Mercedes' Toto Wolff says a new F1 engine “would be disastrous for the sport” after Christian Horner called for a change in 2016. Horner suggested F1 should introduce simplified engines the season after next, saying it would reduce costs and could also be used to address the issue of sound. However, Wolff said any change in engine regulations after the significant investment in the current units – estimated by Horner at “close to a billion euros” – would be a bad move which would cost even more money. “We are all talking about costs and if you would open up the regulations in the way it has been described in that press conference, that clearly means you don't care about costs...
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