“It’s no secret” McLaren Team Principal Andreas Seidl questions technology sharing between partner teams

“It’s no secret” McLaren Team Principal Andreas Seidl questions technology sharing between partner teams

Andreas Seidl

The 2022 Formula one season sees new regulations imposed and a new generation of cars focused on improving racing. The new regulations have boosted the hope amongst midfield teams to get ambitious as the grid is a level playing field. But McLaren boss Andreas Seidl believes that there is a breach of rules.

The current F1 team features “B teams” who share a relationship with the front runners like Mercedes, Red Bull and Ferrari. Teams are allowed to use the same Power units and Gearbox components as their competitors. But in recent years multiple Aero rigs and other parts have been lent to the support teams.

With the budget cap hitting, new regulations and restrictions in testing, this issue has resurfaced. Andreas Seidl says the technology sharing between B teams puts them in an unfair position. The German has requested the FIA to look into this matter.

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Andreas Seidl wants F1 to be “a championship again“

Andreas Seidl
Andreas Seidl

McLaren Team Principal Andreas Seidl has stated that technology sharing between partner teams has to be reviewed with the FIA. In a recent interview, he stated that the team are requesting the FIA to scrutinise the issue ahead of the 2022 Formula One season.

Seidl said, “In the team are very busy with ourselves this week so I can’t speak specifically about the two cars of Haas and Ferrari for example. But it’s not a secret that in general definitely these relationships that can exist within the regulations, how they are in place at the moment is a concern for us. That’s why we are definitely of the opinion that moving forward we should put steps in place that F1 is actually a championship again of 10, 11 or 12 true constructors.”

He added, “From our point of view F1 should be to be a championship of 10, 11 or 12 teams competing where the only things you should be allowed to share are actually the power units and the gearbox environments, everything else, you have to do yourself. Because we know that soon as you go further you have definitely a change or transfer of IP which is performance relevant regarding the car, and that’s not what F1 should be about.”

Seidl has requested the FIA to review this and hopes that “at some point we make steps.” Apart from Mercedes who supply the power units to the team, Mclaren do not share any relation with any team in the Formula one grid. Apart from Haas and Ferrari, AlphaTauri acts as a B team for Red Bull and utilise their parts in cars.

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