Red Bull's technical director Pierre Wache just gave the grid a reason to worry. Asked to rate the team's first in-house power unit on a scale of one to ten, he said four or five — and meant it as a compliment. The Milton Keynes outfit thinks its Ford-partnered engine is only 40 to 50 percent of the way to where it can be, yet the FIA's ADUO assessment already shows Red Bull's internal combustion unit producing the highest output on the grid.
After two decades buying engines from Cosworth, Ferrari, Renault, and Honda, Red Bull finally built its own for 2025. The learning curve is real. Wache admits chassis and engine teams think on different timelines, and integration is still a work in progress. But the performance is there before the process has even settled. If this is the half-finished version, other teams have every reason to be nervous. Red Bull just announced it's barely getting started.
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