http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vIjJg0lXgc



This is pretty amazing technology, how they are using the turbocharger to spin the generator for the KERS system, but also how the KERS system backfeeds thru and keeps the turbocharger at a high speed to avoid turbo lag, and how it all integrates into the overall power delivery package. I believe this will be a whole new thing for the drivers to get used to, and whoever masters it first will obviously have a great advantage.

You know, back in the days of the 1.5 liter, 1650 hp turbo cars of the '80s, there were only a handful of drivers that fully came to terms with the power delivery of the engines, the whole...nothing there....nothing there....nothi...BAM! HUGE POWER as they came out of corners.

Should be a cool season.

 

Everything about the turbo on these is exactly what I have been expecting someone to develop for years. Also very cool is that someone familiar with compensating for turbo lag is going to get a big KERS advantage. It's going to be a very interesting season indeed.



Also, 500 BAR of fuel pressure?! Did he just say that right?

That's like being 17,000 feet underwater