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FIA closes loophole against customer engine equality

The FIA has announced a decision which it hopes will put works and customer teams on equal footing with regard to engine performance. While Formula 1's technical rules stipulate that all power units supplied by a manufacturer to its customers must by identical to the engine used by a works team, the regulations failed to stipulate that the same equality applied to how the units were operated. The governing body suspected works teams of unlocking specific modes, in qualifying trim for example, to gain a power advantage to which customer teams may not have access. Engine equality is covered by a dossier system included in Appendix 4 of the sporting rules. Last month, the FIA sent a technical...
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