F1 Timing Gear Damper, a closer look

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Which reminds me of another observation. The quill shaft inside the camshaft has another benefit - it drives the cam at a location some distance from the end of the cam. The natural frquency of the cam under excitation at that point will be significantly higher. Furthermore, cylinder to cylinder timing variation will be reduced - the long cam becomes two shorter cams.

Yes, discussed in video above approx 33min in.

Brian,

Honda discussed this in their white paper from the Third Generation F1 V8 engines.