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Ecclestone pushing for standard customer engine

A more cost-effective V6 customer engine could be made available to teams from 2017 as a solution towards bringing costs down, according to Bernie Ecclestone, with a tender process supported by the FIA set to be launched next week The F1 supremo has frequently expressed his dissatisfaction with the current generation V6 turbo hybrid power units, insisting they are not fast enough, not loud enough and too expensive for customer teams at a time when many are struggling financially. As a result, solutions have been discussed to both bring costs down and provide an option for other teams unable to source a supply (namely Red Bull), the latest being a simpler V6 twin-turbo engine developed by a...
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