The Monaco GP weekend finally revealed one of F1′s biggest recent tech secrets. William Tyson takes a look at Ferrari’s power unit. I distinctly remember reading Shell’s (fuel supplier for Ferrari) Twitter account one January morning with the suggestion that the new Ferrari power unit would be unveiled to the world over the coming hours. Did we catch a glimpse of it? Yes, but it was under a large red blanket. And nothing more. Since then there have only been rumours as to how Ferrari have built their V6 turbo hybrid – until the Monaco GP weekend. Ferrari pride themselves in their engine building and whilst Mercedes’s true PU layout surfaced very early this season, the Scuderia have been very careful in covering theirs up as the cars are built/stripped during the Grand Prix weekend. On Thursday practice last week Kimi Raikkonen suffered gearbox problems so his car had to be taken apart to discover the issue. In doing so, TV broadcasting cameras were on site to take a look and their images finally revealed what had been suspected about the Ferrari PU design.
Posted on: Thu, 29 May 2014 02:26:05 +0000
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