The engine development 'freeze' deadline will not be extended. Earlier, it emerged that crisis-struck Renault had managed to get onto the agenda for Friday's F1 strategy group meeting a discussion about extending the end-February deadline for the homologation of its troubled V6 'power unit'. But the French marque's Remi Taffin said on Friday: "Today we have sent an engine to the FIA to be sealed and we feel comfortable. "We would however be liars if we said that three more months would not have helped us," he is quoted by Germany's Auto Motor und Sport. Correspondent Michael Schmidt said engine rivals Mercedes and Ferrari "were of the opinion that they should not be...
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