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Originally Posted by TF110
F1 does not use capacitors. Only Toyota uses it in major motorsports. They won the Tokachi 24 hour race with a capacitor back in 2007 with the Supra hv-r. The one in the ts030 is an evolution of that. I doubt any other team will use one. Peugeot was going to use batteries in their hybrid-4.
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Obviously I'm wrong again. But surely toyota isn't the only one using super capacitor. Sauber attempted this approach but gave up after accidents. Renault seems to have adopted supercapacitor as well, at least in Formula Renault as onboard storage. Red Bull, maybe.
http://scarbsf1.com/blog1/2012/04/17...er-capacitors/