The GENIUS Innovation that Made Mercedes Champions

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Today's engines in F1 are some of the most powerful ever seen in F1, producing over 1000 Horsepower, despite using an engine that could fit in your everyday road car. But how is this possible?

The secret is much simpler than you might expect, but it’s also SO, SO CLEVER.
So, let me explain.

Formula 1 teams are constantly trying to find grey areas in the rules to give themselves a competitive advantage and this genius innovation gave quite the advantage.
The Formula 1 regulations changed massively in 2014 when they introduced the Turbo Hybrid Era. Before this, F1 cars were powered by normally aspirated, 2.4 Litre V8 internal combustion engines.

These engines were limited to 19,000 rpm and produced about 750 bhp.
The 2014 rules shrunk the engines to 1.6 Litre V6s and limited them to 15,000 rpm. They also introduced turbos back into the sport for the first time since 1988 to help compensate for the loss in power output from the smaller engine.

But the biggest change was using electrical energy to partially power the new ‘Power Unit’. This came in the form of an MGU-H and MGU-K with MGU standing for Motor Generator Unit. It was expected that these ‘Power Units’ would maintain the power output of F1 cars at around 750bhp.
The rules also restricted how much fuel can be used in a race, 110kg, and how quickly that fuel can be fed into the engine, or fuel flow rate. This was capped at 100kg per hour and strictly monitored by the FIA.

However, what the rule-makers left out was anything restricting the ways in which the teams could manipulate this 110kg of fuel to get more power from it and Mercedes found a way to do exactly that.

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