Mosley will push through for standard engine regulation
FIA President Max Mosley remains convinced that the standard engine regulation means a step forward for Formula One. Mosley and the Formula One Team's Association (FOTA) had a meeting over the possible cost-cutting regulations in Geneva where the president of the governing body was going to defend his drastic idea's.
Max Mosley declared to news agency 'Reuters': "KERS will be essential on all road-going vehicles in the future, irrespective of their means of primary propulsion. The FIA therefore intends to keep KERS as a performance differentiator in Formula One and, indeed, increase its importance in 2011.
"This will give F1 far more relevance and credibility than the use of vastly expensive racing engines, or extremely light and sophisticated gearboxes, both of which are almost entirely irrelevant to modern road transport.
"To standardise a new technology which is directly relevant to the biggest single problem confronting road transport - energy efficiency - while allowing continued development in wholly irrelevant areas such as Formula One aerodynamics, is not rational.
"Technologies like KERS, as well as the recovery and re-use of exhaust energy and heat, should be the future performance differentiators in F1, not old or useless technologies such as ultra-high-speed engines or F1-specific aerodynamics."
