F1 - GP (General Purpose)

or in the case of the Giants, win just enough to NOT end in last place for a better pick...

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The first thing you may notice about the GMA-Cosworth V12 is that its beautiful titanium exhaust headers are angled upwards instead of pointing towards the floorpan like on your car. That's because the T.50 is using such steep, aggressive diffusers that the piping with the four catalytic convertors have no choice but to proudly aim for the sky. The next visible curiosity is the complete lack of belt-driven accessories. This packaging (and durability) miracle was made possible by the Integrated Starter Generator (ISG), which operates at 48 volts to act not only as the high-rev starter and the alternator but also as the energy source of the rear fan and the A/C compressor at the front of the car.

Gordon Murray was never going to build a halo car powered by anything other than a naturally-aspirated V12. He considers a 65-degree twelve-cylinder to have perfect primary and secondary balance, which is crucial when the engine is a load-bearing semi-structural element of the chassis. According to him, V12s also make the best noise, along with enough low-end torque to work well at any speed. The T.50's bespoke Cosworth offers 71 percent of its peak torque from as low as 2,500 rpm.

Cosworth

ISG at the front and Xtrac's H-pattern six-speed manual at the other end.

Initially, Murray wanted a 3.3-liter V12. However, to make the T.50 faster than a McLaren F1 with such a small engine, the T.50 needed to drop its wet weight to around 1,984 pounds. Since that wasn't gonna happen, the team settled for a 3,994cc, all-alloy DOHC with dry sump lubrication and a compression ratio of 14:1.

As you've probably heard by now, this 392-pound jewel of a V12 revs to 12,100 rpm, producing up to 690 horsepower when the ram-air induction is engaged with the fan's V-Max Boost mode. In 1998, the McLaren F1's 6.1-liter S70/2 V12 sourced from BMW Motorsport pushed it to a record of 240.1 mph, but only after its redline was raised to 8,500 rpm.

Weighing 2,160 pounds with its 3.9-liter V12, the GMA T.50 has a better power-to-weight ratio than a McLaren P1 GTR.

Cosworth

A 65-degree V12.

28,400 RPM Per Second

12,100 rpm from idle happens in .3 seconds, which means this engine's pickup speed is at 28,400 RPM per second. That sort of throttle response is unheard of from a road car engine, let alone one verified for at least 50,000 miles. However, the achieved figure is by no coincidence. Murray, the engineer who compares the rev-profile of turbocharged engines to "watching paint dry," told Cosworth that his V12 needs to rev higher than his previous record holder, the Light Car Company's Rocket, which features a 1000cc Yamaha bike engine redlining at 11,500 RPM.

After putting the crank as low as 3.34-inches from the bottom of the pan, Cosworth went for titanium valves and connecting rods, gear-driven cams, four throttle bodies, variable valve timing on both inlet and exhaust, and 12 individual 12-volt coils. However, to achieve such speeds, they also needed a very low-inertia triple-plate carbon silicone and titanium clutch with virtually no flywheel to speak of, which in this case is fitted for life. The clutch housing is also made of titanium.

Cosworth

392 pounds for 690 horsepower.

The famously rev-happy BMW V12's pickup speed in the McLaren F1 is around 10,000 rpm per second. With almost triple that pace from idle to redline, let's not forget that with its clutch engaged, the T.50 comes with an equally rapid, nearly instantaneous decay. This means to make its six-speed manual transmission work, GMA's halo car will feature a carefully calibrated rev-matching software that will blip the throttle just enough for the opportunity of a perfect shift.

When it comes to more recent motorsport-derived offerings, I wanted to learn about the throttle response of the Mezger engine tweaked by Williams Advanced Engineering for the Singer DLS, as well as Porsche's latest 4.0-liter naturally-aspirated flat-six in the back of the GT3, GT3 RS and Speedster models. While Singer couldn't give me a figure, Porsche told me that "from idle to 9,000 rpm, [the 4.0] should take less than a second."

That's close enough to a 1993 McLaren F1's, yet far-far away from a 2022 GMA T.50's. Still, in terms of pickup speed per dollar, hats off to Weissach!

28,400 RPM Per Second

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“28,400 RPM Per Second
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From the article:

“...12,100 rpm from idle happens in .3 seconds, which means this engine’s pickup speed is at 28,400 RPM per second. “

That’s FAST throttle response!

There goes Chode starting off 2022 by blowing’ our minds with visions of V-12’s!

Happy New Year Buddy (and thanks for all of your most excellent F-1 work)!

It’s reassuring to know that there are engineers designing things besides cell phones, streaming devices and hackabke voting machines....Murray is an authentic genius.

amazing, init...

Happy New Year!!!

BBB, I can see why one might infer the revs to be 28K/sec, however I do believe that the correct value is 12,100 RPM.

Happy New Year to all motorheads hereabouts!

