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The colossal Saturn V F1 engine.

Measuring 5.8 metres tall and 3.8 metres wide, the F1 engine is on of the most powerful rocket engines ever built. At full throttle it provides a staggering 1,500,000lbs of thrust and consumes 5683 litres of fuel every second. The thrust chamber reaches 3200C as it burns a mixture of Kerosene and Liquid Oxygen. You think one is enough? The first stage has five of these and consumes an olympic swimming pool of fuel every 87 seconds. This, got us to the moon.

New Formula One engine design marks the pinnacle of engine development

It’s hard to imagine a tiny little six-cylinder engine that weighs less than many four-cylinder offerings, yet produces 760 horsepower, revs to 15,000 RPM, and yet displaces less than a two-liter Coke bottle in cylinder volume. Yet this is exactly what the new Formula One engines for the 2014 season can do.

Renault, one of the three F1 engine suppliers, released information about their engines…