Why was Ferrari at recent IRL engine forum?
Fiat, which owns Ferrari and Maserati, attended the recent IRL engine forum. Certainly they would not put Fiat on the engine cover of a race engine, if they were to enter one. More than likely it would be Ferrari, with an outside chance it would be Maserati. In a recent interview with German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo said that they are planning to reduce CO2 levels by 40% before 2012. They will make it possible thanks to a new hybrid technology and Ferrari might build cars powered by turbocharged V6 engines which are smaller and more fuel-efficient. It is rumored that the next IRL engine will be a turbo V6. “We are currently working on the development of a Ferrari that will use alternative energy sources and which will be based on what we are doing at the moment in Formula 1″, he said. KERS or Kinetic Energy Recycling System is a technique based on the brake-energy-regeneration principle and it consists of a super-efficient CVT gearbox which uses
