Williams chairman Adam Parr says 2013 engine changes vital for sport – Formula 1 news
Chairman of Team Williams Adam Parr has said that the introduction of the new engines’ regulation is a requirement for the sport and it is going to be an encouraging and relevant investment for the teams.
Despite the fact that most of the professionals and critics are against this rule change including Bernie Ecclestone and Luca di Montezemolo, Jean Todt now finally has an ally in his struggle for forcing this rule change in Formula 1 even though it will
change the course of the sport.
It is believed that watching the sport live will be “pointless” without the roar of a V8 engine.
This idea was approved at the International Automobile Federation’s World Motor Sport Council in December 2010 which means that starting from 2013, the V8 engines are expected to be replaced by four-cylinder turbo engines which are more efficient and are
going to decrease the cost of the sport to a large extent.
“A four-cylinder Ferrari seems absurd to me. We've not even built a ten-cylinder Ferrari and I'm still thinking that a six-cylinder would have been more in line with the Formula One positioning on the market,” said Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo.
On the other hand, Parr believes that Formula 1 is ultimately defined by its technology and this is a big step forward in terms of technology.
“The people who don't want things to change are the people who for whatever reason feel they have an incumbent advantage by not changing things. The problem with that is the sport will lose its interest very quickly if people think that it is standing still,”
said Parr.
As a result, the sport’s yearly cost in terms of fuel and engine expenses will decrease greatly but most of the teams are not comfortable with this decision. This sort of a technological advancement is not even appreciated by most of the critics and it is
believed that the matter will be discussed more frequently in the near future.
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