Editing W12 engine (section)

== Motor racing engines ==
[[File:W12_Engine.jpg|thumb|[[Life Racing Engines|Life Racing Engines F35]] Formula One engine]]

For the [[1990 Formula One World Championship|1990 Formula One season]], the Italian team [[Life Racing Engines]] built a three-bank W12 engine with a displacement of {{convert|3.5|L|cuin|0|abbr=on}}.  The Life Racing Engine F35 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, reducing the length of the crankpins.<ref name="Ludvigsen, Life" >{{Cite book
 |title=The V12 Engine
 |last=Ludvigsen |first=Karl
 |publisher=Haynes Publishing UK
 |year=2005
 |url= {{Google books|bT5KHQAACAAJ|The V12 Engine|plainurl=yes}}
 |isbn=1-84425-004-0
 |ref={{harvid|Ludvigsen|V12 Engine}}
  |pages=356–358 
}}</ref> The engine was used in rounds 1 to 12 of the 1990 season, however it was unreliable and lacking in power, and the car failed to pre-qualify for any races.<ref name="Ludvigsen, Life" /><ref name="F1FailuresLife">{{cite book |last= Teaters|first= Matthew|year= 2011|title= Formula One Famous Failures|url= {{Google books|CZI9lsySYBkC|Formula One Famous Failures|plainurl=yes}}|chapter= 1990 Life Racing Engines|chapter-url= {{Google books|CZI9lsySYBkC|Formula One Famous Failures|page=62|plainurl=yes}}|publisher= Trafford Publishing|isbn= 978-1-4251-8528-2|access-date= 2013-12-17|quote= Best Result: 32nd fastest in Pre-Qualifying (Giacomelli, Imola)}}</ref>{{Self-published inline|certain=yes|date=January 2018}} The W12 engine was replaced by a third-party V8 engine after round 12.<ref name="F1FailuresLife" />
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