today’s cars (where the rear tyres a