Apr 26, 2022 · But Williams and bmw had disagreements on how to do things and never quite got a meeting of the minds so bmw eventually bought Sauber and ran the team their way. But in 2009 the decision was made to go hard into electrics. The F1 budget was redirected to electric R&D and the F1 engineers were moved into the teams that woudl put out the I3 and ...

Jun 26, 2022 · Plus BMW provided the engine so I guess there was a partnership between them to run these cars together. IIRC from '95-'98, both the McLaren and BMW works teams ran F1 GTRs.The F1 GTRs ran by BMW were called BMW-Mclaren F1 GTR. And the ones ran by McLaren were called Mclaren F1 GTR-BMW.

Aug 30, 2020 · The same principle came from the Sauber F1 program where the team that worked on the hybrid systems for BMW Sauber were directly in charge of developing the i8. Obviously, the i8 isn’t F1 tech strapped straight out of the Sauber car, but they are the F1 Team applying the tech directly to a ‘green sports car’ as they saw desirable.

Jan 11, 2022 · One of my favourite cars: BMW Sauber F1.08 - a car that could have won 2008 championship, according to its driver Robert Kubika, if only the team would have brought the game-changing upgrades they successfully tested, instead of keeping them for the following year.

Jun 3, 2018 · Unless you're Ferrari you can't afford to keep developing the car at full capacity whilst also designing the new car for new regs, and even they have to switch focus eventually. BMW Sauber had a choice to make: put say 60% of resources into this year or 75% of resources into next year and design a car that could give us an advantage for 1-3 years.

Sep 28, 2016 · With support from Williams F1, the BMW V12 LM was created, utilising the same engine as used in the McLaren F1 racing car and very fancy and sophisticated aerodynamics in order to make the car incredibly fast indeed. Two cars were built, numbered as #001/98 and #002/98 respectively. Naturally, the car was a failure of apocalyptic proportions.

Dec 25, 2017 · The Williams FW27 would be the last Williams car with a BMW engine in it, as Williams opted to buy the Sauber team and challenge for wins with V8 engines who were introduced in 2006. The BMW-Williams partnership peaked in 2003 and as soon as the title race (for WDC and WCC) was over and lost, the relationship began to worse.

Dec 24, 2020 · First BMW engine of the newish regulations requiring a motor not only be used in quali but in races. These new regulations demanded the motor run upwards of 1500km, a radical shift at the time. These engines were, 3.0l, v10, 19k rpm, with 900hp of sexual healing.

Oct 27, 2022 · The most powerful race car to ever race at an FIA event was the Porsche 917/30, run by Rodger Penske. Whilst an amazing car (and series in general) this absolutely isn't true. The FIA have sanctioned top fuel events featuring cars well in excess of 1600hp. Edit: Gees apparently drag racing is unpopular here.

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