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by myrandomcomment
1693 days ago
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This is 100% not true. The engines are sealed by the FIA and replacing parts of the engine incurs gird penalties. You have a limit of 4 engines a year you can swap without a penalty. In the last 2 races both Lewis and Valtteri took penalties for swapping out the ICE part of the system. When Max had the crash at Silverstone with Lewis, RedBull was not 100% sure of the state of the engine as they are not allowed to disassemble it. They had to use fiber optic cameras to look inside. Even then they got it wrong and Max took a new engine in Turkey. |
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When the engines did run closer to 20,000 they were indeed rebuilt much more often. I am not well versed in F1 regulation history but Wikipedia claims that before 2005 engines were not required to last for two race weekends[1], meaning you could rebuild the engine between each race weekend if you wanted to. At that time there was no RPM limit[2] for the engines and the iconic Ferrari F2004 supposedly maxed out at 19,000 RPM[3].
So maybe the comment you are replying to is referring to pre-2005 F1 engines :) I have no idea myself if a modern F1 engine could run at 20,000 and still be as durable as the current engines or if running at such high RPM inherently means bad durability.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Formula_One_World_Champio...
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_One_engines#Engine_spe...
3. https://www.f1technical.net/f1db/cars/873/ferrari-f2004