something to stir the sou.....

[anonymous-user]

follow the link and then listen to "sound 1" and "sound 2". if it doesn't make you smile you may as well take up lawn bowls now....

http://www.renaultf1.com/en/season/china/index.php?news=tcm:3-41607

[team underdog]

www.zippyvideos.com/3512564481834916/f1_engine_test/

hope it works, a video ive had for a while now. looks like it was taken at the Arrows auction few years back... perhaps.

regardless, its awesome

[rubystone]

Is it the "We Are The Champions" tune by any chance?...If so, some discussion here about it...and the truth too...

....www.blatchat.com/t.asp?Id=93059

[kevin ritson]

Sound 1 and Sound 2 were taken in a pit garage in China - there was a good article about it in this week's Autosport. Basically Renault used to do this in the Williams/Benetton days - fire up a championship-winning engine at the last race of the season and rev it up to the limit. Added significance is that it's effectively the last hurrah of the V10.

Sound quality's a bit compromised but it's an emotional moment listening to it.

[anonymous-user]

apparently they took the engines to 20,000rpm to see if they would go bang but the engine refused to co-operate and kept on spinning away.

a friend mentioned something interesting regarding the engine internals recently, suggesteing that at that sort of rpm, the conrods were most likely turning at supersonic speeds!

[daydreamer]

pablo said:

apparently they took the engines to 20,000rpm to see if they would go bang but the engine refused to co-operate and kept on spinning away. a friend mentioned something interesting regarding the engine internals recently, suggesteing that at that sort of rpm, the conrods were most likely turning at supersonic speeds!

And stressed to well beyond the breaking point, but it is all happening so fast, that they don't have time to fail!!!!

No wonder they go pop occasionally!