F-1 - Whatever happened to these?

[greg.rocco at gmail.com (Greg Pallett)]

Even though I don't know much.. (or anything) about the old Group B racing
cars, or the Can-Am series, I always was intrigued by them.  In group B the
power and speed and technology was all growing so fast, drivers couldn't
keep up!
My main impression about Can-Am  is that towards the end the cars just had
ridiculous amounts of power.... and this was in the early stages of
aerodynamics, wings, downforce, etc....
I really should find something to read about those two areas..

GP


On 11/7/07, Brendan Doyle <lord_verminaard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ya, just the opposite of NASCAR- the "poor man's" racing league.  :P Their
> validation for keeping with pushrod V8's and carburetors is to "keep costs
> down for racing teams".  Yeah right.  And just how cheap do you think it is
> to make a pushrod V-8 rev to 9500+ rpm's at WOT for three straight
> hours?  I'd love to see them generalize the rules a little more for all
> types of racing- just to see the ingenious things people come up with that
> sometimes work.  :)
>
> Brendan
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Dan Bubb <jdbubb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Camron D. Crouse <camron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Scirocco List <
> scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 11:36:57 AM
> Subject: Re: F-1 - Whatever happened to these?
>
>
> You mean the 6 wheels?
> Banned.
> Williams F1 engineering was developing a 6 wheeled car with 2 front, 4
> rear that got rid of the huge barn door rear tires. Significantly
> faster, but banned just in the nick of time. Just like the CVT
> transmission
> Williams developed that could handle 750 Hp. Banned right before it
> could race.
> Thank god the F1 rule makers ban these sorts of things so that the
> "most technologically advanced racing series in the world" has NO
> technical
> relevance or benefit to the everyday world!
> Dan
>
> From: "Camron D. Crouse" <camron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 11:03 AM
> Subject: OT: F-1 - Whatever happened to these?
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> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/yr7c9y
> >
> > Camron from Vancouver, WA USA
> > '86.5 Black 16V 2.0L
> >
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