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Originally Posted by Flo aus N
Well, in fact all the engine technology, used in WEC is not road relevant. The ICE are built around pre chamber ignition and using Lambda numbers of 1,5-1,8. Thats never gonna happen in a road car, because with this high L-numbers it's impossible to use a catalyst and you need a catalyst in order to deal with all the NO and CH...
The diesel burning process of the R18 was also not really road relevant, given his burning process, but thats the same for F1 engines. In fact it will be really interesting how AMG will handle their AMG One Hypercar in terms of exhausts...
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What if a simulation tool developed for combustion dynamics for an LMP1 engine was later used to develop and improve a road car engine. Or what if you hired an exceptional engineer to work on the LMP1 program engine, and then the program shutters, and he goes to work for the road car division (*cough* Audi *cough*)
The ways in which technology and expertise transfers to the road from these motorsports programs is sometimes direct, and other times more abstract.
Think about Honda F1 for example. The engines and power units do not fail on the dyno, but they fail on the track. They are going to learn something fundamental there, and it will perhaps find it's way back into the road vehicle development.