News Details

Customer teams can win in F1 – Symonds

Pat Symonds has denied suggestions F1 teams cannot win grands prix if they are engine ‘customers'. Since deciding to leave the Mercedes camp and switch to Honda, McLaren supremo Ron Dennis has frequently said success in formula one is only possible today in works collaboration with a manufacturer or 'OEM'. In 2014 and again this year, independent British outfit Williams has been Mercedes' most competitive customer of its field-leading turbo V6 ‘power unit'. But Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa have not won a race in that period for the Grove team, and technical boss Symonds admits the works Mercedes outfit as well as Ferrari are clearly in the lead this season. 'Are we in that...
Full Story »
10y ago from ThisIsF1.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

F1 engine customer teams can win believes Symonds

Williams technical boss Pat Symonds has denied suggestions Formula 1...
10y ago from GrandPrix247.com

F1 cars easier to drive today, cars of 80s were...

Pat Symonds, one of the most experienced engineers in F1, has admitted...
10y ago from ThisIsF1.com

Symonds: I do believe that today's cars are easier to...

Williams technical boss Pat Symonds, one of the most experienced...
10y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Symonds says F1 cars asier to drive today

Pat Symonds, one of the most experienced engineers in F1, has admitted the...
10y ago from GrandPrix.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Motorsport Week's Top 10 MotoGP riders of 2025

The 2025 MotoGP season had it all. With 22 rounds and 44 races, the...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Race start times for 2026 IndyCar season announced

The NTT IndyCar Series has announced the race broadcast start times for...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

'It was an unbelievable performance' - Martin Odegaard...

Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard heaped praise on teammate Declan Rice...
6h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Arsenal fan Anne Hathaway shares cheeky 'Owen goal'...

Arsenal fan Anne Hathaway shared a social media message referencing...
6h ago from SportsKeeda.com

'He's maybe one we should have tried to grab' - Steven...

Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard believs the club made a mistake by not...
6h ago from SportsKeeda.com

'He is fighting the ball' - Paul Merson claims one...

Arsenal legend Paul Merson believes striker Viktor Gyökeres is trying too...
10h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.