The technical director at Mercedes James Allison feels that open-source system of designs in F1 should be something that is looked at. Formula 1 is deciding on whether to allow teams to post online design and parts documents for rivals to have access to. "It's quite a new idea and a reasonable amount of chat is going to be needed to turn it from promising concept into a deliverable reality, but I think it's worthy of exploring," Allison said. "It will take a decree of patience because imagine we're coming up to 2021 – everyone designs up to the wire and then releases and goes racing. "So you couldn't sit there waiting for the open sources design to come from a...
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