{"id":510345,"date":"2026-06-25T11:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/510345\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:52:10","slug":"ferrari-confirm-power-unit-update-for-austrian-grand-prix-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/510345\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari confirm power unit update for Austrian Grand Prix weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

It also arrives shortly after Lewis Hamilton<\/a>\u2019s breakthrough first Grand Prix victory for the Scuderia in Barcelona, which ended Mercedes\u2019 winning start to the season and F1\u2019s new era of regulations.<\/p>\n

Speaking before the Red Bull Ring event, Enrico Gualtieri, Ferrari\u2019s power unit Technical Director, confirmed the upgrade, as well as explaining some of the thinking behind it.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the beginning of the 2026 project, we have combined a continuous development approach with longer-term development programmes, to fully exploit all available opportunities to increase the performance of our power unit,\u201d said Gualtieri. \u201cThese two streams run in parallel and often reinforce each other.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire team at the factory is now working relentlessly to make the most of the additional opportunities provided by the ADUO mechanism, in full alignment with our intended development roadmap.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe update we are bringing to Spielberg is a relatively minor one and it\u2019s the result of the work completed in recent weeks to transfer improvements from our development programme to the track.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt epitomises key principles of our sport: continuous improvement, reacting quickly, and deploying gains at the earliest opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for how realistic it is to expect one such update to transform the pecking order, Gualtieri moved to calm expectations, saying: \u201cAs mentioned, this update is not a major step, and it will not, on its own, change the competitive order.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat it does show is the attitude of the team and our technical partners: to push continuously and to make the most of every opportunity to improve our package.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a championship as competitive as this one, it is unrealistic to expect a single update to transform the overall picture, especially under the current homologation and development constraints.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerformance is built progressively, not only through hardware changes, but also through how effectively you optimise the package race by race.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ferrari sit second in the Teams\u2019 Championship<\/a> heading to Austria, holding 190 points to Mercedes\u2019 262, while Hamilton is second in the Drivers\u2019 Championship<\/a>, holding 115 points to Kimi Antonelli<\/a>\u2019s 156.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It also arrives shortly after Lewis Hamilton\u2019s breakthrough first Grand Prix victory for the Scuderia in Barcelona, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-510345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}