JordanMugen wrote: ↑23 Jul 2025, 00:24
Ferry wrote: ↑22 Jul 2025, 23:32
CHT wrote: ↑22 Jul 2025, 07:49
Purist will prefer the V10, while technologist and environmentalist may prefer current hybrid.
Purists would choose performance over sound any day. If a low revving i4 with muted sound is faster, a purist would go for it. Just look back at the BMW turbo i4. The most powerful engine ever used in F1.

We'll see about those sales numbers on the fully electric Boxster, Cayman and 911...
This is obviously an age where, on the road, electric vehicles are almost always faster than ICE vehicles (at least in a straight-line) hence ICE being a celebration of ICE enjoyment, and thus preferably NA (usually meaning an older vehicle from "peak ICE" under outdated emissions regulations like the Lexus LFA or Ferrari 458).
If you want to go fast, you choose electric surely?
If your point holds true why do 911 Carrera Cup and 911 GT3 use the inferior performing naturally-aspirated flat-six?
You
reject the notion there is an advantage to the more responsive (more electric-like?) throttle response, simplicity of installation and reliability of the naturally aspirated flat-six over the twin-turbocharged flat-six (or turbocharged flat-four if Porsche should so choose) for Carrera Cup racing and endurance racing?
We already saw that when Porsche made the Boxter/Cayman a turbo flat 4, the customers stayed away, and then they reintroduced the flat 6 to those models. Also Mercedes has received a lot of flag for putting a 4 cylinder turbo engine in the C63 hybrid. Nobody buys it.
Even Mate Rimac says he ain't sure his future Rimac hypercars will stay fully electric, even though the Nevera R just set a lot of records, most hypercar customers still wan't real engines, which is why the Bugatti Tourbillion got a V16 N/A engine.
I still don't understand why so many people here want F1 to be more electric, just go watch Formula E, there's everything you want.
There's a reason why so many LOVED the AM Valkyrie at Le Mans this year, and it's not because of it's performance.
Also the Cadillac is loved by fans for its brutal N/A V8.
Personally I still hope F1 goes N/A again, preferably a V10, but a high revving V8 is also good.
If they strap a small MGU-K to it, with some light weight capacitors, to only collect enough energy to have a 5-10 sec overtake boost, it's also fine by me, and they could still call them hybrids.