Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Not being funny but wikipedia is hardly the be-all & end-all of knowledge. The info is only as accurate as the person who wrote it.

On a similar subject, I have read articles about F1 from this period when they were running 1.5l turbo'd engines. The article said that many teams used "grenade engines' for qualifying on which they just turned the wick up on the turbo to get it to produce maximum power for an out-lap, fast lap and then an in-lap and then it was ready for a skip.

True about wiki, the prefered term was qualifying engine, all it did was a warm up lap, hot lap or two and then back to the bits. Engines replaced so 1500bhp became 800 for the race. Still amazing for a road block.