• Sat   • Dec 21, 2013   • Updated: 7:53am  Engineering marvels
PUBLISHED : Sunday, 26 September, 2004, 12:00am UPDATED :
Sunday, 26 September, 2004, 12:00am  They look like any other
engine to the untrained eye. Even the trained ear has trouble
recognising the different engines.  But the Formula One engines
are miles apart - in their construction at the rival factories
and often at the end of a Grand Prix.  How different is a Jaguar
engine to the one next door? 'Poles apart,' says Alan Maybin,
the chief mechanic for Australian Mark Webber. He reels off rpm,
piston size, and the angle of the V-10 as a few differences.
And 'no photos please'.  Teams will trash one engine over this
weekend's Grand Prix and another new, and hopefully improved,
version will be waiting for the next stop in Japan.  'This is
the pinnacle of engineering,' says Irishman Maybin, 37, as he
oversees some pre-qualifying maintenance. His job is to make
those little changes to help Webber find the extra hundredths of
a second.  'Things ar