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F1's hybrid rules just "marketing blurb" - Newey

Adrian Newey believes Formula 1's move to hybrid engines has simply produced "marketing blurb" for car manufacturers, as he doubts the technology will ever benefit road products. Newey has long been sceptical about the switch to turbo hybrids from 2014, and says he has seen nothing in the past three years that has served to change his mind. He thinks it nonsense to suggest that talk the arrival of hybrid technology was essential for helping make technical advances that would benefit consumers in the future. "On the engine side, my personal opinion, which I'm sure will be a very controversial one, is that all this blurb which a few manufacturers would like to put out, that it...
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