What’s behind F1’s Bahrain V10 engine summit?
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The Bahrain Grand Prix weekend is set to be significant both on and off track, with a meeting of F1’s stakeholders about ideas for a possible change of engine formula - perhaps even to V10 engines - taking place on Friday.
Jonathan Noble joins Edd Straw to explain exactly what the meeting is about, and how far F1 really is from making such a dramatic change, and what options might be on the table for discussion.
We also tackle what it will take to make a change, and why it would be unrealistic to expect the ‘26 rule changes to be rolled back on at this stage.
McLaren’s chances of finally winning the Bahrain Grand Prix, which is effectively a second home race given the longstanding stake of Mumtalakat, are discussed, along with the prospects for Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes.
And in part three of the podcast, we also tackle listener questions on Cadillac, dirty air, Aston Martin’s 2027 line up and more.
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| 1:16.6 | The race is on and talks about a possible change of direction engine-wise for F1 ramp up with a major meeting in Bahrain, making it a significant event both on and off track. |
| 1:35.3 | I'm Edgshaw and joining me to explain all and ask if McLaren can break its curse in its other Home Grand Prix is John Noble. |
| 1:42.8 | Well, John, welcome to Bahrain. You're not long landed. I've been here |
| 1:46.2 | a little bit longer, but I got in this morning. You got in about two hours ago. I think you landed. |
| 1:51.9 | So how are you enjoying Bahrain in your brief arrival? I think I've been here less than an hour, |
| 1:56.4 | actually. So quite an interesting route out of Japan, because obviously Japan to Bah not a not a standard kind of route for airlines. So you've got to kind of pick your, plot your way across Asia. I actually went, it was a two-stop strategy. First stop, Manila, Monday night. Second stop Dubai last night and then flew today. But I must admit, I was quite jealous of as I queued up at Nagoya Airport on Monday morning, the F1 Charter for all the teams, were going direct to Bahrain from there. So I saw Piastri what passed, all the Mercedes team, Alpine team, Hasse, all the teams, Piestri was there. |
| 2:34.8 | Piaastri, I saw Ocon, put him to Ocon, spoke to Kimi Antonet very briefly. |
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