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Analysis: Can F1's new turbos break the 1000bhp barrier?
Could the current V6 engines reach the magical 1000bhp many in F1 dream of? It's not out of the question, as Jonathan Noble explains. Formula 1's latest turbo engines have come in for a fair bit of bashing since their arrival on the grand prix scene in 2014, being lambasted as both too slow and too quiet. But while the noise complaints were justified – and changes have been made to exhausts for 2016 to address this – on the power stakes, the reality of just how many horses these units are pumping out is quite different to how many have perceived it. For while the turbos are in the back of cars which are lapping much slower than the speed peaks we saw in the mid-2000s, these engines are...
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