Developing F1 engines in the 80's

[quattro84]

Awesome footage with even better quotes

Keith Duckworth: "in any racing engine the nearer you are to it desintegrating, in general the better it's performance will be" as will be shown in the first part

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbB1qwhKaaE&feature=feedu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqfVAGOaGEc&feature=related

[Avantus]

Amazing stuff, big thanks!

[V6quattro]

Very nice. Part 1 15.50min

[prj]

This is amazing, thank you

[willg54]

f1 p0rn!

[AndyP]

Watched these the other day after they were linked on Pistonheads, fascinating stuff, I can't imagine anybody getting that sort of access these days

[quattro84]

It gives great insight on how F1 development passed along in those days.. I like how Duckworth explaines why they chose for the angled head bolt option.

They clearly aren't that open nowadays...

[Error404]

Great links - nice one

there was a really good series on one of the discovery channel recently about BMW Williams F1

[s2driveruk]

amazing piece of video.....tv documentaries could learn a thing or two from this stuff today

[s2_wot]

[Billman]

thanks

[newsh]

2.5 Bar is about half race boost

[Billman]

was the material technology back then better than the one we have today in our cars? I mean where the rods and pistons back then better than the uprated rods or forged pistons we are using now?

[S2central.net]

Love the turbo outside the building in 1st clip - great old footage - dont the 80s look like ancient history ?

[s2_wot]

Watching them attempting to manually map the engine gives me some appreciation of how mad ye tuning folk really are.