Formula 1 must wait a few more days to find out about future engine rules, after a much heralded vote on changes was unable to go ahead on Tuesday because not enough people where present.
The Strategy Group and F1 Commission met at Biggin Hill hoping to sign off a raft of changes to the regulations aimed at making cars faster, bringing the cost down and making performance closer.
On the car front, the situation was clear, with the radical overhaul of cars to make them up to five seconds faster per lap, are now going ahead after a push from some quarters to backtrack on the changes failing to get enough support.
In what was viewed as the last chance for F1 to abandon the changes – something Mercedes was particular keen to happen – there was no momentum behind abandoning the rules.
The scheme for wider and bigger cars had been agreed and put in regulations earlier this year, these will now push on unchanged.
However, the meetings of the Strategy Group and F1 Commission did not result in a final approval of tweak to the engine rules to reduce cost and level of playing field.
While there was majority approval at the Strategy Group for a two-year plan that will bring down cost by reducing engines to just three per year, close up performance and guarantee supply to all teams, the matter stalled at the F1 Commission.
A formel vote to approve the changes to the engine regulations could not go ahead because not enough members of the F1 Commission – made up of FOM, FIA, teams, sponsors and promotors – were present to formally sign matters off. Said to Motorsport.com.
It is believed absentees included promotors who could not travel to the meeting.
Instead an e-vote will take place over the next few days to decide if the manufacturers engine plan – and other changes like an increase in the maximum fuel limit – will go ahead.
It is hoped the e-vote can be completed by the end of this week.
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