Mercedes: The new rules will allow our competitors to catch up

Since the world of Formula 1 enters an era of 1.6 liter V6 turbo engines in 2014, Mercedes began to impose one of the largest dominations in the history of sport. After numerous complaints from other teams and the inability to catch up with the German manufacturer in the new season teams will have the opportunity to re-use previously prohibited development zones engines. Director of the department for development of engines Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains Andy Cowell comment on this issue as follows: "The rules have changed, as this year" black boxes "will not have them.

This means that each team can work on all 42 areas and aspects that allow direct changes in engines without breaking the rules, "said Cowell. "This year everyone can make changes more about the track in Melbourne or the last race in Abu Dhabi, or as each is comfortable. There will be places that are exceptions, but in general why do it? because we do not want to get so that there is a producer who has a good idea, but you can not develop it because of the black boxes. I just do not need situations in which it said: "we can not catch the leaders, because the rules do not allow us. " Any rule that hinders a team to catch up and to fight faster, bad rule, "he said. Cowell admitted that from Mercedes they did not have to work during the winter training in any of the prohibited zones until this year in the engines.