{"id":475364,"date":"2026-02-12T15:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/475364\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T15:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:48:09","slug":"mercedes-forced-into-complete-major-f1-power-unit-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/475364\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes forced into complete major F1 power unit change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes has been forced into making a complete power unit change, impacting Kimi Antonelli&#8217;s running on the second day of the opening test in Bahrain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Silver Arrows discovered an issue with the power unit it was running, and following an investigation has decided to complete a full change.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Mercedes has confirmed that Antonelli will not be back out on the circuit before lunch.<\/p>\n<p>On the opening day on Wednesday, Mercedes completed only 85 laps with it being impacted by a suspension problem.<\/p>\n<p>Antonelli failed to even complete a lap on Thursday, marking a major setback for the Italian and the Brackley-based team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mercedes has been forced into making a complete power unit change, impacting Kimi Antonelli&#8217;s running on the second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-475364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475364","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=475364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}