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Originally Posted by Spyderman
Question: "Mr. Enzinger, in the past few years there have been rumors that Porsche, or a brand of the Volkswagen Group, is about to enter Formula 1. How specific were these considerations really?"
Fritz Enzinger: "I might have to go back a little at this point. In our last LMP1 season, 2017, we saw that we were technically at the limit with the two-liter four-cylinder in the Porsche 919 Hybrid. We started there - before the Exit was defined - to work on a six-cylinder. "
"That was in April 2017. That is important because this decision later led to Formula 1."
"In 2017 there were signals from Formula 1 that the regulations were to be changed and that energy recovery from the exhaust gases was no longer required. As of 2017, Porsche was a member of the FIA Manufacturers' Committee in discussions about the future drive strategy in Formula 1 from 2021 involved and represented at the meetings. "
"On the one hand we took part in these working groups, on the other hand the guys developed a six-cylinder engine for the WEC at the same time. Of course we thought about what would have to change if the engine were to be used in Formula 1. There are two ways of doing things like that. "
-Please forgive the google translation
Article appeared in Motorsport Total - May 2019
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You basically confirmed what I have written,
porsche was in f1 next-gen engines specs talks because there were rumors about the introduction of 2-2.2L V6 without MGU-H starting from 2021, the engine base platform porsche could use both in WEC and f1, but reality told that porsche left WEC and f1 will stick with actual thermal engines.
If the 919 V6 was completed or not is basically ininfluent at the moment.
Unless a future use in a porsche LMhypercar or lmdh.
If am I not wrong more than 20 years ago, porsche was developing another f1 engine that later became the 5.6L V10 of carrera gt