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Originally Posted by Marbot
As many have said. If you continue to refine archaic Victorian age internal combustion engines, you are only holding off the future.
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There would need to be some rather dramatic and rapid advances in non-fossil fuel technology for something other than internal combustion to be widely viable in the next 10 years. Either that or the sudden appearance of a radically disruptive totally new technology.
Based on recent developments there seems to be quite a bit of life left in more fuel efficient fossils. In any case the use of electricity for vehicle motivation is hardly new and I somehow doubt that hydrogen as a fuel will be a practical mass use solution on the road, let alone the track, within the next 20 or 30 years. Still, the water output might keep Bernie happy by imposing his idea of wet races. No need for sprinkler devices.
Of course that assumes that Bernie will live forever and will not be locked up for some reason in the meantime.
ETA: The upshot of the timescales it that from a marketing POV over the typical life span of an engine supply arrangement it probably still makes sense fo Honda to have their name on something. Unless the FIA settles on a kit engine and changes the spec dramatically every year - in which case it could all get a bit daft and people might start to see through the branding games.