Missing F1

[carbuilder2002]

Started a contract worker last week and he saw all of my GTR pictures on my office wall.
He started asking questions and I told him I was planning to sell up and buy one.
To my surprise he satarted telling me about two of the owners of a company in the North East of England who had bought the remains of a crashed F1.
He then went on to describe how they aquired all of the parts to rebuild the monocoque and running gear.
I started to smell a rat when he then said they could not get an F1 engine for it so had to resort to installing a gallardo engine.
Now we know a couple of F1's have been crashed then dissapeared, my thoughts are is this just a flight of fancy on my mans part or could there be any truth in it.
I am going to do some digging and will report back any findings.

[mini magic]

Sounds extremely unlikely IMO but i guess anything is possible

[hurstg01]

First I've heard of it. Gallardo engine?

[carbuilder2002]

Yes sounds a bit far fetched to me too, I am very sceptical about it but may be worth looking into just in case.
I mean if they got the parts to rebuilt it I am sure someone in the Mclaren arena would have heard about it before now.
And any hint of a non Mclaren engine and am sure Mclaren would have been down on them with all of their legal team.

[ExoticSpotting]

Very interesting, i've always been intrigued with the wrecked F1's.

One thing, a gallardo engine? I know they are fairly common (for an exotic car), but shouldn't they go for a v12?

[carbuilder2002]

Ah the problem is and this has hit most F1 replica builders as well is that the Mclaren V12 is very compact and a lot shorter than most V12's hence the gallardo or BMW V10 would be a quite logical choice actually though down on power.

[ExoticSpotting]

Oh, it's a space issue.
I guess if you're building a replica a v10 is good enough.