Team Williams Chairman Adam Parr said in a recent interview that the new breed of Formula 1 engines will sound fantastic and be tremendous for the sport.
When the FIA officially announced that from 2013 the F1 engines would be 1.6-litre, four-cylinder hybrid powerplants, several key people, including F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone and Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo publicly said that they disliked it.
Ecclestone declared that these small engines - limited to 12,000 rpm - would sound terrible and alienate fans, as well as complicating his negotiations with the world television networks (a huge source of revenues). However, in an interview with Reuters, Parr said he was a big supporter of the new engines. "Why do we need a new engine? Well, we've got this V8 which essentially in one shape or another... has been going for years. The technology is dated, it's not what's going on out in the real world and I think it's a major, major barrier to bringing in new partners and growing the sport," Parr said in the interview. The rules stipulate that the new four-cylinder engines would be turbocharged and turbo-compounded with high pressure gasoline injection up to 500 bars and the KERS (kinetic energy recovery system) will be four times as powerful. "It will have one fan generating electricity to super-charge the engine, another fan to recover energy from the exhausts which will recharge a battery and then be usable," he said. Parr indicated that these new powerplants will generate in excess of 800 horsepower and – what’s very interesting – is that the cars will run on pure electric in the pit lane. "You've got cutting edge technology, I mean really the future of road cars, and you’re going to have a very powerful message about environmental performance and what technology can do. And the racing will be just as exciting, if not more,” Parr said to Reuters. “The world is changing, we have to change,” he concluded. Recent Articles
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