Szafnauer doesn't care about new rules: "Then we'll adapt"
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- GPblog.com
The FIA is busy changing the rules around copying parts. The reason for this is the discussion about Racing Point. The team have copied parts from Mercedes, and they now go a lot faster. After the first penalty from the FIA, three teams went into protest, while the FIA is preparing new rules.
According to Otmar Szafnauer, team boss of Racing Point, these new rules have no influence on the way the team works. "I don't think it's going to change the way we work. We won't be the team that will suffer the most from those rule changes," Szafnauer explains to Motorsport.com.
The same as the top teams
"We now have 500 employees, the reason we don't have 700 or 800 employees is because we don't have the capacity for that. However, if you compare our work with the rest, we are at the same level as the top teams," Szafnauer explains. "The new rules will have no impact. We've always been a constructor."
"We have the skills to design, develop and assemble all of our own parts. Once it becomes clear what the new rules are going to contain, we will continue to work within them, that's not a problem at all," says Szafnauer.