{"id":581268,"date":"2026-08-26T21:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/581268\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T21:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:20:09","slug":"f1-red-bull-found-again-to-have-the-most-powerful-engine-in-f1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/581268\/","title":{"rendered":"F1: Red Bull found again to have the most powerful engine in F1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A statement from the FIA said that Mercedes were &#8220;determined to be in the 2-4% window&#8221; (behind the best internal combustion engine), while Audi, Ferrari and Honda were all determined to be &#8220;above 4%&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That means Mercedes are allowed one additional upgrade in 2026 and one in 2027, and the other manufacturers, bar Red Bull, two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mercedes have won eight of this season&#8217;s 12 races so far, and Red Bull, who set up a new engine design and manufacturing facility to produce an engine for this year&#8217;s new rules, none.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nikolas Tombazis, FIA director of single-seaters, said: &#8220;The FIA has undertaken thorough and exhaustive analysis as part of our Aduo review process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With the release of the findings of period two, we are confident that, based on the quality of the data, its analysis is incredibly robust, giving us a high level of confidence in our findings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We also have to respect the confidentiality and intellectual property of the teams and their power-unit manufacturers in disseminating any details from the findings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is the first year of Aduo so naturally there are areas which we may evolve over time, in discussion with all the power unit manufacturers.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A statement from the FIA said that Mercedes were &#8220;determined to be in the 2-4% window&#8221; (behind the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-581268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581268","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=581268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}