Engine suppliers working hard to get engines ready for 2014 F1 season – Formula 1
The engine suppliers are working hard to be able to cater to the whole field of team with V6 turbo engines for 2014.
Formula 1 is going to change from its current V8 engines to V6 turbo engines starting from the 2014 season. The move has been made in order to tackle the economic downturn that the world is currently dealing with.
Formula 1 has made this kind of engine change before. In 2006, F1 decided to change its V10 engines to V8. The rumours are that there is a short supply of V6 engines and that some teams are not able to handle the extra burden of the cost that would be required
to make the change.
The main problem at the moment is that a major engine supplier PURE is no longer operating and Cosworth the engine supplier currently for HRT and Marussia will not be part of F1 when the new engine specifications take place.
This leaves Mercedes, Ferrari and Renault as the sole engine suppliers committed to the change for 2014.
“We have now run a V6 and the programme is more or less in line with our planning,” Renault Sport’s Rob White said recently. “Our intent is to be ‘race intent’ in the course of 2013.”
“That is what we would wish,” he said. “Renault has decided to remain in Formula One for the long term and talks [between Williams and Renault] are in progress.”
There are rumours of FIA looking into running both V8 and V6 turbos at the same time letting teams run a toned down version of the V8 to have some equivalency.
McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh stated that he is against that idea even though he knows that it is a possibility that it will happen. He said that McLaren had a good when this kind of situation occurred before, but he is not one too keen on the idea
as it is not good for the sport.
When FIA decided to move from V10 engines to V8 in 2006 Toro Rosso was the only temporarily allowed to run a toned down version of the V10.
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