Who has the best engine this year? Mercedes, Ferrari, Red Bull or Alpine? They have all developed these engines to be the best they can be within the rules, but each have taken very slightly different approaches – so which one is best?
British racing driver and YouTube personality Scott Mansell has analysed acceleration data from every race this season to see which comes out on top – and the order isn’t what you’d expect. And this in weeks race, power matters a lot. Azerbaijan has lots of HEAVY acceleration zones and a really, really long straight.
Scott Mansell explains first that these engines are REALLY close this year. The rules look to have done their job, with no clear frontrunner in terms of power. Which for the past 6 or 7 years, hasn’t been the case. Mercedes got it right with the new rules in 2014, nailing their Turbo-Hybrid format straight off the bat, leaving everyone else catching up.
But they have caught up. We expect the majority of the teams have somewhere around 1050 horsepower available to them, and the difference between the best and the worst isn’t more than about 15 horsepower. So really not a lot.
With that said, the engines do differ. So let’s break down these differences.
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