GEAR HEADS - 24 hours @ THE RING- THIS WEEKEND

[knightmelodic]

Full course Nurburgring. 24 hours. Best race of the year since F1 uses lawnmower engines now and strangled the formula.



Got my iced coffee made. Last year I watched about 19 hours. Love this race.

 

[Famous1]

Full course Nurburgring. 24 hours. Best race of the year since F1 uses lawnmower engines now and strangled the formula.



Got my iced coffee made. Last year I watched about 19 hours. Love this race.

lawnmowers? damn..


F1 race cars all have 1.6 liter turbocharged hybrid V6 internal combustion engines (ICEs). The engines produce 830 to 850 horsepower. Two energy generators, one that recaptures energy from heat and the other from movement (kinetic energy), produce an additional 160 horsepower stored in a battery for use in short boosts.

The additional electrical power source lasts only a short time, up to 33 seconds per lap at full boost power, but the heat and kinetic capture motors regenerate the energy rapidly. Therefore, a second answer to the total horsepower question is 850 horsepower most of the time, with as much as 1,000 horsepower for 33 seconds per lap.

 

[knightmelodic]

lawnmowers? damn..


F1 race cars all have 1.6 liter turbocharged hybrid V6 internal combustion engines (ICEs). The engines produce 830 to 850 horsepower. Two energy generators, one that recaptures energy from heat and the other from movement (kinetic energy), produce an additional 160 horsepower stored in a battery for use in short boosts.

The additional electrical power source lasts only a short time, up to 33 seconds per lap at full boost power, but the heat and kinetic capture motors regenerate the energy rapidly. Therefore, a second answer to the total horsepower question is 850 horsepower most of the time, with as much as 1,000 horsepower for 33 seconds per lap.

Yes, I know all that but they sound like lawnmowers. I miss the V8s, V10s; even the V6s from 10 years ago. FIA already strangled the privateers out of the sport, soon it'll be a spec event.

 

[knightmelodic]