[Shotimes] OT: F1 Slowdown

[Carl Prochilo]

I'm not sure what you mean by that comparison.  Yes america is where the
V8 was born, but europe is predominanty a 4 cylinder continent.  But when
it comes to high end racing, there were plenty of 12 cylinder motors in
europe, my favorite being the Ferrari 12 cylinder boxer.

BTW, there is a story about how closely tied to america the V8 is.  The
story goes that FIAT decided they wanted to build a V8 engine, but for
fear of being sued by american companies, they called their engine 8V for
8 cylinders in V (configuration) instead of V8.  I can translate that into
italian if you're interested.
-- 
Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
92 Ultra Red Crimson

On Sat, July 10, 2004 1:17 pm, Jason Hartberger said:
> well that just sucks... I've always associated V6 = european, V8 =
> american.
> The analogy of course being finesse and extracting more power per cylinder
> rather than just throwing more cylinders on it and making the cylinders
> bigger to get more power. I never did like that. I've always felt that
> making a better piston design and more efficient engines was always better
> than smashing a fly with a buick as far as engine sizes go. One more
> reason
> I highly prefer F1 over NASCRAP.
>
> Jason
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carl Prochilo" <gr8sho@prochilo.myserver.org>
> To: <Shotimes@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 12:05 PM
> Subject: [Shotimes] OT: F1 Slowdown
>
>
>> http://www.f1racing.net/en/news.php?newsID=56918
>>
>> If you like your screaming 3.0L 1000hp V10 engines, better watch the
>> races
>> for next year and a half because starting in 2006 the teams will be
>> racing
>> 2.4L V8s.  The catalyst for the move up in timetable by 2 years
>> presumably
>> is due to the near fatal accident of Ralf Schumacher at Indy.  The
>> impact
>> was approximately 78Gs in force and broke his back despite wearing the
>> HANS device.
>> At Silverstone, the cars are now turning in lap times of 3 seconds
>> faster
>> than last year, so the continuing development of this technology
>> continues
>> at a rapid pace.
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Carl Prochilo
>> 92 Ultra Red Crimson
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