4 cylinders?

[riff_raff]

Keith Duckworth (of Cosworth fame) was a very vocal proponent of fuel restrictors for F1. You would be free to have any engine you like, but the fuel delivered to the engine would be through a spec/sealed restrictor flow device.

Everyone would get a regulated mass flow of a spec fuel, and how they chose to utilize the energy content of that fuel mass was up to them. That's as fair as you can get. It would promote engineering creativity and efficiency.

As for the current rules, the engine power should be kept at 700hp or more, but the minimum vehicle weight should be increased. And that weight increase should include better crash resistance requirements.

[kurtiejjj]

I think turbocharged might a thing of the future again as as more and more car manufacturers seem to put turbos on their cars and I mean why not I have a strong suspicion that it will make racing a whole lot more interesting. And it might also be quite a lot cheaper.

[enkidu]

Totally agree!! Being in the UK i've had a high power N/A and currently own a turbo. Best thing i've even driven is the turbo, power all the way up the revs and the sound is amazing!! In the next few months it'll be 290 bhp and 330Ft/Lb torque.

Once this new F1 technology comes down to us punters there will be massive technology changes! I'm very excited.! Plus imagine the new companies that will join. Audi, GM, ford.. even some small eastern companies!!

Very happy with the 4 pots!!!

[modbaraban]

Dream

Once this new F1 technology comes down to us punters there will be massive technology changes! I'm very excited.! Plus imagine the new companies that will join. Audi, GM, ford.. even some small eastern companies!!

Join what?They state that have no interest in joining F1. They want to use technologies developed there, just that. It's all about money.

Following the manufacturers would be a big mistake, that's where I completly agree with Ron.

PS: I see nothing wron in 4-cyl. engines, btw. But not for F1. There's WRC for that and more.

PPS: I love the sound of Subaru 4-cyl. turbo-boxers

[kurtiejjj]

Perhaps being a bit nostalgic but I think the loss of Cosworth has done the F1 no good, it's just weird that in 1994 they produced a world title winning engine and 10 years later they were doomed to supplying to teams at the back of the grid. Slightly off-topic perhaps but I had to get this of my chest.

[F1 Observer]

Perhaps being a bit nostalgic but I think the loss of Cosworth has done the F1 no good, it's just weird that in 1994 they produced a world title winning engine and 10

Agreed.

But if you are a nostalgic fellow, bear in mind that Cosworth was the last V10 engine in F1 (and according to these new - and ridiculous - proposals, will be for a long time)...And all you have to do is to get a hold of some 2006 GPs and hear the marvellous sound of that V10 amidst a pack of V8s.

Speaking of nostalgia, how I miss those Honda 3.5 V12s of the early 90's!

(Sorry for the off topic guys)

[F1 Observer]

Back on topic, and speaking of in-line 4 in F1, the last of such engines to win a World Championship race and a Drivers/Constructors' Championship was the BMW 1.5 turbo, mounted on the Brabham BT52 of 1983 that powered brazilian Nélson Piquet to his second WC crown, am I right?

[F1 Observer]

Sorry my bad.
In 1985 Piquet won the French GP in a Brabham BMW in-line 4 1.5cc turbo, and started from pole on the Dutch GP of the same year.