Christian Horner has given renewed hope for the return of V8 or V10 engines in System 1, because it appears in the direction of utilizing extra sustainable fuels.

The final time the championship used V10 engines was in 2006, earlier than they had been banned by the FIA. Groups then used V8’s between 2007 and 2013, earlier than the present 1.6 litre V6 hybrid engines had been launched in 2014.

In 2026 F1 will utilise ‘drop in’ 100% sustainable fuels to fulfill the FIA’s necessities for all championships to be carbon impartial by 2030.

The Pink Bull crew boss commented on the return of Honda after they initially withdrew from F1 in 2020, as a result of their deal with transferring away from combustion engines.

“For me it demonstrates that the combustion engine is not useless but. That there is nonetheless life in combustion, as a result of clearly after they withdrew it was due to electrification.”

Horner: Push to sustainable fuels may carry again V8 or V10 engines

At present F1 energy items use 10% renewable gasoline, however the change to 100% is making combustion engines related once more for automotive manufacturers, in line with Horner.

“I believe maybe with sustainable fuels and nil emissions and the route that System 1 goes for 2026, combustion turned related to them once more, whereas it was one thing that was very a lot off their agenda,” he defined.

“So who is aware of? Perhaps we’ll get to again to V8 and V10s which are absolutely sustainable. Would not that be incredible.”