Mekies: “ADUO? Surprised to be the reference.” And he shows optimism about the updates

What chaos this ADUO The ADUO issue always remains at the center of attention in the Formula 1 paddock. During the weekend of the Austrian GP the home team, Red Bull, was present in the press conference reserved for team principals with its manager, Laurent Mekies, and there was no shortage of questions regarding the Frenchman regarding the much talked about mechanism introduced by the federation to regulate and rebalance the performance of the power units. As is well known, Red Bull was indicated by the ‘rumors’ that emerged from the FIA ​​as the best power unit on the grid with regards to the thermal part, generating quite a bit of dismay in the paddock and in the Milton Keyens team itself, which in fact loudly asked for a new measurement. “We have received preliminary information from the FIA and we were very surprised by this information – admitted Mekies – since then we have had very constructive discussions with the federation. They are carrying out an investigation. We are collecting as much data as possible to make sure we have a complete and accurate picture of the situation. Because it is not just about this result, but it also has big implications that it has for this year and next. So it is important, first of all for the sport, that the right decision is made. And obviously for Red Bull Racing too the impact to be on one side or the other will be remarkable.” Confidence in the updates Power unit issues aside, the hope around Milton Keynes is to finally see improvements in the performance of the RB22 and for this reason there is a lot of focus on the updates introduced specifically for the home weekend: “We hope to be able to come out of this weekend with a gap of 2 or 3 tenths from the competition, which, considering the number of races, I think is a notable progress. This is what matters at the moment, being able to constantly reduce this gap. I’m sure that this is the most important factor for all of us”, commented Mekies, also in reference to the rumors that Verstappen is increasingly oriented towards a change of team. Hypothesis which the French manager has denied.

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2026-06-27 15:00:00