The Turbo Era: Formula 1 on Steroids

Since 2014, Formula 1 cars have been running on turbo power. These hybrid engines use a sophisticated combination of mechanical and electrical power to give record-breaking pace to contemporary cars, despite their size and weight, and to develop up to 1,000 horsepower, almost 300 more than the naturally aspirated ones that preceded them. As mind bending as those figures are however, they pale in comparison to those of the past. Some 30 years earlier, turbo engines were all the rage. It was a time of excess in motorsport that ran in tandem with Group B in rally cars and Group C in sports cars. Following the banning of ground effect and the massive simplification of aerodynamics that followed, engine power was the key to success in Formula 1, with none of the modern considerations surrounding sustainability, as engines regularly blew themselves up after only a handful of laps. Time to look at the turbo era.

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Timestamps

0:00 Introduction
1:04 Early years
4:37 1977
6:04 1978
6:51 1979
8:50 1980
10:28 1981
12:31 1982
16:02 1983
19:25 1984
23:38 1985
27:20 1986
31:02 1987
33:30 1988
36:14 Epilogue

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