Here’s how F1 is tweaking its hybrid systems to try to save the show

After spending the last couple of weeks discussing the problem, Formula 1’s stakeholders have arrived at a number of solutions to the sport’s hybrid energy problem. F1 started this year with all-new powertrains with much more powerful electric motors than ever before, but with batteries that can only send full power to those motors for a few seconds a lap. Once exhausted, the power halves until there’s more charge in the battery. In qualifying this ruins the show, as the fastest lap is no longer a flat-out one; in the race it can create dangerous speed d …

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Author: Jonathan M. Gitlin