HP of F1 car

[Maxx]

Fomula 1 car's HP

Teams PS

1. BAR-Honda 925

2. Ferrari 915

3. BMW 905

4. Toyota 890

5. Renault 885

6. Sauber 880

7. Mercedes 875

8. Jaguar 870

9. Jordan-Ford 840

10. Minardi 830

no ownder Honda is so fast. The different between best and the worst is 95hp

[benm]

Personally i'd be treating those figures as a grain of salt. No F1 Team is going to tell anyone how much HP they have.

[b0neR]

Yeah id have to agree there, Im a big follower of the F1 and chances of those figures being exact is slim, not to mention they usually like to match engine power to certain circuits. Renault actually recently went through with a engine upgrade for this weekends canadian grand prix with a myriad of changes resulting in alleged increased power.

[JezR31]

how do they get all their power?

[hungry6]

I think in F1 they spend more in one race than a leading V8 supercar spends in the whole year, does that explains it?

I remember somewhere that bridgestone quoted for every tyre that makes it to the track atleast 10 would have been used up in testing

[DRFT32]

how do they get all that power

by millions of dollars and revving to 18 000 RPM :crazy:

[aybee]

Fomula 1 car's HP

  Teams             PS  

1. BAR-Honda    925  

2. Ferrari           915  

3. BMW              905  

4. Toyota           890  

5. Renault         885  

6. Sauber          880  

7. Mercedes      875  

8. Jaguar          870  

9. Jordan-Ford  840  

10. Minardi        830

no ownder Honda is so fast. The different between best and the worst is 95hp

yeah, but jaguar is known to have a fast car. as seen by webbers qualifying and practice capabilities.and theyre number 8. its just that it struggles to finish.

[aybee]

whens nissan gonna make a vg30 v10 and start racing f1?

[Guest INASNT]

As said before engine tunes varies for the different tracks.

[DSKYLINE2C]

yeah, but jaguar is known to have a fast car. as seen by webbers qualifying and practice capabilities.and theyre number 8. its just that it struggles to finish.

i think the problem with jag is cosworth......americans are useless pricks!

nevertheless Jag are in trouble next year with HSBC likely to back out so Webber better leave as soon as he can

[Emre]

Cosworth is British and their achievements in any form of racing can not be scoffed at.

They supply three F1 teams (Jordan, Minardi and Jaguar) with engines, albeit they are all different to each other.

Jaguar's engine is a brand new design and still under some sort of development. They only had 1 engine failure this season and it was electrical. Webber still managed to finish 13th in that race.

Michael Schumacher won his first championship driving a Cosworth powered Benetton in 1994.

Enough of Cosworth, where did those power figures originate from...? Do they have dyno graphs...? :bahaha:

[saff_cossie]

Cosworth is without a doubt English!

I'm sure I remember M schumacher saying a while back that none of the cars are over 1000hp presently and it was unlikely they would break that barrier in the near future, which at least partially supports the list above. More gains were to be made from aerodynamics

[aybee]

the point is that jaguar is known to have a fast car and webber has proved it. so it shows that those figures dont really mean anything cause jaguar is underpowered but still one of the fastest.

[benm]

Their is a sh1tload more to having a fast car than just pure hp figures. Most of it comprises of the pitcrew knowing their sh1t and tuning/setting up the car correctly.

[nmcmahon83]

Always thought BMW had the most... well they have for the last 2 seasons... Interesting...

Where's that salt shaker anyway?

[hungry6]

Nissan would be mad doing f1, i remeber Toyota claim to be a dominate team by the third season, and where are they at the moment? after spending Well over $100 mill. euro last year. F1 is a case of having the techno resource pool to go looking for results, Something that money cannot solve overnight.

[krzysiu]

All i know is that top fuel cars have 6000Kw

i want an engine like that in my line lol

0-140Km/h in 0.8 seconds Damn

[knore]

how much does a F1 car weigh?

[Maxx]

about 600kg ?

[DSKYLINE2C]

Cosworth is British and their achievements in any form of racing can not be scoffed at.

They supply three F1 teams (Jordan, Minardi and Jaguar) with engines, albeit they are all different to each other.

i thought the exact same until I heard james alan on the commentry saying that it was american based....Im sure that Jordan and Jag are using the new spec cosworth engine although I am deffinite that Minardi are using a lower spec but better in reliabilty, having said that their lap times are 2sec quicker than last years and are fairly close to Jordon this year.

i dont think horspower is as much of an issue as you guys are making it....its the whole package, especially aero, reliabilty, low centre of gravity and balance that makes a good racing car.... and everyone in the paddock knows who has the most hp as everyone knew last year that williams had the most (which was most noticeable on long straights) yet Ferrari still claimed the world and constructors championship!