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Originally Posted by hondafan37
His idea is very interesting, but for that to happen Formula 1 must change its mentality and open to allow all types of engines without the need to focus on a single style as happened in the last 20 years.
Why does it have to be only a 1.6 V6 turbo? Imagine how interesting it would be to have the V4 2.0 turbo of the Porsche 919 in the McLaren or the Red Bull. Why not an atmospheric V8, V10 or V12 too? Hand to hand with the turbo like in the 80s.
Even Honda with its disastrous current performance could turn to its NRE 4 in line 2.0 of the SuperGT or the V6 2.2 turbo of Indy Cars that perhaps could work better than the current engine.
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How long until engineers figure out the best mix to match the tracks and demands of the car? When you are working in a field where Honda's engine is terrible and seemingly the worst F1 engine ever if you read here, how long could you go without the most efficient answer to the problem? It doesn't seem like anyone stayed with the NA engines over turbo when it looked the turbos were going to survive. Toyota started out larger NA and shrunk with a turbo after seeing Porsche's answer was better and Audi was constantly squeezed by the diesel now being the wrong answer, and not the chosen fuel any longer.