About F1 Engines

I decided to reserve judgment until we have a real life in car & track recording.

The dyno sim method is just too sanitised a method.

flat tyre écrivait:
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> thestig88 Wrote:
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> > nice looking car though!
>
>
> Heh, I have to say this - the 2001 Benetton was
> the car that got me interested in Formula 1. My
> brother had the PS2 game, and I borrowed it
> because I wanted to cause mega crashes this was
> before I cared about F1. In the game, I found a
> car that was a really, really nice blue colour,
> and it had some British driver I'd never heard of
> called Jenson Button. No idea who he was, but I
> promptly started watching F1 from the 2002 season,
> with that Button bloke being my 'hero' driver!
>
> I still have a soft spot for that car, and that
> shade of blue is still my favourite colour to this
> day. Soppy story over. :p

Just seen this properly.
I was playing GP4 along with a mate in the summer of 2003, about the time of the Canadian GP. One time I ended up driving Interlagos as Jenson in a 2001 Benetton, doing a quali lap. I tried to take Ferradura flat out, went flying off, got the car launched somehow and hit the barrier in mid-air. It smashed to bits and the monocoque separated from the rest of it, Caffi Monaco quali 1991 style. My mate was actually impressed because it was the most damaged car he'd ever seen in GP4.
So, yeah, I have fond memories of both the car itself(I liked it a lot) and driving it on GP4 as well.

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I managed to do that once, I think, but only when I was trying to total the car on purpose. I'm impressed that you managed to do it when you weren't trying! The crashes can actually be quite shocking when you don't mean to do them, but I bet you were laughing more than picking your stomach up from the floor?


senninho Wrote:
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> I think I'm the only person who seems to like the
> new sound. The major caveat for that video is that
> the sound was taken from the dyno room, where they
> have a hefty device to extract the exhaust gases.
> I can't see how this wouldn't effect the sound.
>
> It's also quite refreshing, if you didn't notice,
> to see Mercedes actively participating in the
> comments thread on that video, and being pretty
> honest. They're a brave lot to do that, on YouTube
> of all places


I like it, too. I've been getting quite bored of the V8s in the last few years. In real life, they sound phenomenal (in fact I'd go as far to say the best ever sounding engines, from what I experienced at the Goodwood Festival of Speed), but unfortunately on TV they sound incredibly boring in my opinion. A few years ago, I posted a topic here wishing that F1 would inject some 80's style aggression back into the cars. I asked for the old turbo engines, so naturally when I found out about this new 2014 engine, I was over the moon. Obviously, it won't be exactly the same, but it is as close as we'd realistically get today, I think.

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EC83 Wrote:
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> flat tyre écrivait:
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> > thestig88 Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
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> > -----
> > > nice looking car though!
> >
> >
> > Heh, I have to say this - the 2001 Benetton was
> > the car that got me interested in Formula 1. My
> > brother had the PS2 game, and I borrowed it
> > because I wanted to cause mega crashes this
> was
> > before I cared about F1. In the game, I found a
> > car that was a really, really nice blue colour,
> > and it had some British driver I'd never heard
> of
> > called Jenson Button. No idea who he was, but I
> > promptly started watching F1 from the 2002
> season,
> > with that Button bloke being my 'hero' driver!
> >
> > I still have a soft spot for that car, and that
> > shade of blue is still my favourite colour to
> this
> > day. Soppy story over. :p
>
> Just seen this properly.
> I was playing GP4 along with a mate in the summer
> of 2003, about the time of the Canadian GP. One
> time I ended up driving Interlagos as Jenson in a
> 2001 Benetton, doing a quali lap. I tried to take
> Ferradura flat out, went flying off, got the car
> launched somehow and hit the barrier in mid-air.
> It smashed to bits and the monocoque separated
> from the rest of it, Caffi Monaco quali 1991
> style. My mate was actually impressed because it
> was the most damaged car he'd ever seen in GP4.
> So, yeah, I have fond memories of both the car
> itself(I liked it a lot) and driving it on GP4 as
> well.


Hell yeah. My first F1 game was F1 2001 for the PC - I really liked the Benetton (But loved the Minardi! ^^)

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flat tyre
In real life, they sound phenomenal (in fact I'd go as far to say the best ever sounding engines, from what I experienced at the Goodwood Festival of Speed)

I don't know what was at the FoS, but from what I've heard of proper track-side recordings of tests where they are the only car, my favourites are the Ferrari V12 of 1994 and 1995, the wonderful but useless BRM H16 of 1966 and 1967 and the equally volatile BRM V16 of the early '50s.

My favourite - by a mile - is the Honda V12 of 1991-92. Strangely enough, the 3-litre Ferrari V12 did sound similar to it at low revs(As, too, did the 2008 BMW).


flat tyre Wrote:
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> I managed to do that once, I think, but only when
> I was trying to total the car on purpose. I'm
> impressed that you managed to do it when you
> weren't trying! The crashes can actually be quite
> shocking when you don't mean to do them, but I
> bet you were laughing more than picking your
> stomach up from the floor?

It was definitely a LOL moment at the time. I find there's a comedy element to accidents where cars get smashed to bits(And where nobody gets hurt, of course) in a slapstick kind of way. Jeremy Clarkson's Motorsport Mayhem-type stuff. :D

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