Colin Kolles has revealed he does not support moves to legalise ‘customer cars’ in formula one.<\/p>\n
On Thursday in Geneva, the F1 Commission will debate a proposal to liberalise the next Concorde Agreement so that the sharing of intellectual property is not so tightly controlled.<\/p>\n
HRT boss Kolles, however, said he would have no interest in buying a complete car for the small Spanish team.<\/p>\n
“Formula one is what it is today because of the obligation of each team to own the intellectual property of its own project,” he is quoted by O Estado de S.Paulo newspaper.<\/p>\n
“It would be a mistake to allow the use of other teams’ projects,” he added.<\/p>\n
Kolles said the current system works well for small teams.<\/p>\n
“Currently, we engage on the market several enterprises to build the pieces that we ask for, so we do not need to maintain autoclaves or wind tunnels and it (running a team) is not as expensive as before,” he explained.<\/p>\n
Jenson Button said allowing customer cars would make it very difficult for those small teams who want to continue to build their own chassis.<\/p>\n
“They (would) put all the effort into designing a car over a winter to suddenly be racing against a ‘Red Bull rebadged’ or a ‘McLaren rebadged’ or something,” said the McLaren driver.<\/p>\n
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