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Customer teams can win in F1 – Symonds

Pat Symonds has denied suggestions F1 teams cannot win grands prix if they are engine ‘customers'. Since deciding to leave the Mercedes camp and switch to Honda, McLaren supremo Ron Dennis has frequently said success in formula one is only possible today in works collaboration with a manufacturer or 'OEM'. In 2014 and again this year, independent British outfit Williams has been Mercedes' most competitive customer of its field-leading turbo V6 ‘power unit'. But Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa have not won a race in that period for the Grove team, and technical boss Symonds admits the works Mercedes outfit as well as Ferrari are clearly in the lead this season. 'Are we in that...
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