UNDER THE HOOD
WHY EVERYONE IN F1 WANTED TO ‘PARTY’
It was Lewis Hamilton who, in 2018, coined the term ‘Party Mode’, to describe the engine settings that gave maximum performance, and in doing so brought to fans’ attention procedures that actually go back way before the introduction of the hybrid power unit in 2014.
Even the venerable Cosworth DFV had some adjustability on its fuel injection, and some historic racers still know that the trick to starting these was to click the cam on the fuel metering unit to ‘full rich’ and then back to ‘one off lean’ when the engine warmed
