F1 is pushing on with its engines running on fully sustainable fuels, but with the technology already available some have questioned why the delay until 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣ Here's a dig into the reasons behind it and what steps will be made in the interim ⛽
While car manufacturers around the world invest heavily in electric vehicles, F1 is not ignoring the huge benefits that can be had globally by pioneering cheap plug-in carbon-neutral fuel to help power the two billion internal combustion engines that will remain on the roads for decades to come.
"I don't think it matches the sort of ambitions that Formula 1 has to be a technological leader. So we react, rather than being proactive and lead the way."He went on to explain that waiting until 2026 to introduce sustainable fuels meant"another five years of no progress." With F1 being such a competitive arena, and different manufacturers having spent hundreds of millions on their current engines to work perfectly in sync with their oil and petrol suppliers, throwing a spanner in the works now with an all-new fuel, risked unfairly shaking things up.
Furthermore, with Formula 2 and Formula 3 set to pioneer fully sustainable fuels from next year to help F1 and oil partner Aramco better understand their impact, F1 has set itself up with a pretty good platform to ensure that it hits the ground running when it does make the move.F1 managing director of motorsport Ross Brawn told Autosport:"I think when you introduce a fuel, you're never quite sure the impact it will have on different engines.
Brawn accepts that the technology around sustainable fuels, especially ones created synthetically, is fast-moving and what appears cutting-edge today may not be the case in a few years' time.
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