Formula 1 teams tend to use more standard parts as measures to reduce costs, according to executive director of McLaren, Zak Brown.

Like F1 moving to a post-Bernie Ecclestone time, some focus is on bringing costs under control, which is racing better.

The standardization of parts has finally several times in previous years, and Brown believes that it would be a good way to reduce costs.

However, he claims not to be the answer to all the problems F1 and think that it should instead be part of a broader plan that includes a budget cap.


"There are some who think it should standardize certain parts," said Brown Motorsport.com sister publication Autosport. "The teams showed that they are very intelligent.

"I believe that you can not control the cost of just checking out what the car only to find other areas in the wind tunnel as an excellent example :. We pulled that now CFD budgets is through the roof, so you don 't think you can manage it only standardization of parts.

"You can do some of that, and I do not think that the consumer has clear what the suspension on your car looks, in relation to the suspension of Williams, as an example.

"So I think that things can be standardized to reduce costs that do not improve the show and the fans do not recognize the difference.

"But I still think we need a budget cap, which most other sports have."

The new strategy for F1

The former head of the team of Ross Brawn, who works in a three-man team with a new director Chase Carey and commercial boss Sean Bratches, talked about taking a long-term approach and move away from reactive decision F1 recently perverse, as the settings qualification format starting 2016.

Brown says that the technical challenge is important to F1, but I think that a better balance that can be struck.

"DNA of F1 is always a fair element technical challenge," said Brawn BBC Radio 4

"I think it's healthy, there is a need for cars to be different, and there is a need for fans to follow a cyclic competition of different teams.

"But it is quite exaggerated at the moment, so we have to look at that and see how we pull it back, because the difference between the front and rear are dramatic.

"There is no doubt that we will have a complete list of objects, one of which is to enable small teams to stand on his feet.

"That's one end includes money paid teams, and at the other end of the cost to go racing, and putting on a decent show.

"That money is paid to the teams, we can not much about for many years, until the commercial contract is again reviewed.

"But the costs of equipment, I think that the commercial rights holder have a valid entry in trying to ensure that those who are tied down."

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