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If the need is to limit power, then why not directly limit power: make a rule stating "no more than 600bhp" or something like that?

Improved technologies could still flourish. If a new approach could deliver more than the power limit, it might instead be re-tuned to provide better durability or better fuel efficiency or lighter weight.

But the FIA has interfered with any of these possible paths of innovation, because it's thinking more like a government and less like a group whose very purpose is to compete.




There is a lot that goes into engine performance rather than just raw power. This is why the rules become so intricate and convoluted.




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