On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 08:18:59AM -0400, Kenneth Waller wrote: > I've noticed the British commentator for the F 1 races, > that broadcast on Speed, uses the term lump when he's > referring to the engine in an F 1 car.
That would be Steve Matchett, long-time Formula One engineer (mostly for the Benetton/Renault team). By the way he uses the term I assume that it's common pit-lane parlance among team engineers - presumably because the engine is generally supplied by a different company (or, at least, a different branch of the company), so it's not something the team can play around with much; it's just this big lump of stuff that needs to be bolted on to the car.
