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If you could change one thing in F1
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Remove the hybrid engines and return to normally aspirated petrol engines.
There’s little interest in that from the engine manufacturers. They have use for learning hybrid tech for a while but most of the world is putting or has put laws in place for cessation of ICE engine sales in only a few years from now. Why put r&d into dead, unsellable, tech
ICE engines will live on a lot longer than people think. Plus it's great entertainment for the fans.
If ICE supposedly is going away, what better way to celebrate ICE engines while you have them, than by racing them?
They won’t live on much longer than they’re already scheduled to be end of sale legislatively. Realistically the last meaningful numbers of the sold ICE vehicles will die 10 years after the end date. By 2050 ICE vehicles will be almost unseen on western roads.
It’s time to move on and stop clinging to the past, F1 is about pushing the technological envelope of Motorsport, it’s dead if it clings to the cooling corpse of ICE engines
Lol. You obviously have not been to Africa 😂. Because you'd know that most of the continent doesn't have electricity and even when they do it's not regular.
They definitely will not be able to use electric cars as there is not enough for that, plus they have no network of chargers. I'm many cases the roads are mud.
So SOMEBODY will have to keep building ICE cars for Africa and other 3rd world countries in the far East.
Most European islands don't have the means to build a grid and most of them generate electricity by burning OIL. Like in Cyprus. That makes electricity very expensive. Petrol is cheaper. Plus the economies are small. The average person cannot afford an electric car, not even a new car of any sort, they import used cars from the UK. No chance in hell they will be on electric for at least another 30 years!
Hence why I said meaningful numbers and western roads both.
The East has the capability for electrical infrastructure, there are plenty of rivers for hydro, plenty of sun for solar, they’re capable of building nuclear plants, etc.
Africa can do the same as the above, maybe a bit more wind and solar than hydro. They’ll just need assistance to do so.
Those island nations and economies are inconsequential. They have so few vehicles that in the greater picture they don’t matter. A few hundred thousand cars are nothing compared to the hundreds of millions currently used by the americas and Europe. It’s perfectly fine for them to keep using ice from whoever wants to make cheap small ice vehicles for them, willing to bet they’re still going to be hybrid though since there’s no reason not to be. In the grand scale of the planets fossil fuel usage states like Malta or Cyprus will never use enough to really matter