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Supercars evaluating hybrids for Next Generation

The Supercars organisation is evaluating the introduction of hybrid power for the Next Generation regulations.

“There’s a process that a team on the Commission is working through between now and the end of the year to define what Next Generation looks like, the car of the future,” said Supercars CEO Sean Seamer to supercars.com.

The current regulations, named Gen2 that allows two-door cars and turbo charged non-V8 engines, are locked for the next three seasons.

“That gives us the full two years to work through development and implementation into 2021,” said Seamer.

Part of the evaluation of hybrid power is to attract more manufacturers as the championship will return to two manufacturers for 2019 as Nissan announced their exit earlier this year.

“We will include manufacturers in those discussions to get their feedback and their inputs, and in terms of what works for them, and make sure that we understand what their long-term product roadmap looks like. Hybridisation is obviously a key topic, so we’ll make sure we do our due diligence on that,” said Seamer.

“That’s a line that we walk, and we’ll walk through Next Generation, but it’s true of all motorsport. It’s certainly not a unique challenge to us.”