Rob White: New turbo charged V6 engines in 2014 will be ‘special’ – Formula 1 news
According to Rob White from Renault Sports, the new engines according to the 2014 Formula 1 regulations are going to be ‘special’ despite the fact that the engine suppliers will now make turbo charged V6 engines rather than the current V8 engines.
The main concern regarding these engines was that they might not make as much sound as a V8 engine does since these new engines will be turbo charged. However, White claims that these engines will create a lot of noise and offer the Formula 1 environment
the fans want.
“There will be some differences in how the 2014 engines sound compared to the current engines. I guess when we moved years ago to the other direction, from turbocharged to naturally aspirated engines, there was a difference that we got used to,” he told
the media.
It has been revealed that the new 1.6 litre V6 engines will have a relatively more powerful Kinetic Energy Recovery System. However, the new engines will definitely not be as powerful as the V8s since they will rev up to 15,000 rpm (revolutions per minute)
rather than 18,000 rpm.
“The introduction of turbochargers and reduction of revs will result in less noise. However, it's extremely important to understand that these are going to be special engines that will make lot of noise, which would be a sort of a success factor for this
formula,” he added.
With many people still against these regulation changes, it seems that these are much better than the initial plans the officials of the sport came up with. At first, they wanted to introduce four cylinder turbo charged engines for 2013 and this plan was
highly criticised by people like Bernie Ecclestone, the chief of Formula 1 Management and Luca di Montezemolo, the president of Ferrari.
Martin Whitmarsh, McLaren’s team principal on the other hand stated that the teams will not have a problem with these regulations if the officials shift from four cylinder engines to the V6 engines.
That is what happened and now, the teams are hoping for positive results from the engine suppliers before giving their final verdict regarding this rule change.
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