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Cowell: Still gains to be had with Mercedes power unit
In what will signal an ominous warning to their rivals, Mercedes are working on a brand new engine for the 2018 Formula 1 season which could be even more powerful and effective than the one that led them to two titles in 2017. Led by Andy Cowell the Mercedes F1 engine department at Brixworth has produced another evolution of their power unit which they expect to raise the bar even further. Cowell said in an interview, 'We've got ideas to reduce the friction in pretty much every area of the power unit, or the losses in electrical systems. Every time you do an engine, every time you do a phase update you've always learned.' 'So you freeze the concept, you do the work, you do the prove-out,...
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