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Originally Posted by Akrapovic
Fair point, but that's backwards. That's not "F1 tech on the road", thats "We made something good and would like to use it". Clever lobbying more than anything else.
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True, but it does point to the fact that some, maybe a lot or possibly all the technology in the current PUs do have some road relevance, whether that be for cars or commercial vehicles. And Mercedes obviously believe that the technology used for both F1 and for road vehicles can be or is transferrable, regardless of which way round it is.
This was one of the major arguments that swayed the main board of directors of Daimler Benz to permit the uptake of the budget for continuing in F1, which had been in doubt back then. That, along with the team's estimates for fuel savings which they actually under-estimated.
To Mercedes, that is all relevant because it can have an impact on it's road vehicles. Much in the same way that it was imperative to Renault that the ICE should be a small displacement unit with turbo. Because that was relevant to their road vehicles.