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Originally Posted by Blacdout96
F1 is startign the use the KERS system, and also in the ALMS, teams ar starting to use alternative fuels ( E85) as well as back in 98 I believe, the Panoz team brought a GTR-1 with a hybrid regeneration system in it, but proved to be too heavy at the time, and wasent competative enough. hybrid systems are wanting to be inserted into racing, but if it will take away their edge on the competition, no one wants to use it, they also want to make sure it will be 100% reliable. I think Hybrid systems will one day become the deciding factor of who's got the edge over who, but right now, its still at a crawling pace to try and apply it,so once the racing world sees a hybrid system that is beneficial enough to use, this day and age of crying and grumbling about hybrid cars will be nothing but a distant memory.
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My point of contention is that the common hybrid systems that you see on the road today (like the one in the Camry) are not designed with speed or performance in mind. They are designed for economy. Other pace cars had some form of shared ground with performance.