Adrian Newey has warned that F1's upcoming regulation changes could result in the sport becoming an 'engine formula'.
Like any internal combustion engine, an F1 unit follows the same basic four-stage principle of combustion; suck, squeeze, bang, blow. This is as far as the direct similarities end between F1 and ...
Mecachrome, Ilmor, and AER are preparing proposals to supply a new cost-effective, non-hybrid Formula One engine for 2017. However the F1 Commission favors a different idea instead. A number of ...
the same time the McLaren F1 and its V12 engine needed to reach 60 mph. Initially, the Yamaha OX99-11 was going to be a single-seater model. Still, the cabin layout was changed to allow a ...
General Motors has set up a new engine company ahead of its prospective Formula 1 debut. Cadillac Cadillac's prospective Formula 1 team has announced its plan to build its own engines out of an ...
Formula One racing engines have been dropping cylinders like advanced trigonometry classes over the past couple of decades. The V12s gave way to V10s in the mid 90s. Those were replaced in turn by ...
The company also plans to eventually build its own F1 engines and hybrid systems, a process that officially starts with the formation of GM Performance Power Units, LLC. The new company ...