{"id":280808,"date":"2026-02-12T17:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/280808\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T17:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:45:17","slug":"red-bull-faces-first-major-engine-problem-in-f1-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/280808\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull faces first major engine problem in F1 testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull enjoyed a strong first day of F1 Testing in Bahrain, but its new power unit suffered its first major blip in Sakhir.<\/p>\n<p>RacingNews365 understands from sources that sister team Racing Bulls identified a problem with its RBPT-Ford power unit, one which meant rookie Arvid Lindblad could not run in the afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lindblad completed 75 laps in the morning, but did not return to the track in the afternoon following the launching of an investigation into the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The problem did not affect the senior Red Bull team and Max Verstappen, who was driving, as he racked up a day-best 136 laps as he finished in second place, behind Lando Norris.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Lindblad nor Verstappen are scheduled to be out on track on Thursday, with Liam Lawson and Isack Hadjar, respectively, taking over the machines for a full day of running.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen&#8217;s pace and reliability in the morning caught the eye of <a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews365.com\/toto-wolff-labels-red-bull-as-new-f1-benchmark-after-testing-revelation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mercedes boss Toto Wolff, who claimed that his team were unable to match the energy deployment and pace of the RBPT-Ford on the day.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out the full results and report below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull enjoyed a strong first day of F1 Testing in Bahrain, but its new power unit suffered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,42,3513,3516,3514,43,3512,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-280808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1-calendar","10":"tag-f1-live","11":"tag-f1-results","12":"tag-f1-standings","13":"tag-ferrari","14":"tag-formula-1","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-lewis-hamilton","17":"tag-max-verstappen","18":"tag-motorsport","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-racing","21":"tag-top-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topnews","24":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}