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Taffin: 'Irritating that ban on party mode is coming mid-season"

The FIA has introduced a possible major ban in Formula 1. From the Italian Grand Prix onwards, the teams will no longer be allowed to use party mode, the aggressive engine mode, during qualifying sessions. Mercedes seems to suffer from this, but Renault power source chief Remi Taffin manages to nuance things. Does ban penalise Mercedes? In conversation with Motorsport-magazin.com, Taffin discusses the winners and losers of the ban on party mode in F1. Taffin kicks off: "As always there are winners and losers, but we don't know how many will be lost. It is mainly annoying that we have now built our cars with a race mode and a qualifying mode". "We have done our job and in the...
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