Solution to Red Bull's engine problem

"TheHondaBro" (wwaveform) 10/23/2015 at 18:01 • Filed to: None

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Pretty sure Toyota would be willing to cook up an engine to take RB to the end of their contract. After all, they did have their own F1 team for years, and they have a lot of hybrid know-how. They also have Yamaha, who builds some pretty damn good engines.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > TheHondaBro 10/23/2015 at 18:07

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I’d love to see a serious Yamaha effort.

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > TheHondaBro 10/23/2015 at 18:08

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Toyota do something fun? Yeah okay...

EL_ULY > TheHondaBro 10/23/2015 at 18:08

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PLUS!!! Toyota LMP1 Hybrid wizardry

TheHondaBro > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras 10/23/2015 at 18:11

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WEC, WRC, TORC, NASCAR.

Right, they’re boring.

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > TheHondaBro 10/23/2015 at 18:14

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Actually, that’s not such a terrible idea....

Toyota earlier this year announced for the TS050 that they’re going to a turbo engine and ditching the N/A V8. What if we discover that Red Bull has a long con whereby they always intended to break with Renault in a ugly way (which is unfolding) and never really intended to get Mercedes or Ferrari power as backup and have already a deal with Toyota?

In WEC, there’s unlimited testing so Red Bull and Toyota could develop the engine in the TS050 and get additional mileage for the F1 program. That’d be wild

TheHondaBro > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 10/23/2015 at 18:20

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I just got an engineering logistics boner.

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > TheHondaBro 10/23/2015 at 18:25

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excluding WRC, yes...

Sam > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras 10/23/2015 at 18:30

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As a followup to HondaBros statement.

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > TheHondaBro 10/23/2015 at 18:33

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your face is an engineering logistics boner.

#ohsnap

TheHondaBro > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 10/23/2015 at 18:34

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y u do dis

tromoly > EL_ULY 10/23/2015 at 18:51

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Only problem is that engine is over double the displacement limit allowed in Formula 1 (3.4L vs 1.6L).

EL_ULY > tromoly 10/23/2015 at 18:55

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I’ll talk to Bernie on Sunday at COTA, he’ll say yes. I can be very convincing.

TheHondaBro > tromoly 10/23/2015 at 19:02

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As SnapUndersteer said, Toyota is switching to forced induction in the TS050. With a turbocharger bolted on, they can build a smaller engine.

shop-teacher > TheHondaBro 10/23/2015 at 19:49

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I think they still have a bad taste in their mouth from the last time they tried F1. Plus its a bit late for that now.

TheHondaBro > shop-teacher 10/24/2015 at 02:05

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Well to be fair, they weren’t very good at Le Mans their first try, but the TS040 was the WEC champion.

pip bip - choose Corrour > TheHondaBro 10/24/2015 at 07:56

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that would be neat!