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Originally Posted by avvelenamento
again, less tech and give a more financial point of view: mercedes, renault, ferrari and honda in 2015 will be the engine suppliers of 2014 f1 spec turbo-ers units. Mercedes, renault and ferrari are not interested to step inside WEC, honda will use the modified indy engine.
To modify an f1 engine for endurance races, ferrari/mercedes/honda/renault will have to spend a lot of money in R&D, and if very likely they won't step inside, who will buy these engines? lmp1 private teams? please come back to reality... renault will ask more than 20 mln of € per season to supply their engines to f1 teams, wich private endurance team can spend even only the half just for the engine's contract?
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All is not said about that. You're presuming that F1'll be happy with their new engines. It might just as well go the other way as in a dwindling popularity of F1 because of these engines. Let's face it, these new turbo engines will by far not be as spectacular as the F1 engines of the famed 'turbo era'.
The engines themselves'll produce some 500bhp, hardly a staggering number so don't expect loud and flamespitting spectacle generators.
This could then mean, if this F1 engine formula will cause fewer spectators/F1 fans, that the engine regs could be changed around before we know it, leaving stacks of redundant engines up for grabs for endurance racing.
