Our reaction to F1's RETURN to V8 engines
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What are the implications of F1's return to V8 engines?
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Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. Miami is done, we've got a little bit of time now before we head to Montreal for the Canadian Grand Prix and I thought something that was absolutely necessary to talk about and Tommy I know you're very excited to talk about it as well. Is that Formula One plan to return to V8 engines in 2030? A lot to discuss about this one because I have quite a few thoughts on this and the timeline and everything else. And Mohammed bin Salyam, widely popular amongst not many people, is the one being very vocal about this. He is, yes. He's obviously the FIA president. He's the one that gets to decide certain things. And for some reason, just before the Miami Grand Prix was about to start, before we'd even seen the new regs or the updated regs in action, he drops the chat that basically, we want to return to V8s and we want to do it even sooner than the next step of the regulations, which was, of course, 2031.
So we are still here in Australia as much as our backdrop looks like we could be anywhere in the world because we have a couple of live shows coming up in Melbourne. Then we go to Sydney, Brisbane and Perth. But today we need to talk about the big bombshell and that is the V8 engines might even come back as soon as 2030, perhaps 2031. So let me go and run you through Ben Soleim and what he said. And this was to Reuters ahead of Miami. The quote was, it's coming. At the end of the day, it's a matter of time. And that was ahead of Sunday's Miami Grand Prix. In 2031, the V8, the FIA will have the power to do it without any votes from the power unit manufacturers. That's the regulations, but we want to bring it one year earlier, which everyone now is asking for.
But let's say the manufacturers don't approve it for 2030 the year after essentially he was saying in 2031 it's done anyway it will be done v8 is coming I mean it's that quote is is kind of a bizarre thing to read where he's essentially saying I don't care what any team or manufacturer has to say we're doing v8 engines like it's it's a very sort of He's trying to be this powerful figure that goes, right, we have to do what's right for the sport. My sort of takeaway from all of this is like, why was this never really discussed or properly considered now? Why do we have this period of time where we have a huge amount of battery input and we've spoken in great detail about these regs to then go backwards now?
Back to V8s, it feels like the backtrack of the century, but we also have to wait at least four years for it. So it's not like this is round the corner. But for me, I don't know, it just feels like a very strange way of going from where we were with the hybrid engines to even more sort of 55-45 split between the internal combustion engine and the electrical power to then go, actually, let's go back to V8s, but with sustainable fuels. It's a very odd thing to drop just before Miami as well. And, you know, the fact that it seems like and we'll talk about the team's reaction later because we've heard a little bit from Mercedes in particular and Toto Wolff about it. But it didn't feel like this is something that's been like really discussed with everyone.
As you say, it sounds like he's come out there and gone. this will be really popular let's do v8s let's bring them back this is what we need and he's kind of the quote you just read out is really weird as well because he kind of goes all guns blazing in i don't care if the manufacturers don't want it it's happening and we're going to try and push it a year earlier and then later in the almost the very next sentence goes but if the manufacturers don't approve it then it will be the year after, which shows that they still have some power, surely.
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