Mercedes’ High Performance Powertrains division has received a uncommon engineering award for utilizing Formula 1 expertise within the Mercedes-AMG ONE hypercar.

A street automotive, the design is fitted with a 1.6L V6 turbocharged engine, with electrical motors and batteries churning out 1,048 bhp – near what the likes Lewis Hamilton, George Russell and Sebastian Vettel are armed with in F1.

The hypercar undertaking was created to switch the turbo hybrid expertise utilized in F1 since 2014 to the street automotive market, with Mercedes HPP scooping the Dewar Trophy for his or her efforts.

Awarded by the Royal Automobile Club, it’s named after Sir James Dewar MP who donated the trophy within the early twentieth Century.

It is just not an annual trophy – solely being handed out “in recognition of an outstanding British technical achievement in the automotive year in the preceding field.”

It is the third time Mercedes HPP have received the award – doing so in 2009 for the addition of KERS into F1 and once more in ’14 for the dominance proven within the first yr of the turbo hybrid laws.

Previous winners embrace the likes of Jaguar, JCB, Lotus, Dunlop and McLaren.