Some more doubts about the 50-50 split where we touched on earlier from the Red Bull camp:
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/r...lems/10563550/
"The problem is that the design time and the development time of an engine are longer than the chassis," explained Wache. "So, to change the concept of the ICE, the battery and the electrical power starts to be very difficult for them by now.
"But the thing is that they didn't think through the full concept [of these new regulations] at the same time. First they defined the engine regulations and now we have to cope with that on the chassis side to compensate for the issue we have."
So there are three different lines of communication:
Red Bull:
The 505-50 split is wrong and not thought through well and we shouldn't have to fix that through the chassis side.
FIA:
No, all is well. This (amount of) drag reduction was planned from the start and not a patch for the power unit regulations.
Larger manufacturers like Alpine (Renault) and Mercedes:
We are not accepting any change on the engine regulations side (sounds a bit like how we ended up with the hybrid 1.6L V6's).
Will be interesting to see how this pans out. No change to the 50-50 split seems likely, but you never know.