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Lowe hits out at Horner's 'selfish engine demands'

Christian Horner's demands for a new engine in 2016 are selfish, according to Mercedes technical boss Paddy Lowe, who claims the Red Bull boss is only making such demands because Red Bull are no longer winning. Horner has called for the current hybrid-V6 engine to be dropped either in favour of a return to the V8's or to a new standard twin-turbo V6, as he believes it will cut costs. Lowe claims the Briton's comments are motivated purely by self-interest as a result of Red Bull's pace deficit to Mercedes which Horner has persistently insisted is a result of Renault's less powerful engine. "Nothing could be a clearer example than what we're seeing, where somebody is feeling that he's...
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