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FIA underlines push for standard parts in F1 from 2021

FIA underlines push for standard parts in F1 from 2021

08-03-2019 15:11
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Bobby Vincent

The FIA has underlined the push for standard parts in a Formula 1 car from 2021 onwards after the World Motor Sport Council approved the issuing of further invitations to tender.

The FIA, in February, auctioned the supply of a standard gearbox cassette to be used by teams from 2021-24 to interested parties.

Thursday's World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) meeting gave the approval for further initiatives, but no details have been revealed regarding which areas of the car or power unit may be affected.

"The council approved the launch of a series of tenders within the context of the ongoing development of the 2021 technical regulations," an FIA statement read.

The FIA and Formula 1 organisation have been working together very closely recently to try and make the 2021 rules package, with the standard parts.

"We need to close up the differential between the car in terms of overall performance," the F1 sporting boss Ross Brawn said to Autosport. "We've got a division one and division two at the moment, and we need to stop that, we need to have a much closer performance gap between the teams, and the cost control will be part of that, the regulations that are evolving will be part of that.

"There's technology that should be exciting and fascinating for the fans, yet every team builds its own fire extinguisher because they want to try and make their fire extinguisher a bit lighter than somebody else's fire extinguisher.

"Nobody is interested in that. That doesn't turn anybody on. But if you've got the money to put into the fire extinguisher, you can probably make one a bit lighter than someone else, and where the teams have the resources, and the money, and the budget, they can do those things.

"And then they get into just a fraction of a second advantage there, and a fraction there, a fraction there. Before you know it, they're a second ahead, and the competition is poor

"So, we have to have cars which are close to each other, and when they're close to each other we have to have them behave in a way that they can race each other."