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Taffin: New engines will see workloads double

Man hours spent per team per race will run into hundreds - more than twice the preparation time for the V8s, says Renault Sport F1's head of track operations, Remi Taffin.How will preparations for a race change with the new Power Unit?With the new Power Unit incorporating complex electrical and energy recovery systems alongside the standard internal combustion engine the workload pre-race will approximately double. As usual the chassis teams will send us the basic set-up information for each race about two weeks before the event. The engine engineer for the team will then combine this with Power Unit data in realistic conditions to simulate the general operating parameters of the car at...
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