Why would they make an engine 'less reliable'? If the engine that is delivered to them is a standard Merc unit, that is as good as it can be. To have a different engine would mean making one unit deliberately worse? No one would do thatnetoperek wrote: ↑26 Jun 2019, 19:57Italian Motorsport has an interesting theory - Russel gets different "engine care" than Kubica. In a nutshell, George's engine drives like a Mercedes, while Robert's like Racing Point.
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https://it.motorsport.com/f1/news/ecco- ... o/4482646/
I don't know about reliability issues, I guess it's more about power. Article suggests that George drives "Casa" spec like Lewis and Robert gets a typical customer's spec, like Racing Point drivers. Russel is a Merc driver after all.Big Tea wrote: ↑26 Jun 2019, 20:39Why would they make an engine 'less reliable'? If the engine that is delivered to them is a standard Merc unit, that is as good as it can be. To have a different engine would mean making one unit deliberately worse? No one would do thatnetoperek wrote: ↑26 Jun 2019, 19:57Italian Motorsport has an interesting theory - Russel gets different "engine care" than Kubica. In a nutshell, George's engine drives like a Mercedes, while Robert's like Racing Point.
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https://it.motorsport.com/f1/news/ecco- ... o/4482646/
Can Mercedes do that though? Aren’t Manufacturers supposed to supply the teams with the same hardware and software?netoperek wrote:I don't know about reliability issues, I guess it's more about power. Article suggests that George drives "Casa" spec like Lewis and Robert gets a typical customer's spec, like Racing Point drivers. Russel is a Merc driver after all.Big Tea wrote: ↑26 Jun 2019, 20:39Why would they make an engine 'less reliable'? If the engine that is delivered to them is a standard Merc unit, that is as good as it can be. To have a different engine would mean making one unit deliberately worse? No one would do thatnetoperek wrote: ↑26 Jun 2019, 19:57Italian Motorsport has an interesting theory - Russel gets different "engine care" than Kubica. In a nutshell, George's engine drives like a Mercedes, while Robert's like Racing Point.
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https://it.motorsport.com/f1/news/ecco- ... o/4482646/
I assume they can do it with software as in 'modes' but can see no reason why they would. They are probably running far lower 'modes' than Merc and they have been bulletproof.SmallSoldier wrote: ↑26 Jun 2019, 22:13Can Mercedes do that though? Aren’t Manufacturers supposed to supply the teams with the same hardware and software?netoperek wrote:I don't know about reliability issues, I guess it's more about power. Article suggests that George drives "Casa" spec like Lewis and Robert gets a typical customer's spec, like Racing Point drivers. Russel is a Merc driver after all.
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Thanks for the link, but the article makes no sense. Merc wants to evaluate Russell's ability to be successfull in F1. Williams will never race against other teams this season, so Russell's only competitive benchmark is Kubica. If Merc gave Russell an advantage over Kubica, then Merc would be precisely ruining the one competitive benchmark that can be salvaged from buying the Williams seat this year.netoperek wrote: ↑26 Jun 2019, 19:57Italian Motorsport has an interesting theory - Russel gets different "engine care" than Kubica. In a nutshell, George's engine drives like a Mercedes, while Robert's like Racing Point.
Source:
https://it.motorsport.com/f1/news/ecco- ... o/4482646/
I would say this is just another PR attempt from Kubica camp to mask his uncompetitiveness compared to Russell. It's something similar to his previous excuse stories of "used parts" / "broken chassis" / "different treatment" /...netoperek wrote: ↑26 Jun 2019, 19:57Italian Motorsport has an interesting theory - Russel gets different "engine care" than Kubica. In a nutshell, George's engine drives like a Mercedes, while Robert's like Racing Point.
Source:
https://it.motorsport.com/f1/news/ecco- ... o/4482646/
Regulations are saying that you have to give all teams the same engine, but doesn't say that you have to give all the teams the same knowledge about it... Remember Grosjean at Spa.
I'm quite certain that's been amended since then, hardware and software must be identical across all teams using the same PU. Mercedes were the ones accused of having secret engine modes in the first place, I highly doubt they would still be trying something like that now.