Ford is formally coming again to Formulation 1 racing as a powertrain associate with Pink Bull Powertrains. The Blue Oval is ready to make its return for the 2026 season when all-new engine rules are set to enter impact. That is the second large American producer to announce intentions to hop into Formulation 1 as of late — Andretti Motorsport and Cadillac simply introduced their proposed workforce and engine provider bid a month in the past.
As for the groups Ford shall be partnering with for powertrains growth, Ford introduced that it’s going to associate with each Pink Bull Oracle and Pink Bull’s sister workforce, Scuderia Alpha Tauri. Sure, the identical Pink Bull that has gained the previous two driver’s championships and final season’s constructors’ championship. It’s arduous to dream up a extra splendid state of affairs for Ford on the subject of partnering with a reliable F1 workforce, as Pink Bull is admittedly on its recreation today. The partnership is being referred to as “Pink Bull Ford” and can begin from 2026 and final till no less than 2030.
Ford’s announcement particulars that Ford and Pink Bull will work to develop each a brand new combustion engine that may run on sustainable fuels and a brand new 350 kW electrical motor that the technical rules require come 2026. Ford says it is going to present experience in areas like combustion engine growth, battery cell and electrical motor know-how, energy unit management software program and analytics.
The final time Ford participated in F1 was 2004, however Ford has a protracted and storied historical past within the sport to level to as proof it could possibly succeed right now. Ford has performed half in 10 constructors’ championships and 13 driver’s championships because the firm’s debut in 1968 as a Lotus associate. Ford’s most up-to-date main success got here in 1994 with Benetton when Michael Schumacher gained the driving force’s championship.
You’re not dreaming. It’s actual. We’re again in #F1, partnering with @RedBullRacing 🏎⚡️ #FordReturns pic.twitter.com/NSLBJ9kQSz
— Ford Efficiency (@FordPerformance)
February 3, 2023
“That is the beginning of an exhilarating new chapter in Ford’s motorsports story that started when my great-grandfather [Henry Ford] gained a race that helped launch our firm,” stated Invoice Ford, govt chairman of Ford. “Ford is returning to the head of the game, bringing Ford’s lengthy custom of innovation, sustainability and electrification to one of many world’s most seen levels.”
The brand new rules requiring growing electrification and using sustainable fuels is a large catalyst for Ford moving into the game. Increasingly more groups are getting concerned with F1 because of the altering 2026 rules. Porsche was initially pegged as a Pink Bull engine provider earlier than that fizzled out, and Audi is formally purchased into Sauber (at the moment branded as Alfa Romeo) for 2026.
