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Originally Posted by broadrun96
How long until engineers figure out the best mix to match the tracks and demands of the car? When you are working in a field where Honda's engine is terrible and seemingly the worst F1 engine ever if you read here, how long could you go without the most efficient answer to the problem? It doesn't seem like anyone stayed with the NA engines over turbo when it looked the turbos were going to survive. Toyota started out larger NA and shrunk with a turbo after seeing Porsche's answer was better and Audi was constantly squeezed by the diesel now being the wrong answer, and not the chosen fuel any longer.
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That is easily solved by assigning some more fuel to the aspirated engines. In this way you can have an economic V8 like cosworth, which kept alive formula 1 in the 70s and 80s.