Mosley pushing for fuel efficiency
FIA president Max Mosley is hoping to make Formula One a 'fuel-efficiency' series from the start of 2011 - with perhaps the only restriction on engines being the amount of fuel they use
Mosley announced this week plans to introduce same-spec engines from 2008 to 2010, with manufacturers forced to lodge their designs by next June, and he has now unveiled his vision for F1 after that date.
With environmental issues becoming more important, he is hoping to change the concept of engine restrictions completely.
"What we are thinking about is a fuel efficiency formula," said Mosley.
"There are various reasons for that, apart from it being politically correct. All the manufacturers are working on fuel efficiency, there are some very interesting things going on, and if there is a big oil crisis which is more than likely in the next few years, then it will be far more defensible if we can say, 'actually we are working on the cutting edge of fuel efficiency.'
"It would either be a limited quantity of fuel to do the best you can, which is the simplest in a way, or a more sophisticated one in saying we will have a fuel valve, where the flow rate was a function of rpm so it was efficient through the whole range of the engine."
Mosley also said the FIA will push to introduce a more environmentally-friendly fuel in the future, but admitted the teams will need time to prepare the technology for that and more fuel-efficient engines.
"The fuel for 2008 is anyway going to be 5.75 percent bio-fuel because that is coming in in 2010 for the whole of the EU and we didn't want to be behind," added Mosley. "But there is an argument that if we go to fuel efficiency of going for a fuel like E85, which is 85 percent ethanol and is available in the States in small quantities, or something of that kind.
"But again, once we have got the championship, we know who is competing, we will want to sit down with them and talk about 2011 and agree before the end of this year so everyone can have a sensible, low-key ongoing R&D programme.
"The manufacturers are doing work on injectors, and spray patterns, and it has a dramatic effect on fuel-efficiency and it would be very sensible to start working on that, but you need a long lead time otherwise it just costs a fortune."
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