F1 - GP (General Purpose)

Chode ^ | 8/5/2009 | Chode

[Chode]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/formulaone/article-13912423/Christian-Horner-warning-message-Red-Bull-Sergio-Perez-Daniel-Ricciardo.html

Christian Horner has fired a warning message to Sergio Perez after revealing the reasons behind Daniel Ricciardo’s axing.

Ricciardo said farewell to a ‘wild and wonderful’ 14-year Formula One journey after the popular Australian driver was sacked by Red Bull Racing last week.

The eight-time F1 race winner was let go by his RB team, an outcome which even the 35-year-old himself had been expecting after his disappointing 2024 campaign.

Ricciardo had been racing for sister team RB as a ‘backstop’ for the Mexican at Red Bull and now, following his F1 exit, Horner has sent a warning message to Perez.

Revealing the decision to drop Ricciardo, according to The Times, Horner said: ‘I think it was the lack of consistency.

[BBB333]

“Ferrari 12Cilindri...”

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As the article states it has styling cues from the 365 GTB/4 Daytona’s - one of my favorite cars of all time.

I knew a man that had a fly yellow Daytona convertible — quite a unique looking car.

One day someone stole the car (this in in Portland, OR) and the police caught the guy three days later, the car was fine with the exception of a dent on the drivers door.

As the police arrested the cretin he asked: “say, who owns this car?”

The police replied that that was not information that they could divulge...”Well, who ever it is - tell him it’ll of 160 no sweat,’ replied the thief.

Thanks for all these great posts!

[Big Red Badger]

Good Read——Thanks!R
Reminds me of Dario and Tony!

[Chode]

welcome...

[Chode]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/formulaone/article-13916813/Champagne-grand-prix-podiums-2025-F1-bosses-seal-deal-worth-1BILLION.html

unreal...

[Paal Gulli]

https://www.thedrive.com/car-reviews/2025-ferrari-12cilindri-first-drive-review

If I had so much money it wasn’t worth my time to bend over and pick up the $100 bill I’d just dropped, I still wouldn’t spend a plug nickel on ugly cars. Like this one.

[Paal Gulli]

I’d love to have a beer with Keanu. I appreciate the fact that he spends his fortune like any sensible 14-year-old millionaire would.

He also competes in 3-gun. If he looks at home handling a firearm in the John Wick films, it’s because he earned it.

[Paal Gulli]

"In addition to a full F1 track resurface, COTA is replacing some run off areas with gravel and turf—and is even adding cameras in “strategic places” to monitor track limits violations."

Want to fix the track limits problem? Replace the curbs with tire spikes.

What does it say about "the spirit of sportsmanship" when every driver in the field hits the rumble strip on EVERY CORNER. In essence they cheating all they can cheat without incurring a penalty.

Not the driver's fault, blame the morons who write the rules.

[Chode]

the “retro” look doesn’t always work...

[Chode]

OH yeah, he’s the real out at deal at Taron Tactical... no doubt about it

[Chode]

but ya gotta hit the curbs to set up the car for the turn...

i say just wire the circuit like the start/finish line and if your transponder says yer out, yer out!

[Chode]

good stuff...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljEA34m-NLQ
When FORD Designed the GREATEST F1 Engine Ever!

This is the most dominant engine in Formula 1 history - this thing has won 155 Grand Prix, 131 pole positions and even completed the triple crown - winning Monaco, the Indy 500 and Le Mans.

But, it’s not from one of the modern-day powerhouses like Mercedes, Ferrari or Honda. It’s a Ford! And a pretty special one - this engine changed the course of Formula 1.

But not because it’s got a special trick, or one really clever innovation - no, it’s because it had dozens of them. That’s down to the fact it was designed by one of the Greatest engine designers in history.

And where modern engines are designed in CAD software, in simulations or made in CNC machines. This thing was hand drawn, and hand made. Let me show you why it’s incredible.

[Chode]

Good stuff...

History of Chevy’s NASCAR Engines: Small Block Evolution Details Up Close With a Legend (SB2 & R07)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-X4zwtKiZw

[Chode]

How Formula 1 Pistons Are Made (I went to the factory)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY9GDDtEfKQ

[Chode]

When F1s Race Other Cars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDtS4Oa8Lj8

[Chode]

Why It’s Almost Impossible to Rev to 21,000 RPM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NokXiX-aznM

[Paal Gulli]

"Why It’s Almost Impossible to Rev to 21,000 RPM"

He plays fast and loose with the facts, such claiming "an F1 engine can get up to 2,600 degrees Communist," when the only thing that gets that hot is the flame front, and maybe (I'm guessing) the tip of the spark plug. That's well past the melting point of aluminum or steel.

It's just an air pump. All the mechanical falderal aside, the easiest was to make it rev higher is to makes it easier to fill and evacuate the cylinder. You couldn't in good faith address this topic (not comprehensively anyway) without mentioning the most (IMHO) fascinating attempt to make the world's highest-revving reciprocating engines.

Five overhead valves were too limiting to air exchange, and to be effective, six valves had to have pockets so large as to leave the cylinder dome weakened. Backin the 1980s, Honda decided that the cylindrical cylinder and piston were too limiting, so they created oval ones. With eight overhead valves per cylinder.

Behold, the Honda 0X engine:

So-called "bathtub" shaped pistons to allow for a more spaicous cylinder dome.

Two con rods per piston to limit rocking.

Honda was competing in a motorcycle racing class that didn't cut 4-stokes any slack for their low output, and it was limited to engines with four cylinders or fewer. So they made a 4-cyilinder 4-stroke engine with as many valves, con rods and spark plugs as an 8-cylinder engine, and that revved twice as high as the competition's 2-strokes.

It could rev to 23,000 but was limited to 19,000 for endurance events. Remind me again, what's the redline on today's F1 engines?????

And you'll notice that Honda didn't bother with slipper pistons. Or Desmodromic valves. Which sort of shoots holes in Driver61's theories.

The bike they put it in was called the NR500. The "NR" was said to stand for "Never Raced" because the bike was problem-plagued, however, none of the show-stoppers were directly related to the engine. Honda had in fact met the goal of a half-liter 4-stroke engine that made as much power as the competition's 500cc 2-strokes, "simply" by making it rev twice as fast (one of Soicihiro Honda's favorite axioms was, "RPMs are free").

So why were there no imitators? Because not only was the 0X engine a successful "proof of concept," it also cost about as much to build as the US space program. And it would have taken their competitors some time (and massive expense) to be able to compete with the bathtub-pistoned 0X, which means Honda might well have dominated every promotion they competed in until their opponents could catch up. So every racing venue on earth with reciprocating engines running on fossil fuels banned it before the NR500 was cold in its grave.

You can include F1 in that list. TR 5.2.7 reads, "All engines must have six cylinders arranged in a 90° “V” configuration and the normal section of each cylinder must be circular."

And the "circular cylinder" requirement was created back in the 1980s specifically for the benefit of Honda.

[Chode]

Honda always was otta the box thinking, that inscrutable oriental mind and all... good stuff!!!

[Chode]

https://www.thedrive.com/news/stellantis-is-selling-off-its-massive-arizona-proving-grounds

https://www.thedrive.com/news/farmer-hosts-drag-racing-event-to-till-farmland-and-everyone-is-happy-except-his-landlord

[God luvs America]

Did anyone watch any of the Skysports pre-race on Sunday?? Was Danica on the coverage??