There is precisely zero cross over to real world road cars with the current engines and also for the '26 engines. If you are driving on roads such that energy recovery can be useful then you’re driving dangerously. These engines are only applicable to race cars. Audi insisting on the engine regs to make them road relevant is utter BS. They are never going to release an A3 with such an engine.
I’d love a return to V10’s because they are fun, powerful and light. Reduce the size of the cars whilst we’re at it -current cars look like saloon cars next to cars of the past and it’s hindering racing.
In my eyes the main problem here is that they are discussing this now, less than one year away from when the next regulations are supposed to come into force. That’s simply stupid. If they now completely do away with what has been planned, Audi will probably need to fall back onto Ferrari engines.
There is precisely zero cross over to real world road cars with the current engines and also for the '26 engines. If you are driving on roads such that energy recovery can be useful then you’re driving dangerously. These engines are only applicable to race cars. Audi insisting on the engine regs to make them road relevant is utter BS. They are never going to release an A3 with such an engine.
I’d love a return to V10’s because they are fun, powerful and light. Reduce the size of the cars whilst we’re at it -current cars look like saloon cars next to cars of the past and it’s hindering racing.
In my eyes the main problem here is that they are discussing this now, less than one year away from when the next regulations are supposed to come into force. That’s simply stupid. If they now completely do away with what has been planned, Audi will probably need to fall back onto Ferrari engines.