Mercedes boss Toto Wolff defends decision to keep latest-spec engine for works team.

With the 2015 Constructors' Championship tantalisingly in sight, other than its decision not to supply Red Bull with engines in 2016, Mercedes has also been criticised for its failure to supply its latest spec power unit to its customer teams, Williams, Force India and Lotus.

Speaking in Sochi, where the Red Bull saga is dominating events on track, Wolff explained why the upgraded engine has not found its way to the manufacturer's customers.

"The decision we took is to do an R&D exercise in order to learn more for next year and you can't do this kind of exercise with a customer team," he said. "If you go into a development direction, you can't make eight engines because it could be the case that it was the wrong direction we went in."

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1. Posted by scf1fan, 10/10/2015 16:02

"This would be much less of an issue if the engine suppliers were to be separate entities from the race teams.

Each team has to build their own chassis, no problem there. Each team has to buy their tires from Pirelli from a determined specification on a random basis, no problem there. One team, in essence, has to buy their PU from another team, who's best interest is served by delivering a lower spec PU to its customers . . . there is a problem there.

MB gets no benefit if a Williams finishes ahead or behind a Ferrari or a Renault. (As long as the Williams doesn't finish ahead of THE MB team . . .)"

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