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F1 2013 – Prost: 2014 engines to suffer from reliability issues

Alain Prost believes “for sure” that we will see issues with engines during the early stages of the 2014 Formula One season when F1 switches to 1.6 litre turbocharged engines.Speaking to Autosport, Prost said “I can tell you, for sure we are going to have some reliability problems, in the beginning especially, we will see if it is only in private testing in the winter, but nobody knows at the moment.”“In a way it's good because we are at the beginning with this technology, like we had with the turbos [in the 1970s and 80s]. We all need to accept that sometimes it is going to be a problem.”“Reliability is always an issue. It's an issue because you have the engine and the turbo,...
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