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F1 bosses to push for cheap engines
Formula 1 bosses Bernie Ecclestone and Jean Todt are pushing a plan that could kill the turbo hybrid engines introduced last year. Ecclestone and Todt are working towards a cheap customer turbo engine under an 'equivalence formula' in 2017. The road-car manufacturers in F1 want to stick with the turbo hybrids and have rejected plans to introduce a cost cap on the engines for customers. They fear the formula would be adjusted to make their units uncompetitive. Ecclestone, F1's commercial supremo, has long been an opponent of the complex turbo hybrid engines, which the manufacturers wanted introduced because they mirror development in the road-car field. Mercedes and Ferrari have made the...
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