1Tb of data has been used to design the FW27a. That's almost equivalent to 70,000 volume's of the encyclopedia Britannica. Each modeling program has half a billion points of information.

250,000 man hours of design time has been spent on the FW27a and a further 250,000 man hours in fabrication and build.

4,500 production drawings have been produced in the design of the chassis, End to end these drawings would stretch for 5,350Km with a further 4,000 expected to be produced for the entire cycle of the FW27 and by the end of the season drawings would span from London to Buenos Aires.

Now for the performance related stuff:
- Min. weight in race trim is 600Kg and these cars typically carry 50-70Kg of ballast.
The metal Tungsten is used as ballast for it's size to weight ratio.
- From a standing start 0-200Km/h takes approximately 5 seconds.
- Deceleration forces on board will reach 5g.
- Brake temps to generate 5g deceleration will reach 600 DegC in 1 second.
- At 250Km/h the downforce acting on the car will exceed 1,500Kg.
- The new BMW P84/5 engine alone contains 5,000 individual components and takes 100 man hours to build.
- The BMW exhaust gas temps reach 950 DegC.
- Maximum piston acceleration is 10,000g
- Peak piston speed is 40m per second
- The complete engine weighs less than 90Kg.
- Historically, BMW have produced 200 engines per season.
- Carbon fibre clutch diameter is 100mm.

For each second @19,000 RPM the BMW engine has:
- 316.7 Crankshaft revolutions.
- 1,583.3 Ignition sparks.
- 9,500 Electronic engine speed measurements.
- 550 Litres of air drawn in.

Around Albert Park on a typical lap there's:
- 56 Gear changes, That's 3248 shifts per race.
- 10 Brake applications per lap, That's 580 per race.
- 3.4 Litres of fuel used per lap, That's around 200 litres for the 300Km event.