| Yes, indeed. The cylinder block came from the ordinary 4 cylinder BMW street engine! Virtually all other teams use V6 at that time! Ford invested millions $$$ to develop a V6 twin turbo for just 1 seasons, which was completely crazy! There was a TV documentary program that followed the Ford F1 Engine development at that time, and a brief comparison was made against the BMW 4 cylinder F1 turbo engine! I was at early 20s and was totally fascinated by all these technologies, put in a couple of job applications to Rover and Ford but were never selected. |
