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Wolff rejects FIA plan for customer engine cost cap

Toto Wolff has rejected the FIA’s plans to cap the price of engines to customers to approximately 12million, insisting Mercedes already make a substantial loss supplying engines already. Ferrari have already vetoed the plans to reduce the cost of customer engines from its current approximate of 20million, with Mercedes-Benz’s Wolff saying it would be unsustainable for manufacturers to supply an engine for so little money. Mercedes currently supply Williams Martini Racing, Sahara Force India and the Lotus F1 Team with engines in 2015, with the latter being replaced by the Manor F1 Team next season. 'We already lose money on the engine side, substantial,” said Wolff. 'The question is...
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