Good evening Veeky Forums
Bored Formula 1 engine designer here taking questions, I'll do my best to answer anything you want about engines or motorsport in general.
I've also worked in automotive engines, plus I used to design rotaries if you have any questions about those too.
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What are your thoughts on formula-e?
at least the udder is aerodynamic
Pushrods or OHC
Will McLaren-Honda ever recover?
which F1 engines have you worked on
Why are you on Veeky Forums instead of making your shitty honda powerplant work?
No specifics I'm afraid, Pretty much everything I work on is covered by NDA
Apart from the millenial-baiting social media gimmicks that they use I am actually a big fan, I can see it converging with F1 over the next 10 years
Depends on the application, I've worked mostly on DOHC as you won't find many pushrods in many series outside of Nascar.
Honestly? I think the rate of development of the other 3 manufacturers will keep them permanently 1-2 seasons behind in the development race. I could write a whole thread on why they aren't catching up but Honda's whole organisation is screwed by having their engineers in Japan and their test facilities in Britain so it takes forever to develop anything.
Like I said in the last post, their whole company just isn't set up in the same way as the rest of the F1 engine companies, they see it as an R&D excercise for their young homegrown Japanese engineers. If I were them I'd move their whole operation to Europe where the actually experienced F1 engineers are based and steal their knowledge.
Favorite engine layout?
Least favorite?