The 2019 power unit is the result of a new project and at the beginning of the development work on the new engine the results were not too exciting. Now it seems that the engineers led by Andy Cowell have found a dozen more horses on the 6-cylinder world champion.
That's a nice gain if true from the ICE side. I believe the areas to look for more from Mercedes are the Turbo and the ERS.GPR -A wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 18:37Mercedes: after Toto Wolff's alarm, found a dozen more horsepower on the engine
The 2019 power unit is the result of a new project and at the beginning of the development work on the new engine the results were not too exciting. Now it seems that the engineers led by Andy Cowell have found a dozen more horses on the 6-cylinder world champion.
They made similar noises before the 2018 season, only for Ferrari to arrive with even more power. Their words should be received with caution until Melbourne (or the first power circuit).GPR -A wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 18:37Mercedes: after Toto Wolff's alarm, found a dozen more horsepower on the engine
The 2019 power unit is the result of a new project and at the beginning of the development work on the new engine the results were not too exciting. Now it seems that the engineers led by Andy Cowell have found a dozen more horses on the 6-cylinder world champion.
Can you please publish the link that you are referring to?GrandAxe wrote: ↑08 Jan 2019, 04:23They made similar noises before the 2018 season, only for Ferrari to arrive with even more power. Their words should be received with caution until Melbourne (or the first power circuit).GPR -A wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 18:37Mercedes: after Toto Wolff's alarm, found a dozen more horsepower on the engine
The 2019 power unit is the result of a new project and at the beginning of the development work on the new engine the results were not too exciting. Now it seems that the engineers led by Andy Cowell have found a dozen more horses on the 6-cylinder world champion.
They ended 2017 pretty much on par with each other and started 2018 on a similar levels of PU performance. As much as I saw through the season, it was only at Germany was when we first witnessed a bit of superiority of Ferrari and definitely not at the beginning of the season."There's still gains to be had [with this formula]. It's a plethora of marginal gains, five millisecond gains.
"Then there's those nice surprises where you thought north would give you 2kW and actually it's south that gives you 2kW.
Sorry for the laaaaate reply. I can't find the link now, but yours is pretty good.GPR -A wrote: ↑08 Jan 2019, 06:53Can you please publish the link that you are referring to?GrandAxe wrote: ↑08 Jan 2019, 04:23They made similar noises before the 2018 season, only for Ferrari to arrive with even more power. Their words should be received with caution until Melbourne (or the first power circuit).GPR -A wrote: ↑07 Jan 2019, 18:37Mercedes: after Toto Wolff's alarm, found a dozen more horsepower on the engine
This is the only article that I remember reading, which was published last January and Andy Cowell doesn't claim anywhere about big gains.
Link ->Mercedes 2018 F1 engine will be 'pretty much all new'They ended 2017 pretty much on par with each other and started 2018 on a similar levels of PU performance. As much as I saw through the season, it was only at Germany was when we first witnessed a bit of superiority of Ferrari and definitely not at the beginning of the season."There's still gains to be had [with this formula]. It's a plethora of marginal gains, five millisecond gains.
"Then there's those nice surprises where you thought north would give you 2kW and actually it's south that gives you 2kW.
The same camo has been already used by M. Benz for the Mercedes EQ C
Agreed....they're the "Silver Arrows"...