RE: Lamborghini engined F1 car returns

[MDL111]

AdamV12AMR said:

MDL111 said:

Gameface said:

MDL111 said:

Gameface said:

Does anyone ever fact check or proof read on this site?

The 3.5-litre 'LE3512' V12 made 690hp - so less than any Aventador ever made.

Early Aventadors made 690bhp.

HP vs BHP - Aventador 700 HP i believe (LP-700)

I know what it's called. I've got one.

I am confused - so I am wrong or what was the point of your post?

You’re not wrong. The LP700-4 produced 700ps or 690bhp. So, technically, gameface is right in that article is incorrect by stating that the F1car @690hp puts out “less than any Aventador ever made”.

Given how marginal we’re talking though (you could argue the LP700 actually produces 690.4bhp and therefore the article is correct ) a casual observer might argue the actual point of the post was “I’ve got a Lamborghini”

Ah I thought “hp” is the equivalent of “ps” and not of “bhp”

[JohnG1]

Where was the engine built? Somewhere in the English Midlands?

[Paul578]

forzaminardi said:

As my name suggests, this is a special car for me. Beautiful, charismatic and noisy, if ultimately a bit slow. Christian Fittipaldi scored a 6th in Japan with it though the M192, Phillippe Alliot scored 5th in a 1993 Larrousse-Lambo and the final F1 point for Lamborghini was Comas with 6th in Italy 1993 - so it wasn't as pointless as the article suggests.

Also Senna and Hakkinen tested the Lambo V12 in a McLaren chassis in 1993 and were impressed enough for it to be an option for the team, before Peugeot (who ironically had been lining up with Larrousse) joined the party.

The MP4/8B or 'McLambo' project was paid for by Chrysler, completed x2 tests at Estoril & Silverstone, Senna worked with ex-Ferrarri man Mauro Forghieri to improve the drivability to the extent that it was a second a lap quicker around Silverstone than the Ford HB engine, unfortunately even in 1993 Ron Dennis couldn't accept not being a works team and reneged on the deal with Bob Lutz to take Peugeot's A4 V10 sportscar engine from the 905 - and we all know how that ended-up.

[MDL111]

MDL111 said:

AdamV12AMR said:

MDL111 said:

Gameface said:

MDL111 said:

Gameface said:

Does anyone ever fact check or proof read on this site?

The 3.5-litre 'LE3512' V12 made 690hp - so less than any Aventador ever made.

Early Aventadors made 690bhp.

HP vs BHP - Aventador 700 HP i believe (LP-700)

I know what it's called. I've got one.

I am confused - so I am wrong or what was the point of your post?

You’re not wrong. The LP700-4 produced 700ps or 690bhp. So, technically, gameface is right in that article is incorrect by stating that the F1car @690hp puts out “less than any Aventador ever made”.

Given how marginal we’re talking though (you could argue the LP700 actually produces 690.4bhp and therefore the article is correct ) a casual observer might argue the actual point of the post was “I’ve got a Lamborghini”

Ah I thought “hp” is the equivalent of “ps” and not of “bhp”

some light reading later, turns out PS > HP > BHP it seems. So I was wrong - learn something new every day

[FourWheelDrift]

It originally made less power. The original LE3512 F1 engine of 1989 made 600bhp, it went up to 640bhp in 1990 & 1991, then managed to get 710bhp by 1993 until topping out at 750bhp at the McLaren test later that year, during which the engine was referred to as a Chrysler not Lamborghini.

[Dezbo]

Stood next to a Lambo-engined Lotus being fired up at Cholmodeley - wow, think my ears are still ringing