Beginning with the season of 2022 will also come up in the world rally championship (WRC), hybrid drives are used. The factory teams will use the newly to be established Rally1-cars. Only these vehicles will have hybrid technology. And now is, who will deliver this technique. The Supplement the in Starnberg, Bavaria-based company has received .
The decision appears from a communication of the international automobile Federation (FIA) Tuesday. Because in an extraordinary, electronic voting (E-Vote) has been awarded the FIA world Council (WMSC) the contract to the German company. Advance since December, 2019 ongoing tender procedure in which several companies participated, with Expertise in the area of hybrid technology, part of it was gone.
“The FIA published the 19. December 2019, an invitation to tender for the selection of a single Hybrid supplier in the world rally championship for the period of 2022 to 2024, and for the new vehicles of the class Rally1. The world Council has approved the appointment of Compact Dynamics, which is the sole supplier and also the provisions of the technical regulations of the Rally1-engine.”
“The current base engine will remain, however, with measures to reduce costs and development,” it says. Exactly how these measures will look like, you want to give but known at a later date.
Compact Dynamics is part of the Schaeffler group, which, in turn, keeps close technical cooperation with Audi. The Compact Dynamics-to-pitch hybrid system should not be used the WRC season in 2022, but all-encompassing.
Because in addition to the restriction that it is up to the new Rally1-cars of the works teams is also planned that the hybrid drive is supposed to come in the first line of connection stages to be used. On the actual special stages of the FIA wants to regulate the use of hybrid technology in order to keep the average speeds in the frame.
This article was written by Mario Fritzsche, Co-author: James Newbold
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