January 27th, 2014 (F1Plus / Chris Cameron-Dow) - 2014 sees perhaps the most significant regulation changes in the history of Formula One. That’s not an exaggeration. The 2014 Formula One cars will look and sound markedly different from anything that has come before them. More than that, what goes on beneath the bodywork has changed dramatically. Let’s take a look at what’s going on in a 2014 Formula One car, compared to what was seen last season: Smaller, Greener Engines Of all the changes, the most significant is in the engine regulations. Gone are the 2.4 litre V8 engines that revved to 18,000 rpm. They’ve been replaced by hybrid 1.6 litre V6 turbo engines with a rev limit of...
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