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Mercedes teams against relaxing engine freeze

Claire Williams with Toto Wolff Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff has declared his obvious resistance to moves to relax Formula 1's engine freeze, and fellow engine Mercedes powered teams share his views The German marque has utterly dominated in 2014, producing a clearly superior turbo V6 ‘power unit' than its engine rivals Renault and Ferrari. Despite the fixed homologation of the power unit specification, the struggling suppliers can make substantial changes for 2015 in the form of a ‘token' system that allows for an up to 48 per cent design overhaul. But also being discussed is that, in the event of another situation like 2014 where one manufacturer is clearly ahead,...
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