My understanding of the regs is that giving more capacity doesn’t really solve the problem because the problem isn’t capacity, it’s the recharging speed. You can deplete your battery on a straight and be fast but if the battery doesn’t get recharged by the time you get to the same straight you’re not going to be consistently fast. To be consistently fast the battery would need to be fully charged every time you want to use it. That’s why you’re seeing lift and coast. Not because they ran out of power but because lift and coast recharges the battery more. If the batteries would charge faster we’d probably have drivers complaining less about the cars.
My understanding of the regs is that giving more capacity doesn’t really solve the problem because the problem isn’t capacity, it’s the recharging speed.
But the teams wanted exactly that when they fought tooth and nail against front-axle recuperation out of fear that Audi would have some secret sauce there.
I wonder if increasing energy capacity would improve things and if the FIA could amend the regulation in that direction next year
My understanding of the regs is that giving more capacity doesn’t really solve the problem because the problem isn’t capacity, it’s the recharging speed. You can deplete your battery on a straight and be fast but if the battery doesn’t get recharged by the time you get to the same straight you’re not going to be consistently fast. To be consistently fast the battery would need to be fully charged every time you want to use it. That’s why you’re seeing lift and coast. Not because they ran out of power but because lift and coast recharges the battery more. If the batteries would charge faster we’d probably have drivers complaining less about the cars.
Oh, I see. So my suggestion by itself wouldn’t fix the problem Max describes.
But the teams wanted exactly that when they fought tooth and nail against front-axle recuperation out of fear that Audi would have some secret sauce there.