F-1 - Whatever happened to these?

[greg.rocco at gmail.com (Greg Pallett)]

Dan, I bet the ladies love it when you use this kind of language with them.

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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