Originally posted by Ventura
I guess that blows away all of HSJ's analysis work on engines! 
That's funny. Even before I opened this thread I looked at who started it, noticed it was a MS fan, figured this (or something similar) would be the "punch line". You didn't disappoint me. Now, please understand that all this is very, very vague so far. First of all they didn't publish all rpms, did they? At least not at f1racing.net, don't know about the F1 Racing magazine. Secondly, as someone commented not long ago, it depends on the exact nature of the rpms: do you get the max revs at the highest gear? For example current Merc engine does rev quite high actually, but only with the mid-gears, not the 6th gear. Overall the Merc engine lacks a LOT of power and doesn't seem any more powerful than the Renault for example, even though it does rev significantly higher than the Renault. It doesn't help them that they rev high at a point along the curve when it doesn't matter so much. So, what about Toyota? Do they get highest revs of all in 6th gear? Secondly, there's also the matter of how fast you get there, as pointed out by kouks.
The point is, to get the power you probably need a bit more than just the max rpms. I think those engineers who do the acoustic analyses do a bit more than just measure the rpms. I think they at least measure the rpms at each gear.
