Thread: F1 Cars Using 1.6L Four Cylinder Turbo Engines

World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) has announced that in 2013 F1 car will have to downgrade to 1.6L four cylinder engine from the 2.4L V8s. The new engines are suppose to use 35% less fuel, but, at the same time keep the same level of performance. Also the Rev limits on the new engines will be reduced from the current 18,000 rpm to a maximum of 12,000 rpm. In addition to all that in 2013 drivers can only use 5 engines a season instead of 8.

Article Link: 1.6L … New Standard in F1 Auto Debut

why the hell wants to see a lower revving car? I know its economically better...but its still gay as hell.

and yes you honda civic/toyota celica boys....this tech will trickle directly down to you.

Of course as soon as I try to get out of the Honda game the cool kids start using 4 cylinders.

Originally Posted by namdoogwerdna

Of course as soon as I try to get out of the Honda game the cool kids start using 4 cylinders.

LOL. 18k -> 12k just sounds like a slap in the face.

so so stupid

Wow that'll change the game up...

Maybe a civic can squeeze a F1 engine under the hood soon :P

I don't understand why they don't produce high revving engines for regular line of cars? Reliability issues?

F1 is going gay.... fvck this... The cars will sound like shit on top of that. Who even makes these rules? They need a gun to their head.

^ expensive parts are needed to work accurately at those RPMs, the parts also need to be lightweight etc and of course reliability.

taking in mind just one component like the pneumatic valves used would skyrocket the cost of any regular line of cars to reach those 20K+ RPMs that F1 engines were doing before.

I want the old BMW f1 turbo motors

1300 in qualifying form