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Ronald Vording

Explained: Are drivers really being beaten by AI elements in F1's 2026 power units?

When the assembled media gathered in the McLaren hospitality on Saturday for Andrea Stella's media session, the Italian team boss shared one of the most revealing quotes of this Formula 1 season:

"When we try to analyse this, it gets immediately quite complicated. In fact, when I left the debrief to come here for this media session, there were still discussions ongoing as to why we see differences when these differences would not be scheduled in terms of the underlying parameters."

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