Category: Indycars
Will turbo F1 cars look better?
| April 6, 2012 | Posted by admin under Ferrari, Formula 1, Indycars |
You can guess what I’m going to write here can’t you? – The 2012 Turbo Indycar looks like a go-kart, the 2012 F1 car looks like a lego car, so will the F1 V6 turbo engined cars look any better in 2014? Ugly Single Seaters! Well….they can’t look worse can they? – I think sooner…
Chevvy v6 Vs Honda v6 – Indy 500 testing
| April 5, 2012 | Posted by admin under Indycars |
At the 1st test at Indianapolis there were 5 Chevvy powered teams and 4 Honda, with Lotus absent due to lack of their Judd engines. Most of the teams present had niggles with the chassis and engines and say they’ll struggle to beat the 222mph qualifying time from last year, but reports say that the Chevrolet…
V6 Turbos in Indy Racing League
| April 2, 2012 | Posted by admin under Indycars |
I watched the Alabama race, aka “Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama” – on TV, nice to see Rubens Barichello and Takuma Sato still fighitng it out in single seaters. It’s always a shame when ex F1 drivers end up in “Tin Tops” aka DTM. So how do the turbos sound? Honestly? I’d say, not very good,…
Honda V6 Turbo – Indycar Engine
| February 22, 2012 | Posted by admin under Indycars |
Honda’s V6 turbo engine for the 2012 Indycar season has been on display, and who knows what else they may be developing? – a scaled down version of this for F1? They’ll supply the engines for the entire grid this Indycar season.
V6 Turbo Lotus (Dallara) Indycar 2013
| October 20, 2011 | Posted by admin under Indycars |
V6 Turbo Lotus Indycar for Jean Alesi Jean Alesi, ex Ferrari F1 driver is coming out of retirement to compete in the 2012 Indianapolis 500 in a “Lotus” (Dallara) powered by a Judd V6 turbo engine – developed by John Judd ( Some of you may remember his engines powering Brabham, and Williams in F1…
Indycar 2012 – V6 Turbo Honda engines
| September 29, 2011 | Posted by admin under Indycars |
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Dan Wheldon has been testing the new IndyCar with turbo V6 power. The hushed tone from Honda’s new 2.2-liter turbocharged V6 engine is much smoother on the ears than the manufacturer’s 3.5-liter normally aspirated V8. Eventually, there will also be Chevrolet and Lotus engines. “I haven’t heard it (from the outside),” he said of the…
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