31 January: Facts and Figures - The Williams BMW FW27
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250,000
man hours of design time has been spent on the FW27, with a further 250,000 man hours required in fabrication and build
4,500
drawings have been produced in the design of the FW27 chassis. End-on-end, these drawings would stretch for 5,350km with a further
4,000 expected to be produced to support the FW27's lifecycle. By the end of the season, drawings would reach from London to Buenos
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The FW27 will accelerate from standing to 200kmh in five seconds, and deceleration forces on board will reach 5g. 1g
equates to driving into a brick wall at 30kmh. Brake temperatures to generate the deceleration will reach 6000C in one second
On
board the FW27, exhaust temperatures reach 9500C and even the air temperature in the pneumatic valve system reaches temperatures two
and half times boiling point at 2500C
The BMW P84/5 contains 5,000 individual components, and takes 100 man hours to build.
BMW have historically produced approximately 200 engines per season, but this figure will reduce in 2005
BMW produce 1,000
drawings in the design of each engine
The BMW engine weighs less than 90 kilograms
At 19,000 rpm, 316.7 revolutions
and 1,583.3 ignitions take place each second in the BMW F1 engine. 9,500 engine speed measurements are made, the pistons cover a
distance of 25 metres, and 550 litres of air are drawn in
In the P84, maximum piston acceleration was 10,000g. Peak piston
speed was 40 metres per second
