Hamilton Just Admitted Verstappen Has 'The Most Powerful Engine On The Grid' - Ferrari STUNNED!

Join this channel to access its benefits:    / @f1_andrew   Lewis Hamilton admits Verstappen has the most powerful engine on the F1 grid. After finishing second at Singapore, Hamilton confirmed what the FIA ADUO assessment already ruled: Red Bull's engine is the benchmark — but Ferrari is struggling to match it. Red Bull's DM01 internal combustion engine was measured as the most powerful on the F1 grid by the FIA's ADUO assessment, earning benchmark status that ironically froze Red Bull from any new hardware upgrades. While Ferrari and Mercedes received additional homologations to close the gap, Verstappen and Red Bull found another way forward: calibration, software optimization, and energy deployment work with ExxonMobil. The gains have been real and measurable. Hamilton, who finished second to Verstappen in the Singapore Sprint by 2.591 seconds, acknowledged the engine's raw power during his post-race interview: "To overtake the most powerful engine on the grid is not so easy." Toto Wolff echoed the concern after watching Red Bull's double victory at Singapore, saying the ICE "seems to be very competitive" and praising how the team's power unit had come together as a complete package. But Red Bull's chief engineer Ben Hodgkinson revealed something even more troubling: they started the 2026 season with "quite immature calibrations" and have been chasing perfect extraction of the engine's potential ever since. Each race brought improvements through strategic recalibration, turning what looked like a penalty (the hardware freeze) into an unexpected advantage — a team forced to innovate in every other direction, and succeeding against the regulations designed to stop them. 00:00 Hamilton's Admission at Marina Bay 02:33 When Porsche Nearly Joined Red Bull 05:24 FIA Benchmark Freezes Red Bull Upgrades 08:00 Hardware Frozen, Calibration Unlocked 10:40 Straight-Line Speed Edge in Qualifying 13:11 Hodgkinson's Calibration Secrets Exposed 15:41 Software Gains From ExxonMobil Partnership Subscribe for daily F1 news and updates! This video is fair use under U.S. copyright law because it is transformative in nature, uses no more of the original than necessary, and has no negative effect on the market for the original work. Furthermore, this video is protected speech as outlined by the first amendment of the United States Constitution Title 17, US Code (Sections 107-118 of the copyright law, Act 1976): All media in this video is used for purpose of review & commentary under terms of fair use. All footage, & images used belong to their respective companies. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula 1 companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V. *