Formula 1 could soon have significant growth: VW wants to enter the premier class of motorsport. According to a report, negotiations are well advanced. Audi and Porsche should even have their own racing teams.
The motorsport world has only just experienced the most exciting Formula 1 final in a long time, in which Max Verstappen snatched the crown away in the Red Bull Mercedes world champion Lewis Hamilton. Now the next coup is brewing. According to information from the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung“the Volkswagen Group is planning an entry into the premier class of motorsport.
Real competition for Red Bull and Mercedes: According to the report, VW wants to annoy the established names of Formula 1 with its subsidiaries Audi and Porsche. According to “FAZ”, the project is only planned for 2026.
Then Formula 1 should be semi-electric and CO₂-neutral. The world motor sport federation FIA wants to use a completely sustainable fuel and change the engines – V6 turbo with 1.6 liter displacement. The expensive, maintenance-intensive MGU-H unit, which is hardly relevant for the transfer to series vehicles, is no longer necessary; it generates energy from the exhaust gases. There is also a cost cap for engine development.
How does the VW supervisory board decide?
This lure – a fair, as balanced and sustainable competition as possible – for new racing teams seems to be having an effect. According to the newspaper, Audi and Porsche should not just be engine suppliers, but also start with their own racing teams. Both are said to have already had preliminary talks with teams.
The negotiations with the racing teams McLaren and Red Bull are well advanced. It is about a purchase offer for McLaren by Audi and a close Porsche cooperation with Red Bull.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Porsche had already entered the racing series with a works team, and in the 1980s McLaren supplied the engines for two driver and two designer titles. Then the manufacturer from Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen said goodbye in the 1991 season after a disappointing cooperation with the Footwork team from the premier class.
Audi and Porsche supposedly want to develop the Formula 1 powertrain together, but offer it to other Formula 1 teams under their own names. But the VW supervisory board still has to approve the plans. VW CEO Herbert Diess has long been a proponent of F1 entry.
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