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When F1's turbo hybrid era got off to a slow start
Across the last few years Formula 1 test sessions have been busy affairs, with teams combining to rack up over a thousand laps per day, allowing them to tick off plenty of items from their schedule. But seven years ago the new era got off to a very different start, as MotorsportWeek.com reflects. This week in 2014 Formula 1 hurtled into a brave new era with the introduction of the much-vaunted 1.6 litre V6 power units. It didn’t get off to an auspicious start. At the end of January in 2014 the Formula 1 fraternity gathered at the Circuito de Jerez in southern Spain for the first pre-season test. Already there had been fears over the cost, speed and (lack of) sound of the new power units,...
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