Dear Chris
Honestly, I don’t think a “real modern F1 hybrid engine power unit” may be actually replicated in RF2.
Even using at the best the RF2 spreadsheet…..
To make a realistic hybrid engine in RF2, just to make simpler the things, one should get 3 basic units: the thermic unit with turbo, the electric unit recharging battery by brakes , and another unit producing power from energy of brakes and turbine flow for an amount of 4 Mega joules......and all this mapped, with a special electronic control unit, in such a way that car may only use 2 mega Joules for 1 lap/track. Therefore, the hybrid power for a lap is accounting about 163 CV ( 120 Kw - 2 Mega Joules from the 4 ones stored ) and this hybrid power is shared , over 100 Km/H speed, along the track lap ( otherwise the duration could be about 33 seconds ) by an electronic centralin. Of course, along every track, and especially for each track, there are specific engine mappings.
Impossible to reproduce a realistic F1 hybrid engine.
If RF2 game should offer any similar system through an RF2 spreadsheet, one should be anyway a mechanical engineer to make a proper physics-engine unit.
But S 397 team, although composed by computer programmers, may not replicate such an hybrid unit model.
I'm curious to know how S 397 made hybrid engine for LMU ( I have this simulator but the driving effect is close to several RF2 cars…..in my opinion ), and I’m sure they simplified the engine system.
Unfortunately, this hybrid engine is not shared with RF2.....and anyway, like RF2 DLC mods, files are encrypted.
So, Chris..I think that actually in RF2 "the effect" of a good and realistic engine power unit may be the best target. In my opinion, this solution in RF2 it's better than that of some F1 mods offering a confused electric system that is not a real hybrid engine, but only a Formula E system ported on other non electric cars, with a Push to Pass that is not present in the F1. On the other hand, Kers offered by S 397 team is the old F1 2009 system.....and this is what you find on RF2 spreadsheet.
Thank you