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F1 GOES FULL RETRO MENTAL!

HYBRIDS BINNED AFTER SUZUKA SHOCKER – V12s, V10s & LEADED FOSSIL BACK IN! GRID GIRLS RETURN & DRIVERS CAN SPARK UP ON THE BLOODY GRID!

BY OUR MOTORSPORT MANIAC, Irwin “IRW FULL THROTTLE” D Trenton.

Formula 1 has lost the plot in the best possible way – and we are HERE for it!

In a balls-to-the-wall U-turn that’s left eco-loonies choking on their kale smoothies, the FIA and F1 bosses have ditched the boring 2026 hybrid power units effective immediately after the absolute farce that was the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka.

The “Suzuka Silent S**show” saw the whisper-quiet eco-engines conk out mid-race, leaving half the grid coasting like mobility scooters in a nursing home. Fans booed so loud it registered on the Richter scale. Drivers were spotted yawning inside their cockpits. One insider whispered: “It sounded like a Prius having a quiet w*nk.”

Now? Proper noise is back, baby!

Teams are ripping out the hybrid bollocks and bolting in 2005-style naturally aspirated V10s and V12s faster than you can say “leaded fossil fuel.” And yes, they’re running on the real stuff – the filthy, glorious, brain-melting black gold our grandads used to love.

Ferrari have gone full nostalgia porn and are resurrecting their legendary 1995 V12 for the Miami Grand Prix. The Scuderia’s garage looks like a museum that’s been raided by mad scientists with spanners.

Toto Wolff, Mercedes boss, was grinning like a Cheshire cat on coke: “These hybrid abominations were strangling the soul of racing. We’re going back to proper V10s that sound like the devil clearing his throat. The roar will be so loud it’ll make your missus’s teeth rattle. Best decision since I grew the beard!”

Fred Vasseur, Ferrari team principal, couldn’t contain himself: “Magnifique! We’ve pulled the 1995 V12 out of the vault and it’s going straight in the car for Miami. This is Ferrari, not some electric golf buggy company. The sound alone will make the tifosi cream their pants!”

Flavio Briatore, the old rogue himself, was spotted cackling outside the paddock: “Finally! Real engines for real men. V10s, V12s, leaded fuel – this is what Formula 1 should always have been. The hybrids were for vegan yoga instructors. Now we race like men again!”

Even the drivers are buzzing harder than a grid full of Red Bulls.

Max Verstappen said: “About bloody time. Those new engines were for pussies who like vacuum cleaners. Give me a screaming V10 that tries to rip your head off. And smoking on the grid? Yes please. Light one up, boys!”

Lewis Hamilton – yes, the same Sir Lewis who once lectured us about the planet – added: “Man, the old V12s had soul. Proper theatre. And being allowed a cheeky fag on the grid before the lights go out? That’s the most rock ‘n’ roll thing F1’s done in years. I’m here for it!”

As if that wasn’t enough to make your nan faint, the FIA is bringing back grid girls for the Miami GP. Yes, the proper ones. Short skirts, big smiles, no lectures. Sources say they’ll be holding umbrellas again – and possibly lighters for the drivers.

One anonymous team boss summed it up best: “We’ve gone from politically correct boredom to 2005 chaos in 48 hours. The noise, the fuel, the girls, the fags on the grid… F1 is finally fun again.”April Fools? Nah, mate.

This one’s too good to be fake.

VROOM TO THE PAST – AND WE BLOODY LOVE IT!