A1 GP ups the ante
Following recent confirmation that A1 Grand Prix, the self-styled 'World Cup of Motorsport', is, in company with technical partners Lola (chassis), Zytek (engines/electronics) and Cooper (tyres), investigating an engine output increase of +-40% is sure to lead to a power struggle - in every sense of the words - in the very near future.
Setting aside questions of whether the series' present all-aluminum, 3,400cc Zytek V8 units actually produce the stated 550 horse power (impressive numbers are, after all, easy to invent, particularly when engines are sealed against 'outside' tampering) and can be boosted to an intended 750bhp, the mere fact that A1 is talking the sort of outputs Formula One will be hard-pressed to maintain come 2008 will not have best pleased certain folk in Paris and London.
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