{"id":495469,"date":"2025-09-15T07:49:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495469"},"modified":"2025-09-15T07:49:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:49:53","slug":"audi-boss-jonathan-wheatley-stands-against-v8-engines-return-to-f1","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/audi-boss-jonathan-wheatley-stands-against-v8-engines-return-to-f1\/","title":{"rendered":"Audi boss Jonathan Wheatley stands against V8 engines return to F1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of Sauber \u2014 soon to be rebranded as Audi\u2019s works team in 2026 \u2014 Jonathan Wheatley has made it clear that the German manufacturer will not support any move to bring back V8 engines in Formula 1.<\/p>\n<p>The timing of his comments comes just months before the championship rolls out an all-new generation of power units. These V6 turbo-hybrid systems, running on sustainable fuels, were a central factor in Audi\u2019s decision to commit to the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Yet even before their debut, discussions within F1 have already turned to the possibility of scrapping them in favor of cheaper, simplified V8 engines.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 Audi \u2018has not changed\u2019 its position on F1\u2019s engine debate.<br \/>\nThe team is not in favour of scrapping the next-gen PU regulations for a return to V8s.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Wheatley:<br \/>\n\u201cI think fundamentally, there were three pillars that Audi set their entrance into Formula 1 on. One was a\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oJbEeWlVKh\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/oJbEeWlVKh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Inside Audi F1 (@InsideAudiF1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InsideAudiF1\/status\/1967547019175534670?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Wheatley was clear about Audi\u2019s stance. \u201cI think fundamentally, there were three pillars that Audi set their entrance into Formula 1 on. One was a highly efficient engine, another one was advanced hybrid technology, and sustainable fuels. So I don\u2019t think our position has changed on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd as far as I know, we\u2019re going to stay in that position for a very long time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of Sauber \u2014 soon to be rebranded as Audi\u2019s works team in 2026 \u2014 Jonathan Wheatley has made it clear that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":495470,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17643,17680],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[23147,26793,1081],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Audi will enter Formula 1 in 2026 when the regulations take sharp turn to sustainable engines and fuels ","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495471,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495469\/revisions\/495471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495469"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495469"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}