Petition targets 50 million F1 fans to support return to V10 era

An ambitious petition entitled "Bring back V10's now!" has been launched urging Formula 1 fans to support a petition to have the sport ditch the current turbo hybrid power unit era and have the sport return to V10 engine (illustration above by Richard La Page) which ended in 2013.

The petition here>>> was started by Ray Mitchell is "demanding the return of high-revving V10 engines from the 2017 FIA Formula 1 World Championship season onward."

Hosted on ipetition.com it adds: "While we as fans embrace the the extreme importance of green technology, and we certainly appreciate the hybrid technology currently deployed in F1 power units, we simply do not like how the current power units have robbed F1 of its signature song. Not even the previous generation V8 engines captivated F1 fans to the same extent as the V10 engines did."

"We are not asking engine manufacturers to abandon their outstanding hybrid technologies. We are asking the engine (power unit) manufacturers to please reinstate the V10 layout, keep the ultra-high revving aspect, make the engines as loud as possible and, incorporate the current F1 hybrid technologies into the overall power unit design."

"While we the fans prefer the original 3.0 liter displacement, perhaps a further compromise could be reducing that to a 2.4 liter displacement."

"As fans, we wholeheartedly understand the importance of F1 being a testing ground for new road car technologies and, we understand and appreciate the importance of the 'win on Sunday, sell on Monday' aspect of manufacturer involvement in the sport."

"What we wish to convey in this petition is that we want a compromise. We are the fans are who the manufacturers want to sell their products to. So, having said that, we the fans also ask that you deliver a F1 that we enjoy, and a F1 that once again enchants us, enthralls us, and delivers excellent racing."

You can find the petition here>>>

[alert type=blue ]Editor's Note: For the record we at grandprix247.com do not support the petition as we prefer to sit on the fence on this one. To get 50 million F1 fans to fill in this petition is hugely ambitious and hardly likely that even a fraction of that will partake in the survey. But that's merely our opinion. Nevertheless we applaud Mr Mitchell and the strength of his convictions - he may even prove us wrong![/alert]