A new directive from the FIA is aimed at ensuring customer teams have engine performance parity with works teams. As witnessed last year, come Q3 and the works Mercedes clearly had a mode that was not available to its customer teams, leaving the likes of Force India as frustrated at the German outfit's superiority as the Ferrari and Renault powered teams. However, it was widely suspected that the other manufacturers were also holding back in terms of the engines they supplied to their customers. In a bid to end the disparity a new directive, sent to the teams last month, will ensure that all the engines supplied by a manufacturer will be identical, in both the way they look and how they...
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