Verstappen<\/a> insists he is playing little attention to the chatter.<\/p>\n\u201cIt’s impossible to know,\u201d Verstappen told Bloomberg.<\/p>\n
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\u201cEveryone is just trying everything they can and from our side, especially from my side, I have to focus on the driving.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m not there to be the engine technician will explain everything in detail to you.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the end of the day, it’s also something between the FIA and the engine manufacturers to sort out.<\/p>\n
\u201cI drive the car, and I trust that from our side, we always try to do our very best to get the most performance out of the engine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Red Bull downplay \u2018noise\u2019<\/p>\n
Red Bull themselves are confident their new F1 power unit, their first produced in-house, is legal.<\/p>\n
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Speaking at the team\u2019s 2026 launch in Detroit, Red Bull Powertrains director Ben Hodgkinson described the early controversy as being \u201ca lot of noise about nothing\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there’s some nervousness from various power unit manufacturers that there might be some clever engineering going on in some teams,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m not quite sure how much of it to listen to, to be honest. I’ve been doing this a very long time and it’s almost just noise. You just have to play your own race really.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know what we’re doing, and I’m confident that what we’re doing is legal. Of course, we’ve taken it right to the very limit of what the regulations allow. I’d be surprised if everyone hasn’t done that.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy honest feeling is that it’s a lot of noise about nothing. I expect everyone’s going to be sitting at 16, that’s what I really expect.\u201d<\/p>\n
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