The Brabham BMW qualifying engine was 1500 hp. The race engine was somwhere around 950-1000hp. There never was a definitive number for the race engine.
Kubica's story is such a roller coaster! - Has one of the biggest crashes in F1 - Wins at the same track a year later - Misses out on the title that year because BMW decide not to upgrade the car - Signs for Ferrari just when they are about to get good - Crashes again in Rally - Comes back to the sport nearly a decade later with amazing fan support - Scores just 1 point across the whole year while the team was heading for a complete collapse - Wins LMP2 WEC
Montoya got 4 of his 7 wins in the BMW Williams. To be honest, I'd forgotten that he'd gotten 3 wins with McLaren. To be totally honest, I'd forgotten that he drove for McLaren!
Thanks for another great video Aidan! Just a couple thoughts on this subject. First and foremost BMW's Sauber time was their first time owning a team outright but it was a continuation of their, at that time, latest F1 foray not their absolute first time like Audi. Secondly, it's rather unfair to suggest Williams BMW wasn't Mega when they were up against Newey's McLaren and The Michael's Ferrari dream team, but arguably still managed to make the most powerful or highest revving engine of the era. One can only wonder how much better they'd have done if they hadn't wanted to own a team outright and stayed with Williams.
also bmw had Intel Sponsorship which from 2006-2009 which were ISI (a.k.a Motorsport Games) partnered with Intel to Bring the F1.06 into rFactor but sadly didnt happened due to licensing issues but ISI added the F1.07 as a Addon also the F1.08 appeared in the rFactor Special edition but not on the main game also rFactor is a evolution of the F1 Challenge 99-02 but without F1 License
Live for Speed got the 06 BMW/Sauber instead, abnd then later on a Formula BMW as well just to complete the set of where did each BMW/Sauber car end up. With LFS and RF1's engines, both cars managed to look amazing but not really fit into either sim's art style. LFS, you had fictional tracks that the BMW looked entirely out of place on until you found the right car/track combo, Aton or Westhill with the Sauber were a treat to drive. Also LFS somehow got the race suit, JV and Quick Nick's helmets, and the ability to do custom liveries for the BMW with paint templates, no idea how or why Scavier pulled that one off but it was, likely still is, a thing RF1, default tracks did not do the cars, even stock fake RF1 content, no favors, they stuck out vs the engine, I seem to recall Northampton being the one of the worst for this and never knew if someone out there fixed the texture work for the default Northampton track or not though. To me, again as with LFS,you had to find the right car/track combot that not only looked good, but also drove well. Parts of Essington did but then other bits of other tracks were just awful to drive in that car, but then I gather that's accurate for the 07 Sauber though. Sardian Heights was always a pet peeve of mine though for how utterly awful the track was with the Sauber, but it was antastic in slower machinery
If anything, Audi is starting further back than BMW did. The current cars are garbage; the company is in turmoil, and like during the Alfa days, one driver is there for sponsors, the other is on his retirement cruise. Audi supposedly has their 2026 engine development on schedule (there's that word again), they hired someone who was maligned at Ferrari yet without the Maranello politics is making headway slowly. And next year's drivers? Hulkenberg was the previous regime's choice, and the second seat is looking more and more like it'll either be taken by whoever's left (Bottas) or a rookie who is managing to make an impression in the Williams (Colopinto)
I feel BMW Sauber's 2008 is the worst example of competitivity and marketing as a company. For a company like BMW that prides itself in winning races and championships in pretty much every category in the world they've had cars racing in, to throw away such an opportunity to get themselves into F1 history WITH A FACTORY TEAM should have been a marketing decision enough to give it all in 2008. It's a shame, actually.
Only gripe with the Titel in 2010 BMW has nothing to do anymore with the Team thats why in the entry IT was called BMW Sauber Ferrari so that Peter sauber could buy His Team Back from BMW at the end of 2009
Toyota & Jaguar get all the headlines, but for me BMW is the worst example, why manufacturers/corporations are so awful at running F1 teams. They somehow got the hard part right and had a competitive car, but chose to throw it all away because the plan was championship in 2009, not 2008. At the time there was a story going around that one reason they did that was due to marketing. They were launching a new range of pseudo-'hybrid' cars and had a marketing campaign planned based around their new Kers 'hybrid' F1 car. Of course their Kers & chassis was so bad that like most of the other manufacturers they couldn't get it off the car fast enough. (Iirc) only McLaren ran Kers for the whole season (with the exception of Silverstone, where there was too little braking to recharge it).
After 2009 BMW Sauber only was the name, because they applied 2010 with this name and deadline was passed a long time ago to change the entry name for Peter Sauber.
I'm starting to feel more and more sorry for Sauber. They are a Name, they really try and are able to decently compete. But unlike other privateers, they were also always a plaything for whichever factory brand they worked with. Sometimes it worked but more often it didn't. McLaren/TAG or Honda, it was a McLaren. Williams/Renault or Honda, it was a Williams. Sauber? Alfa Romeo had nothing to do but provide the name and the money, but the name trumped. Stake? Ok, that is ridiculous enough that we decided to call them Sauber again. We did, not Sauber themselves. Why are they such pushovers when it comes to brand pride? Peter Sauber deserves a better legacy than this. The Sauber/Mercedes C9 is one of my hero cars, and it was a Sauber. In my mind, anyway. But even now, the title is BMW Sauber, not Sauber powered by BMW. I hate that.
The first lesson Audi should have learned is to not buy into F1's most useless team in the sport's history. Sauber doesn't get nearly the notoriety it should for being the waste that it's been over the last 30 years with one extremely flukey to their credit, as was their one decent season in 2008 in entirety. Given their commercial stability and technical resources, Sauber almost make Arrows look like overachievers on balance.
Why in the green hell would you not want your name using in a video game let alone an F1 video game? I mean, even if you stand to make no financial gain whatsoever that's still one hell of a brag you can do to the grandkids one day.
