F1 Fuel
 

To answer some F1 Fuel questions raised tonight ;)


Ferrari uses Shell Optimax pump gas for their F1 car - 98+ Octane unleaded. Not considered "Race" gas due to it not having Lead in it.

Its just a highly refined unleaded.

Some nice engineering going on to get an engine to run 20k RPM, generating 900+Hp, from gas only 5 Octane higher than what you can get at the pump from 3.0L ;)

Very unfortunate that the Mighty V10's are going away in 2006 :( 2.4L V8's are coming.

Yea, that's pretty amazing. I didn't realize they were naturally aspirated. So I suppose detonation at such high RPM is not a big deal.

I was also wondering if they use direct injection (like a diesel), but didn't see any info on that.

What's interesting is to compare the F1 motor performance to current street bikes. A $10000 street bike can put out nearly 200 hp/liter at around 12000 RPM. The F1 puts out about 300 hp/liter at 18000 RPM, a perfect ratio.