During an entertaining media session with the Dutch press in Zandvoort last year — yes, the same one in which he also spoke about certain AI videos — Toto Wolff discussed Red Bull’s own engine project. “They’ve got Mount Everest to climb,” the Mercedes team boss said at the time. It sounded like a realistic assessment, and one that Laurent Mekies fully agreed with.

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