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Pushing engines to the limit makes 'no difference' to racing - Cowell

Andy Cowell insists that removing engine constraints to allow drivers to always push to the limit wouldn't actually improve on-track action. "I don't think it would make any difference," the managing director of Mercedes AMG high performance powertrains told RACER magazine. "The relative performance I suspect would be exactly the same as it was in Abu Dhabi. All that would happen would be that costs would go up." Drivers currently have to take great care not to over-tax their engine units during the season. Some teams have even started limiting the amount of running time in practice sessions. The situation will only get more tense in 2018, when the number of power units...
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