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Mercedes and Ferrari push back on F1 engine cost cap plan

Mercedes and Ferrari are hitting back at efforts to cap engine costs in formula one. Teams struggling for mere survival, like Force India, Lotus and Sauber, currently pay hefty engine bills to the tune of EUR 17-22 million per season. It is significantly more in the new ‘power unit' era than they were paying in the V8-powered past. 'The engines are the most decisive cost driver,' agrees Sauber's Monisha Kaltenborn. She said that in the normally-aspirated era, F1 got the per-season cost down to about $14 million per season. 'We wanted to go further down and (instead) we've gone in the wrong direction,' Kaltenborn added. Germany's Auto Motor und Sport, however, says the FIA has reacted...
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