IS VW READY TO ENTER F1?

 Mclaren's team boss Zack Brown has admitted that they have talked with the Volkswagen Group,whose brands(Audi and Porsche) have been linked with a future Formula One entry,but that nothing has been agreed.                                                                                                                   

VW has seriously considered entering F1 especially after the announcement by the FIA of the new set of rules for the engines which will be introduced in 2026.The 1.6 litre engines will remain but without the complex MGU-H component from the hybrid system (which was one of the thing's that VW wanted to leave before they commited to F1), which will have an uprated MGU-K (to 350kW, around 469bhp) and an undefined power unit cost cap.                       

German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has reported that VW's supervisory board will decide at the end of February whether both Audi and Porsche will enter F1.

Sources told Reuters at the end of last year that a possible partnership between Audi and McLaren was on the table, but undecided.   

"I am hearing they (Volkswagen) are going to do something with Red Bull on the Porsche front," Brown told reporters at the McLaren factory.

"I think they have spoken with a handful of people on the grid and as you would imagine we have had conversations but in the short term and medium term we are very happy where we are."

McLaren currently use engines provided by Mercedes and Brown said that would not change until a new engine is introduced in 2026.

Red Bull have taken over Honda's intellectual property following the departure of the Japanese automaker at the end of last season and are setting up their own powertrain company. 

The agreement with Honda covers the duration of an engine freeze, which will run from this year until the sport introduces the next generation of power units.

Brown said McLaren would wait and see whether the VW brands did decide to take the plunge.

"I think that has not been definitively decided and if they do [enter], we have a contract [with Mercedes] through this term," he added.

"Naturally we are going to evaluate where we are and who is in the sport and take a decision on what we are going to do in 2026 in due course."

Now we only have to wait until February to see if the intentions of VW group to enter F1 are real.

What do you think?