Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff admitted that everybody is working hard to ensure the 2026 engine will be competitive, but there’s no guarantee the British outfit will get it right.
The 2026 season is getting closer and the teams are already working on the new engines amid the rule change that will come into force starting from that season.
Wolff said that despite beating the competition by a great margin in 2014 when new power units were introduced, there is “no guarantee” Mercedes will be able to do the same in2026 as well.
“We saw at HPP [Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains] in 2014, we got that right, but there’s no guarantee we’re going to get it right in ’26.
“We are giving it the utmost effort and we’ve set targets that we believe are high enough and ambitious enough to have a very competitive power unit.
“2014 was a more journey into the unknown because it was such a change of regulation, but this is a little bit [of a] similar situation [to the existing rules].”