A very bitter pill to swallow ADUO was supposed to be a virtuous step forward for F1, a ‘perfect’ middle ground between the much-maligned Balance of Performance and the risk of dooming a few teams to years marked by an uncompetitive engine, but for now it is proving to be a very complex mess to unravel, which is baffling to say the least. In Monaco, the FIA notified the teams of the results of the first ‘checkpoint’ and those able to use the ADUO immediately began work on the power unit; As evidenced by the fact that Audi brought innovations to Barcelona and Ferrari will make improvements under the hood starting in Austria today. The FIA never made the results official and Red Bull was shocked because he was rated as the top engine engineer and therefore had no opportunity to interfere with the power unit. The reaction in Milton Keynes was immediate, but the demand for explanation will not lead to the outcome being overturned, quite the contrary. The FIA will be willing to provide Red Bull with a detailed explanation of the data collected and the reasons behind its decisions, even if some information on the performance of other power unit manufacturers cannot be disclosed for confidentiality reasons, The-Race.com newspaper reported. It should be noted that ADUO only examines the internal combustion engine, which is the internal combustion engine, so overall it is plausible that Mercedes has the best ‘powertrain’, including the electric part, but at the internal combustion engine level Red Bull is clearly the best, and so Red Bull should remain in charge even if team principal Laurent Mekies says “we cannot find a single data showing our advantage over our friends at Mercedes”. To make the situation truly paradoxical, there is a ‘grand finale’ that could put Red Bull in an even more difficult situation: the FIA will only make the ADUO-1 measurements public before the Belgian GP, i.e. in about a month’s time, and unless Mercedes makes interventions to improve the performance of the power unit in the Hungarian GP, Red Bull will remain the reference internal combustion engine even after the second measurement period expires. Red Bull is essentially trapped until Mercedes (or Ferrari, in the case of astronomical profits) develops its internal combustion engine.
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