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Originally Posted by hcl123
The same proportion WAS already true for petrol as for diesel... there is no poor mr petrol, all the contrary... now with 4% more so in favor of petrol (why doesn't ACO abolish diesel, because it seems that is what they are pressed to do, or press conference calling stupid to teams and constructors why there isn't more diesel engines)... the point is that petrol engines are designed to be lighter (less strong) and more balanced in order to attain those high revs, so when they are stressed to achieve those high rates of power that "potentially" are there, they tend to break much more often than diesels... and consume disproportional amounts of fuel...
There is no dirty game with max power numbers with neither of the techs... actually those max power numbers mean very little... Buggati Veyron road super car has 1000 HP, BUT pushing in 4th gear with the engine in "high rev" but very far from its max velocity of 400Km/h of its 6th gear, higher than any Lemans prototype now... meaning that MAX velocity depends more on the ability of the engine to withstand some specific load,... meaning torque is more important... meaning a 750HP F1 engine would be the laughing stock if put in a Lemans prototype because the weight and the loads are much more greater in those last ones( it could never reach those 750HP)
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clearly you haven't got a clue what you are talking about.
Racing engines be it disels or petrol are always built to specification, to last only the dsignated time of the race plus some leway, the closer you built the engine to the race distance more power, torque it will have. prof: Peugeut this year!
Fact of life Horse power is the only thing that defines maximum speed, if you knew anything about physics you would know that, torque is for acceleration. any racecar, wants to be set up its gearing so that it reaches max speed at max hp! and bougaty veyron is a slow reving engine reaching its max power at 6000 rpm!!!!!
Learn your facts first then start to educate everyone else, or even better listen to some very smart people here that actualy know what they are talking about, me excluded.
porsche lmp2 engine was preaty close to f1 engine, its a 11000 rpm engine, and while it raced it was the best lmp2 engine!
BTW engine torque means nothing, it doesent move the car, force pushing the tarmac trough tires is the only thing that matters, and to get to the tires you have to go trough gearing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you know big sprocket-little sporocket means more torque, less rpm, little sprocket -big sproket means less torque more rpm, guess witch is used by petrol witch by diesel