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“These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.” -Ayrton Senna

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Senna ‘94

(No more “magic” since 1994)

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El Maestro

Fernando Alonso/Ferrari F2012/Interlagos/2012

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1982 BMW M12/13 1.5 Liter 4-cylinder Turbocharged F1 Engine

“Taking a four-cylinder displacing only 1.5 litres and based on a standard production block, the team of specialists around engine “wizard” Paul Rosche created a Formula 1 power unit developing staggering output of 800 hp. The secret behind this mind-boggling performance was the combination of 16-valve technology and a turbocharger masterminded for the first time in Formula 1 by Digital Motor Electronics.”

“The first training car was put through its paces in practice just a year later and in 1982 Brabham entered the first Grand Prix with a BMW engine. Right from the start, this turbocharged power unit proved its supremacy on the track, with the greatest triumph following in 1983: Just 630 days after BMW’s Formula 1 engine had made its first appearance, Brazilian driver Nelson Piquet won the World Championship in a Brabham BMW. And up to 1987 BMW brought home a total 9 Grand Prix wins with this successful machine.”

“BMW M turbo engines did not only go to the Brabham Team. Arrows also used the M power machine from 1984 to 1986, just like ATS in 1983/84 and Ligier in 1987. In 1986, Gerhard Berger won the race in Mexico in a Benetton car, marking the last triumph of this turbocharged power unit. A year later Road and Track, the US car journal, demonstrated the supreme performance of the Benetton B 186 with Teo Fabi at the wheel: Powered by 900 hp, Fabi’s monoposto accelerated to 100 mph (160 km/h) in exactly 4.8 seconds. And Paul Rosche was confident that this four-cylinder was able to develop a lot more power in practice: “It must have been about 1,400 hp, but we don’t know the exact figure since the engine dynamometer didn’t go beyond 1280 hp.”” via

In Senna We Trust

Soon

~~Winter~~ Kimi is coming.

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At first I was like… but then…

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“I am an artist, the track is my canvas, and my car is my brush.”

Graham Hill

Jochen Rindt (1942 - † 1970)/1970 F1 World Champion

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Toine Hezemans/Alfa Romeo GTAm/Brno/ETCC/1970

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Fuji Speedway ‘76

James Hunt became World Champion in the last race. He finished 3rd, and that was enough to win the Championship one point ahead of Niki Lauda. 1976 was a great season.

Here the Part II and a very nice footage of the same race.