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Mercedes getting close to 1000hp - report

Published on 03 Jan 2018 15:21
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By: Fergal Walsh

Mercedes is just 50 horsepower shy of the landmark 1000hp breakthrough with its current F1 'power unit'. Auto Motor und Sport reports that GPS measurements made by a rival of the German marque's engine output at the end of 2017 showed 949hp.

But the report claims Mercedes engine chief Andy Cowell is "confident Mercedes will succeed" in breaking through the 1000hp barrier before the regulations conclude in late 2020: "If the world champions maintain their approximate development speed, 1000hp will be reached in 2019," correspondent Michael Schmidt said.

Ferrari is next in the power rankings with 934hp, followed by 907 for Renault and Honda's 860hp. Finland's Ilta Sanomat reports that Ferrari is pushing to get an extra 40hp from its engine in 2018, even though engine boss Lorenzo Sassi is moving to Mercedes.

"I don't know who said Sassi is a phenomenon, but I don't remember saying it," Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne told Marca. "What is true is that our problems were due not only due to him. Our intention was to keep him in GTs, but unfortunately he decided to leave and continue his career elsewhere. For the team it's a normal change and now we have Corrado Iotti and we're fine with him," Marchionne added.

Renault's Cyril Abiteboul told Auto Hebdo that he blames former boss Flavio Briatore for the French marque's current power deficit: "We are still paying the price for Flavio's decision in 2007 to dismiss hundreds of people when engine development was frozen," he said.

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Replies (5)

calle.itw

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Interesting data, I've been looking forward to seeing some actual numbers on this. I'd like to see some on stuff like fuel consumption and weight aswell.

I was pretty sure that we hadnt hit 1K yet, but its good that we are getting close. Even though I doubt we'd actually see 1K Hp on track until we had some degree of reliability, even if its Mercedes we are talking about. To think that Honda is about 90Hp shy of Mercedes... They sure have some catching up to do.
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- Jan 3 2018 - 18:16
boudy

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Old report. Mercedes no reaching 50% thermal efficiency.
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- Jan 4 2018 - 01:18
- calle.itw
  
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  Old from this year. Source regarding Merc?
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  Jan 4 2018 - 09:51
Barron

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I must have missed that bit in 2007 when Briatore (as Renault F1 Team Managing Director) had the power to fire 400 Renault employees from the factory? Unless the 400 Renault workers were all part of the F1 team which is dubious. This info sounds highly debatable. It couldn’t possibly be Cyril passing the buck, could it? ?
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- Jan 4 2018 - 18:41
- calle.itw
  
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  I havent found anything on it myself, but it could be that they had to lay off workers after the whole cheating scandal, which to an extent was caused by Briatore and co. But of course, Abiteboul is known for bullshitting quite alot.
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  Jan 4 2018 - 22:47