Mercedes-AMG F1 renews multi-year title, technical partnership with Petronas for 2026 season onwards

With 115 Formulation 1 Grand Prix victories and eight constructors’ championships on the shelf since 2010, the successes of the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Workforce have bred the renewal of a multi-year title and technical partnership between the racing workforce and the Malaysian vitality firm, forward of the revised energy unit rules that may take impact from the 2026 Formulation 1 season onwards.

“At present we’re doing one thing a bit of bit uncommon – asserting a partnership that may start in 4 years’ time. This sends an necessary message: our workforce and Petronas are now not simply companions; we’re household, and we will probably be one workforce for a lot of extra years to return,” stated Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 workforce principal and CEO Toto Wolff.

On the technical entrance for Formulation 1, the 2022 season launched important modifications to the technical rules involving aerodynamics, wheels and gasoline, the latter requiring groups to run automobiles on E10 gasoline (10% ethanol). Mercedes-AMG F1 and Petronas are working to optimise their energy unit, for which growth has been frozen from March 1 this 12 months till the following era of energy items come into play from 2026, consistent with the rules.

“Given the accrued expertise as a workforce during the last decade, and the technical capabilities and experience sourced from our mixed skills, Petronas appears to be like ahead to charting the following chapter with a give attention to superior sustainable gasoline for Mercedes and its buyer groups,” stated Petronas president and group CEO Datuk Tengku Muhammad Taufik.

“Along with our companions, Petronas will maintain pushing boundaries with our Fluid Know-how Options by means of modern choices. On the coronary heart of our efforts will probably be sustainability – as all of us progress in direction of a lower-carbon future,” he added.

The Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 workforce is the primary within the premier open-wheel racing collection to put money into sustainable aviation gasoline through title associate Petronas, and the workforce’s trial of operating its race vehicles on biofuel by means of the Belgium-Netherlands-Italy triple header of race weekends have yielded an 89% discount in carbon emissions over the three weeks, in line with motorsport.com.

“We’re already on observe with growing a greenfield biorefinery and co-processing at our services to provide sustainable aviation gasoline (SAF) as a cleaner and extra viable possibility for aircrafts in our effort to assist the aviation trade wants,” stated Petronas Downstream EVP and CEO Datuk Sazali Hamzah.

That is consistent with the Carbon Offsetting and Discount Scheme for Worldwide Aviation (CORSIA) which is predicted to return into obligatory impact by 2027, in addition to the FIA internet zero by 2030 dedication, each of which can have an effect on the logistics operations of Formulation 1 groups, the workforce assertion added.