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Old 8th Mar 2011, 20:03
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chris weston
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Good stuff sir.

Not quite so with F1 motors these days. They have to last 3 (!) races.

Forced induction (usually turbo charged) petrol engines when on boost run very high effective compression ratio motors but not too high .....

....or they become diesel!

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