Mercedes group principal Toto Wolff insists their engine is legal and that its design has been accepted by the FIA.
The compression ratio is a measurement of the cylinder displacement between the 2 extremes of the piston stroke. Rivals consider rising this past 16:1 might give a acquire of as a lot of 0.3 seconds per lap.
Williams group principal James Vowles, whose group use Mercedes engines, dismissed the controversy as “just noise that will probably go away, probably in the next 48 hours”.
Red Bull’s place on the compression ratio argument has not been clear till now, following their entry as a power-unit producer this season.
Red Bull group principal Laurent Mekies stated on Wednesday: “We don’t think it’s noise. We think we must have the clarity on what we can and cannot do.”
The new engine proposal got here on the identical day because the F1 Commission mentioned a spread of points which have arisen from the primary operating of the vehicles underneath the brand new guidelines launched this 12 months.
These included the elevated problem of the beginning course of and the way in which vitality deployment and restoration are managed by the principles.
