Life Racing Engines
The other W12 Formula One engine was built in Italy by Life Racing Engines. The chief engineer for this project was Franco Rocchi, who had already designed and built an experimental 498 cubic centimetres (30.4 cu in) W3 engine when he was at Ferrari in 1967 as an investigation into the viability of a W18 F1 engine. Rocchi's W3 engine used a central master connecting rod, with a slave rod locating onto each side of the master rod, rather than directly onto the crank pin. This meant that there was no offset between the cylinders, and the crankpin did not have to be unusually long. A similar arrangement was employed for the Life W12 engine. Life Racing Engines failed to attract the interest of an existing team, so they acquired an F1 chassis which had been built for another team and tried to enter F1 on their own account in 1990. The engine proved to be unreliable and lacking in power. The car never qualified for a race.
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