🗣️'Every team is just writing off $8-9 million a year for gearboxes where there is no performance difference at all.' AstonMartinF1 boss Mike Krack has questioned this outlay in a cost cap era ⬇️
While the power unit rules have already been fixed, everything related to the chassis is still under discussion, and inevitably part of the focus is on cost reduction.
The Silverstone outfit is keen to ensure that it is ahead of the game if there is any move to standard parts or an overall simplification of the technology required. "So in a cost cap world, it's a question that you have to ask – if it makes sense that you go with such complicated technology if there is no difference in performance?
“So that's that was the reason why we are in talks and why I think as a sport we have to ask these questions, and think about is it making sense that we make things a bit simpler?" “Seamless is something that you can discuss, the amount of gears you can discuss, or you can introduce some level of standardisation.
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