Mattia Binotto thinks the FIA and F1 need to look into increasing the season limit for engine components next season. The grid penalties have certainly been racking up in recent weeks...
Mattia Binotto says the number of engine penalties on today’s F1 grids is “too much”, and he’s not only referring to Ferrari’s tally.
, teams and fans left scratching their heads with Helmut Marko saying even Red Bull’s brains’ trust some times has a difficult time figuring it all out.“The reason why it took so long is that there are certainly different interpretations and the regulation is not clear enough,” he said.“I think not only how we decide the grid position based on the penalties, I think the amount of penalties we’ve got as well is too many.
From a time when some teams in the 1980s were said to run ‘qualifying’ engines, a PU that had better horsepower but wasn’t built to last, Formula 1 has taken steps to become more sustainable – for the environment and the bank account.