{"id":419151,"date":"2026-01-19T11:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/419151\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:14:08","slug":"ford-ceo-says-making-f1-car-taught-him-how-to-beat-china-at-car-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/419151\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford CEO Says Making F1 Car Taught Him How to Beat China at Car Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Designing a Formula 1<\/a> engine has helped Ford gain the edge against Chinese cars, Ford’s CEO Jim Farley said.<\/p>\n

Ford announced in 2023 that it would supply Oracle Red Bull Racing with its engines from 2026. On Friday, Red Bull unveiled its car for the 2026 Formula 1 season, powered by the Red Bull Ford Powertrains engine.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Bloomberg published on Sunday, Farley was asked how developing the engine has helped him deliver better value for his customers.<\/p>\n

His answer was software.<\/p>\n

“It’s a long list, but I would say the real signature for me is really the software \u2014 the control software for the hybrid system, predictive failure components,” Farley said.<\/p>\n

And designing better software is a key step to beating Chinese cars, he said.<\/p>\n

“These are the essence of the new software-defined vehicle globally to beat China, and they are really good,” he added. “We need these capabilities from Formula 1, and we can put them right in the Transit van.”<\/p>\n

Working on the F1 engine with Red Bull has helped Ford understand LLMs and predict component failures, which can benefit both Red Bull driver Max Verstappen and Ford’s customers.<\/p>\n

This is not Ford’s first foray into F1. It supplied engines for the race from 1967 until 2004.<\/p>\n

Farley has, on several occasions, gushed about the tech capabilities of China’s automobiles. In October 2024, he said he had been driving an EV from the Chinese tech giant Xiaomi<\/a>\u00a0for half a year and\u00a0didn’t want to give it up.<\/p>\n

And in July, speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Farley said, “They have far superior in-vehicle technology<\/a>,” citing Xiaomi’s phone-to-car pairing capabilities.<\/p>\n

Chinese automobile companies, particularly EV makers, have gone all in on smart technology in recent years. An executive of CATL, a Chinese EV battery manufacturer, said during the World Economic Forum last year that China’s automakers were retiring the traditional term “EVs” in favor of “EIVs,”<\/a> or electric intelligent vehicles.<\/p>\n

And after the Chinese AI company DeepSeek<\/a> launched its R1 model last year, major automakers like BYD, Geely, and Great Wall Motor said they would integrate it into their cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Designing a Formula 1 engine has helped Ford gain the edge against Chinese cars, Ford’s CEO Jim Farley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-419151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}