Why hybrid power isn’t in F2’s future plans

System 2 CEO Bruno Michel has conceded it might be “inconceivable” for the championship to modify to a hybrid powertrain sooner or later.

With System 1 main the best way with hybrid expertise in single-seaters and IndyCar just lately adapting its personal iteration, being launched to its intricacies at a junior degree is turning into extra necessary.

Requested if F2 had thought-about making the change, Michel mentioned: “What System 1 has when it comes to hybridisation is just not one thing that we might afford, it is rather easy. It’s inconceivable, in any other case we’d multiply the price of a season by three.

“We’ve checked out what IndyCar is doing and we had just a few discussions with them to see if it was adaptable to us and, to be completely trustworthy, I believed that the fee in comparison with the benefits that it might convey was nearly zero.

“We took the choice to enter a extra sustainable method with the gasoline and we’re very a lot prematurely with that on each different class.”

F2 at present runs utilizing 55% sustainable Aramco gasoline however will subsequent 12 months enhance this proportion to 100% – this coming earlier than F1 makes the change in 2026.

“We’re going with 100% sustainable gasoline subsequent 12 months, nonetheless biofuel,” Michel added. “We’re going to be the primary to make use of artificial gasoline very, very quickly after, and that’s the method that we’re taking.”

Explaining that developments to the gasoline injection might be required to adapt to the brand new gasoline in addition to a “few modifications” on the engine, Michel concluded: “In fact, we’re consistently enhancing and dealing on the engine.

“We can have an engine subsequent 12 months in F2 which is a bit bit totally different from the one we’ve got this 12 months, and we’re additionally doing improvement to accommodate the Aramco gasoline, as a result of we’re going to 100% sustainable gasoline for subsequent 12 months.”