Next week will see the sport vote on the engine freeze that will decide whether Red Bull takes over Honda's F1 programme. Ever since Red Bull proposed that it purchase the IPO for Honda's F1 programme, the move came with the caveat that in order to proceed there would have to be a freeze on engine development from 2022, after all, having gone to the expense of purchasing the programme the Austrian team doesn't want to have to invest further to develop engines which are likely to be dropped at the end of 2025. As ever however, while some were okay with a freeze, others were not. Understandably, Mercedes, which has won 74.6% of the races held since the introduction of the hybrid formula was...
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