If the battery was indeed emtpy on the williams, the MGU-H would have almost guaranteed prioritised filling it up for the next straight, instead of dumping directly into mgu-k. Given that honda ICE is around 80-90 bhp inferior to the merc, alonso would have enjoyed a net 70-80 bhp advantage in that instance.etusch wrote: ↑28 Nov 2017, 20:34Good but I think commenter(or journalist) forgot mgu-h supply on mgu-k. Their lost must not be full of 120 kw power.HPD wrote: ↑28 Nov 2017, 16:14The undercut was only good at Fernando Alonso. The Spaniard came to the pits one lap ahead of Felipe Massa and had his entire energy budget stashed for the one lap after the pit stop. At first the plan seemed to go awry. Massa rejoined Alonso again.
But on the long straights, the McLaren driver then struck. With a Honda engine against Mercedes power. But full-zero battery power, as confirmed by Williams engineering chief Paddy Lowe. The 163 hp difference can not even make up for a Mercedes engine.
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Brundle said a couple of times during the abu dhabi weekend that honda ICE is 11% down on mercedes in outright power (told so by the engineers). That would indeed make it around 90 bhp down.