Video of F1 warming up!
Talk about hearing. When I was in Montreal the last two years, right after the Senna curve there is a place that you can get next to the track. I am talking about 5 feet.
Picture this the guys are coming off the turn completely winding out the car. Your head is about 4-6 feet from the exhaust. It is absolutely unbelieveable to be that near these cars going about 140 in a four wheel drift!
By the way for you east coasters, Montreal is only 5-6 hrs. from the NY area. Great town, like being in Europe. Awesome babes, strip clubs, etc.
Picture this the guys are coming off the turn completely winding out the car. Your head is about 4-6 feet from the exhaust. It is absolutely unbelieveable to be that near these cars going about 140 in a four wheel drift!
By the way for you east coasters, Montreal is only 5-6 hrs. from the NY area. Great town, like being in Europe. Awesome babes, strip clubs, etc.
Last edited by chmodlf; Mar 27, 2005 at 05:23 PM.
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The front line F1 engines are under 100 kilos and have been for a few years now.
The current Cosworth unit is supposed to be making a tad over 900 hp (and this is a 2-weekend engine....YIKES)
They actually idle around 3000 or 3500 rpm, but their useful power band is from about 8k to 19k rpm. They use pneumatic valve 'springs' because no metal spring can respond fast enough or take the stress
Back in the turbo days (mid 80's) the engines were 1.5 liters and more than 1400 hp (nobody is sure how much more, but Renault had one max out the dyno and still had 1500 revs to go)
Good stuff, for sure
I"ve also seen another video where an Arrows F1 engineer had the laptop programmed to have the engine play 'when the saints go marching in' and NO, I"m NOT kidding.
If I can find it via a quick google search, I'll post a link
The current Cosworth unit is supposed to be making a tad over 900 hp (and this is a 2-weekend engine....YIKES)
They actually idle around 3000 or 3500 rpm, but their useful power band is from about 8k to 19k rpm. They use pneumatic valve 'springs' because no metal spring can respond fast enough or take the stress
Back in the turbo days (mid 80's) the engines were 1.5 liters and more than 1400 hp (nobody is sure how much more, but Renault had one max out the dyno and still had 1500 revs to go)
Good stuff, for sure
I"ve also seen another video where an Arrows F1 engineer had the laptop programmed to have the engine play 'when the saints go marching in' and NO, I"m NOT kidding.
If I can find it via a quick google search, I'll post a link
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you have to know the manual front to back to work the steering wheel before you can even take a lap around track and thats 21 pages long, shifting, traction, every thing, amazing!!!!
They used to have turbo engines. Tiny too, like 1.5 liters but MAN what a kick, over 1000 HP.
They also use a VERY sophisticated valve train. It is under compressed gas as no valve springs could give them the response they needed, like no floating and so on. It also saps Horse power cuz of the pressure and now added work to open and close the valves but damn it works good.
They also use a VERY sophisticated valve train. It is under compressed gas as no valve springs could give them the response they needed, like no floating and so on. It also saps Horse power cuz of the pressure and now added work to open and close the valves but damn it works good.
Originally Posted by Rally291
