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FIA throws lifeline to struggling F1 engine builders

Formula 1's struggling engine manufacturers will be able to deploy performance upgrade ‘tokens' during the 2016 season. The news follows a key meeting on Thursday in Geneva, in which it was also agreed between the FIA and engine makers to overturn the newly-published regulation outlawing the use of year-old ‘power units' next year. That will leave the door open for Red Bull and Toro Rosso to do last-minute 2015-specification engine deals with Ferrari and stay in formula one. 'The guillotine is there but I hope it doesn't come down,' former Red Bull driver Mark Webber told the Red Bull-owned publication Speed Week. 'I think they will stay. Maybe the solution for 2016 will not be...
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