FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has promised to end the ongoing 13-year hiatus of V8 power units from Formula 1 by 2031 at the latest. The V8 was ditched for a V6 turbohybrid in 2014 and F1 has now ...
Formula 1 has spent more than a decade building its identity around hybrid power. Since 2014, the sport has used turbocharged V6 hybrid engines, and the 2026 rules pushed even further into ...
View post: A ‘Super El Niño’ Is Coming—Here’s How It Could Hit the U.S. F1 will return to V8 engines at the close of the decade. Sustainable fuels made the transition possible. Engines will be louder ...
The last time V8 engines were used in F1 was in the 2013 season, before the sport switched to hybrid V6 power units. After Formula 1 switched to hybridized V6 engines in 2014, fans complained about ...
FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem‘s bombshell announcement ahead of the Miami Formula 1 Grand Prix that high-revving V8 engines will return to the sport as soon as 2030, officially ending the hybrid ...
Great news! 12 years after Formula 1 transitioned from naturally aspirated V8s to smaller turbo V6s with a hybrid twist for good measure, V8 engines may come back with a vengeance. FIA supremo ...
Formula One will switch from its current V6 hybrid engines to louder and simpler ​V8s by 2031, and possibly even 2030, ...
Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel celebrates after winning the 2013 Brazilian GP - the last F1 race using V8 engines. Clive Mason / Getty Images Just four races into its new era of car and engine ...
Since 2014, Formula 1 has been using 1.6-liter turbocharged six-cylinder engines. They proved hugely controversial when first introduced and have become particularly contentious this year as the ...
FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem shared early targets for the V8's size, power, and gas/electric energy split as he confirmed F1's plan to drop the hybrid V6: “It will happen.” Throughout the nearly ...