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F1 customer engines must be same-spec in 2016

The FIA has confirmed that Formula 1 manufacturers will not be able to offer second-tier engines to its customer teams next season, unless all teams now agree to change the rules. Red Bull is battling to secure a supply of power units for 2016 identical to the ones being used by the Ferrari team, but its efforts so far have not been successful. There had been suggestions that Ferrari could offer 2015-specification engines, either to Red Bull or Toro Rosso, because it is now too late to ramp up production of the power unit that will be used by the works teams next year. But in regulations published by the FIA on Wednesday, it is made clear that as things stand Ferrari will not be able to...
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