2022******************************************

Steve Nichols & The McLaren MP4/4 - The Story Gordon Murray Doesn't Want Told

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mz9nAzsLXU

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The Racers Who Funded Their Teams Through Drug Smuggling

John Paul Sr.
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From Harvard-educated mutual-fund manager to a two-time fugitive from the law, convicted attempted murderer, marijuana smuggler, angry jerk, failed jail-breaker, and a man around whom two women went permanently missing. John Paul Sr. spent 13 years in prison for firing five .38-caliber bullets into a former associate and federal witness in a drug-trafficking case in 1983. His conviction on that charge didn’t come until 1986, though, because he jumped bail and spent a couple years in hiding before being apprehended in Switzerland. After getting paroled in 1999, Paul vanished again, not long after his girlfriend went missing. His whereabouts remain unknown. But for a while the money from his weed-smuggling business bought Paul and his son, John Paul Jr., some of the nicest, most advanced racing cars on the planet, typically painted baby blue with yellow accents. The cars ran without sponsorship, because sponsorship money was not necessary. John Paul Jr. spent five years in prison on a racketeering conviction for his involvement in the family business, derailing a promising career racing Indy cars.

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Randy Lanier
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A small-time weed dealer and high-school dropout from South Florida, Lanier eventually made it big as a major marijuana smuggler in the ‘80s. At the same time, the luxuriantly mustached Lanier took up racing, first in IMSA endurance competition and eventually with a run at the 1986 Indy 500, where he took Rookie of the Year honors. Along the way, he teamed up with the Whittington brothers (more on them in a minute) to create Blue Thunder Racing and win the 1984 IMSA championship with a lavishly funded March prototype. Yes, the team is named for the 1983 Roy Scheider helicopter action flick of the same name. In 1988, Lanier was convicted of smuggling and distributing 300 tons of Colombian marijuana and sentenced to life without the chance of parole as the kingpin of a continuing criminal enterprise. He was released in 2014, for reasons that have not been made public. During his time at Leavenworth, Lanier took long walks in the prison yard with fellow inmate John Paul Sr., reminiscing about their racing days.
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Vic Lee
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Two of the biggest moments in the life of British Touring Car Championship team owner Vic Lee involved BMW M3s. The first was the clinching of the 1991 BTCC championship for driver Will Hoy in one of Lee’s Listerine-sponsored BMWs. The second was when police caught him in 2005 with 19 kilograms of cocaine in the trunk of his M3 while parked at a U.K. Holiday Inn. Lee wasn’t new to the cocaine business. He was convicted in 1993 of smuggling 41 kilos of the stuff into Britain from the Netherlands using his race transporters. Just so everybody is clear on this: Racing transporters are to be used to transport race cars and associated racing accoutrements, not cocaine. BMWs on the other hand...
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Don and Bill Whittington
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The joke in the ‘80s was that IMSA (the premier sanctioning body of American sports-car racing) stood for International Marijuana Smugglers Association. It was funny because it was true. How much weed did Don and Bill Whittington import into the U.S.? Well, at least enough that the brothers showed up at the 1979 running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans with a duffle bag filled with enough cash to not only buy each of them a seat in the Porsche 935 K3 that would win that year, but also to purchase the car itself on a whim. In cash. From a duffle bag. The brothers also bought the Road Atlanta racetrack, where they allegedly landed planes filled with contraband on the back straight in the middle of the night. Like Lanier and the Pauls, the Whittingtons had racing talent, each eventually running in the Indy 500 and dabbling in NASCAR competition. But eventually, the pretend sponsorships they sometimes plastered on cars wasn’t enough to fool the Feds. In 1986, Bill pleaded guilty to income-tax evasion and conspiracy to smuggle marijuana. A year later, Don pleaded guilty to money-laundering charges.
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Raymond Parks
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Raymond Parks, a bootlegger since he was a teenager in the 1930s, didn’t just fund his race team with ill-gotten proceeds. He also hired moonshiners Lloyd Seay, Roy Hall, and Tim and Fonty Flock to drive for him. He built a small business empire of (legal) liquor stores and vending machines with his hooch money. He also owned the car that won the first NASCAR title. And while Bill France might be the one who took the reins of stock-car racing and turned it into semi-legit family entertainment (now without Confederate battle flags!), he started out driving for Parks, the old granddad of contraband-funded racing.
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Graham Ellis
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It turned out to be a bad couple of years for English drag racer Graham Ellis. In 2013, the one-time pub landlord crashed his stunning (and unsponsored) Plymouth Superbird Pro Modified racer at Santa Pod Raceway at something like 165 mph, breaking his neck. (Watch it on YouTube. On second thought, don’t.) Then, in 2015, Ellis was convicted of importing 26 kilograms of heroin and cocaine into the U.K., hidden (although not well enough) in a shipping truck. His son Gareth, along with a couple of other associates, also received jail terms resulting from the bust.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10382499/Self-driving-Formula-1-cars-hit-115mph-autonomous-race-Las-Vegas.html

A racecar with nobody at the wheel snaked around another to snatch the lead on an oval track at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Friday in a first-of-its-kind high-speed match between self-driving vehicles.

