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Macca: Magic Oil and BHP
Topic Started: Aug 21 2008, 08:03 AM (287 Views)
Bear
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http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2008/08/20/mcla...ave-25bhp-more/

Worth a read, perhaps.
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Rob
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Don't teams have to have commercially available lubricants? If so, where can I get some of this stuff?
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Rob,Aug 21 2008
03:48 PM
Don't teams have to have commercially available lubricants? If so, where can I get some of this stuff?

<roflmao>

so many gags... so little time.......
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Rams
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I take it they've had the lubricant fully checked over and tested by Max before using it...
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Norbert
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I don't think so. As I understand it, the oils used in the engines are so free flowing that they have a viscosity very similar to that of water. This is neccessary to reduce as much as possible the resistance caused by the oil itself to the moving parts in the engine, and also due to the incredibly fine tolerances within the engine - it is conceivable that road oil would be literally too thick to flow between the surfaces sufficiently (if at all!) to properly lubricate the engine. I watched the Top Gear episode the other day where Richard Hammond drove the Renault F1 car, and he stated that the engine has to be warmed up by passing hot air over it and warm oil and coolant into it because it would literally lock solid at room temperature due to the tolerances involved, and any attmept to start it would result in serious damage.
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Alien_SAP_Fiend
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Single oil supplier anyone?
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Norbert
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So, single tyre, single oil, single fuel, single ECU, what next? Single chassis and single engine? What about single team or single driver? That would make it the most fair....!

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everythingoes
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<think> The you might as well make it a single lap race.
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If anyone cares to read the story, the article is actually expressing scepticism the actual power increase. Of course it is feasible to try different lubricants. After all, what a team put in to their engine is open to some interpretation. I suspect that these stories are somewhat exaggerated and what ever McLaren are using is approved by the FIA (otherwise they wouldn't pass scrutineering or would be Dq'd retrospectively).
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