Patent ID: 8727051

Claim:
A hybrid racing vehicle, comprising a first drive apparatus for driving wheels on a rear axle by an internal combustion engine, and a second drive apparatus having two electrical machines for driving individually suspended wheels on a front axle, and at least one electrical energy store having at least one flywheel store that can be discharged when at least one of electrical machines is operated as a motor and can be charged when at least one of the electrical machines is operated as a generator, the flywheel store being within the passenger compartment of the vehicle, the two electrical machines of the second drive apparatus being combined with a respectively associated gearbox in an electrical axle to drive the wheels on the front axle via a respective universally jointed shaft, the front axle being a portal axle with axes of the electrical machines being lower than rotational axes of the wheels on the front axle, and two electrical converters associated respectively with the two electrical machines and being combined in one converter unit forward of the front axle.