{"id":4786,"date":"2010-04-26T06:27:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T10:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4786"},"modified":"2010-04-26T06:27:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T10:27:28","slug":"teams-close-to-agreeing-new-2013-engine-formula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/teams-close-to-agreeing-new-2013-engine-formula\/","title":{"rendered":"Teams close to agreeing new 2013 engine formula"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">F1 teams are close to agreeing upon a new engine formula for the six-year period beginning in 2013.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Until then, development of the current 2.4 litre V8s will remain &#8216;frozen&#8217;, to be replaced thereafter by similarly powerful engines that use less fuel, emit less pollution and are affordable for the small teams.<\/p>\n<p>Spain&#8217;s El Mundo Deportivo newspaper said an in-principle agreement has been reached for a four cylinder, 1.5 litre engine equipped with a twin-turbo and direct injection.<\/p>\n<p>The new formula would reportedly also involve KERS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If F1 has to develop something helpful for real (road) driving conditions, then the best solution is for an engine that is turbocharged and GDI (gasoline direct injection,&#8221; Ferrari CEO Amedeo Felisa told Autocar magazine at the Beijing Motor Show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is what we would support,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes&#8217; Norbert Haug agrees that smaller engines are likely for reasons of consumption and emissions, but warns that high technology needs to remain a crucial focus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you fly from Europe to Japan on a 747, you would use more fuel than an entire F1 season.\u00a0 We need to see the whole picture,&#8221; he insisted.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F1 teams are close to agreeing upon a new engine formula for the six-year period beginning in 2013.<\/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":[1444,5262,5261,5340,242],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786"}],"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=4786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4787,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions\/4787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}