Formula 1 technical guru Craig Scarborough has teamed up with Peter Windsor to give us a closer look at the Mercedes-Benz V6 power unit. It’s clearly the engine of choice in F1 right now and Scarbs uses an official Mercedes video (also shown below) as a prompt to discuss what’s what, before taking us beyond the PR video to talk through some changes to the turbo design on the PU 106 A Hybrid.
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No wonder the torque on these cars is incredible. The ERKS spools the turbo up even in the lower rev range…. Incredible
[…] centres around the design of its turbo. Despite what SkySports F1 will tell you this was first discussed by Scarbs back in March. But it’s still worth taking a look at this piece from Sky as described by Martin […]