"If we go back to 2000 the regulations fitted on one page, and now it's about eight pages, but it actually prescribes a lot of it.
"Twenty years ago you used to spend days working out what the bore size should be, or how many cylinders you should have, but now it's in the regs, so I think it's easier."
"There's no 'unobtainium' in there, no Kryptonite. You don't need to travel to Mars," argued Cowell.
"There are steels and aluminiums that are used in aerospace and the automotive industry, the fasteners are unremarkable, and while the shapes are evolved, they are all shapes everybody else can come up with.
"Electrical machines are also evolved, but there aren't any magic magnets in them. They are all magnets you can read about on Wikipedia and source from three or four manufacturers around the world.
"The cables have copper in, the connectors are unremarkable, so it's all doable.
I think he is right. There a lot more guys doing batteries, turbos, electric motors etc than there ever were companies that were building 20000 rpm V10s. Nobody is changing the bore size and stroke every year or looking for the next beryllium, because it is in the rules.
Edited by Gorma, 12 February 2016 - 06:22.