Cadillac wants V8s in F1
The leaders of Cadillac are rubbing their hands thinking about the near future of F1: the V8 engines indeed seem to be in the sights of the FIA after president Mohammed Ben Sulayem expressed the desire to give up the excess electrification (and complication) of the current V6s to move to lighter, louder, simpler and therefore cheaper engines. A trend then confirmed a few days later also by the big boss of Formula 1, Stefano Domenicali, who admitted that a return to eight cylinders, albeit with a hybrid component to keep up with the times, would be a return to the “pure essence of motor racing” and he would be “1000% in agreement”.
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Cross-party consensus
A decision that would lead F1 to take the proverbial step back to move forward, but which also meets the favor of car manufacturers: it is no coincidence that even the boss of McLaren, Zak Brown, said that in the case of V8 engines he would consider the idea of making the Woking team a tout-court manufacturer as recently happened with Red Bull with Ford, provided that the thing is also economically sustainable. And now it is precisely Cadillac that joins the party, through the words of the president of General Motors, Mark Reuss.
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The words of the General Motors president
“We know how to make a V8 engine – explains the American manager, present at the IndyCar weekend in Detroit, where the GM group is personally involved as an engine supplier with the Chevrolet brand – and in fact we have a long racing history with GTP, GTD Pro cars (which race in the American IMSA endurance championship, ed). We make these V8 engines right here, in Michigan and we would be thrilled to be able to take advantage of this opportunity also in Formula 1”. Meanwhile, Cadillac seems determined to leave the axis with Ferrari for the 2027 F1 engines, which precisely thanks to the favorable opinion of the American manufacturer at the PUAC (Power Unit Advisory Committee) for the switch to the 60/40 power split.
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