My daily and the weekend toy - warning, get coffee. And food

[Daffyflyer]

Yeaaah, sequential boxes are... pricey

[Juno8]

yeah I get the picture now here are some MAAAAD F1 statistics on what one of those cars costs....have the medics on standby please...the costs are going to give you a heart attack!

1. Engine (£107,000 each)
2. Gearbox (£65,000 each)
3. Monocoque (£58,000)
4. Telemetry (£53,000)
5. Steering Wheel (£20,000)
6. Front Wing (£10,700 each)
7. Rear Wing (£6,500 each)
8. Exhaust System (£5,800 each)
9. Fuel Tank (£5,300)
10 - Under Works (£4,200 each)
11 - Bodywork (£4,200 each)
12 - Steering Column (£2,100 each)
13 - Dashboard (£1,700)
14 - Suspension (£900 each, 20 parts needed)
15 - Wheel/Alloys (£700 each)
16 - Brake Discs (£600 each)
17 - Tyres (£310 each)

Total cost of Formula One cars;
2 cars - £4,278,760
Each - £2,139,380

[PhillipM]

You can add 10x that amount for development costs

[Juno8]

yeah Ferrari for instance spends...wait for it and are those medics on standby....£125 million on their R and D

[PhillipM]

Yeah, I spent about £1.25 on R and D

[Daffyflyer]

Yeah, I spent about £1.25 on R and D

Or whatever a pencil, a notepad and 6 pints of beer costs..

[Juno8]

that would be about £20 Daffy xD

[Killrob]

Guys, stay on topic please!

(Also, Juno, your list adds up to 367,940£ and not 2,139,380£. And don't answer that in here!)

[PhillipM]

Hoy, Killrob, that wasn't on topic!

[darkjedi]

phillip , have you ever done a dyno on that buggy? i bet the transmission losses are far less than what you get in an S2000.
Q2: is that a 2.0 or 2.2?

[PhillipM]

2.0, we loose far more to transmission losses than a normal car, those wide van gears, low ratio diff and the high angle CV joints all soak up a lot of power, never mind the big knobbly tyres too.

It was loosing nearly 20% the last time it was dyno'd with the RX8 motor in - 50bhp lost by the time it got to the wheels.
Fortunately a lot of those losses will stay the same or pretty similar even with another 100bhp, so instead of having ~218 at the wheels, we should be around 310+ish so it's a lot bigger difference than the flywheel figures of 268>360+ suggests

[Juno8]

so are you going 1-Way, 1.5 Way or 2 Way Diff?

[PhillipM]

None of the above.

This ain't Forza

[Daffyflyer]

CIG Locker? :p

[Juno8]

PhillipM I meant are you going to have a Limited Slip Differential sorry been playing too much Forza Horizon today xD