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Theissen looking for greater aero cuts
30 June 2009BMW's Mario Theissen is hoping that Formula One teams can agree to cut back on spending in the aerodynamics department. With no budget cap featuring in 2010 anymore and a large amount of money arguably wasted on KERS this season, the team principal is now hoping to reduce aerodynamic capabilities sporadically.
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| Mario Theissen became team principal at BMW in 2006 |
With teams having agreed to rule out the costly KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System) for 2010 and the FIA's €45m spending limit abandoned, Theissen talked of the large aerodynamic changes to have graced F1 this season: "It has been very exciting for both the spectators and us - sometimes too exciting! You see almost every team going out on two sets of fresh option tyres (softer compound on offer at a Grand Prix weekend, identified by a green stripe on the sidewall), even in the first knockout phase of qualifying, in order to make it into the second phase. That is a scenario no-one expected and we haven't seen in the past ten years."
With cars stripped of additional winglets and aerodynamic pieces for 2010, the goal was to achieve a greater amount of passing in races. "When it comes to overtaking, maybe we had expected a bit more from the new regulations," Dr. Theissen admitted. "In the area of cost-saving, I think the progress has pretty much met expectations; the aero restrictions we currently have, however, are not as tight as we thought they would be so I think we could do more."
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