{"id":12433,"date":"2011-05-22T10:58:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T14:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12433"},"modified":"2011-05-22T10:58:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T14:58:57","slug":"4-cylinder-and-v8-engines-could-race-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/4-cylinder-and-v8-engines-could-race-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"4-cylinder and V8 engines could race in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The saga about F1&#8217;s future engine regulations has taken a twist, with the possibility that both four-cylinder and V8s could be pitted against one another in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>We reported earlier on Sunday that, after a meeting with the manufacturers in Barcelona, Jean Todt had vowed to push ahead with the scheduled new regulations.<\/p>\n<p>But F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone, who is staunchly opposed to scrapping the V8s, said FIA president Todt is now proposing to let some V8s continue to fire in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I mean, equivalency formulas never work, do they?&#8221; he is quoted by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The situation reminds of 2006, when after the current V8 engines were introduced, Toro Rosso ran a performance-limited V10.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The saga about F1&#8217;s future engine regulations has taken a twist, with the possibility that both four-cylinder and V8s could be pitted against one another in 2013. We reported earlier on Sunday that, after a meeting with the manufacturers in Barcelona, Jean Todt had vowed to push ahead with the scheduled new regulations. But F1 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5300,5340,284],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12434,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12433\/revisions\/12434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}