Feast Your Eyes On The First Pics Of The Porsche 919 Hybrid V4 Engine

This is the Porsche 919 Hybrid, a real beast of an endurance car. It took the German manufacturer to the FIA World Endurance Championship drivers’ and teams’ titles in 2015, as well as winning the iconic Le Mans 24 Hours.

While we all know the LMP1 car is powered by a highly complicated turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine with energy recovery systems, we haven’t actually seen official photographs. Well, that is until now.

The 2.0-litre V4 turbo is claimed by Porsche to be the most “innovative drivetrain concept on the entire grid” and the “most efficient combustion engine Porsche has built so far.”

Porsche won six races last year with the 919 Hybrid, including its third car triumphing at Le Mans, and the engine that powered it to success will now be displayed at race events, exhibitions and the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart.

The piece of engineering masterpiece features an exhaust energy recovery system, lithium-ion battery energy storage and hybrid management. All of this produces 900bhp. Aspects of it have even been picked up by road cars like the flat-four turbo-powered Porsche 718 Boxster.

Porsche’s title defence will kick off on 17 April at Silverstone, following a test event at the Paul Ricard track in France later this month.