Scott Mitchell-Malm

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

internally and the speed with which he has just worked out how to crank out the performances consistently is really really impressive i think we've mentioned this before but it's a little bit similar to what we saw from piastri early in year three versus year two and you know you were talking ed in the terms of it feels like he's skipped a year in terms of that that trajectory you would expect it's absolutely the same for antonelli he underachieved in year one and i would say he's overachieving in year two versus expectations

Yeah, I've done a relatively deep dive into this for a piece that's run on the website because Andrea Stella, the McLaren boss, was talking over the weekend about its reliability and performance problems and effectively saying that for the first time it has felt on the back foot as a customer.

I think there may be a degree of McLaren underestimating the advantage that Mercedes could have as a works team in 2026.

Now, part of that could potentially have been foreseeable.

There was maybe a little bit of being too misled by the perks that it enjoyed as a...

Effectively a pseudo-works team by the end of the previous engine rules cycle because the homologations had been frozen.

There was nothing really more to be tweaked or gained from that side.

And McLaren had established itself as the best Mercedes team from a chassis point of view.

So for...

Mercedes to win championships as an engine maker, there was obviously every reason to support McLaren's request for information, communication, prioritising it as much as the works team.

Again, because there was no detriment for the works team to do this because there was just less...

There was less to be gained by maxing out dyno time just for the works team or whatever the different kind of nuances would be.

But I think part of it would not really have been foreseeable because the exact complexity of the 2026 engines in reality, some of the problems that have emerged because Mercedes HPP, the engine division there,

admits that it hasn't serviced McLaren well enough, but there have been faults purely on the engine side, the electric side, the battery problems, for example.

So that does need to be better.

And that's not the sort of thing you can foresee, but whether identifying the actual root cause of it is tricky because dyno time is limited and there's still loads of stuff that they want to do with the works team because it's the works team and that has to be the number one priority overall.

beyond obviously the need and the desire to service your customers as robustly as you possibly can.

So all of that is to say, McLaren definitely feels the pinch as a customer now, whereas it didn't before.

But that's because we are in brand new rules.

And, you know, I have to really give you a hat tip for this, Ed, because the couple of years or three years or so, we were hearing the likes of Stella talk about their confidence growth.

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