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Red Bull: “It would be naive to think that we will be better than those who have been doing this for 90 years”
Red Bull Formula 1 team boss Laurent Mekies said it would be naive to expect his team to immediately adapt to the new 2026 power unit rules and admitted that the team will have to go through “very difficult months”.
Red Bull will introduce the first of its own engines to comply with the new rules, developed at its Milton Keynes factory with support from Ford. The decision to create its own engine program was taken after Honda announced its withdrawal from F1, and negotiations with Porsche did not yield results. This forced the team to urgently seek experts and build the program from scratch.
A new challenge for Red Bull meant facing experienced rivals such as Mercedes, Ferrari and Honda (which eventually returned to join forces with Aston Martin). Audi will also join F1 as a new power unit manufacturer in the 2026 season.
“It would be naive to think that we will get to the top right away. We know that there are very, very difficult months ahead of us. There are many sleepless nights and headaches, but being involved in such challenges is part of the privilege.”
“We’ve said it many times: the decision to build our own engine together with Ford was one of the bravest decisions that could have been made. Perhaps it was a decision that only Red Bull could have made.”
“We started from scratch: now we have a building, dynamometers, a team of 600 people and we will try to fight against those who have been doing this for 90 years. We love this challenge, we love this idea. This is very Red Bull and we are proud to do this with Ford.”
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One of the two new teams on the Formula 1 grid is preparing to introduce its car for the 2026 season. The Audi team will officially reveal the new car at a special event in Berlin on Tuesday, January 20.
Audi has fully taken over Sauber’s project ahead of the 2026 season and will start its first Formula 1 championship as a factory team and power unit manufacturer. The team has also retained a significant portion of its 2025 Sauber structure, including team boss Jonathan Whitley and drivers Gabriel Bortoleto and Nico Hulkenberg.
This will make Audi the fourth team to submit designs for its 2026 car, after Red Bull, Racing Bulls and Haas. The presentation will take place in the German capital in the format of a full-fledged seasonal launch.
Following the main event, a separate event will be held in Berlin on Wednesday, January 21 for selected fans and media to take a closer look at the new car and its livery.
The presentation will start on January 20 at 20:00 Kyiv time. During the event, the team will reveal the car’s full design for the 2026 season.
Let’s remember that Audi had previously put the 2026 car on the track during promotional races at the Barcelona-Catalonia circuit in early January, but only a limited number of images were released at that time.
Formula 1. Presentation of the first Audi car. Watch LIVE online
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Formula 1 driver Nico Hulkenberg can count on a multimillion-dollar bonus in his first season with Audi if he can repeat the results in the 2025 season.
Last season, the German pilot reached the Formula 1 podium after 250 races for the first time in his career and finished the British Grand Prix in third place. At Silverstone, Hulkenberg was ahead of seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton and scored 15 points in one go.
Hulkenberg scored 51 points at the end of the 2025 season.
On the eve of Audi’s first season, specialized media reported that the 38-year-old pilot signed a contract providing a bonus of 50 thousand euros for each point earned in the 2026 season.
Given the large-scale changes in Formula 1, even the pilots themselves cannot yet predict the balance of power in the peloton. However, if Hulkenberg scores 51 points again, the bonus can reach 2 million 550 thousand euros in addition to his base salary at Audi.
If Nico manages to win the race and score the maximum 25 points, this will immediately earn him a bonus of 1,250,000 euros.
The team will present the appearance of its first car today at 20:00 Kyiv time.
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Match lineup
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28
twenty two
4
5
twenty four
8
11
9
7
19
13
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twenty two
14
8
twenty one
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New Los Carmenes
Johnmi Magnagoitia13
Sergio Cubero2
72 minutes
Alvaro Rodrigueztwenty two
17 minutes
59 minutes
87 minutes
Lander Oraechea14
21 minutes
peru nolascoain8
Marco Morenotwenty one
65 minutes
67 minutes
Jose Corpaz17
75 minutes
67 minutes
Sergio Alvarez6
72 minutes
Javi Marton20
53 minutes
80 minutes
82 minutes
Ander Madariaga16
80 minutes
John Gruzeta10
substitute
Luis Lopez1
72 minutes
Hoday Arillaga3
Aritu Aranbari4
Jair Amador15
leonard pigtwenty four
67 minutes
Javi Martinez5
59 minutes
John Magnazeliah11
80 minutes
72 minutes
Aleix Garrido30
82 minutes
Xieber Arcane7
67 minutes
74 minutes
John Bautista9
80 minutes
hugo garcia27
coach
Jose Rojo Martin
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