I wouldn't be surprised to see the boost at around 1 bar TBH. 2.5bar with pop-off valves 1.5L turbo engines in 1988 produced around and upwards of 750bhp. Same engines with today's tech and development would probably do 850-900bhp, probably more.
That said, GP2 uses 4L V8s that are undoubtedly restricted in rev range and designed to be ultimately reliable. F2 could yet use 2-bar or more boost, and we know Audi's engines can go several thousand miles without breaking.
It does give them the option of (with good software) push-to-pass, like ChampCar.
I hope the cars they're producing are not only safely modern, but simplistic (i.e NO WINGLETS ETC), like the 90s F1 cars.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/16/2008 06:46PM by turkey_machine.