[BP-Revo]

Yea...after my dad booked the trip, F1 was all I thought about for the whole summer (trip was at the end of summer). I had to push it out of my head for a litle to appreciate the rest of Europe though (F1 in Budapest was part of a trip to Paris, Prague, Warsaw and Gdansk)

In a show called Top Gear, which I'm sure a few of you are familiar with, they review cars etc. One of the things they do is see how fast it goes around their test track. Lowest time was ~1 minute 16 seconds or so. Renault said they bet their 04-05 season F1 car could break 1 minute (it was Alonso's championship car - last year they used V10's). Anyway, they said it had 1500hp, and on the F1 website they said the V8's had about 200hp less.

Even though the V8's don't have that much less hp, they lost a heck of a lot of torque, which is why top speed dropped from ~220-230 to ~200. Kimi Raikkonen's Mclaren Mercedes would hit over 240 down the larger straights when he had his V10.