Analysis
Mercedes-AMG reads DTM’s new tyre regime first
Mercedes-AMG’s Red Bull Ring opener was not just a Race 2 win. It was the first useful read on DTM’s new tyre and BoP regime.
Jean-Paul Hackett
RSR Intelligence
RSR Intelligence · Issue 008
Issue 008 examines Mercedes-AMG’s engineering-chain question, BMW’s multi-programme coherence, Porsche under regulatory pressure, and WEC’s new invisible-BoP regime.
Analysis
What Paul Ricard exposed about the German GT3 programmes
Paul Ricard data refined. Mercedes-AMG tyre finding holds at one circuit. BMW programme correction issued. Porsche customers collided with each other.
Analysis
Mercedes-AMG tyre deficit costs five-hour Paul Ricard lead
Mercedes-AMG led Paul Ricard for five hours. Cold tyres and a safety car cost the win. BMW called P4 the maximum. Porsche's pace delivered nothing.
RSR Intelligence
RSR Intelligence · Issue 007
Mercedes-AMG builds a subsidiary before it builds a car. The structural logic of Affalterbach Racing GmbH.
Event Notebook
Programme depth on trial at Paul Ricard
The 2026 Evo cycle and Paul Ricard's six-hour format test whether programme depth or customer breadth defines the GTWC Europe season.
Analysis
The hidden cost behind Porsche’s IMSA concentration
Sebring did more than confirm Porsche’s pace. It exposed how evo joker spending and customer budget limits are beginning to shape the 963 programme’s centre of gravity.
RSR Intelligence
RSR Intelligence · Issue 006
Porsche sweeps Sebring under maximum BoP weight. The concentration thesis works. The system, designed to stop it, now accelerates.
Analysis
When two governing bodies stopped trusting the Gulf at the same time
Two calendar decisions, made eight months apart, by two governing bodies that never coordinated. The Gulf's risk profile is now visible in both.
Analysis
Porsche's post-WEC programme just passed its hardest endurance exam
Sebring confirms the shape of Porsche's IMSA-only prototype future. The concentration thesis is no longer a diagnosis. It is operational.
Analysis
Audi consolidates authority under Binotto after Wheatley's exit
Mattia Binotto absorbs the team principal role at Audi Revolut F1 Team following Jonathan Wheatley's departure, his third formal role expansion in under two years.
Analysis
Calendar management is not a contingency plan
Two FIA championships face the same regional crisis. Their responses expose very different operating limits.