Whatever the color of the car, from Fernando Alonso's red Ferrari to Michael Schumacher's silver Mercedes, Formula One is picking up speed toward a greener future.
While the lifting of a ban on 'team orders' made the headlines, the more momentous news emerging from a meeting of the governing International Automobile Federation (FIA) in Monaco last week was to do with future engine rules. The FIA announced that from 2013, engines would be reduced from the current 2.4-liter V8s to four-cylinder 1.6-liter turbocharged units with a rev limit of 12,000rpm and linked to hybrid kinetic energy recovery systems (KERS).
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