Andrea Stella, McLaren's team principal, commends the FIA for its efforts in creating engine parity between supplier and customer teams. He highlights the success of McLaren's customer engine supplied by Mercedes in winning the 2024 Constructors' Championship.
Lando Norris holds off Lewis Hamilton around the outside of Luffield as they fight over second place. Silverstone July 2023. McLaren boss Andrea Stella has praised the FIA for its role in ensuring parity between engine suppliers and customers. McLaren became the first customer team of the hybrid engine era to win a title, with the British squad securing the Constructors’ Championship in 2024 for the first time since 1998 at the season finale in Abu Dhabi.
In the early years of the hybrid era, the rules did not clamp down on how engines supplied to customer teams could differ based on software. For instance, while an engine manufacturer could supply a physically identical engine to a customer, it was not required to divulge all information on how it might operate that engine itself, leading to suspicions that there was a disparity in performance between supplier and customer. This was addressed in 2018, with the FIA moving to introduce regulations to clamp down on any possible disparities – supplied engines must be of identical specification to the manufacturer, and supplied with identical oils, fuels, and software.McLaren became the first team of the hybrid era to win with a customer engine supply, supplied by Mercedes, in 2024. This put to bed the notion that only works teams or manufacturers can win the title, a sentiment that formed a primary reason behind McLaren’s ill-fated swap to Honda power a decade ago, due to former team boss Ron Dennis’ feelings on the matter. With McLaren becoming the team to prove Dennis wrong, Andrea Stella praised the FIA for their work on ensuring parity when asked about the topic by PlanetF1.com. “In itself, it’s not particularly satisfying because I think nowadays, thanks to the regulations, thanks to the good work that the FIA have done in terms of creating parity, as to the way the engine is used between customer and works teams,” Stella said in response to a question from PlanetF1
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