Red Bull have confirmed that they will be taking over Honda’s engine operations at the end of this year provided the FIA implements a freeze on development. It was expected that this freeze would be finalized last week but the other teams could not come to an agreement. Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko has now spoken about all this with F1-insider
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Helmut Marko’s Surprising Revelation About Teams He Expects Would Support An Engine Freeze
Marko began by explaining why the freeze on engine development is important
“For F1, it’s an obvious common sense decision. The engine freeze is the most important thing”
He further explained how a freeze is more feasible than aligning the performance of all the teams
“The so-called safety net of alignment will certainly be more difficult. But if the development freeze is there, the whole project is already easier for us to handle”
He then revealed how an agreement regarding the engine freeze was in place last week but eventually fell through
“The agreement that still existed on Friday was no longer available on Monday”
He was then asked if he thought that their rivals would eventually agree anyway and that these are just tactics to keep Red Bull guessing. He replied by saying,
“That is not a wrong thought”
Marko signed off by delving into the number of votes they need and the teams he expects to support them which surprisingly did not include Mercedes or any of their customer teams despite Mercedes vocally supporting the engine freeze in public
“We need six of the ten votes from the teams, so only a simple majority. I assume that in addition to Red Bull and Alpha Tauri, the three Ferrari teams Ferrari, Alfa Romeo and Haas as well as Renault will agree”

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Juan Manuel Correa who suffered a horrific crash during the 2019 F2 race in Spa will make a return to racing with F3 team ART Grand Prix
He is “extremely happy to be back after what” he has “been through” and he is “super thankful to ART Grand Prix”
He further added that “F3 is a transition year” and his “dream is still to reach F1 and this is the first step in” his “comeback”
Mercedes technical director James Allison has explained that “every regulation brings opportunities once you can see exactly what they are saying”
As such, they have to adapt their “operation and” their “company so that” they “can make the most from it and to be ready for the challenge of this new era of F1 operating under a cost cap”
Reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton appreciated the way Ayrton Senna “drove, the colors of his helmet, the passion with which he spoke and his victories”
He, therefore wanted “to become a driver like him and get to F1” and he “considered it the most beautiful job in the world”
He further feels that Senna “faced alone a system that wasn’t always kind to him, something” Hamilton “experienced too in” his “career, albeit for different reasons”
Andrew Westacott, chief executive at the Australian Grand Prix Corporation has revealed that the “feedback” they’ve “had from F1 is that” they’re “sort of mid-way” when it comes to tyre wear
They’re “not the most aggressive”, they’re “not the least aggressive” - they “just don’t do much to tyres”
He added that “having a slightly higher abrasiveness of the asphalt mix”, they’ll “be able to get more strategies”
Pierre Gasly has divulged that from the time he “was six years old”, he “dreamed of winning a Formula 1 Grand Prix and experiencing a moment like that”
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Stefano Bonaccini, president of Emilia Romagna has confirmed that they “are thinking of only allowing vaccinated people in” for the race in Imola
Helmut Marko feels that AlphaTauri’s Yuki Tsunoda “has learned that you don’t win races in the first corner of the first lap. You also have to watch your tyres”
Marko added that Tsunoda “has learned a lot already, but when it comes down to it he can make incredible overtakes”

Is freezing engine development the right way forward for F1 during these times?