Red Bull starts up
When it decided to produce the engines itself, Red Bull knew that the 2026 season would not be so simple. The winter tests had raised hopes for something better than what was actually seen in the first three grands prix. The Anglo-Austrian team has in fact collected just 16 points and is already 119 points behind the dominant Mercedes.
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There is a chassis problem, but the engine works
As reported in recent weeks, Red Bull’s factory focus is on the chassis, the real weak point of the car. The engine seems to have given excellent responses, so much so that in recent days it has been whispered that it could be excluded from the first ADUO allocation, because it is quite competitive and close to Mercedes’.
For Miami, a chassis revision of the RB22 is to be expected and even the one seen at Silverstone for the test had more than one novelty.
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Returning to the power unit, team principal Laurent Mekies confirmed the excellent feedback to The Guardian: “The engine has clearly exceeded expectations. The ghost of the power unit has disappeared. We have our problems and need to recover some tenths. We have to fix what needs fixing on the car. We know how to do it. Maybe it won’t happen already in Miami, but it will happen.”
