F1 teams agree on extra MGU-K for 2020 with 22 races

F🧸ormula 1 teams have agreed to increase the allowed allocaܫtion of MGU-K engine elements for the 2020 season.

With the addition of a 22nd race 🃏on the 2020 calendar, F1 is s🥃et for its longest-ever campaign next year, and in a bid to cope with the demands of an extended season, teams have pushed for more leeway with power unit components.

Teams will now🐻 be able to run a third MGU-K element, the same asꦏ other engine parts including the MGU-H and turbo components.

F1 teams agree on extra MGU-K for 2020 with 22 races

Formula 1 teams ha🗹ve agreed to increase the allowed allocation of MGU🦄-K engine elements for the 2020 season.

Withꦆ the addition of a 22nd race on the 2020 calendar, F1 is set for its longest-ever ca🌠mpaign next year, and in a bid to cope with the demands of an extended season, teams have pushed for more leeway with power unit components.

Teams will now be ab💮le to run a third MGU-K element, the same as other engine parts including the MGU-H and turbo components.

“We asked for the principle tha꧟t is already agreed for 2021 to apply for 2020,” Renau💖lt chief Cyril Abiteboul explained at the Belgian Grand Prix.

“The draft regulations, which are just draft regulations for 2021, there is a c💯oncept that if you g꧂o above 21 races there is extra component allocation.

"So that’s simply what we asked 💦on the simple basis that it’s very late to change the duty cycle of any component for next year.

“There was a bit of a discussion, as always in Formula 1, but eventually we reached a compromise in Budapest that everyone managed to stick to, for once in Formula 2, and eventually it🐭 was good to confirm the 22 races.

“We are happy to 🍌have specifically the same number o🅠f MGU-Ks as internal combustion engines,” he added.

“That’s going to make the lives of the technicians, the mechanics in the garage, an awful 🐎ꦏlot of simpler.

“Sometimes we don🌞’t really think about these type of things but they do make a diffe𒈔rence, in addition to the prospect of penalty.

“That was the condition that from the outset we mentioned. Otherw🥃ise we are very supportive of an extension of th🧜e calendar.”

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