The brand may be using Ferrari powertrains through 2029, but it's hard at work behind closed doors on what comes next.

Technical regulations were overhauled for the 2026 season, a key part being the hybrid V6 engines that increased electrical power and runusing fully-sustainable fuels. But now, the sport could be set to change course — and get loud again — by returning to the simpler V8 engines as soon as 2030.

The bombshell news after the Miami GP comes from pushback on the 50-50 hybrid V-6 regulation from drivers, teams.

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has voiced his support behind calls to return F1 to V8 engines, but warns the sport could "look ridiculous" in 2031.

For many Formula 1 fans, their biggest gripes with the sport stem from two issues: a lack of overtakes and a lack of theater. Much of that theater comes from the cars themselves, especially in previous decades when massive,

Eight-cylinder engines with “very, very minor electrification” could return to Formula 1 as soon as 2030, Mohammed Ben Sulayem, president of the International Automobile Federation (FIA), said.

Formula One will switch from its current V6 hybrid engines to louder and simpler ​V8s by 2031, and possibly even 2030, according to the head of the sport's governing body.

"There are no bad ideas in a brainstorm," they say. Only slightly lesser well known is, "if there's a four stroke piston engine that's not a radial, Formula 1's tried it." There have been inline fours, sixes, and eights, 180-degree eights and 12s, V-twins ...