News Details

Can teams afford 2014 V6 engines?

Most formula one teams cannot afford to pay the prices quoted by engine manufacturers for next year's all-new turbo V6 engines. That is the claim of the German newspaper Bild, insisting that grandees Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes aside, the other seven teams are balking at the price demanded by F1's three V6 suppliers Renault, Ferrari and Mercedes. "Even in Barcelona," said Bild correspondent Helmut Uhl, "you could feel the strange, invisible tension." He wrote that, world champions and 'works' partner Red Bull aside, 2014 customers Williams, Caterham, Toro Rosso and even the highly competitive Lotus cannot afford to pay French supplier Renault the fee of EUR...
Full Story »
12y ago from GrandPrix.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Most teams unable to afford 2014 F1 V6 turbo engines

17 May, 2013 Most current Formula 1 teams cannot afford to pay the...
12y ago from YallaF1.com

Renault charging £18m for 2014 engine supply

Formula One teams face a massive 150 per cent hike in the cost of their...
12y ago from TheF1Times.com

Is Honda set to shake up F1 engine scene?

An increasing amount of rumours from various sources are pointing to the...
12y ago from F1Technical.net

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Marco Andretti retires from IndyCar after 20 seasons

Marco Andretti announced his retirement from motor racing on Wednesday,...
23h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Mark Miles teases possible non-championship...

IndyCar is largely considered a North American championship, with races...

IndyCar tire, brake testing completed on IMS oval

IndyCar staged a test at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Tuesday and...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Paul Merson predicts Tottenham vs Chelsea, Liverpool...

Arne Slot will not be sacked soon, he will get time at Liverpool because...
16m ago from SportsKeeda.com

'He just does what he does best, which is to play...

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta lauded youngster Max Dowman after their 2-0 win...
2h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Episode 851 – Young guns, and younger guns

Welcome to another episode of the Arsecast – the Arsenal podcast. In...
1h ago from Arseblog.com

Flow state

I have found some of the good faith conversation around the increase in...
2h ago from Arseblog.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.