{"id":22123,"date":"2014-06-02T06:46:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T10:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=22123"},"modified":"2014-06-02T06:46:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T10:46:22","slug":"new-engine-era-far-too-expensive-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/new-engine-era-far-too-expensive-head\/","title":{"rendered":"New engine era ‘far too expensive’ – Head"},"content":{"rendered":"

F1’s new turbo era is “far too expensive”, according to Williams co-founder and former technical boss Patrick Head.<\/p>\n

\"Patrick-Head-1\"The 67-year-old Briton told the BBC he thinks the sport has taken a wrong turn in focusing too much on road-relevant hybrid technology.<\/p>\n

“I think it should be more about the drivers and more about entertainment on the track,” said Head.<\/p>\n

“The road car people are doing a perfectly good job on hybrid anyway at the moment,” he added.<\/p>\n

“I’m not sure that it needs formula one to demonstrate hybrid technology.”<\/p>\n

And he thinks the main problem is the cost of the engines to the teams.<\/p>\n

“You could produce 800 horse power for 2 million euros a team each year.\u00a0 I think the teams are having to pay about ten times that amount,” said Head.<\/p>\n

“It’s a very expensive way of powering formula one cars.<\/p>\n

“I think the engines are fascinating pieces of kit, but I think they are far too expensive for what they are supposed to be doing.”<\/p>\n

With a similar view is former F1 team boss Flavio Briatore, who said F1 began to turn the wrong corner due to the disproportionate influence of engineers.<\/p>\n

“Is it realistic to design seventy different wings in one season?” he is quoted by Italy’s La Stampa.<\/p>\n

“Just so these engineers can come to orgasm?<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately,” said Briatore, “with the abolition of FOTA, a free hand was given to people with no sense of proportion.”<\/p>\n

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F1’s new turbo era is “far too expensive”, according to Williams co-founder and former technical boss Patrick Head. The 67-year-old Briton told the BBC he thinks the sport has taken a wrong turn in focusing too much on road-relevant hybrid technology. “I think it should be more about the drivers and more about entertainment on …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,252,5340,124,595],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22124,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22123\/revisions\/22124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}