How Formula One Is Creating Next Generation Internal Combustion Engines For The Future

How Formula One Is Creating Next Generation Internal Combustion Engines For The Future

- Shawn Chung

If you are a casual fan of Formula One motorsports, the recent announcement that Japanese car maker Honda is withdrawing as an F1 engine supplier at the end of the 2021 season may seem like like a serious loss to F1, and brings the public focus back on how F1 is a massive waste of resources, in terms of money, and pollution from hauling 10 F1 teams to over 20 races all across the world.

Honda, though, has never stayed in Formula One for more than a decade at a time, which clearly illustrates the company’s lack of a long term plan or commitment to the world’s pinnacle motorsport, especially in comparison to Ferrari, which has stayed in Formula One since the second race in 1950; or Mercedes, which reentered F1 in the modern era in 1994, bought over the championship-winning Brawn F1 team in late 2009 (which was BAR Honda in 2008) and then won consecutive F1 Drivers’ and Constructors’ Championships from 2014 to 2019.