Mercedes wants to supply engines to fewer teams in Formula 1 | Motorsport

However, according to team boss Toto Wolff, Mercedes earns too little from this now that the international motorsport federation FIA has adjusted the rules.

“Unfortunately, leasing engines is no longer attractive and interesting, because the FIA ​​has set a certain financial limit on what you can pass on to your customers. That’s to protect the smaller teams,” Wolff says in the Financial Times† Mercedes builds the engines at the factory in British Brixworth. The German racing stable uses this itself, but McLaren, Aston Martin and Williams also drive with Mercedes power sources.

Ideal world

Wolff’s team have won the constructors’ world champions for the past eight years and delivered seven times the individual world champions, but this season Mercedes has fallen short of speed compared to Ferrari and Red Bull. According to Wolff, everything is done at the factory to make the cars of Lewis Hamilton and George Russell faster. The Austrian, who is also a shareholder of the Mercedes team, also wants to drop one customer team.

“In an ideal world we would make engines for Mercedes and two other teams, so one less. In that case you have to make two less engines and two spare copies,” said Wolff, who did not reveal anything about which team should then look for another engine supplier.

Porsche

Ferrari also supplies Alfa Romeo and Haas with engines. Red Bull, the team of world champion Max Verstappen, uses Honda engines, just like sister team AlphaTauri. Alpine drives with Renault engines.

Porsche and Audi, both part of the Volkswagen Group, will join Formula 1 in 2026. Porsche will probably collaborate with Red Bull. Audi hopes to take over a Formula 1 team and has already held talks with McLaren, but the owners do not want to sell McLaren.