Porsche to enter Formula One in 2025 if sustainable fuels are promoted – report
Porsche could join Formula One in 2025 if the regulation updates promote sustainable fuel alternatives, according to parent company Volkswagen.
Fritz Enzinger – the vice president of the brand’s motorsport division – told the BBC earlier this week: “It would be of great interest if aspects of sustainability - for instance, the implementation of e-fuels - play a role in this.
"Should these aspects be confirmed, we will evaluate them in detail within the VW Group and discuss further steps."
A spokesperson for Porsche Australia couldn't confirm the report when contacted by Drive.
The brand is currently developing synthetic fuels in collaboration with Siemens Energy as an environmentally-friendly partner to (rather than a replacement for) electrification.
It announced last month it would begin trialing the product for motorsport in 2022.
Porsche last competed in Formula One as a factory outfit in 1962 (above), having won a single race – that year’s French Grand Prix – with Dan Gurney behind the wheel.
The brand continued to build customer engines after its departure from direct competition, most successfully for McLaren in the mid-1980s, at which time the mill was branded as a Tag Heuer.
Before it was owned by Volkswagen, fellow subsidiary Lamborghini also produced F1 engines between 1989 and 1992.