Are Hypercar Engines Better Than Formula 1? — 24 Hours of Le Mans

Le Mans Hypercar regulations allow for absolutely wild engine designs! How Formula 1 Engines Make 1,000 HP - Subscribe to Engineering Explained for more videos! - Recommended Books & Car Products - EE Shirts! - Le Mans Hypercars, unlike Formula 1, have very open regulations regarding the engines. If it runs on gas, and has four strokes - yeah, you can run it! This leads to wildly different strategies within the world of endurance racing: small engines, large engines, turbo engines, naturally aspirated engines, V6 engines, V8 engines (you can even run rotary!), hybrid or not, the world of endurance racing has it all. It’s fascinating to see manufacturers choose different strategies when it comes to powertrain, including the behemoth, 8800 RPM naturally aspirated V8 engine used in the Cadillac V-LMDh. Endurance racing, however, is fairly complicated. This v