F-1 - Whatever happened to these?

[julie at menloparkrandd.com (julie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)]

Left me weak in the knees.
Besides, I have seen it before. It should sit in the garage next to my SR71 and P51D.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Greg Pallett [mailto:greg.rocco@xxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2007 01:42 PM
>To: 'Dan Bubb'
>Cc: 'Scirocco List'
>Subject: Re: F-1 - Whatever happened to these?
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>Dan, I bet the ladies love it when you use this kind of language with them.
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>On Nov 8, 2007 11:46 AM, Dan Bubb <jdbubb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> As engine RPM increases friction increases as the square of the speed. As
>> a result you'd expect the engine's torque per unit displacement and BMEP to
>> decrease with RPM. Before F1 engines were limited to 19,000 RPM this year
>> they had been approaching 20,000 RPM for a race distance. What's interesting
>> is that the torque and BMEP have not dropped even at these stratospheric RPM
>> due to surface coating and friction reduction techniques.
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