Originally posted by vat_man
Ironically Minardi run an older spec Ford motor.
I'm sensing some real bitterness Schumy. What happened - did a Ford run over your dog? Let it go, man!
Originally posted by Schumy
No, i just don't care for domestics because i know their heritage and i'm not into that type of thing........credit at least has to go out to Ford b/c of their involvement in F1 and WRC and various other forms of international racing which actually require driver skill......out of the three domestics ......if i had to like one it would be ford though.....GM and Dodge forget about it
perhaps i should spend a lil more time using it and getting used to it
The first team to beat Ferrari in the endurance races of the late '60's and early 70's was who?Originally posted by Schumy
better motors?.......the only team with a more worthless engine is Minardi........but I'll agree on the chassis....it's crap......i believe it's a REYNARD!........U.S. engineering and F1 don't mix.....sorry U.S. ..stick to NASCAR and the DRAG STRIPS
Originally posted by GilesGuthrie
All F1 teams use V10 engines after they agreed to stick with that format. The engine manufacturers want to continue to develop the V10 format, and it would cost them a whole heap were someone to come up with a new format, and then they have to go and develop for that new format - witness the expense incurred by Ferrari, Ford et al when Honda and Renault came out with the V10 in the early 90s, or when Renault came out with the first turbo cars in the 80s.
Rice Rocketeer is correct when he says that newer does not always mean better, principally because there's periodically a major shift in rules that slows the cars down, so the 93 cars (active) were quicker than the 94 cars (active banned), then in 95, the engines were reduced from 3.5L to 3L, so slower again. Then in 97 (I think) you had the narrow-track regulations, where 20cm got cut out of the suspension arms, etc etc. These regs always slow the cars down initially, but then the engineers get it back in the end, because they're so goddamned clever!
I may well be wrong on this, but the Polyphony001 looks strikingly like the 1994 Benetton, with the torpedo nose, and the very-close-set front wing pillars. The hole in the back of the airbox gives it away as a post-May 94, pre-1995 car because the FIA demanded holes in the airbox to reduce intake pressure, but in '95 they'd gone down to 3L. The '94 Williams had a squarer-section nose, because that vintage car was designed by Adrian Newey, who was using a wide aperture between the wing supports, coupled with a flat upper nose section, and a W-shaped under-nose section to create a venturi between the front wheels. It took him until 1998 to get it right though! Also, the Williams of that year was using rear-wing sub-elements (the sections of wing just above the chassis mounting) that were curved up in a sort-of hump-back-bridge profile, whereas the Benetton had straight sub-elements.
The 1994 Benetton did win the championship amidst allegations of cheating, particularly concerning the concealment of launch/traction control software in the ECU. It was a theme that never went away. Powered by a Ford V8 engine, it had great driveability, compared to the higher (but narrower) power bands of the Ferrari V12 and the Renault V10. Renault got the V10 right during 94, and Benetton duly moved to it. Anyone who claims the 94 Ford V8 was a s**t engine obviously has forgotten the time Michael Schumacher came second at Barcelona, stuck in 5th gear...
I'll put my anorak away now!
