Board Thread:Off-Topic/@comment-33870577-20180604230751/@comment-28169398-20180629204737

HeadFool wrote: Amrosa wrote: It is a Hybrid like the 2015, 2016, and 2017 919. But they took the gloves off. I got that. I'm trying to figure out the display. Right. It was hybrid boost on acceleration off the corners.

The Hybrid System dumps a huge amount of energy off of the corners for short periods to give the car a higher average speed for the straights, but the Internal Combustion engine provides all of the power over most of the straight.

They talked a lot about it on Eurosport during the 24hr of Le Mans coverage this year. Toyota does the same thing. Hybrid is only powering the car for maybe 25-35 seconds over an entire Le Mans lap.