Subaru's woeful attempt at breaking into F1

EddScott · 15 Mar 2006 at 13:09

They also build rubbish F1 engines!

Here it is with its proud dad.

600HP flat 12.

And the car it was shoe-horned into - A Coloni 1990 F1 entry.

A glorious career in F1 - 8 attempts to qualify.

8 Failures to qualify

out of 8 races.

Gilly · 15 Mar 2006 at 13:11

Who thinks Subaru build rubbish cars?

rare · 15 Mar 2006 at 13:13

Yes, subaru, well known for being rubbish, especially in motorsport.

:confused:

Firestar_3x · 15 Mar 2006 at 13:15

Yea totally confused..............

Cassius Clarke · 15 Mar 2006 at 13:15

mabe he was trying to be ironic? actually no one mentioned the P1 in the memorable cars topic . . . .

Phil W · 15 Mar 2006 at 13:22

Flat 12

Wonder how that sounds as the Flat 4 sounds gorgeous !

EddScott · 15 Mar 2006 at 13:33

Wheres the thread delete button :rolleyes:

D4VE · 15 Mar 2006 at 13:41

Their rally cars are the worst of all!

Gilly · 15 Mar 2006 at 13:47

EddScott said:
Wheres the thread delete button

I've got it.

Why? :confused:

EddScott · 15 Mar 2006 at 13:59

Because the first few replies appear to deliberately miss-interpret my (admittedly) poor attempt at irony.

Gilly · 15 Mar 2006 at 14:08

Err, right. Well it was a bad effort to be fair

I can make this go away if you want.

AmDaMan · 15 Mar 2006 at 14:14

Gilly said:
I can make this go away if you want.

The healer.

Firestar_3x · 15 Mar 2006 at 14:15

Edit the title gilly.

EddScott · 15 Mar 2006 at 14:21

It was an attempt at irony due to Subaru appearing to have fallen out of favour of late.

I had no idea until yesterday that Subaru had made an attempt at an F1 engine. And to be fair and to make my thread even worse, Subaru didn't actually build it. Some obscure sounding itallian firm built it and when Fuji Heavy Industries bought the Coloni F1 team they badged the engine as Subaru.

Being a Subaru fanboy I'm now hunting for the 1/24 Tamiya model of the car.

If you have time to save the thread I'd be grateful.

Firestar_3x · 15 Mar 2006 at 14:23

Good man, much better

Serj · 15 Mar 2006 at 14:24

EddScott, shouldn't your sig read "Mrs Palmers" and not "Mrs Palm", if you're referring to the surf wax i'm thinking of anyway....

Zip · 15 Mar 2006 at 14:41

I cant help but think of the torque in the low revs on that thing

Flibster · 15 Mar 2006 at 17:00

Zip said:
I cant help but think of the torque in the low revs on that thing

Errr...not much at all...would be better around 7000-9000rpm though - But idle is around 3000 rpm though...

It's power output was fairly pathetic as well - pretty much the least powerfull engine in F1 at that time.

600bhp @ 12500 rpm
Max 13000 rpm
The Honda V10 in the McLaren was producing around 700bhp at that time.

TBH - it would have been better detuned and fitted to a roadcar. As a racing engine it was too big, too heavy *160kg - Honda V10 was around 120kg* too thirsty, underpowered and unreliable.

ShakenNstirred · 15 Mar 2006 at 17:14

its not easy to break in to F1
look at toyota

Flibster · 15 Mar 2006 at 17:28

ShakenNstirred said:
its not easy to break in to F1
look at toyota

They're constantly breaking in f1...

Simon/~Flibster