2011 F1 Thread

[gts-4 dreamer]

I should check the link before posting next time

Was a horribly good one, even though it's williams.

[ctjet]

'McLaren to swap Merc for Honda power'

[zebra]

Horribly written article lol. Does anyone proof read this stuff

Hope Honda do better than their last attempt.

Oh any news on the 1.6 turbo engine. Is it on again or off again?

[tweety bird]

2013 they're coming.

Edited November 20, 2011 by tweety bird

[zebra]

lame

[mad082]

Horribly written article lol. Does anyone proof read this stuff

Hope Honda do better than their last attempt.

Oh any news on the 1.6 turbo engine. Is it on again or off again?

turbo civic motors going to be the new mclaren motor in 2012? hope they make sure the drivers are prepared for when it hits v-tec

[zebra]

Zomg, what if they get Spoon engines???

RaceWarzzz wont know what hit it!

[ctjet]

Honda do have plenty of experience with turbo powah through their association with indy/champcar, so its not like they're starting from zero. Sure its two very different things, but with all the teams starting from scratch there'll be plenty of scope for 'interpretations' of rules. So any experience counts, no?

Not to mention the 80's turbos were pumping out pretty impressive hp

still, in saying that... i dont like it

[zebra]

but they wont be unrestricted like the 80's 1.5L engines...so we aren't going to see 1300hp quali engines etc

[ctjet]

As long as we arent losing any more power through this change ill be fine with it

Hopefully, more than anything, we get a great sounding grid out of all this

[sh@un]

'McLaren to swap Merc for Honda power'

could be a very good thing. Honda prefer turbo'd GP engines.

[zebra]

As long as we arent losing any more power through this change ill be fine with it

Hopefully, more than anything, we get a great sounding grid out of all this

SR20 on speed?

lol

BBBBAAAAAARRRRPPPPPPPPPPP

[N1GTR]

New Merc GP exhaust from the young drivers test; (And some temperature strips too)

[scarface_au]

SR20 on speed?

lol

BBBBAAAAAARRRRPPPPPPPPPPP

SR20 at 19,000 rpm!

[ctjet]

Not a very innovative or interesting exhaust from Mercedes. This from the same basic bunch of guys that produced a real pearl a few years ago. Hopefully we get some more inspiring solutions than that

[N1GTR]

Which one in the past are you referring to?

[levinboy]

If you look at the exhaust path it seems to be routed up and over the rear wing, so maybe they have found extra downforce testing it this way, but who knows

[N1GTR]

Yeah that was my first guess too. As if an F1 engineer who's told "you cant use hot blown diffusers" wont make the exhaust useful in another way - I'd love to see how far engineers can go if the EBD rules were relaxed

[zebra]

Steveo, the gasses being aimed upward will create downforce as well, whether it reaches the wing at high speed I dunno....but the f1 guys are smarter than me when it comes to aero lol

[sh@un]

Hopefully we get some more inspiring solutions than that

someone pls photoshop a set of quad-pipe fueller style headers on that pic