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what combination of engines and fuel supplier is the best ? :)
The challenge in fuel formulation is finding the optimized balance of a range of performance parameters. Obviously optimizing for power is a priority – but there isn’t too much point in doing this if you have to compromise too much in terms of fuel efficiency. There are also two types of fuel efficiency, volumetric fuel efficiency (when the fuel is designed to give the best performance based on volume) and gravimetric fuel efficiency (where the fuel is designed to give the best performance based on mass).
You may have certain circuits which are marginal in terms of fuel tank capacity, in these cases maximising power and volumetric fuel efficiency is key. At other circuits the fuel tank size will not be a constraint, therefore gravimetric fuel efficiency (i.e. reducing the weight of the system) along with power will be the most important properties. Teams, together with fuel suppliers carry out extensive modeling and engine testing with the candidate racing fuels that they provide them, and that way they know that the best overall fuel is selected for each circuit. So test, test, test.