Formula 1 technical con🦹sultant Pat Symonds is hoping for coll🧔aboration from teams over future power unit regulations.

F1 is braced for a major overhaul to its sporting, technical and financi💟al regulations in 2021 and is expected to operate with its current V6 hybrid engi𝐆nes until at least 2024, before being replaced in either 2025 or 2026 to align with the championship’s project to become carbon neutral by 2030.

Symonds, who is working as part of an independent technical team led by F1 sporting boss Ross Brawn to help determine the '21 regulation꧟s, recently revealed that two-stroke engines running on eco-fuel are under consideration.

“We’re getting a lot of cross-platform sharing, and our next big project is the 2025-2026 power unit, and what I’m trying to do with that is to 📖see if we can get something similar going on,” Symonds said at Autosport International earlier this month.

“Probably within F1 - within my organisation - I don’t think we put together a group in the same way we dꦉid with aerodynamics, because 🌠it’s a very different thing.

“But I’ve spoken to a couple of the power unit man𒁃ufacturers already about would they be prepared to do some cooperative research in certain areas.

“So we are seeing some sea changes n𒁏ot just in Formula 1 regulations, but perhaps more importantly in the way peopl🌃e think.”

F1 has traditionally faced resistan⛄ce from 💖teams on the eve of transitions into major regulation changes, and the forthcoming '21 overhaul has been the subject of much debate in recent months.

Symonds says such opposition is “only natural” but hopes teams will be more oꦑpen to future changes as F1 c𝓡ontinues its bid to improve the spectacle while becoming more environmentally-conscious.

“What we need is the evidence to pr📖ove it,” he explained.

“In terms of resistanc♎e to change, unfortunately everyone is resistant to change. It seems to be a natural thing. There are very few people who welcome change.

“꧑Interestingly, successful people tend to welcome change and deal with change a lot better than others.

“With the teams, it’s a little bit different because you’ve got to remember the huge investment invo𓆉lved as well.

“When ꧟we were working on the 2021 regulations, I have to say that those at the front were more resistant, and those at the back were less resistant – well, not less resistant, they were fully supportive.”