Mosley reveals plans for FIA 'world engine'

Max Mosley has revealed plans for a "world engine" that in 2013 would be capable of powering FIA categories including Formula One, World Rally Championship and Formula Two.

On a visit last weekend to the rally of Portugal he said: "It would work in turbocharged form for F1 and then all the way down to naturally aspirated form for the lesser categories and in a turbocharged or naturally aspirated form for the World Rally Championship."

The FIA President said the planning phase of the project is in its ‘very early days’, with the car manufacturers to be involved.

In the case of F1, he said ‘peripheral areas’ of the engine will be open for development, including KERS and other energy recovery systems to be introduced.



Asked for further information, he said energy could be collected not only from braking heat as at present, but "from exhausts and even from the cooling system."

Referring to the universal FIA engine, he added: "If we can - and I'm not sure we can - find a way of combining all forms of motor sport in that system then this would be useful because of the huge sums spent on motor sport."

F1 : Mosley reveals plans for FIA 'world engine' - FIA - F1-Live.com

And the manufacturers are yet to be involved, right..? I'm not sure how many would support this idea, but there would be lots of opposition.. thats a granted..!

King Toothbrush is gonna turbo super duper charge the world engine and put it in his polio

lol Has he even taken the teams into confidence before talking about his "grand plans"

These will remain grand only, imo

it wil be like a tractor engine onto the aeroplane
ha ha ha

they should get back turbos into f1 however

turbo your polio first .

Mosely and his dumb plans. It honestly doesnt make sense to have a common engine. its like trying to put a Porsche engine in a maruti 800, lock it up.. make it underperform and call it universal. Thats plain dumb!