acosmichippo wrote:xpensive wrote:...xtracting only 600 Hp from a 1.6 turbo at 10.5 - 15 kRpm is nothing but pathetic, when it could easily deliver twice that.
Not when the engines have to last 5 races. Let's not forget that the 1.5L turbos in the 80's were dead after one race, and they even had separate qualifying engines. There is less sponsorship (no tobacco), and more GP's than the 80's. Costs need to be reduced, therefore higher part reusability, therefore fewer RPM's, therefore higher displacement. So the formula isn't a simple design choice, but an economic one.
That strategy doesn't seem to work, the 2014 engines more xpensive than ever, some 20 MUSD per season, totally insane.
