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Higher top speeds from turbo engines expected in 2014

Higher top speeds from turbo engines expected in 2014 29 January, 2014 The new V6 turbo engines may be smaller and quieter, but Formula 1 cars will actually be faster in a straight line in 2014. That is the expectation of Force India's technical boss Andy Green, when contemplating the mammoth rule changes over the winter. Not only the engine rules have changed, but the FIA has also dramatically reduced the amount of downforce. But although downforce levels were similarly attacked in 1998 and again in 2009, Green said that the huge changes for 2013 are 'crucially different'. 'The downforce loss is in the same region and is quite significant,' he told Germany's Auto Motor und Sport. 'But...
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