Handling in ICR compared to GP

Quoted text (23 lines)

> Re: Handling in ICR2 compared to GP2 > Reply to: Rainer Roesch > Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 17:10:31 -0800 > Organization: BASF AG >> This is the most absurd thing I have heard in a long time!!!! Anyone >> who knows anythig about Auto Racing knows he F1 cars are the fastest >> cars in the sport....(track racing, that is) If an F1 car and an >> Indycar were equally setup and let loose on a track such as Michigan, >> the F1 car would blow the Indycar's wheels off!!!! >> J.Walsh (sirglock) >> P.S. Learn a little more about the sport before you reply to this >> post, please..... >I think, you are wrong. The F1 car will not be as fast as an indycar on >oval racecourses. The F1 chassis has a lot of more downforce, which costs >a lot of energy at high speeds. >And look at the total power output, a Indycar has a top of ca 950 hp, the >F1 has 800 hp.

Where'd you get these preposterous numbers? The most powerful current F1 engines (Peugeot, Renault, Mugen-Honda and Mercedes Benz, I'd wager) will probably give you around 700 bhp in qualifying trim.( In a poster by Shell promoting their new F310 scale model it says on the current Ferrari V10 600+ hp) As for the Indycars I think it was Gil DeFerran (or some other driver) in Autosport whoo said this sommer that Honda would probably exceed the 800 bhp mark by the end of the year. 0tt0 Lappi ----