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Originally Posted by Pingguest
Do you really think the manufactures would have chosen the V8's, if the FIA didn't obligate them to choose? By the way, I just read in an article that the FIA mandated the V8's after the manufactures didn't want to make a choise.
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They didn't want V8's,particularly as some manufacturers had started to fit V10s to their road cars.But they didn't like the idea of running rev limited V10s either.But they were given the choice.Imagine how much power an unrestricted V10 would have now if the regs were left untouched.They were also given the choice of a control tyre to control the speeds,but a certain Italian manufacturer baulked at that one.
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Originally Posted by Pingguest
Hmm, the cornering speeds have increased impressively partly due the introduction of the V8's.
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Probably more down to the tyres and aero than anything else.You don't suddenly start going faster by losing 200 bhp! Oh,and how much faster would they have been had they kept the other two cylinders!