Honda Racing F1 - ECU | The F1 Power Unit Explained (VIDEO)

Honda Racing F1 - Greg Foot and Jimmy De Ville demonstrate how the Electronic Control Unit (ECU) works and explain how it controls all components of an F1 power unit by using an ECU board and a go-kart. Supplied by McLaren to all F1 teams, the ECU checks over 10,000 things a million times every second. It’s important in making sure drivers have the right amount of power at the right time throughout a race and enables the whole power unit to achieve energy efficiencies of up to 40 MJ per lap.

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