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FIA will ‘monitor' McLaren's swap to Merc engines

Swapping to Mercedes engines for 2021, McLaren will allow the FIA to 'monitor' the change as the team needs to alter its chassis to fit the PU. Last month Formula 1 announced that all the teams would run their 2020 chassis in 2021 in a bid to cut costs. But while that is fine for nine of the 10 teams, for McLaren that poses a problem as the team is swapping from Renault to Mercedes engines in the off-season. The Woking team has been given the go-ahead to alter its chassis to fit the new PU. But with Formula 1 also set to freeze other parts, yet to be decided exactly what, the FIA will watch over the McLaren changes. 'For sure there will be be restrictions in terms of how good we can...
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