Cylinder number 1 is located on the front-right side of the engine, closest to the timing chain. There are a few caveats, though, and not all engines follow conventional numbering.

Cosworth’s 3.0-liter V10 Formula One engines were some of the greatest sounding F1 engines of all time, but its design didn’t start with all ten cylinders arranged into one engine. It started ...

The recent efforts by Aston-Martin and Mercedes to put Formula 1 engines to use in production cars harken back to the 1990s, when Ferrari made its own F1-based street machine.

All race cars are powerful, but the NHRA’s Top Fuel dragster and Funny Car are the beefed-up Arnold Schwarzeneggers of the motorsports world. • Consider, a 358-cubic-inch V8 NASCAR engine ...

Not all F1 cars have big engines with lots of cylinders. Some, like the Brabham BT52, have turbocharged four-cylinder engines. As you can hear, that doesn't stop it from sounding wonderful.