Audi will run its F1 engine on the test bench this year.

Audi’s arrangements to enter Formula One out of 2026 are getting a move on and a model power unit will run on the test bench before the year’s end, the German maker said on Tuesday.

The Volkswagen-claimed brand declared last October that it was taking a stake in the Sauber Group, whose Swiss-based group are contending this season as Alfa Romeo with Ferrari engines.

Formula One will have another power unit from 2026, with the emphasis on supportability and a more expense proficient future, when Sauber will turn into the plant Audi group.

Talking at show in Shanghai, Audi board part Oliver Hoffmann said the Equation One venture had “truly required off lately.”

In excess of 260 experts were at that point working at the powertrain office in Neuburg a der Donau, close to the carmaker’s central command at Ingolstadt, with the center of the improvement group coming from existing Audi staff.