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General => General discussion => Topic started by: Neo Badness on 06 May 2010, 12:46
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This is possibly a repost but 1.5ltr turbo 4cylinder for F1 racing?
That'll be a quick polo then :grin:
http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=21894
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I think this engine change idea is great for F1, would give great competition with a turbo and KERS engines! Would bring forward massive technology advances in the sport :smiley: Can only be a good thing!
I always did think why VW have never considered an F1 entry? IMO they should enter as a engine supplier and constructor just like Mclaren or Ferrari at the moment. Although i do think they should use the porsche or lamboughini brand name instead of VW, just lamboughini vs ferrari sounds better than VW vs Fiat lol
Dont quite think it should be a 4pot engine just yet thou, a smaller turbo charged V6 with KERS would be unbelievable! :cool: :evil:
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Volkswagen is seriously considering entering Formula One - but as an engine supplier rather than a constructor.
But VW, as its Porsche takeover proves, doesn't do things by halves. It wants to build race engines for more than just F1 teams, but only if the FIA's plans for a 'world' engine - where a common engine could be applicable to multiple categories - come to fruition.
VW's motorsport representative - Ex-F1 hand Hans Joachim Stuck - revealed VW's F1 ambitions to German magazine Sport Bild.
"We are waiting for the FIA's decision in respect of the use of a world engine for Formula 1," Stuck told Auto Bild. "If there is [a world engine], we will discuss whether to build it for Formula 1."
If VW goes into F1 it will most likely be in 2013 with a 1.5-litre turbocharged four-cylinder engine combined with a re-born KERS system - that's when the current 2.4-litre naturally aspirated V8s are expected to die.
No other F1 engine manufacturers have expressed an interest in the FIA's 'world engine' idea.