They've had some practice with their supercar, the mp4 12-c. What kind of a car name is that, anyway?
Maybe, but Mercedes might be ready to challenge for the WCC+WDC at that time and they wont want drivers with their engines in the way.
Red Bull been biting at Mercedes ankles because of engines for ages now, McLaren vetoed them out. Be interesting if they say no or yes to both.
F1 as a sport is lucky that red bull didn't get the merc engines. It would have been 2004 all over again if theyd got them. At least the others are giving rbr a fight this season.
The Mercedes engine may produce more power than the Renault but the Renault engine is more efficient and Renault have developed the engine mapping the best, so they each have their own advantages.
Sorry, I did not see this earlier Genji. The proposed configuration was for it to be a straight four, in order to comply with the most common engine layout for the average road car. - Utterly ludicrous in my view. Why restrict anyone to a prescriptive layout which does away with the very possibility of finding greater efficiency under a different format? - Daft in my view…
Cheers, cosi. I hadn't seen the configuration mentioned before. Yes - far too restrictive and shortsighted.
Here's the cynic in me: The whole idea was a political nod to VW Audi, who planned it as part of their marketing strategy and perhaps by coincidence lost interest in supplying F1 engines some time back…
I'm intrigued as to where this leaves Todt: in the last couple of weeks the President had been undermined and overruled by Max and Bernie, not once but twice now, with Bahrain and this. It doesn't say much for his authority.
Yes. He is being shown to be of poor judgement. I can assure you Max, that you are not the only one with such thoughts. His intention to be perceived as being decisive is being shown to be little more than that of a gambler, playing the odds that his decisions work out, thus leaving him bathing in good light. But it is becoming clear to those who previously did not know otherwise, that his decisions are made in the thinking that he simply goes along with the flavour of the month, expecting it all to pan out as planned, thereby leaving him without a headache. Worse still, in the light of obvious criticism about the Bahrain fiasco, he came out all guns blazing, stating that it would categorically go ahead! How very foolish. And of course this is why clever old Max Mosley chose an indecisive weakling in the first place…
