
prvi put vidim da neko razvija dva ferrarija

"It’s a very particular way of driving the car. There's going to be a lot more management on the engine side and on the hybrid side,"




nema šanse da FIA zabrani mercedesu motore kad su celo vreme znali za taj trik i pustili ih da razvijajuFIA plays down talk of engine protest at Melbourne opener
LONDON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Formula One's governing body has played down talk of the sport's new engine rules triggering a protest that overshadows the Australian season-opener in March.
Media reports have suggested Mercedes and Red Bull, the latter now making their own engine, may be exploiting a "grey area" in the regulations to extract more power than the Ferrari, Honda and Audi units.
Manufacturers, engine experts and the governing International Automobile Federation (FIA) are due to meet on Thursday amid increasing chatter about compression ratios and thermal expansion.
Nikolas Tombazis, the FIA's single-seater director, suggested some of the reporting was overblown and said having a level playing field, and ensuring the rules were equally well understood, was a top priority.
"Of course everyone is extremely passionate and competitive and when people are in that state of mind it does create a bit of blindness to maybe other arguments," he told Reuters at the Autosport Business Exchange conference on Wednesday.
"Some people therefore present their points of view as the only truth. Unfortunately, things are never completely simple. That's where we come in to make sure we clarify these things.
"I don't think it's as huge a topic anyway as currently is being made out in the press."
Tombazis said the meeting would discuss "some technical merits of the topic" and was not any sort of a showdown to reach a solution.
Asked if he felt the issue would be defused before Melbourne, he concurred.
"I believe we are going to be OK," he said.
"It's a top priority to make sure we don't have controversies because we want to go racing and not to be sat in courts and hearings after the first race."
Audi boss Mattia Binotto said at the team's livery launch on Tuesday that any manufacturer running an engine with a higher compression ratio would have a big advantage.
"If it's real, it is certainly a significant gap in terms of performance and lap time, and that would make a difference when we come to competition," he told reporters at the event in Berlin.

During tonight's livestream, Autoracer expressed a lack of optimism regarding Ferrari's performance in the upcoming season.
Regarding the power unit, after weeks of ambiguity from the team, Autoracer suggests that there are valid reasons to question its strength. They assert that the prevailing sentiment that Ferrari is on the back foot appears to be accurate based on available information. Additionally, they highlighted that the team recently had to implement significant last-minute changes, which resulted in considerable organizational turmoil and disrupted their pre-season preparations.
While they did not provide a specific assessment of Ferrari's performance expectations, they noted that Charles Leclerc reaching Q3 multiple times in the early races would be an "extremely important lifeline" for the team.


The complaints from Ferrari, Honda, and Audi have had no effect. The idea of adding a sensor in the combustion chamber that would allow the International Federation to read data even when the car is hot hasn't found unanimous support, so there are no tools to block a concept that some consider brilliant, while others consider it nothing more than a gimmick that trashes the spirit of the rules.

https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/horn ... -briatore/The Renault-owned F1 team had sold a 24% stake to a group of investors - headlined by the Otro Capital company and with actors Ryan Reynolds and Michael B. Jordan and Kansas City Chiefs players Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce among the celebrity faces of the project - back in 2023, and that 24% stake has been mooted as a logical target for Horner, who is known to want equity in any future F1 project he joins rather than simply taking on a team principal role.
It’s been rumoured of late that Horner was actively in talks with the investors over that 24% stake, which has grown considerably in valuation since the 2023 buy-in despite the downturn in the team’s form. Briatore didn't exactly refute the possibility when asked about it during Alpine's 2026 livery launch, effectively confirming talks were in progress.

"I wanted a Mercedes-Benz engine completely. There was only one way to come back, because in this moment, you need to be with the best people. And the people of Mercedes, we started working together and it was promising. It's surprising, the ways that the people [at Mercedes] are collaborating with us. It's a super, super relationship. This is what we're looking for. I wanted to have the discussion with the best. With the second best, no interest."





This morning has also been busy in the online world, as Red Bull has released first shots of its actual F1 car



With live timing cut following the morning session and security high, reports of track action have been minimal.
However, according to Soy Motor, Red Bull's new signing went fastest with a 1m 18.159, with George Russell in second on a 1m 18.696 — the only other driver in the 1m 18s.

Ted Kravitz: “These are unofficial times, I have to say, but we have cross-referenced them with the teams who have confirmed their individual times. So Hadjar was quickest for whatever that’s worth, with a 1:18.1.
“Half a tenth further back was George Russell. We believe that Russell’s time was on a C1, the hardest tyre, whereas Hadjar was not on the C1. With Colapinto, it was a good effort from him on a 1:20.1 with the times going down.
automatska aktivna aerodinamika'Silverstone Guy' with the question of how they monitor the non-activation zones with the active aerodynamics.
It is understood that these zones will be shared with the teams at least four weeks before the race weekend. At the track, there are activation beacons which emit a signal once a car runs past it.
The signal is given to the ECU, allowing for it to open, and then there's a beacon later which effectively reverses that signal. The whole thing will also just shut off under braking and the race director also has the power to disable, or partially disable, the whole thing - ie, in poor conditions.



Nui vratio rogove. Sećem se pre na jednom mclarenu da su biliWe’ve highlighted some key features of the AMR26, including what our technical expert Gary Anderson calls a “size zero and then some” sidepod and the return of “horns” on the side of the airbox [wearetherace]




