BONUS: Our reaction to F1’s new engine catchup programme
6/10/202614 min
As part of F1’s plan to level the playing field, the first stage of their Additional Development and Upgrade Opportunities has arrived - essentially some decisions about which teams are allowed to bring additional upgrades. We’re here to explain these decisions, which are…. farcical.
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Transcript preview
First 90 secondsMatt Gallagher· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the P1 Podcast with Matt and Tommy. So Tommy, we need to talk about this whole engine thing because it's quite shocking, it's quite surprising what has dripped out to the public. Right? So essentially how we understand this is that ... Well, the FIA, let's, let's start from the beginning. The FIA have this ADUO thing, which has basically gone, you know the exact, it's gone really off right now- It's the Additional Development and Upgrade Opportunities. Okay, you definitely read that. I could see your eyes. [laughs] Um, so essentially it is a, a catch-up program. It's not a balance of performance, it's to try and help the, the manufacturers, the, the power unit developers that have struggled at the beginning of this- Cough, cough Honda. Uh, yeah. To, at the beginning of this, uh, regulation set to, to make sure there isn't a, a massive chasm when we go through the next months, the next years. So the results hasn't, or haven't been announced to the public because for, well, the f- they have fear of sounding bad, these brands.
Tom Bellingham· Host1:17
Which is crazy because they need to work out badly what they're doing with this, because if, if it's gonna be such a pivotal moment in the Formula 1 season, they can't hide it.