{"id":368106,"date":"2025-08-23T20:54:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T20:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368106\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T20:54:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T20:54:15","slug":"will-these-two-constructors-come-up-with-the-best-engine-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368106\/","title":{"rendered":"will these two constructors come up with the best engine in 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amid the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the 2026 season, Juan Pablo Montoya<\/a> has identified two manufacturers that he believes could come to the grid next year with the best engine.<\/b>A few days ago, Jacques Villeneuve sparked a debate about what could be the best engine on the 2026 grid<\/a>, with many viewing Mercedes as the favorite for the new regulations, given their dominance from 2014 to 2021 during the hybrid era.<\/p>\n

However, according to the 1997 world champion, the Brackley team will not start the season with the same huge advantage as back then, as the other teams won\u2019t be standing still this time.<\/p>\n

\"Juan<\/p>\n

Juan Pablo Montoya<\/p>\n

Montoya bets on Mercedes and Ferrari for 2026The same question was put to Juan Pablo Montoya, who on the MontoyAS podcast raised a series of questions: \u201cMuch of what happened\u2014because, as we were talking the other day, it\u2019s like this: how are you going to know where the other teams are? How do you know where Audi will be? Where Ford<\/a> will be? Where Ferrari<\/a> will be?”According to the former Formula 1<\/a> driver, two manufacturers could have an advantage at the start of the next championship: ”Personally, I\u2019m sure it will come down to Mercedes and Ferrari\u2014whoever comes out with the better engine.”<\/p>\n

”But really, who has an advantage right now is impossible to tell. In fact, talking about it now is just talking for the sake of talking.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then added: \u201cIt\u2019s going to be interesting to see if Mercedes, finally, with all the progress they\u2019ve made with this car\u2014from how far behind they were when the sidepods were taken out of the car to where they are today, more competitive\u2014will come out next year with a superior car, or if Honda<\/a> next year will field Newey\u2019s car and take it all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Montoya believes that Newey aims to debut with a winning project at Aston Martin as early as 2026, despite having joined only a few months ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know Newey is working very hard. He wants to come in and win, and it would be very, very interesting if Honda comes out and continues winning races and championships,” he finally concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the 2026 season, Juan Pablo Montoya has identified two manufacturers that he believes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-368106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115080073673123435","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}