Formula 1 could follow Formula E in becoming an all-electric championship within the next decade if it provides a greater spectacle for fans, accordi🐠ng to sporting bos🃏s Ross Brawn. 

F1 ditched n🃏ormally-aspirated V8 engines for a switch to hybrid V6 power units in 2014 and is currently working towards a new se💖t of engine regulations for 2021, though the core philosophy of the V6 power units in circulation will be retained. 

Formu♔la E became the first form of motorsport to go fully-electric following its inception in 2014 and is set to introduce an upgraded ‘Gen2’ car including a greater energy store and power levels for the series’ fifth season, which begins in December. 

The series has also attracted a host of new manufacturers including Jaguar, BMW and Nissan in recent years, while major German marᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚques Mercedes-Benz and Porsche are planning 🍒to join the championship from 2019. 

Electric power has not previously been a consideration for F1, but its e꧑ver-increasing popularity and road-relevance means Brawn is r🍷efusing to completely rule out a change in the sport’s direction in the future. 

"I think we have to respect what Formula E is doing and what it's achieving," Brawn told F1 Fan Voice in an interview. "But if you look at the magnitude of the two they are not really comparable; the amount of fans we have and the ap💟peal of Formula 1, Formula💮 E is still very junior in that respect.

"I think Formula 1 will evolve in the direction that has the right balance of sport, relevance and engagement with the fꦍans. If in five years' time or ten years' time there is a need, desire or wish to have a different type of power unit in Formula 1 then we will do it. There is nothing to stop us having electric Formula 1 cars in the future.

"At the moment they don't deliver the spectacle, and with all due respect if you go to a Formula E race it is a pretty junior category of motor racing,” he added. “It's a great event in terms of all of the stuff that is going on around it, but the race itself is pretty tame when you compare it to a Formula 1 event. The cars are not particularly fast𒁃, you don't have the personalities involved but they are doing a 🧸fabulous job at putting on an event and making it a street party.

"Formula 1 is different to that, Formula 1 is the pinnacle of motorsport, the speeds we do, the calibre of drivers we have and the teams we have, and if that moves in five or ten years' time to a different power source then we will do it if that is most appeaꦜling and achieves what we want to achieve. I don't see Formula 1 being locked into internal combustion engines forever, but who knows where we are in ten years.

"Ten years ago I don't think many people would be able to predict where the world is now and therefore I don't k🧔now where we will be in ten years, but Formula 1 will move in the right direction."

Despite his well-document🦄ed preference of older-spec F1 engines, Brawn stressed F1 is highly unlikely to take a “step back” and return to normally-aspirated power units given how the sport’s current manufacturers have committed to the current regulations. 

"There is a part of me which would love that to happen,” he said. “I do love the old F1 engines but I don't see how we could make that step ba𝓰ck without such a radical revolution that would really polarise Formula 1 and split it apart.

"The manufacturers we have in Formula 1 at the moment are c🌼ommitt♛ed to the engines we have now, and should we have a revolution? I don't think so. 

“I'd love to have those engines but it'⭕s not going to happen, so we need to evolve the engines we have now and learn the lessons from introducing these engines to see how we can take 🦩them in a direction that is a bit more appealing to the fans."