All-in Ferrari at Monza
The Ferrari at Monza will use the second ADUO token available in this 2026, a second intervention on the power units to increase their performance made possible by the FIA estimates released on the occasion of the Monaco GP in which Ferrari was found to be behind the Red Bull power unit with a performance gap of over 4%.
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The Maranello team had introduced the very first updates in Austria where the power increase was about five horsepower also thanks to the debut of a new fuel developed by the supplier Shell.
The quality leap expected at Monza is definitely more substantial since the latest issue of Autosprint confirms what was already anticipated by AutoRacer.it: in Maranello there was a real race against time to have the power units equipped with ADUO-2 ready for Monza and the expected gain is 12-15 horsepower.
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The 2026 World Championship has taught us that power is secondary to energy management – otherwise Red Bull would not be stuck at zero wins – but it is reasonable to expect an SF-26 at least closer to the performance of rival engines that made the difference.
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