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I was watching the Indy cars for a little bit before work last Sunday, and they say they were running Turbo 2.4ltr V8's??? Weird combo, altho i understand that higher revving engines seem to have less displacement, but i thought it was interesting to see a small capacity V8 with a Turbo and they said around 700hp :D

I like it. Compact'ish V8 with a blower, think that would be cool to see in a production car. Altho it seems torque may be a problem

So is Indy the CART thing people are talking about?

Are the F1's going to go Turbo again? Oh yeah, the Indy engines were running STUPID boost, i must have heard the commentator wrong, 30-40 psi??? Must have heard wrong...

cheers.

2.65L V8 Turbo actually and they run ~40 inches (of mercury) of boost (not PSI), which I'm told is roughly 5 PSI of boost.

As for Indy and CART, there's IRL and there's the Champ Car world series. Two different series with different cars and engine rules. IRL run strictly on oval courses, tho. There's a bit of history between IRL and Champ Car.. all I know is that CART was formed as a breakaway series from IRL cos they couldn't agree on some shit.

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lol other way around. CART are the original series but the owner of Indianapolis would not come to an agreement to race there. The bloke who owns Indy then set up a series which races there and elsewhere on Oval tracks. They have added 2 circuit courses this year as well.

Looks like CART won't make it, the number of teams moving to Indy from CART has really picked up in the last year or 2, CART was bankrupt and sold 12 months ago but may be OK again now.

I'm pretty sure ~40 inches of mercury is > 5psi, isn't it?

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im pretty sure that turbo's arnt going to ever be allowed in F1. They have rules against the forceful manipulation of air.

I remember reading about the F1 fan car, which basically used a gaint fan to suck up air from the ground (thus keeping it down), that model was scraped due to the rule that was put in.

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ah interesting :P

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