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Post by Phaedrus on Dec 5, 2008 13:00:42 GMT -5
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Post by BearClause on Dec 5, 2008 13:15:29 GMT -5
I heard it was possible in years past to buy some of the retired Ferrari F1 cars for a cool $2.5 million (US).
They were only rated for 400 miles before needing a costly engine rebuild. Apparently they could go 800 miles if they were set to reduce the maximum RPM by 1000.
Of course what they charged for the cars was a tiny fraction of what it cost to run the whole operation.
Back in the late 80's nobody could touch Honda when they were supplying the engines for Prost and Senna. Their technology managed to trickle down to Honda cars on the road today.
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Post by mikegarrison on Dec 5, 2008 15:40:13 GMT -5
Most F1 cars come with engines that have had a big hole drilled into the the crankcase (or otherwise permanently disabled. Very infrequently can you buy one that actually runs.
In this case, the Honda F1 team is looking to sell the whole team, not to sell off little bits and pieces of it.
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Post by Phaedrus on Dec 12, 2008 21:48:42 GMT -5
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