Mercedes feel open-source system of designs are "worthy of exploring"

The technical director at Mercedes James Allison feels that open-source system of designs in F1 should be something that is looked at. Formula 1 is deciding on whether to allow teams to post online design and parts documents for rivals to have access to.

"It's quite a new idea and a reasonable amount of chat is going to be needed to turn it from promising concept into a deliverable reality, but I think it's worthy of exploring," Allison said.

This approach has been intended to lower costs, which many teams agree with, but teams do have worries that this could cause some reliability issues.