Scott Mitchell-Malm

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1,231 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 22 Jun

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The Race F1 Podcast · F1's shock Red Bull/Mercedes engine ruling explained · 10 Jun 2026 podcast

There's been fears from the very start that manufacturers would work out ways that they can game this.

And also kind of the criteria for benchmarking it is unknown.

And that's partly because the FIA was wary of...

manufacturers finding ways to basically sandbag with their engines and kind of manipulate the outcome.

So we don't really know exactly what the parameters are that they've got into, and therefore it's hard to judge how much

different variables will impact what the FIA is looking at.

I am aware of at least one manufacturer that thinks just purely, even if the FIA just simply goes about a V6 assessment, the basic things that you would need to analyse within the V6

will be impacted by choices that you've made for your car design and the kind of integration of the power unit into the chassis.

And therefore, you are potentially going to try and get yourself an upgrade on the engine side because you have basically deliberately compromised your engine to get an initial chassis benefit.

and put yourself in a position to upgrade the pu sort of further down the line so it is all murky partly out of design but also partly out of weird sort of f1 paranoia and and usual debate because we're waiting as we record this to get the the the final kind of revelation of everything but i don't think that's going to be particularly illuminating anyway because they're not going to say who's far like how far off everybody is and what the calculations are

It makes me think back to Australia and when we were looking at kind of how the different engine manufacturers were performing against the, you know, the big narrative at the time being obviously the energy demands of Albert Park and how much everybody was having to recharge, where they were deploying, what that was happening down the straits.

And we were all quite surprised at how strong the Red Bull engine cars were.

at that race and it was as we'd seen in the narrative through pre-season testing it was testament to the job that rebel powertrains had done and this was an amazing start and all of this and there was a bit of a suggestion at the time and this continued into the the china weekend where we were wondering if

Red Bull actually had a really strong overall power unit when it came to that charging and whether it was the efficiency on the electric side, because it had gone so well at a race where this was a significant factor.

But now, with the benefit of hindsight and this revelation and what Mark was talking about there, where are the manufacturers hurting themselves on the ICE side?

with the Agio stuff in mind.

I wonder, actually looking back to something like Melbourne, if the strength of the Red Bull engine cars was in their actual engines, so that when everybody was reduced to only using the V6, which happened quite a lot over the course of the lap because of the energy demands, you couldn't use the MG UK a lot, is that why the Red Bull engine cars were so strong at the start of the season?

It was because...

per this FIA revelation, it had the strongest V6 to fall back on in those moments.

This judgment is making me kind of reconsider a couple of things that have happened so far this season.

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