Pink Bull’s determination to maintain creating its present automotive to grasp weaknesses will profit it in 2026 quite than damage its future possibilities, in accordance with staff principal Laurent Mekies.
The RB21 had additional updates on the Mexico Metropolis Grand Prix as Pink Bull continues to battle for second within the constructors’ championship and Max Verstappen mounts a late cost within the drivers’ standings. Though groups should make price cap concerns and lots of switched full focus to their 2026 vehicles a while in the past, Mekies says by nonetheless engaged on the present automotive there are advantages for Pink Bull in future.
“With reference to why we have now saved creating this automotive maybe a bit bit greater than the competitors, it is nothing to do with ’26,” Mekies stated. “I feel as we have now commented on a number of instances, it was if we have been turning the web page on the level of the season the place we’re very sad about this automotive, not reaching the total potential, then you definitely would go into 2026 with plenty of query marks in your head and with plenty of wishful pondering.
“So we have now most popular to speculate a bit bit extra on this automotive. We tried to unlock what we felt had not labored and received a little bit of efficiency out of it. It provides us much more confidence into instruments, methodologies, approaches going into 2026. Sure, there’s a price within the period of time and vitality left for that, however that is the rationale behind it. Nothing to do with the efficiency in any respect.
“We’re doing it this manner as a result of we expect for us – leaving alone the opposite guys – it is a web acquire. We validate our approaches and [that will help] 2026, if we thought it might compromise it, we might not be doing it. We all know there’s a worth to pay. We expect it is cheap and we expect it is value it.”
Verstappen transfer to inside 36 factors of the championship lead on the Mexico Metropolis Grand Prix however he was comfortably crushed by Lando Norris within the McLaren, and Mekies says the title image has no influence on the best way Pink Bull goes about every race weekend.
“We aren’t going to vary our method. We weren’t wanting on the championship 5 races in the past. We weren’t wanting on the championship earlier than Austin, we weren’t taking care of Austin. What we take a look at is, sure, we don’t really feel 100% good about [Mexico] by way of automotive efficiency.
“That is the place the main target goes now … The main focus might be what would we do if we come again right here? What can we study for Brazil?
“The remaining, the championship standing is a consequence. It does not change something for us, whether or not we’re shut or far. We nonetheless need, as a staff, to continuously extract, and depart understanding we have now extracted completely all the pieces. And that all the pieces is nice sufficient to battle for the win. That wasn’t the case [in Mexico], in order that’s the place the main target goes.”
