10 Years of BMW F1 Engines (2010 paper)

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10 Years of BMW F1 Engines (2010 paper)

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Thought this might be of interest to those who have not seen it. Lots of technical information about the BMW engines used in F1, and the paper has Mario Thiessen as one of the authors.

http://sd-2.archive-host.com/membres/up ... BMW_F1.pdf
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A good paper and well worth revisiting =D>
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Interesting reading. But it has become apparent that the huge cost of participating in F1 is not justified by increased sales for the OEMs. BMW, Porsche, Honda, Toyota, etc are all hugely profitable without spending hundreds of millions on F1 programs.
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I think this document was posted there already few times. Nonetheless, that's a good document!

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First time I've seen it. Thanks for the post, good read.
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Quite welcome.

I really think the current crop of fans don't know what they are missing with engine development.
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riff_raff wrote:Interesting reading. But it has become apparent that the huge cost of participating in F1 is not justified by increased sales for the OEMs. BMW, Porsche, Honda, Toyota, etc are all hugely profitable without spending hundreds of millions on F1 programs.
Because there´s no R&D anymore. At least in the V10 era you could take what you learned and apply it on production cars (M5 E60)

If you were a better engine builder it actually made a difference back then. Now with fixed weight, CoG it´s more or less a spec engine with different characteristics.
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There's an article based on this paper as well
http://www.f1technical.net/articles/16839

And, the paper is also hosted on the f1t server
http://f1tcdn.net/files/2011/bmw-f1-engines-200x.pdf