Members of Italian-American team PoliMOVE cheered as their Formula 1-style racecar, nicknamed 'Minerva,' repeatedly passed a rival entered by South Korean team Kaist.

Minerva was doing nearly 115 miles per hour when it blew past the Kaist car, easily beating the top speed hoped for by race organizers and winning the $150,000 top prize.

But every racer was deemed a winner by organizers who saw the real victory as the fact that self-driving algorithms could handle the high-speed competition.

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The TII EuroRacing autonomous race car passes the TUM Autonomous Motorsport car during the Indy Autonomous Challenge during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway on January 7

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A racecar with nobody at the wheel snaked around another to snatch the lead on an oval track at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Friday in a first-of-its-kind high-speed match between self-driving vehicles

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The TUM Autonomous Motorsport race car from the Technische Universitat Munchen (Germany) drives during the Indy Autonomous Challenge during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway on January 7

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Attendees watch the Indy Autonomous Challenge as a fighter jet flies overhead during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway on January 7, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada

'It's a success,' Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) co-organizer Paul Mitchell said to AFP before the checkered flag was waved.

The race pitted teams of students from around the world against one another to rev up the capabilities of self-driving cars, improving the technology for use anywhere.

In October, the IAC put the brakes on self-driving F1 cars racing together to allow more time to ready technology for the challenge, opting instead to let them do laps individually to see which had the best time.

'This almost holds the world record for speed of an autonomous car,' PoliMOVE engineer Davide Rigamonti boasted as he gazed lovingly at the white-and-black beauty.

The single seat usually reserved for a driver was during this race instead packed with electronics.

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Davide Rigamonti speaks about the PoliMOVE autonomous race car from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and University of Alabama in pit row during the Indy Autonomous Challenge during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES)

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A crew member looks at cameras and LiDAR sensors on top of TUM Autonomous Motorsport race car from the Technische Universitat Munchen (Germany) drives during the Indy Autonomous Challenge during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES)

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Crew members of Team TUM Autonomous Motorsport move their team car at the pit during the Indy Autonomous Challenge head-to-head, high speed autonomous racecar passing competition, hosted by Energy Systems Network

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Cars from Team KAIST, upper, and Team PoliMOVE, lower, compete in the Indy Autonomous Challenge head-to-head, high speed autonomous racecar passing competition, hosted by Energy Systems Network, on the final day of CES 2022

PoliMOVE had a shot at victory at another race in October in Indianapolis, clocking some 155 miles per hour (250 kilometers per hour) before skidding out on a curve, according to Rigamonti.

Friday, it was the South Korean entry that spun out after overtaking a car fielded by a team from the University of Auburn in the southern US state of Alabama.

'The students who program these cars are not mechanics; most of them knew nothing about racing,' said IndyCar specialist Lee Anne Patterson.

'We taught them about racing.'

The students program the software that pilots the car by quickly analyzing data from sophisticated sensors.

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Phillip Karle (C) and Dr. Markus Lienkamp (R) of TUM Autonomous Motorsport take pictures with the team's autonomous race car before the Indy Autonomous Challenge during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES)

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The MIT-PITT-RW, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Pittsburgh, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Waterloo (Canada) autonomous race car enters pit row during the Indy Autonomous Challenge

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The PoliMOVE autonomous race car from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and University of Alabama drives during the Indy Autonomous Challenge during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway on January 7

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An autonomous race car drives during the Indy Autonomous Challenge during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway on January 7, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada

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The car from Team KAIST competes in the Indy Autonomous Challenge head-to-head, high speed autonomous racecar passing competition, hosted by Energy Systems Network, on the final day of CES 2022 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway

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Paul Mitchell, race organizer and president of Energy Systems Network, stands for a portrait during the Indy Autonomous Challenge during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway on January 7

The software piloting the cars has to anticipate how other vehicles on the course will behave, then maneuver accordingly, according to Markus Lienkamp, a professor at Munich, TUM, which won the October competition.

Nearby, Lienkamp's students are glued to screens.

'It plays out in milliseconds,' said Mitchell.

'The computer has to make the same decisions as a human driver, despite the speed.'

The IAC plans to organize other races on the model of Friday's -- pitting two cars against each other, with the hope of reaching a level sufficient to one day launch all the vehicles together.

Every bit as exciting as watching a slot car race?

100%

Are you going to build robots to attend the races? How hard will it be to build a machine to eat brats and roast corn at Elkhart Lake?

LOL we’re just a couple of analogue guys in a digital world...

Still recall starting to lose interest in F1, now this is really the End Times.

yes, but they still will have to wear masks and social distance lol

i was just thinking today what to do about F-1 withdrawals during winter months- but i bet this isn’t it lol

Checking the Cockpit, only to find it's Empty in there...

My LOL for the day!!

28,400 RPM Per Second

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