Round-up: McNish takes racing director role at Audi after Wheatley exit, and more – RaceFans

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Social media and hyperlinks Audi appoints McNish as racing director (Audi)

'McNish, a central determine in Audi’s motorsport actions and a part of the F1 venture since its inception, will tackle accountability for coordinating all trackside operations. His remit will embody oversight of sporting issues, engineering coordination, driver administration, race technique and storage operations, in addition to on-track media and companion actions. He'll assume trackside accountability from the Miami Grand Prix onwards.'

Wolff urges FIA to forestall doable ADUO engine upgrades altering 2026 F1 pecking order (Sky)

'The groups may have their efficiency footage and, because it appears for me, there's one engine producer that has an issue and we have to assist. After which all of the others are just about in the identical ballpark. So, I'd be very stunned, really, and disillusioned if ADUO choices that had been performed would provide you with any interferences into the aggressive pecking order because it stands in the intervening time.'

‘It has clearly exceeded expectations’: inside Pink Bull’s F1 engine manufacturing unit (The Guardian)

Laurent Mekies: 'The ghost of the ability unit – is Pink Bull Racing going to have a robust sufficient energy unit for the years to come back? – has disappeared. We now have our personal points. We have to get these tenths again, we have to repair what we have to repair with the automobile. This, we all know the way to do. It’s going to occur, not in Miami, nevertheless it’s going to occur.'

Dale Coyne Racing group supervisor Davis retires (Racer)

'Dale Coyne Racing group supervisor Mitch Davis has knowledgeable the group of his intent to retire with fast impact. On the method to his seventieth birthday, the veteran chief mechanic and group chief had been pondering a change, and after spending most of his life in racing, Davis determined the time was proper to just accept a brand new alternative that offered itself exterior of the game.'

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