Turbo F1 engines - How they started?

[EarlOfHazard]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbB1qwhKaaE&fea...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqfVAGOaGEc&fea...

Thought these Youtube links would be of interest to various members of Pistonheads.

They're each an hour long, and are of an old program called Equinox. These particular episodes are of the 1980s Beatrice Hass Lola F1 team, and show Cosworth designing, testing and building their own v6 turbo lump.

Check out a young Ross Brawn in the second episode!

Enjoy!!

[Schermerhorn]

Top man!!!!

Excellent links!

[TVR1]

EarlOfHazard said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbB1qwhKaaE&fea...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqfVAGOaGEc&fea...

Thought these Youtube links would be of interest to various members of Pistonheads.

They're each an hour long, and are of an old program called Equinox. These particular episodes are of the 1980s Beatrice Hass Lola F1 team, and show Cosworth designing, testing and building their own v6 turbo lump.

Check out a young Ross Brawn in the second episode!

Enjoy!!

I am personaly going to PM all the mods and ask for you to be banned. I have just hopped into bed as I am was supposed to be up very early tomorrow.

















Welcome to PH

[wackojacko]

I shall have a watch in a minute...... great first post chap

[Conian]

superb find, am watching it now
thank you

[v8will]

Repost!

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[eldar]

v8will said:

Repost!

True. But the links work on this thread

[CraigyMc]

eldar said:

v8will said:

Repost!

True. But the links work on this thread

They work on the other thread too.

C

[EarlOfHazard]

TVR1 said:

I am personaly going to PM all the mods and ask for you to be banned. I have just hopped into bed as I am was supposed to be up very early tomorrow.




I didn't realise you were joking at first. I thought, all these years lurking on Pistonheads, I finally join up and get banned - beautiful! Enjoy the vids!!












Welcome to PH

[dudleybloke]

top find!
downloading now!
many thanks!

[Zad]

I remember these programmes vividly, it made me want to be an F1 electronics development engineer (made it except for the F1 bit). Ironically, I'd be quite happy with very little in the way of electronics in the cars now, let the drivers do the work.




P.S If you are looking for an F1 elec dev eng, ignore the above

[Marf]

Awesome documentary. Watched Part 1 last night.

Amazing to see how things have changed WRT to the dumbing down of documentaries.

[*Al*]

Awesome cheers!

[Marf]

Just watching part two Ross Brawn looks about 15

[SammyW]

Great post, thanks. Just watched both episodes, a very interesting insight, would love to see the same sort of program from other eras including modern day stuff.

[EarlOfHazard]

There is a third episode in the Equinox series called: Turbo - Made to Measure (1987), but it's the devil's own job trying to find it on the net.

[Zad]

Marf said:

Just watching part two Ross Brawn looks about 15

He looks like the fat spotty kid from the local school that they got in to use the BBC Micro that nobody understands, only to find they have one of the worlds best chassis designers and aerodynamicists.

[treehack]

Best thing I've watched for ages, thankyou
I liked the old boys making the forms for the engine casting. I would imagine that is a lost art these days as with a fair few other skills in the program.

[Jezz172]

Brilliant to watch!

Top man