And you think you can do better?

Hmm, BMW boss predicts a peacefull season ahead

Considering that they have one of the best wind tunnel in F1, it's blaphmeous to say that they can make a step backward on designing the car. I mean, it makes a better aero efficiency for all we know, but we don't have that knowledge.

shit up the redline? It's not that simple. Keep pushing the redline all the time, you'll half the engine life for real. that's why drivers have different rev settings to use during different phase of the race to protect the engine. Senna, Schumacher, Prost, are the ones that can guess specifically and correctly when to use which rev during racing. Racing is not easy as many of you here think. Get in the car, drive flat out, win. It's more complicated than that now that the FIA want's the engine to last more. (Stupid move IMO, driver will less likely to push).

This season they have a Ferrari engine while the Red Bull uses Renault. Or it's the other way around.
Anyways, tunertube, I never heard or seen a rev limited F1 engine before, just the V10 of Torro Rosso last season. It's make no sense at all, and remember, more revs = more power. Which is why last season all the engine suppliers raced to reach the 20K RPM mark where it was first reached by COSWORTH for the Williams, and broken at the Brazillian race with the custom made Schumacher 22K special engine which incidently, the only V8 car in history that have used the engine (Massa only got the 19.5K RPM engine that day, which made Schummi's last race seems odinary by his standard) because of rule changes.

If this was MOTO GP, yes, the power from the engine is limited by the engineer (if not, you'll see them flying off the track). But for F1, there is never enough power, and it's up to the driver to make the decision on what revs to use. There is a dial on the steering wheel for this. this is called 'Short Shifting', meaning shifting the gear earlier than the intended redline. Driver's do this when not under pressure or during the closing laps of the race. It saves fuel and engine, but like I said, engineers will have nothing to do with it.
And that's why I said that the Schumacher Ferrari last season will be the last car that have the 22KRPM engine.

Da only thing Kimi's gonnna smoke is da exhaust fumes of Massa's car
Sorry mate, i'm a tifosi but i dun think Kimi's Ferrari material
Let's wait n c though, 6 days n counting
Da awakening of da RED TIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

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Added on March 17, 2007, 5:55 pm

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