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FIA make massive Mercedes admission

The FIA are keen to avoid a team having a superior power unit in 2026, when the new engine regulations are introduced. Effectively, the governing body don't want a repeat of what happened when the engines were last significantly changed in 2014, when the turbo-hybrid era was introduced. Mercedes entered the turbo-hybrid era with an engine so powerful that they 'never' ran it on full power during qualifying, as revealed by Paddy Lowe, who was the side's technical director at the time. FIA head of single seaters, Nikolas Tombazis, is very much wanting to avoid a 'huge controversy' in 2026 by one manufacturer having a significantly stronger power unit, which is why measures have been put in...
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