– Rob White, Renault Sport F1’s deputy managing director, looks back on the V8 era, which came to an end in Brazil last month, when the curtain dropped on the 2013 F1 World Championship... Rob, what have been the key evolutions of the V8 since 2006? The easy thought is to say that there can be no evolutions during an engine freeze! However there have still been several notable changes in the use and requirements for engines in the V8 era. In fact, almost every year there has been a change. The first, for 2007, was a homologation or freeze of the major parts and introduction of a rev limit. Then for 2008, the homologation perimeter was extended, and the SECU introduced. In 2009, the...
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