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Cosworth warming up for 'engine freeze'
05 September 2006Cosworth's latest upgrade to its engines for the Williams F1 team, which was tested at Monza last week, is in preparation for the impending October 'engine freeze'.
The independent engine maker, which is yet to sign with a team for 2007, hopes to improve the specification of its F1 engine before the Chinese Grand Prix on 1 October, from when engine manufacturers will no longer be permitted to develop their motors.
"At last week's test with Williams F1," said Simon Corbyn, Head of F1 Race Engineering at Cosworth, "we completed the final validation of a very aggressive duty cycle on the latest Series 6 engines and this will now be available for both Mark [Webber] and Nico [Rosberg] at the Italian Grand Prix.
"Cosworth will therefore be able to run maximum engine performance, including the 20,000RPM rev limit, for all key laps in qualifying and for a significant fraction of the race. Cosworth has pushed hard to successfully approve and introduce the best possible engine specification for the forthcoming race and also in readiness for the impending FIA engine homologation deadline."
Corbyn sees F1's fastest track as the best opportunity to test the longevity of Cosworth's latest unit.
"In terms of engines, Monza is the most demanding circuit in Formula One and Cosworth typically uses this track as the basis for the endurance tests routinely run on our Northampton test cells," he added.
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