Lewis Hamilton has confirmed that Ferrari is to receive Additional Upgrade and Development Opportunities (ADUO) upgrades from the FIA.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The ADUO system has been designed to allow power unit manufacturers to upgrade their engines if they are found to be behind the class-leading unit, with performance development otherwise banned.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
For those teams found to be within 2% of the class-leading design, one upgrade will be permitted in 2026 and then in 2027, and for those found to be greater than 2% down, two upgrades per year will be allocated.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The FIA is expected to announce shortly who has been granted ADUO upgrades – but Hamilton, who finished second for Ferrari at the Monaco Grand Prix to Kimi Antonelli’s Mercedes – has revealed his team will receive ADUO.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I mean, we go back to long straights [in Barcelona],” Hamilton told Sky Sports F1.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“But I think the news came out either yesterday or today that Red Bull has the most powerful engine, Mercedes is second, and then we are behind.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“So now we’ve got these tokens to try and develop and close the gap, but that is like an eight-to-10-month project, so it is not something we can just do next week.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“We will be pushing as hard as we can to close up, and for next week, I think we will hopefully be able to add some components to the car and try to close the gap to [Mercedes], but it is going to be hard there.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton has confirmed that Ferrari is to receive Additional Upgrade and Development Opportunities (ADUO) upgrades from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3007,3010,3008,3011,3009,831,372,49,832,3006,3005,50,3004,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-627114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-headlines","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-news","tag-racing","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}