The race is on, and engines are the big talking point in F1 right now, both for the long term,

with the 2026 rules taking shape and brands like Pauldian Porsche set to be on the grid,

and the short term, with upgrades and reliability concerns potentially shaping the World Championship Battle.

I'm Ed Schor and joining me with the latest on power units, both presence and future, a Scott Mitchell and Mark Hughes.

Well, Scott, hello, people won't be surprised to hear what country you're in, but you are in a slightly unusual environment for recording this podcast today.

It's a little bit

more flat-6y, perhaps, than V6, but tell us where you are. Oh, I don't know what you're

talking about, Ed. I'm in location for the next Grand Prix early, aren't you? Not quite,

not, not quite in Istanbul Park yet, but I think you're somewhere a bit of nor northerly,

are you not? Oh, Istanbul Park. I thought, I'm at Mantorpe Park. I've made a huge miscalculation.

Not for the first time.. So it's adding another

track to my list. It's my, shamefully, it's only my second Swedish venue that I'm adding after

Karl Skoga or Yolorla Rossan Arena, as it's sort of now known. And unfortunately, I think the F1

calendar is a bit unkind, or the provision of F1 calendar is a bit unkind for next year, because I was really hoping to go to Andersthorpe. But that's not looking likely. But I'm here now. I've added another circuit to my list, which is 47 now. So that means Istanbul next week will be 48. And then you never know. We've obviously got

Qatar on the calendar now, 49, Saudi Arabia. I can have my half century somewhere in the

Middle East. Are you rattling along very well? I do have the advanced show views. I have been to

Anderstal. Have you done Andestalk, Mark? I haven't. No, no. I just know it from 1970s Grand Prix videos.

I went there for world touring cars. I can remember went out to watch Trackside, and they had

some very old rickety grandstands, kind of with boards, and so they sort of bowed under your feet.

I remember I was there with the motorsport journalist Marcus Simmons, who we all know.

And he was very, very careful not to stand on the same Boeing bit of wood as I was in the

grandstand that I'm pretty sure was there for the Grand Prix of the 70, given it's

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