FIA technical director, Nikolas Tombazis, has confirmed Racing Point can use old parts from Mercedes without having to lose any development tokens. With the new regulations postponed until 2022, Formula 1 reintroduced a token system in a completely different guise to help keep the costs down. Most parts on the 2020 cars are frozen for the 2021 campaign, but there is still some room for teams to further develop their 2021 challengers. However, teams only have two tokens they can use and so they have to choose their area of development very wisely. Some homologated components will cost one token and therefore can be upgraded twice, while larger-scale development such as the rear suspension...
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