Red Bull has defected to the anti-Mercedes side of the F1 engine loophole

While it still may be too late to do anything about it, the new development in the F1 2026 compression ratio saga is that Red Bull seems to have swung to the opposition side after the Barcelona shakedown. I guess they saw that Mercedes cheated better than they did, and now the only rational thing to do is defect. This makes it theoretically possible for teams to vote to change the testing method to something — which still has not been specified by anyone, as far as I’m aware — that can catch the increased compression ratio at running temperature before final homologation on March 1.