Racing is heavily restricted nowadays, but there was a time when the rulebook was much more open. And some carmakers took full advantage of that to create cars with wild aerodynamics and engines. Many ...

For the 1966 F1 season, maximum engine displacement was increased from 1.5 liters to 3.0 liters. British engine builder BRM had success with its 1.5-liter V8s, but it decided to adapt to the 3.0-liter ...

Explore the ambitious engineering of the BRM H16 engine, a unique fusion of two flat-eight engines stacked to meet Formula 1's 3.0-liter regulations in the 1960s. Despite its innovative design, the ...

Throughout automotive history, there have been engines that defy convention, capturing the imagination of engineers and car enthusiasts alike. These rare engines were only used in a handful of ...

Judging by Coventry Climax's bright and cheerful press release at the time, the 16 was supposed to be the answer to making major power out of a tiny engine. It wasn't meant to be. With Ferrari and BRM ...

Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, to our Hall of Internal Combustion Oddities! Hurry, hurry, hurry, and set your eyes on the strangest engines you've ever beheld! Witness BRM's H16, formed from the ...

The Napier E124 Two-Stroke H-24 Diesel airplane engine was designed in the ‘30s. The dual horizontally opposed engine displaced 75 liters and had 24 cylinders and a gas turbine. It was superseded by ...

There will be a lot of cool stuff at Retromobile, from the 16-foot-tall Berliet T100 desert truck you may have read about yesterday, to exhibits of De Dion-Bouton and Lamborghini and the possibly over ...

There isn't a racing driver on the grid these days who doesn't love Spa-Francorchamps, the most challenging and majestic on the calendar. But it was not always so. Back in the Sixties the place was ...