This isn't a bad thing. Sure, we won't have the shrieking awesome sound of the motors any longer, especially with revs being forced down to 12k from 18+k, but power will be there. In the 80's BMW made 1800 something HP out of their turbo F1 motors. The number of engines to be used during a season by each team has dropped as well to 8.

We'll see what it's like:

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