From rps Wed Mar 5 14:36:11 1997 Subject: RPMs are not secret Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport.f1 Reply-To: rps@mat.uc.pt Summary: Keywords: Lines: 24 X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Status: OR Last week's issue of Auto-Hebdo confirms a thing that I suspected. The F1 teams records the sound of the other teams's engines. These sounds are analysed which allows them to learn the top RPM, and other informations. Considering this it is a little surprising that few engine manufacturers publish that info. Curiously the weight of the engine (which seem to me very difficult to find out without stealing one) is published. From another article in the same magazine, the only RPMs I got were: Renault RS9 - 18000 Ford Zetec RV10 - 16500 Cosworth-Ford ED4 - 14500 (5/6 HP more than in 1996, according to Martin Whitaker, Ford's sport boss). BTW, the Renault now works at 150/160 degrees instead of 110 last year. Does somebody wants to estimate what improvement that should give according to thermodynamic laws ? -- http://www.mat.uc.pt/~rps/f1/ an ex-tifoso since 95/11/13 .pt is Portugal| `Whom the gods love die young'-Menander (342-292 BC) Europe | Villeneuve 50-82, Toivonen 56-86, Senna 60-94