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V6 engines to stay until 2020 as cost-cut plan agreed
The current hybrid-V6 power unit will remain the sole source of power in Formula 1 until at least 2020, following agreement over cost-cutting measures during a two-day meeting in Geneva. The Strategy Group and F1 Commission met this week to discuss a raft of proposals related to the sport. However there was a focus on engines after Bernie Ecclestone and Jean Todt tasked the teams to come up with a solution to the 'power unit crisis'. Ecclestone and Todt both backed an independent engine proposal which would see an indepedent manufacturer not currently linked to the sport, supplying a more powerful, but cheaper engine to any team that wanted it. The idea behind the plan was to ensure any...
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