Ford 3 Cylinder 1 Liter EcoBoost Motor Clocks 11th Fastest Lap Ever At Nürburgring

Stealth and sly – those are two words that could sum up the mind-blowing performance of a Formula Ford race car that recently hit the famous Nürburgring track in Germany. It scored one of the fastest lap times ever recorded on the Nordschleife circuit, and how it managed that might have taken a few by surprise, seeing that it was powered by a petite three-cylinder 1.0-liter EcoBoost® engine!

The street-legal racer nabbed the honor of having the 11^th fastest lap ever, at 7 minutes, 22 seconds. For perspective, that’s faster than big-horsepower supercars like the Lamborghini Aventador and Ferrari Enzo. Ford engineers have led several months of work on a project to switch the usual 177-horsepower 1.6-liter EcoBoost to a specially tuned version 202-horsepower version of the new global 1.0-liter EcoBoost. The team also modified the car to be fully street legal for on-road use, fitting it with wheel covers, front and rear lights and indicators, aerodynamically designed wing mirrors and a horn. There’s also a six-speed manual transmission and street-legal tires.

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Eyecarehawaii - 9/7/2012 3:13:51 PM

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It goes to shows that you don't need a big engine with lots of Hp to do well at Nürburgring let alone to have a good sports car for street use. There are a lot of factors more important than Hp that define performance.

BTW, weren't they discussing closing Nürburgring?

chewy - 9/7/2012 6:54:53 PM

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Calling this thing street legal is quite a stretch. You don't need much power when it's a formula car, but for a real street car thigns are much harder and you need lots of hp forthe same power to weight ratio.