How Brabham's ROCKET FUEL Car Won the F1 Title
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- Опубликовано: 23 июн 2022
- Alain Prost was on course for his first Formula 1 world title in 1983, when Brabham-BMW unleashed a secret weapon…
In this episode of “Short View Back to the Past”, Autosport Chief Editor Kevin Turner takes a look at the time rocket fuel shot to an F1 title.
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The most beautiful F1 car ever!!! Piquet - legend. Gordon Murray - legend. Best team ever in F1. Best times in F1 buy a longshot!!!!!
Exactly what this channel needed to thrive. Great series and very interesting video!
"Gentleman a short view back to the pahst!" Grown on me so hard recently xD
Piquet, Legend
Piquet my all time hero
The editor needs a raise
Wasn't that BMW engine based on the engine block from the road car?
According to Gordon Murray himself, they actually were the regular bmw series production engine blocks that were left out in the rain for a year to harden them haha
They weren't just the regular production ones, they were production ones removed from (likely) wrecked/junked cars in private ownership before they were left out in the rain and peed on by the staff who were building them into race motors.
I enjoyed this video.
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Keep them interesting and short and I will keep watching them.
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What most people never really think of is that the rocket fuel used made a much louder bang. Back in the day these cars were almost unbearable on the old ears and in some cases (depending on direction) on the chest due to exciting the air waves. When you listen to 80s cars driven hard in historic races (and I have been to many since 1988) they never get to the loudness they did bitd, I remember strongly.
Tbf tho, Renault also shat the bed HARD!
This is one of those examples of when everything just comes together at the right time.
Love this stuff
Renault even protested the fuel in 1983 used by Brabham . they tested it , and it was within the limits at the time . Just to note, in contrast with later reputation , Renault and Brabham were equally unreliable throughout the season , so there was no advantage for Piquet in that department .
Vert timely fuel boost.
"Goes like a rocket" really did apply
Not so much rocket fuel, more like 121octane paint thinners.
toluene.
The fuel Williams-Honda was running a few years later was 93% toluene. I don't know that that was the magic ingredient here though
If this was legal, why didn’t anyone else do it? I’m sure formula 1 even back then had some rules regarding fuel. Or maybe they just looked the other way, perhaps bribed to do so. I’m guessing this fuel was the equivalent of running nitrous in a normal engine, it definitely made more power but was just as likely to blow the engine apart.
Other people did do it. The fuel Williams-Honda was running a few years later was 93% toluene. Toluene is a known carcinogen; this is probably what prompted the governing body to step in.
Not like running nitrous oxide. The point of it was to raise the octane rating; not to increase the amount of energy in the fuel, but to increase how smoothly it burned -- which in turn allowed an increase in turbo boost pressure
The title sounds like Verstappen haters / angry lulu lovers talking about the RB18 !!!
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BMW reproduced N*z! fuel? I mean, it suits their history
That’s mercedes
very expensive fuel