Formula One engines are high-strung, precision engineered beasts that cost awesome amounts of money and thousands of man-hours to develop. Mercedes AMG, coming off its very successful 2015 Formula One season, where the PU106A V6 hybrid installed in the F1 W06 race car powered Lewis Hamilton to victory, has released a video showing the power unit and battery pack.
Narrated by Andy Cowell, Mercedes AMG’s head of high performance powertrains, the video, while not delving into the full technical details of the engine, gives an idea of the amount of engineering design that goes into it. Of note is the carbon-fibre liberally applied to various engine components, and the magnesium casing of the battery pack.
The PU106A hybrid power unit, developed by Mercedes AMG, is a 1.6 litre turbocharged V6 that revs up to 15,000 rpm. Comprising of over 3,000 discrete components, the engine weighs 145 kg, and develops in excess of 750 hp.
Formula One teams have traditionally been reticent about revealing costs, but unverified figures have suggested that a single engine can cost in excess of US$14 million (RM58.4 million), with the season budget for a top-flight team like Mercedes AMG Petronas being 467.4 million euros (RM2.17 billion) in 2015.
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my lord while a nice bit of kit they didnt take the top off and show the spilt turbo, or mention the bloody fuel brew and just how they are injecting it, hence the comments FUEL TRICKERY, AND THE FACT THEY HIRED AN FIA Engineer who mysterioly was unemployed to advise what they could get away with on the turbo link when it was split which by the way is old technology, hence no claim they have invented it, no mistake merc have done a brill job but that ice being in a grey area is an understatement let alone whats going on with the rear suspension and fuel
The real genius is the ERS system.
It performs Kenetic energy capture (during braking) and powers the Turbo charger to reduce lag, and the car directly.
I have always wondered why Hybrids don’t use waste exhaust gasses to power generators…and to that same extension, use a far more efficient gas turbine instead of an ICE.
CPS tech is better btw
Yes. Better at fuel consumption. U got a problem?
full season only 2.17bil… still lower than Najib account 2.6bil… affordable to run a F1 team under his administration