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

It's not surprising given everything that's happened that we have another key aspect of the 26 engine regulations that are just kind of badly conceived or suboptimally enforced because it might be that in principle a lot of this is actually really good but yet again we're in a murky situation in

explaining it and there's been some of the kind of wranglings that have gone on behind the scenes and are still going on at the start of this week are kind of silly to be honest because a lot of teams have spent the better part of six months now

or manufacturers, telling us we're miles off, you know, we've got a big deficit here, we've got to catch up, all of this, because they're angling for upgrades, basically, and making sure they're on the right side of this evaluation.

But then it comes to the crunch, and nobody actually wants to have a deficit put to paper.

So there's been this big argument behind the scenes about what should be communicated, because there's different bands that you can be off, just because you get...

whether it's one upgrade or two upgrades, there's actually several bands you can be in and get the same number of upgrades as other manufacturers.

It comes down to how much money you're allowed to spend and how much time on the dyno, basically, you're allowed to commit to to do those upgrades.

So you can conceivably... You can do...

You can do more than the best manufacturer or the second best manufacturer or whatever in terms of quantity of upgrades, but your quality should be better based on what you get.

But we don't know where the manufacturers will fall within that because of this arguing that's been going on in the background.

And as a result of that, other manufacturers won't know either.

And to the point of how this emerged at the end of the Monaco weekend...

What was quite funny, to be completely honest, is several teams only found out about the Aguo outcome because Lewis Hamilton had said it in the press conference and we then stood that up with our sources and run a story on Sunday evening because it was only the manufacturers that got informed about what the FIA was doing on the Sunday.

The teams didn't because the teams aren't manufacturers.

So why would they get that initial assessment?

So I know there were people in teams that were discovering it on Sunday evening in Monaco.

And that's why it was such a surprise to people because they hadn't had that information in advance.

And when they got it, they were like, well, how have they come to this solution?

So...

It is quite messy and I am very curious to see what the fallout is politically, like what we see when it's finally communicated and then in the coming days, maybe even weeks and months as people try to argue it or work it out because it's not set in stone, like this is the only judgment now that happens over the rest of the year.

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