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Mercedes F1 boss: ‘This is the biggest risk for any team in 2026’
Mercedes chief Toto Wolff believes the biggest threat to Formula 1 teams ahead of the 2026 season is the discrepancy between simulations, testing and the actual behavior of the cars on the track.
Starting next season, the championship will experience the biggest technical rules change in the history of Formula 1. Both chassis and powertrain rules will be completely updated.
The new cars will feature active aerodynamics and the power plants will have significantly more powerful electrical systems, capable of producing up to 350 kW of energy from the battery, compared to 120 kW in 2025.
Mercedes is often cited as one of the favorites for the future, given the team’s dominance since the introduction of turbo hybrids in 2014. However, in 2022 the team lost a run of eight consecutive titles in the Constructors’ Championship after switching to ground effect.
Looking to the future, Wolff emphasizes that the real picture will only become clear when the new cars take to the track for the first time.
“Only the future will tell the true situation. People often try to attribute success or failure to a single factor. This could be a new management, a team leader, a coach, an aerodynamics manager or the arrival of so-called “geniuses” who will change the fate of the team.
It is actually about a group of people working together and collectively making the right decisions based on quality data, the right infrastructure and maximum correlation between the virtual and real world.
After all, this is how we learn about our car today, despite all the restrictions. “If that data doesn’t match reality when the car hits the track, that’s the biggest risk for any team.”
Wolff also emphasized that he did not allow himself to be too optimistic on the eve of the new regulatory period.
“I’m never sure; I’m always a glass-half-empty kind of person. That’s why we’re doing everything we can to create a car and a powerhouse that can compete for the championship.”
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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
2
twenty two
14
8
twenty one
17
6
20
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10
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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