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Originally Posted by jimclark
wnut - If you're referring to bjsmith's "end", they were using v-12s, not 16s. The V-16s were very early on (if that's when you meant, pardon me.  ), then IL-4s, V-8s, the H-16 in mid '60s (which I'm pretty sure was the last 16 cylinder engine in F1). V-8s and finally V-12s.  |
BRM chose the V16 over that very v12 design, if they had adopted the V12 instead of the V16 the BRM story may have been very different, the V12 was a really good engine. It would have been untouchable if it had been introduced at the beginning of the 3 liter formula.