Visualized: Porsche’s GT3 R Hybrid has its personal boost button

Sure, it could appear to be any old Formula 1 steering wheel, but take a better look. See that giant red button sitting at the left side, just begging to be pressed? That, friends, will be a lift button, able to giving this Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid racer one other burst of acceleration. Unlike most battery powered hybrids, both the 911 GT3 R and the 918 RSR run on an inertial flywheel that’s spun by the momentum generated whenever the automobile brakes. All it takes is one tap of the boost button, however, for that momentum to be instantly converted right into a potent jolt of KITT-like horsepower. We still don’t really know what we’d do with each of the other buttons, but we definitely know which one we’d keep our thumb on.

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