What Engine Does Ferrari Use In F1?

Scuderia Ferrari was founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929 and is the only team to compete in every season since since Formula 1 was established in 1950. Ferrari isn't just the oldest team in F1, it's also the most successful with 16 constructor's championships and 15 driver's titles. Ferrari and Mercedes are currently the only true 'works' or 'factory' teams in F1; these automakers control all aspects of race car production and use their own engines. Works teams also supply power units to so-called 'customer' teams, and Sauber and Haas bought Ferrari engines in 2025. 

New F1 engine regulations are going into place for 2026 and Audi will take over Sauber as its factory team. Ferrari will continue as a works team and its customer teams will be Haas and F1's newest entry, Cadillac. Ferrari's Cadillac connection will last until 2029 when General Motors has FIA approval to build Cadillac's F1 engines and it becomes another works squad. Alpine is technically the Renault factory team at the moment, but will switch to Mercedes engines in 2026. Aston Martin's F1 team also represents the automaker on the grid but is a Mercedes customer team this year and next.

The engines currently used in Formula 1 are a continuation of the "turbo-hybrid" layout that has been in use since 2014; it's a 1.6-liter turbocharged 24 valve V6 with a redline of 15,000 rpm. Ferrari's direct fuel injection can feed E10 fuel to the engine at over 7,250 psi and the single-stage turbocharger's turbine can run at up to 125,000 rpm. The current version of the Ferrari F1 car is called the SF-25 (for "Scuderia Ferrari 2025") and is the 71st single-seater race car that Ferrari has built for the Formula 1 world championship. This marvel of engineering has Ferrari sitting third in the constructor's standings behind McLaren and Mercedes going into the 2025 Singapore Grand Prix.

Like the other cars in the F1 paddock, Ferrari's SF-25 has two hybrid engine components that produce additional power while improving efficiency. The Motor Generator Unit-Kinetic (MGU-K) recovers motion energy during braking and the Motor Generator Unit-Heat (MGU-H) scavenges energy from hot exhaust gases. These systems help Ferrari's power unit put out over 1,000 horsepower while delivering higher fuel efficiency than prior generations of F1 engines. The chassis of the Ferrari SF-25 is made of carbon fiber honeycomb composite and has Brembo carbon ventilated disc brakes and a protective halo on the driver safety cell. It's a radical redesign from Ferrari's 2024 car with a new pull-rod front suspension that reduces nosediving in fast corners.This allows Ferrari to run the car lower to the track while increasing high-speed downforce. 

The front axle has also been moved a bit closer to the nose of the car to reduce turbulence around the underfloor and side pods. If these terms are unfamiliar to you, check out our guide to everything a new fan should know about Formula 1 racing. Ferrari's drivers for this year and next are Monte Carlo native Charles Leclerc and seven-time driver's champion Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton hails from Stevenage in the English county of Hertfordshire just north of London, tops our list of the greatest F1 drivers ever, and shocked Mercedes F1 fans when he left for Ferrari at the end of the 2024 season.