Mercedes engines case, Zak Brown: “It can be fine, it’s the usual political games”

The Mercedes engine like the double Brawn diffuser “These are the typical political games of Formula 1”, Brown’s comment on the sidelines of the presentation of the MCL40. “The engine has been designed to fully comply with the rules. It’s the essence of our sport, it’s nothing different from the double diffuser we’ve seen in the past, when [la Brown] it was perfectly fine. I don’t think there is a significant gain as the competition says. Obviously, however, it is part of their job to come up with a story for every perceived advantage”. That of the CEO of McLaren Racing is certainly a biased comment, which however reminds us that cases like this are recurrent in the history of Formula 1. The double diffuser of 2009, for example, arose from the different interpretation of the same rule by the teams, while now there is a debate on another. The crux of the question is whether the limit of 16 for the compression ratio should be valid in all conditions or only for technical checks carried out at temperature environment. “The reality is that the engine is perfectly fine, it passes all the tests,” says Brown [la divisione powertrain Mercedes, n.d.r.] did a good job.” Photo by Mark Sutton – Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images No risk for Melbourne