In the last race of the 2020 Formula 1 season, Scuderia Ferrari reserved the opportunity to use the third MGU-K at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, which will take place this weekend at the Yas Marina circuit. The motor generator that recovers the kinetic energy of braking, delivers 160 horsepower by regulation. The solution that prefigures the 2021 version will be more efficient so it will be able to ensure a longer duration of power over the lap.
Ferrari works for 2021 on the SF1000. And there is certainly an interesting aspect to highlight.
The Maranello team and the two customers (Alfa Romeo and Haas) were the only ones to have covered the 2020 season with only two MGU-Ks of the three granted by the FIA, reserving the possibility of replacing the motor generator that recovers kinetic energy in braking just for the 17th round of the season, obviously without paying any penalty.
According to rumors, both Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel will have a new MGU-K that will be the foreshadowing of the one that will be mounted on the 2021 power unit of the Cavallino and that is running on the test bench.
Conceptually it will be an electric motor similar to the one mounted on the 2020 car, but the advantage is that it will be more efficient: the electric power that will be delivered will be the limit allowed by the regulation (160 horsepower), but the time of use should increase over the lap, improving the performance of the power unit.
The Scuderia, therefore, will have the opportunity to evaluate this new component in a race weekend, carrying out that slow and gradual process of changing the SF1000 in search of a competitive threshold that is able to lead it to fight stably for the podium in the next championship.
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