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The Volkswagen-owned sports car manufacturer could return to the highest tier of motorsport for the first time since 1962.
Porsche could join Formula One in 2025 if the regulation updates promote sustainable fuel alternatives, according to parent company Volkswagen.
Fritz Enzinger – the vice president of the brand’s motorsport division – told the BBC earlier this week: “It would be of great interest if aspects of sustainability – for instance, the implementation of e-fuels – play a role in this.
“Should these aspects be confirmed, we will evaluate them in detail within the VW Group and discuss further steps.”
A spokesperson for Porsche Australia couldn’t confirm the report when contacted by CarAdvice.
The brand is currently developing synthetic fuels in collaboration with Siemens Energy as an environmentally-friendly partner to (rather than a replacement for) electrification.
It announced last month it would begin trialing the product for motorsport in 2022.
Porsche last competed in Formula One as a factory outfit in 1962 (above), having won a single race – that year’s French Grand Prix – with Dan Gurney behind the wheel.
The brand continued to build customer engines after its departure from direct competition, most successfully for McLaren in the mid-1980s, at which time the mill was branded as a Tag Heuer.
Before it was owned by Volkswagen, fellow subsidiary Lamborghini also produced F1 engines between 1989 and 1992.
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