Weirdest F1 Engines - Formula 1
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Il TAG Heuer engine "The Chosen One" Red Bull participate in F1 world 2016 it is simply the latest in a series of bizarre agreements that, over the years, have allowed various companies far from the world of car engines to “supply” units for the Circus's one-seater cars. Below you will find the most interesting links.
Strangest F1 engines: Acer and Prost
In 2001 Ferrari the only House ready to provide engine di F1 French team Easy. Sponsor Acer, a Taiwanese high-tech company, offers to pay in full the amount required to purchase Cavallino units - 3.0 HP 10 V800 - and in return asks (and gets) the opportunity to rename the engine to its own name.
La Just Acer finishes F1 world 2001 in 9th place, while his best pilot, German Heinz-Harald Frentzen, closes the drivers' championship in 13th place.
Strangest F1 engines: Fondmetal and Minardi
La Fondmetal a company from Bergamo specializing in the production alloy wheels: founder Gabriele Rumi lands in F1 as a builder in the early 90s, at the end of 1997 he became the owner Minardi and three years later he decides to rename i engines 3.0 V10 Ford intended for his team.
La Minardi Foundmetal finishes F1 world 2000 in 10th place with zero and three eighth places as the best places.
Strangest F1 engines: Petronas and Sauber
Malaysian Oil Company Petronas now it supplies gasoline to single-seater cars Mercedes di F1 but between 1997 and 2005 he even "built" engines – from 3.0 V10 Ferrari rebranding for sponsorship reasons – for Clean.
La Clean Petronas show the best in F1 world 2001: 4th place among manufacturers and German driver Nick Heidfeld April 8 and pilots.
Strangest F1 engines: Playlife and Benetton
Between 1998 and 2000 Benetton decides to use the name Playlife (a clothing brand now defunct owned by fashion giant Treviso) to rename engines 3.0 V10 Supertech (built Mechachrome and, in turn, derivatives from units Renault).
La Benetton Playlife show the best in F1 world 2000: 4th place between builders and ours Giancarlo Fisichella April 6 and pilots.
Strangest F1 engines: Pratt & Whitney and Lotus
The relationship between Pratt and Whitney (American aerospace company specializing in aircraft engines) and Lotus was officially born in 1968 when the founder of the British team Colin Chapman decides to deploy Indianapolis 500 single turbine.
Il engine a Pratt and Whitney turbine of aviation origin based on kerosene also installed in three GP F1 world 1971 by Lotus 56B. The car - fast but heavy and thirsty for fuel - only crosses the finish line once: with the Brazilian. Emerson Fittipaldi 8th place in Italy.
The strangest F1 engines: TAG Heuer and Red Bull
Choice from Red Bull run F1 world 2016 с engines "Supplied" by a Swiss watch brand TAG Heuer (actually 1.6 V6 Renault) is explained by two reasons: the return of Régie in the Circus as a manufacturer and the collisions that occurred in 2015 between the French company (guilty of creating low-power engines) and the team founded by Dietrich Mateschitz (accused by the transalpine brand of criticizing too much last season and not appreciating the victories achieved in the first half of this decade).
