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Originally Posted by 3798j
About 5 years ago, we were at a high-end exotic car show hosted at the AACA Museum.
There sat an '03 or '04 Jordan EJ13 (or 14, can't remember which)...it was spectacular! Talking with the two people handling the car, we were told that when the owner wanted to drive it, a call went to Cosworth (in England of course) to arrange having two techs fly over to ready it's V10 for use. They then would stay with the car until the owner finished playing, after which they prepped the engine for storage. Imagine what the cost of an outing like that in your own F1 car is.
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Wowie!
Such a great story - I believe the early 2000's era brought us the 18,000-20,000 RPM V10's with pneumatic valve control (b/c the traditional valve springs could not respond fast enough to this level of RPM)....and the sound of a V10 @ redline brings shivers....