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FIA's Todt says F1 went ‘too far' with hybrid power unit

FIA president Jean Todt has admitted that Formula 1’s move to a hybrid system that includes an MGU-H was taking the regulations a “bit too far”. Specifically, he was talking about the MGU-H and not the MGU-K or what we fans used to call KERS. Recently the FIA and F1’s technical boss, Ross Brawn, offered an outline for proposed 2021 regulation changes and initially they were met with strong words by Ferrari who threatened to leave the series if f1 went backwards or became a spec series. Now Todt is saying the series needs to go a bit backwards. After another meeting, Ferrari softened their tone and said that the proposed changes may be a workable solution but there was still a lot...
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