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And yet those ultra lean running engines ended up absolutely not relevant to the real world. Running at that level of efficiency, the way they do it, produces a ****load of very poisonous NOx. You will never ever see that tech transferred into road cars.

 

They don't need too. F1 is research and development, testing the bleeding edge of technology. It's like with any research department, what they come up with isn't the final product but a proof of concept. There could be hundreds or thousands of innovations that make it into production cars that we couldn't think of and even the engineers couldn't foresee at the start. They could be something minor like a sensor, valve, or a piece of software. Just because the power unit itself isn't suitable for a road car doesn't mean that there's nothing that can be transferred to the road.

Although, having said that Mercedes are making a road car with their F1 hybrid power unit in it so once it's turned down it's obviously within European regulations.

 

Overall using racing as a lab for road tech is inefficient.

You seriously think they are putting the F1 powerunit in their car ? Regardless how turned down it might be? Come on. That's called marketing.

Formula E is pushing so hard for the much needed advancement of "battery pack" tech that they have been forcing a unique supplier for the whole field and will keep doing that until at least 2019. Way to push for the improvement on the technology.

 

So we can then write a mail to all the car journos to tell them how the cool concept version drives as they complain about how tame (again) the actual production car has turned out :-D

 

What happened to M6 GT3 which was announced in 2016 to release in early 2017?

 

Canceled.

 

It was announced that it's been cancelled.

 

Bummer as I love that Art car of the M6 recently that Farfus drove

 

Imagine the driver at the gas station:
"Please mister, 50 liters of petrol and 2 liters of oil!"

 

Tell that joke to car enthusiast with an old 2 stroke Saab as it is normal for him, well, sort of.

50 liter is too much unless he carry some jerrycans ...

 

I still remember having to dribble a little oil into every tank of gas I put in my moped. Don't miss that. Do miss the 'ped, though.

 

or the wankel drivers. Or the first gen VW FSIs

 

any news or video form the event?

 

There are plenty of those around....

 

Why? They already last 5/6 race weekends with 5 bar boost and extremely limited cooling opportunities. Surely you’ve just got to tweak it to meet the emissions regs. It’s just an engine.

 

I only know one of them, where Aris talked about the bonus pack content.

 

Honestly, our only hope is BMW's 2018 WEC GTE entry. I honestly can't understand why the BMW M6 couldn't be made though....every other major sim has either an official model or a licensed mod...considering BMW's partnership with Kunos...strange. Alas not meant to be....maybe BMW was scared of the physics...rumor is the car has been somewhat of a flop...the inception of the M6 GT3 started back in 2010 when the privately entered Alpina B6 cars all but spanked the Z4's performance at the Nordschleife....but 6 years later, GT3 market's changed, and the big ol' M6...was out of it's league imho. Every manufacturer is going to mid-engine to be competitive, esp. with the wins in WEC, Tudor, etc. all by mid-engine cars by Porsche, Ford, and Ferrari...ah that Aston is a lonely sight ...with Kunos' somewhat iffy sounds, maybe it's best they didn't model the M6 GT3...I doubt they would have properly modeled the unique turbo spool under breaking

 

@PhilS13 and @Mogster

Of course the F1 or other kinds of supercar tech don't make it 1:1 into every day cars, but some years ago an engineer from Bugatti (I think one of the project managing iirc) was at our university (brought a Veyron with him ) and answered questions.

Yes, the project in itself didn't really cover the cost the get from selling the cars, but (apart from PR/marketing) it's a actually a way for them to develop and try new materials, functions and other stuff that might find it's way into regular production cars where you would never get the budget to try such stuff on a normal car/engine.

I.e. they used 2 fuel pumps instead of 1 big one because the big one would only be specific for the 1000+ bhp Veyron, but 2 smaller ones could be used for other 500-600 bhp cars in the VW/Audi group.
Or because of the W engine the piston rods are narrower than in an inline or V engine, where it was necessary to find a suitable material for the bearing shells.
On the bearing shells it turned out that these would be too expensive for a normal car, but that is also the point of all of it. Try what you can do and see what might be applicable for normal cars.