Engines to last for 3 races next season

[Sureboss]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7682905.stm

One of the cost cutting measures, they certainly aren't wasting time on these decisions, are they?

 

[PeterJB]

Won't that just make Engines cost more? Because they'll have to be built to last longer. On the plus side, more Engine failures from Ferrari!

 

[Ardius]

Won't that just make Engines cost more? Because they'll have to be built to last longer. On the plus side, more Engine failures from Ferrari!

Back to the old days of F1! Yay! Although....now Renault will come in with their super-reliable engines now and everyone will go on about how good the Honda/Mugen engines are.

 

[mipuumal]

Won't that just make Engines cost more? Because they'll have to be built to last longer. On the plus side, more Engine failures from Ferrari!

I doubt they can do anything to the engines except run less revs and bigger rads.

 

[NapoleonMikey]

good to see there getting all these cost cutting rules done. i just truely hope this does give the smaller teams more of an advantage to give a level playing field and dont just end up making a mockery of the sport.

 

[niky]

Engines that last a long time won't do you much if you still end up out of the points every race.

Engines that blow up on the third race but give you two podiums in a row are still a much better proposition.

But, like everyone else, I wonder how Ferrari's engines will cope with the new rules. They seem to be running on the ragged edge, as it is, to maintain their power advantage over the rest of the field.

 

[CAMikaze]

Guess that gives the Ferrari team a bit of a homework assignment for the off-season then.

 

[Muzaffar]

Well at least it sounds better than the idea about using the same spec engines in the other thread. Well hopefully teams such as BMW and Renault may capitalize on this as their engine seems to be pretty reliable now..... 👍

 

[Sureboss]

Won't that just make Engines cost more? Because they'll have to be built to last longer. On the plus side, more Engine failures from Ferrari!

Depends how they make the engines last longer. The most likely way is to cut the rev limit, I believe that is what was done last time. You could also make the engine physically stronger (Though I presume they are built with very strong material anyway). Which would make them more expensive. But remember, you'd only need 7 engines next season as opposed to 10 for the current method of 2 races per engine (19 race calendar isn't it?).

 

[niky]

To make engines last longer, the rev cut is the only realistic solution.

They can't make them out of more exotic materials... they're already made of the strongest stuff that the builders can get their hands on...

You can't use more material to beef up the engines... as that'd make things heavier, and less powerful (more reciprocating mass)... and, oh... more reciprocating mass means more stress on the engines... making things lighter means less stress on individual parts, but more chance for catastrophic failure.

The nice thing about less revs is that you can then add a little lightness in places where it counts... save money on parts that don't have to withstand such high revs, anymore... it could work out that way.

Until, of course, Ferrari or Mercedes or someone else finds a way to make engines out of unobtanium that can rev to 20,000 rpms for twenty hours straight, and they leave everyone else in the dust... again.

 

[Sureboss]

Well, they won't be using ellipsis' to build the new engines. You've used them all up!

 

[niky]

Hey, I used only one set, (not like my other posts, where I often have parentheticals inside parentheticals (which is parenthetic...)) you used two.

 

[KSaiyu]

I'm confused on the engine freeze, will this mean teams are allowed spend more money on reliability to comply with this new rule, or is there some sort of cap here?