This is as crazy as crazy gets

[poohbah]

Must have been a quiet news day at motorsport.com.

There is no way in a bazillion years, ferrari would let a team who knows a thing or two about chassis design get its hands on one of its F1 motors. Especially if it was rebadged with its budget sibling's name.

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/opinion-f1-mclaren-alfa-romeo-919226/

[nicb205]

Must have been a quiet news day at motorsport.com.

There is no way in a bazillion years, ferrari would let a team who knows a thing or two about chassis design get its hands on one of its F1 motors. Especially if it was rebadged with its budget sibling's name.

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/opinion-f1-mclaren-alfa-romeo-919226/

I thought they were going to be another Mercedes customer.
I would indeed be surprised.
Watching Lemans on the weekend though I couldn't help but think I'd love to see an Alfa. GT3 or LMP2 would be fine

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[poohbah]

Agreed. And given Holden has already committed to running a twin turbo V6 "Commodore" in Supercars from 2019 on, I would really love to see a QV going head to head with it. I can think of few better ways to rev up sales. "Win on Sunday, sell on Monday..."

[Colin Edwards]

McLaren in association with Ricardo produce a pretty impressive hybrid power unit for the McLaren road cars.  Now if someone was to come up with the $500,000,000.00 Mercedes spent on their F1 engine program and inject those funds into Ricardo.................................!

Interesting that Ricardo and Alfa / Ferrari got together pre WW2 to produce a very potent V16.

Cant see Alfa trying to produce an F1 engine in the very near future.  New engine regulations are 2 - 3 years away.  The "new" regs are supposed to attract engine suppliers - not just car manufacturers.  You'd be mad taking on an F1 engine program right now or next year given the impending new rules.  Last thing Alfa needs is to be the European equivalent of Honda!
 
Alfa were however asked to consult and did attend a round table chat on the proposed new F1 engine regs earlier this year.