How can teams be ‘realized’ for further teams in developing new engines for 2026, when the manufacturers probably keep everything as secret as possible? – Alex
This is a good question, because on its face, no one should know anything about the relative performance of next year’s engines, as manufacturers are working on them all in separation.
In fact, however, F1 can be a big business and a very large following, but it is a relatively small world, and people talk.
For a beginning, manufacturers have to discuss their engines, allowing the body to detect fiya for an entire group of causes.
Then there is a movement between teams and manufacturers in terms of employment – people leave one team or engine company to work for another. When they reach there, they would clearly know where their previous employer was, and will be able to share it with his new.
And then there is only normal gossip among people in Padock.
Therefore, while individual manufacturers do their best to prevent performance figures, essentially they do some extent.
In this way an impression is formed.
Last time there was a major change of engine design, there were many things about Mercedes. No one knew to ensure whether it was true until the cars used to run in pre-season tests when it was immediately clear that it was.
This year’s situation looks very similar. Then, no one knows certainly, but grapes say that Mercedes are ahead.
There is a lot of complication in the new rules.
The engine architecture is changing, with the removal of MGU-H, part of the hybrid system that acquires energy from the turbo.
The power split of the engine is changing, with the power part of the engine now set to produce about 50% of the total output, which is currently above 20%.
In combination with the removal of MGU -H, that energy needs to be recovered, which had a powerful effect on recovery – which has changed aerodynamic rules.
The F1 is starting a movable aircraft- both front and back are high and low-drag mode. The idea is that the drag can be reduced on strats, to increase speed, to make the braking distance longer, to increase the time to increase energy during braking.
The deployment and recovery aspects of engines will also be very different from now on.
For example, the engines will probably be run on high ravs during cornering, so that energy can be recovered for use on pain. In that case, the internal combustion engine is being effectively used as an energy generator for the battery.
Then there is a completely durable fuel, which is being manufactured without any use of fossil fuels. They will also have an impact on performance.
Effectively, the snippets of information about all these aspects of new engines crawl out in a way or in another way, and it is prudent who is in a good place and which is low, so it is low.
But this is definitely all guesstimation at this time.
