Button highlights importance of fuel efficiency in F1

McLaren lubricant provider Mobil1 has today released a video featuring Jenson Button, explaining some of the challenges that lubricant providers face now and will face in 2014 as well.

Different to popular belief, lubricant and fuel companies already strive to create products as light as possible, even though engine regulations have not had any focus on fuel consumption in recent years. The move to ban refuelling however did get things moving slightly, as the penalty for higher than average fuel consumption became bigger than it was before.

Looking ahead to 2014 where the total amount of fuel usage during a race will be strictly limited, the challenge for lubricant providers stays somewhat the same, even though it will arguably be more important than it was before.