F1 To Move To V6 Engines In 2011?

Next, they'll change the entire competition to bumper cars.

— LexusNumberOne4ever (View Profile)

Posted on 5/19/2007 10:54:25 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

I don't mind it at all. I don't think cylinder count is important today. As long as it is fast, quick, efficient and powerful because of the advancement of technology. 3.0L V6 used to produced average 180 HP 20 years ago, now it is more.

Also, smaller the engine F1 has, it is easier to port its engine to production cars.

— dsch_iter (View Profile)

Posted on 5/18/2007 4:46:53 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1   

V8 engines are smoother so let's use racing experience to develop small-displacement V8s instead of V6s.

— EnnNorak (View Profile)

Posted on 5/18/2007 4:51:56 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 7   

I am tired of all these rule changes, i say bring back turbo engines, TC must go ,racing drivers must control the cars properly(they must earn there millions)and slicks.

— BMfan (View Profile)

Posted on 5/18/2007 6:01:09 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

Perhaps Bernie is houston cutie in hiding.

— LexusNumberOne4ever (View Profile)

Posted on 5/19/2007 10:56:10 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

I personally think that in the recent years F1 has been made less enjoyable.
And oh, it was supposed to be a joke since Cutie doesn't even know what automobiles are.

— LexusNumberOne4ever (View Profile)

Posted on 5/19/2007 10:34:38 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

Its unlikely the manufacturers will agree to this, especially since the V8 were only introduced recently...

Mosley keeps talking about reducing developing cost which amount to hundred of millions; but yet keep demanding changes and newer development...

I am fine with rev-limiting the engine; though 10,000 is a far cry from the 21000 rpms we were approaching a season ago...

— Baapo (View Profile)

Posted on 5/18/2007 6:37:21 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

every year theres some news of changing the way they race, bizarre.

— sewingmachine (View Profile)

Posted on 5/18/2007 6:55:47 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

its probably going to be a inline 4 by 2015 and then maybe 2 banger or single cylinder from a bike (by then bikes probably run on v8)

— boureois (View Profile)

Posted on 5/18/2007 10:57:21 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

F1 is supposed to be the pinnacle of the sport of auto racing. It should test and expand the limits of engineering, technology, and human ability. Instead it's hamstrung by byzantine rules at every level.

I say do away with any regulations except size, weight, fuel type, and specific safety items. Do anything you can imagine with the engines, trannys suspensions, tires whatever.

If not in F1, then where? Maybe the answer is not F1, but something new and truly intersting.

— randoms (View Profile)

Posted on 5/18/2007 8:41:05 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 5   

max is bailing out small budget teams

if you ain't rich enough, don't come in to F1 and start complaining how everyone is spending so much and you can't.

— boureois (View Profile)

Posted on 5/18/2007 10:55:07 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

F1 go carts.

Big boys drive NASCAR.

hahahahahahahahah

— EL34 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/18/2007 10:55:19 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -8   

How much more do we have to suffer ?!

First they took the away the
wide cars + slicks+ active suspension
and replaced them with
narrow cars + groves + passive suspensions
witch resulted in low mecanical grip and few overtaking.

They took away exotic fuels, exotic materials and banned the development and implementation of magentic valve gear.
And when that didn't spot the V10 engines from pumping
950 to 1000 hp at over 20 000 rpms, they banned the V10s altogether.

Now going to V6 !!!

What non-sense.

I say bing back
wide cars + slick tyres + active suspensions + V10s.

So we won't need TC, or God forbit the proposed
AWD + TC + ESC/ESP formula Max is thinking.

— DarkOneForce (View Profile)

Posted on 5/19/2007 6:29:20 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 5   

Oh yeah:
Of with the heads of Mosley and Ecclestone.

Who's with me ?!

— DarkOneForce (View Profile)

Posted on 5/19/2007 6:30:48 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

WTF! I swear this is getting pathetic! Its not a friendly enviromental show its F1 for God's sake!
He is talking about cheapening costs as if he is paying from his own pocket! What an idiot! I want to get him killed ASAP!

— M53R (View Profile)

Posted on 5/19/2007 8:17:12 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

Wait it get's even worse.

From what I've, now are ready, Max wants to implement a
standard unibody for everyone.

http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns19163.html

"Ten years ago Mosley commissioned a study of the motorsport industry by the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) which analysed how the ingenuity of the post-war engineer-drivers was translated into a vast and diverse industry as constant competition not only provoked continual technological breakthrough but also weeded out the companies which were not meant for success. As a result the industry was never able to stagnate. Each firm had to learn to master advancing technologies and those who could not cope failed. It was a question of the survival of the fittest as most of these firms were dedicated to motorsport and thus had to be competitive to survive as they had no other income on which to fall back.

Mosley's model for the future ties the hands of those who continue in that original tradition and, if accepted, would mean that much of their work, such as the building of vast and intricate windtunnels, will become irrelevant. It will thus be opposed with much vehemence. The most controversial proposal is the identical bodywork, something which undermines the foundations of pure competition on which F1 - and the entire motorsport industry - is based. Mosley argues that there can still be that kind of competition in other areas of machinery but that aerodynamic development is wasteful and has no relevance to the car industry.
...
If that spirit dies, the sport and the industry may die with it."


That b@$t@** want's to kill F1/GP racing alltogheter.

More than 100 years of progress, inovation, pushing technology, cars and drivers to the edge will be gone.

All the work, the greatness, the achievements, that whole man-machine-engineering struggle/progress/push will be a thing of the past, impossible to be continued.

I'm in tears here.
Please get rid of this f-----.

— DarkOneForce (View Profile)

Posted on 5/20/2007 4:52:04 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2