{"id":430075,"date":"2026-01-22T14:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/430075\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T14:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:06:10","slug":"can-this-car-take-mercedes-back-to-f1s-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/430075\/","title":{"rendered":"Can this car take Mercedes back to F1&#8217;s peak?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The end of 2025 couldn&#8217;t come soon enough for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/mercedes\/36495\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mercedes<\/a>. Although the team had enjoyed a smattering of good fortune over the 2022-25 period &#8211; and victories, no less &#8211; this has been comparatively sparse versus its championship-winning heyday. As Mercedes&#8217; key personnel would willingly admit, it entered that generation on the back foot and never really recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Now that ground-effect aerodynamics have been put back on the shelf, Mercedes has reason for optimism. There&#8217;s pressure on the team to deliver once more; for months, suggestions have been that the German brand&#8217;s High Performance Powertrains division has got the holeshot with the new powertrain regulations &#8211; as it had in 2014 at the birth of F1&#8217;s turbo-hybrid era. Of course, the pre-season interlude has been rife with rumours of compression ratio tinkering, with Mercedes cited as one of the powertrain manufacturers behind that. For now, it&#8217;s merely speculation.<\/p>\n<p>            We want to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">Let us know what you would like to see from us in the future.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our survey<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Autosport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The end of 2025 couldn&#8217;t come soon enough for Mercedes. Although the team had enjoyed a smattering of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,225301,817,813,816,945,225302,85],"class_list":["post-430075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-can-this-car-take-mercedes-back-to-f1s-peak","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-mercedes","tag-mercedes-first-pictures","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}