Red Bull decided to stuff a turbo into a briefcase and have an engineer hand-deliver it to Ford in Michigan. Custom agents had other plans.

The arrival of Formula 1’s turbo-hybrid power units in 2014 did more than change the sound of the grid. It rewired the competitive logic of the sport, rewarding teams that could master complex energy ...

Formula 1 is usually defined by what happens on track, but sometimes the most revealing moments unfold in fluorescent-lit government offices. The story of how a Ford engineer pried a seized Red Bull ...