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Horner says FIA wrong on engine performance parity
The FIA's criteria for calculating whether Formula 1 engine performance has converged is flawed, according to Red Bull boss Christian Horner. Last year, F1's manufacturers and the FIA agreed to work towards engine parity with the leading three engines all within a 0.3 second bracket based on a theoretical lap of the Barcelona circuit. Followed detailed analysis, using "a very detailed methodology for simulating this based on all the data", the FIA believes this has been achieved. But Horner, whose Renault-powered Red Bull team was 1.711s off the pace of pole-sitter Sebastian Vettel in Russia, questioned the FIA's formula. "The problem is the methodology behind that,"...
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