This week it was announced that the new engine regulations will be introduced in 2014 and the engines won't have four cylinders but six. Mercedes GP's Ross Brawn thinks that there won't be any further changes: "I’m pretty confident that’s the final result. I think the initial proposal didn’t seem to have a complete consensus, complete support from all the manufacturers. All the manufacturers who are currently supplying engines in Formula One have signed an agreement that this is the engine we’re going to support in the future. That’s as good as it can be."

The Brit is glad they have come to this decision as the new regulations make the sport much more relevant to (sports) cars: "I think there is a justification for relevance in the type of engines we have in the future. We don’t want to end up as a dinosaur in five or ten years and the technology I see that we’re working on with these new engines is the technology that is going to become commonplace in road car engines in the future: small capacity, turbocharged engine, direct injection, special KERS systems. They’re all going to be the technology we’re going to be using in the future and when you do that, you can generate a lot more interest with a manufacturer, and we want to try and get some manufacturers back into Formula One and we won’t get that if we continue with a V8 normally aspirated engine. So I think the engine has much more relevance."

With the introduction of new engine regulations the first thought of manufacturers would be to pour money into the engine department. To keep the playing field level the FIA has announced that there will be budget constraints when developing the new engine. Brawn explains that he is happy with the closer eye of the FIA as it would invite other manufacturers to enter the sport: "The cost is a very good question. I think the concept of the resource restriction we have with the chassis is now being put in place for the engine, to make sure that there is a framework that you have to work within, to design, build and develop this engine and the FIA are working with the manufacturers to create that framework and I think that’s a very important initiative to encourage manufacturers to come in, because they will know that they can enter Formula One for a cost and they won’t get outspent. They will need to be cleverer than their competitors for the same amount of money."