Mercedes HPP win rare award for road car F1 technology
Mercedes' High Performance Powertrains division has won a rare engineering award for using Formula 1 technology in the Mercedes-AMG ONE hypercar.
A road car, the design is fitted with a 1.6L V6 turbocharged engine, with electric motors and batteries churning out 1,048 bhp - close to what the likes Lewis Hamilton, George Russell and Sebastian Vettel are armed with in F1.
The hypercar project was created to transfer the turbo hybrid technology used in F1 since 2014 to the road car market, with Mercedes HPP scooping the Dewar Trophy for their efforts.
Awarded by the Royal Automobile Club, it is named after Sir James Dewar MP who donated the trophy in the early 20th Century.
It is not an annual trophy - only being handed out "in recognition of an outstanding British technical achievement in the automotive year in the preceding field."
It is the third time Mercedes HPP have won the award - doing so in 2009 for the addition of KERS into F1 and again in '14 for the dominance shown in the first year of the turbo hybrid regulations.
Previous winners include the likes of Jaguar, JCB, Lotus, Dunlop and McLaren.
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