Le Mans is totally different indeed. Allan McNish has compared this with a complete F1 season rolled into one race. obviously you need completely different reliability and servicebility. regarding the next F1 engine one can only speculate.pieter1 wrote:Johan wrote:Well, I was thinking about the Lemans. Audi is driving with diesel, and Peugeot as well. Is this something for the Formula 1? I prefer it, because a team can make less pitstops, and faster accelerating is also there.
Maybe I forgot the bad things?
le mans is a different story, f1 needs a lot of HP to attract people and i doubt that you will be watching F1 if they will use V4 1.8L Turbo engines...LM P1 diesel engines are V10 5 to 6 liter and thats too much for an F1 car (2.4L V8)...I hope they will not make such a silly moe as this would not help the f1 at all.
There seem to be a power limit of 700-800 hbp which seems to suit F1 quite well. I expect the discussion to start with such a base figure. next they will probably take away the equivalent of the regenerated heat and brake energy which could be as much as 250 bhp. so effectively they could be targeting a raw engine power of 500 bhp. thermodynamic efficiency would stipulate a look at turbodiesels which would pull down the revs considerably back to numbers where the classic Ford V8 were and even lower. this would probably be driven by the manufacturers who would like an engine close to performance road car specs. so they can detune it for reliability and use it in top models. if I had to make a guess I would look at a 2L V6 with relatively high rpm (10,000)and high boost. the high rpm would be for sound and also for low engine weigt. but as I have said this is pure speculation. we may see breaks throughs in ICE eficiency in the coming years which would lead to very different numbers.
