Toto Wolff has admitted Mercedes will have “nowhere to hide” when the 2026 F1 rules are introduced.

2026 will see significant changes to the technical regulations, particularly around the p🎉ower unit.

With the mandatory use of sustainable fuels, F1’s engines will🌊 become more electrified ღin 2026.

Red Bull🍰 boss Christian Horner has described the changes as the biggest in the sport’sཧ history.

As a result, the competitive pictureඣ is expected to change, with greater emphasis on the engine side.

Mercedes famo🐻usly nailed the start of the last major engine change in 2014.

Me𝔍rcedes’ power unit was the class of the field and resulted in their domination of the sport.

“You have to do your job as well as po🌺ssible on all levels.ꦿ A good engine alone won’t get us anywhere.

“McLaren will have that too. Then we have to beat them on the🐬 chassis. We have nowhere to hide.”

Mercedes confident ahead of 2026

Despite Wolff’🌳s conceﷺrn about the threat posed by McLaren, the general feeling within Mercedes is positive.

Technical director James Allison spoke about how the feeling is “sim🍨ilar” to 2014.

He said to Sky Sports at Imola last year: “I wasn’t in th🧸e team in the run-up to 2014 when the new generation of power units were being concocted and the enormous push to make them a reality was taki🔴ng place.

“But thoseꦐ of us in the team who were, tell me that the feeling is very similar.

“There is a massive shove going on in HPP [Mercedes High Performance Powertrains] to ma𒊎ke a success of that because it will set the course of anyone who’s lucky enough to have that in the back of their car for some seasons to come.

“We’re lucky that we will be on the receiving end of all the good investme𓃲nt they are making on our joint behalf.”