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Originally Posted by JeremySmith
Bernie really is full of it ... They all should have had this conversation way before the engine suppliers started to spend a penny on a new engine formula ..
Lift the development restrictions, allow the teams more that five PU's a season, lift the silly fuel limits and turn the engines up !
They sound fine in person, life aircraft coming up into turn one at COTA ..
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Hold on a minute!
You seem to be overlooking the fact that the idea to have these type of "power-units" came from the engine providers, most notably Renault. They had in effect threatened to withdraw from Formula 1 as an engine provider if the changes didn't happen (to "reflect" their road going engines), whilst Mercedes were muttering on the sidelines that they needed to illustrate to their directors that the new units would be far more fuel efficient than the then current V8s.
It was the engine suppliers that basically handed the FIA the concept of the new units, and, after some horse trading, the two sides together wrote the new rules/regulations.
As I wrote on another thread, Renault have been pretty quiet this season, and it is my belief that, if the FIA started to re-write the rules, they will abandon F1 entirely and that Mercedes may not stick around either. The suits in Stuttgart are, even now, looking very closely at their involvement in the sport.