Ferrari2007 Wrote:
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> I think I read somewhere that the blow up at
> Silverstone on Brundle's car wasn't actually an
> engine failure.
>
> Quoted from god forbid.... Wikipedia.
>
> "In reality the culprit was a clutch that cracked
> spilling its lubricants on top of the hot engine
> causing a spectacular fire. The engine, once
> cleaned, worked without problem."
Here's Brundle's take on it:
"I was then blamed for using the wrong revs on the start line even though the problem was evident on the warm up lap. It turned out that I was holding the revs in a zone in which the harmonics made the piston rings leak...it later transpired that Peugeot, in order to reduce internal friction, had gone from 3 piston rings to 2. No one had told me about the crucial rev band. Worse still, Mclaren, because of internal politics chose to remain silent about Peugeot's one-eyed account. If I was bitterly disappointed before, I was absolutely livid now."
He also had a failure at Brazil when the flywheel broke off and went underneath the car. Although recorded as a crash, it was almost certainly down to the engine.
When Peugeot entered F1, Jean Todt left the team because he was questioning the seriousness in which the project was undertaken. He was replaced by Jean-Pierre Jabouille, who was regarded by Eddie Jordan as not knowing a lot about running an engine project.
With regards to Prost in 2000, I think the power figure was around 792bhp. Not a bad figure, but not a front-runner. However, Prost got through something like 50-55 engines in 2000 alone.
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