Team: Toto Wolff (Executive Director - Business), Paddy Lowe (Executive Director - Technical), Andy Cowell (Executive Director of Mercedes AMG Powertrains), Niki Lauda (Chairman), Bob Bell (TD), Aldo Costa (ED), Geoffrey Willis (Technology Director), Ron Meadows (SD), Andrew Shovlin (CRE), Simon Cole (CTE), Matthew Dane (CM)
Drivers: Lewis Hamilton (44), Nico Rosberg (6)
Team name: Mercedes AMG F1 Petronas
You don't even need to race them. My understanding that is turning the engine on is enough to lock them in.PlatinumZealot wrote:In other words any engine upgrades you qualify with cannot be recalled and switched out. The tokens cannot be reverted once you have raced them.
So you could have one engine that is older but maybe a bit smoother than the rest, and use it at certain races where this might be an advantage?turbof1 wrote:You don't even need to race them. My understanding that is turning the engine on is enough to lock them in.PlatinumZealot wrote:In other words any engine upgrades you qualify with cannot be recalled and switched out. The tokens cannot be reverted once you have raced them.
However, if you for instance used a on older allocation of the pu earlier in the year and want to use that one again later on, you are allowed to do so, even if the tokens aren't applied on that allocation.
The teams don't typically use their engines up one after another. Instead they look at the race schedule, and how much stress the engines will be under at each race. They then try to allocate engines to races in a way that evens wear across the engines, so the engine that does Monza might do Monaco as well so as to reduce the stress.SiLo wrote:So you could have one engine that is older but maybe a bit smoother than the rest, and use it at certain races where this might be an advantage?turbof1 wrote:You don't even need to race them. My understanding that is turning the engine on is enough to lock them in.PlatinumZealot wrote:In other words any engine upgrades you qualify with cannot be recalled and switched out. The tokens cannot be reverted once you have raced them.
However, if you for instance used a on older allocation of the pu earlier in the year and want to use that one again later on, you are allowed to do so, even if the tokens aren't applied on that allocation.
I'd say Honda having temp problems would be an absolute certainty, they struggled with cooling of various components at all three winter tests when the temperature was 7-12C and if I remember rightly the mercury barely breached 18C in Melbourne.SiLo wrote:Not for Merc. Or Ferrari for that matter. Not sure about Renault of Honda though.
