Agreement reached on engines between FIA and manufacturers: cost reduction and supply to 12 million
The alternative engine hypothesis seems to have been definitively averted
Who knows in what depths of their own common sense and with what huge effort the FIA and the main manufacturers present in F1 found the strength to reach an agreement regarding the controversy over the engines, definitively exorcising the bizarre hypothesis of introducing a customer engine with a different displacement from the V6 Hybrids of the official houses.
From the meeting held in Geneva by the F1 governance, Strategy Group and F1 Commission, bodies responsible for establishing the main rules of the sport de quo, no official announcements have arrived but the information gathered by the experts all points in one direction: the agreement between the FIA and the motor manufacturers is a reality.
The long one controversy pitted the manufacturers who tended to defend the current engine, including technology and supply costs, and the FIA intent on making a clear cut in expenses in favor of smaller teams, crushed by the price of complex hybrid engines.
Apparently the protagonists of the Circus have put aside their differences, meeting halfway: the manufacturers have agreed to simplify some components of the PUs, with a consequent reduction in production costs and the FIA has abandoned the idea of commissioning an engine engineer third the production of the CD. reciprocating engine. Furthermore, the price for the annual supply will be set at 12 million euros, much less than the twenty currently requested by Mercedes, Ferrari, Renault and Honda. The new rules on engines should concern the three-year period 2018-2020, while the rules for power units will remain unchanged until 2017.
Antonino Rendina
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