I know that this topic has some of the engine gurus of this forum and I wanted to get your attention on an issue that, in my opinion, hasn't received enough attention: the degree of performance that a customer team can achieve from their PU, compared to a works team.
This discussion was started in a wrong thread and evolved from there:
http://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewto ... 1&start=45.
My take is that, even leaving packaging aside, there is bound to be a large degree of difference in the experience that the works team has with these PUs, compared to the customer teams. Given the large degree of complexity in this field, to what extent do you think that a customer team can extract the same performance from a limited number of PUs that is allowed to have, compared to the company that actually designed and tunes the PUs for the works team?