Formula 1 wants to switch completely to synthetic fuel

This is what Gilles Simon, head of engines at the FIA, told the specialist magazine auto motor und sport. The previous plan had planned to increase the share by 2022 percent annually from 20. “The first big challenge is that we don’t want to fundamentally change the current engines. “2023 is practically around the corner,” said Simon: “We need a fuel that is very similar to the current one, but that has sustainable roots.” This could be based on biological waste or obtained from hydrogen and carbon dioxide using chemical processes: “Our goal is to win the fuel companies over to our plan. That's why we want to allow them to follow their own individual path. We don’t want to exclude either direction.” Completely new approaches can also be pursued. The FIA is already producing synthetic fuels for testing purposes, which will be tested on the test bench in current Formula 1 engines this year. The premier class requires around one million liters of fuel per season for races, test drives and test bench runs. “That sounds like a lot, but it’s actually a very small amount. Producing these wouldn’t be a problem,” said Simon.

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Formula 1 wants to switch completely to synthetic fuel

Formula 1 wants to run on purely synthetic fuel in three years.

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