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Originally Posted by wnut
Not exactly hair raising is it.
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No. Does it have to be?
It's been almost two decades since we heard a V12 in F1. Nice sound, but it's problems, with regard to the opposition, were that it had too many cylinders (too long), was necessarily heavier, and drank more fuel.
If you were given a set limit of fuel to use (and they have been), there's no way you would be building a V12 turbo engine for the 2014 season. Chances are that you would not necessarily be thinking of even building a V6 engine! It's quite possible, with open regulations, that you could be thinking of half of the number of cylinders that are currently mandated for F1 cars in 2014. I would have been happy to hear three cylinder engines in F1 (they sound fantastic!), but I think that there would have been too much opposition from fans.