F1 Warm Up

Lol, thats not fake mate I heard it myself!

I think that clip was filmed at this years Goodwood Festival Of Speed, thats certainly where we witnessed it.
 
F1 engines are awesome - I was there at Goodwood when they did this :cool:

I think the incredible response comes because they don't have a flywheel on F1 engines. Could be wrong though.
 
F1 engines do have flywheels, just very small ones. The throttle response comes mainly from the fact that all the moving parts are extremely light and the frictional losses are kept to an absolute minimum.

Useless fact #812: The Renault team arrived at Goodwood only able to play La Marseilaise (sp?). This was demonstrated to Lord March on the Thursday night and it was suggested that the French national anthem was perhaps not appropriate for what is a quientisentially British occassion. The boffins had God Save The Queen knocked up by Friday afternoon :cool:
 
http://www.flibster.com/F1/Other Files/asiatech_v10.mp3

First you'll hear a 10-cylinder, 750 horsepower Asiatech F1 engine being warmed up. Then it performs a rousing version of "When The Saints Come Marching In", to the delight of assembled pit staff and journalists.

Here's how the magic was achieved (technical/musical details via F1 Racing magazine):

As we all know, a V10 engine produces five combustions per revolution at a frequency per second of 60/(5 x revs per minute), which equals 12/rpm.

Therefore, to work out the revs you need to hit a particular musical note, you multiply the note's frequency by 12. To play a 440Hz 'A', for example, you need 5'280rpm. For 'C', use 3'139rpm, for 'F' 4,191rpm, and so on.

Asiatech's French technicians (the engine, despite its name, is derived from a Peugeot design) simply programmed their engine to run through the various rev/note ranges in the correct sequence. The result is delightful. And think of the possibilities - Cosworths F1 engine, which howls all the way to 21'000rpm, could rip through the entire Hendrix songbook.

However - the current Renault being an eight-cylinder engine, the frequency per second would be 60/(4 x revs), which means you'd multiply the note frequencies by 15 instead of 12: 'A' would arrive at 6'600rpm, 'C' at 3'923rpm, 'F' at 5'238rpm, etc.

Also got another.
http://www.flibster.com/F1/Other Files/Renault.mp3

End of last year - deep from Renaults engine test bay.

And one from earlier this year...
http://www.flibster.com/F1/Other Files/Renault_Spanish_anthem.mp3
The R25 V10 playing the Marcha Real *Spanish National Anthem*

As for the flywheel - the entire flywheel/clutch assembly is around the size of a large persons fist.
 
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When Alonso clinched the title last year the engine was programmed to "sing" We are the Champions as it entered parc ferme. Unfortunately the engine blow up with lots of smoke and Flav had to go switch it off :)

Would have been a pretty fitting end to the race!

edit: should have tried the above links before posting ;)
 
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