{"id":1925102,"date":"2026-05-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1925102"},"modified":"2026-05-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:00:00","slug":"this-just-in-2027-f1-cars-will-get-67bhp-more-ice-power-and-67bhp-less-e-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1925102","title":{"rendered":"This just in: 2027 F1 cars will get 67bhp more ICE power and 67bhp *less* e-power"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<p>The internal combustion engines inside next year\u2019s Formula One cars will be 67bhp more powerful than this year\u2019s V6 units, while power from the energy recovery system \u2013 the fiddly electric bit \u2013 will be cut by the same amount.<\/p>\n<p>Following a partial easing off the e-throttle in Miami, the teams, the FIA, F1 and the engine makers have all agreed to juice the ICE up a bit for next year to make driving the cars \u201cmore intuitive\u201d and safer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<p>We\u2019ll have to wait until 2027 to find out if the changes are enough, but in short, they amount to building on the \u201cpositive step\u201d taken at the last race. Safe to say reaction to the 2026 powertrains has, by most accounts, not been\u2026 positive.<\/p>\n<p>Largely because these new units (which focus more heavily on harvesting and e-power) have resulted in massive \u2013 and dangerous \u2013 speed offsets, and drivers having to unlearn the most fundamental aspects of going flat out as much as possible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<p>So, cranking up the ICE power and cutting electricity seems to be a route through. The proposals from today\u2019s meeting will still have to be ratified, mind, but the FIA will continue to work on improving start-safety and racing under wet conditions in the background.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTurning to the longer-term refinement of the regulations, it was agreed in principle to introduce evolutionary changes to the rules regarding hardware components, making competition safer, fairer and more intuitive for drivers and teams,\u201d said the FIA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<p>Even <em>longer<\/em> longer-term, FIA boss Mohammed Ben Sulayem has kicked around the idea of binning hybrids altogether and bringing back V8s\u2026 having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.topgear.com\/car-news\/formula-one\/prep-your-earholes-fia-boss-wants-bring-v10-engines-back-f1\">called for a return to V10s only last year<\/a>. Thoughts?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internal combustion engines inside next year\u2019s Formula One cars will be 67bhp more powerful than this year\u2019s V6 units, while power from the energy recovery system \u2013 the fiddly electric bit \u2013 will be cut by the same amount. Following a partial easing off the e-throttle in Miami, the teams, the FIA, F1 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-1925102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1925102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1925102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1925102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1925102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}