FIA'S Radical Plan For 2026 Regulations
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- čas přidán 14. 01. 2024
- The FIA speaks in the f1 news about its radical changes its making to the 2026 cars to provide better racing and overall less dirty air from aerodynamics to active aero and different concept for each team to adapt to.
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Not small enough IMO but a step in the right direction. Imo the size needs to be that of the 05-08 cars. Honestly just as small as possible while still being as safe as possible for the drivers
Absolutely agreed but at least it’s happening
IYO , its what it means is Y O..
you should make your own race group..
like some had no comment when Boy Lewy was 1st , but not max is the same ppl claim stuff should be less..
if max wassnt 1st you wont hear the same pll complain
and for some its a reason to claim its rasict bc a with person wins..
or for some, there is no none binary person in F1.
but coming back to your complaint,, its your opinion and that dont cont for even a homeless person.
With the current safety regs and such i think it's impossible. Maybe possible down the line if the safety tech improves and they get rid of the hybrid system. But right now i dont see it being possible
No estoy de acuerdo en q los autos sean mas pequeños pareceran de categoria menor como un f3 o de regionlales y la f1 como categoria reina deben de ser grandes e imponentes como es indy car en EEUU. estoy seguro de q x mas pequeño va ser casi igual siempre va haber 1o 2 equipos dominante. En los años 80s y mediados de los 90s dexsenna prost mansell shumachereran autos anchos e inponentesxlos mas bellis cino se veian en pusta y habian grandes batallas entonces no creo q sea esa la solucion ademas autos tan pequeños donde va estar la seguridad entre mas pequeños menos seguridad. No me gusta esa solucion deben encontrar otra los f1se ven lindos anchos y grandes imponentes como debe ser un f1.¡suerte amigo desde colombia! 🖐👍
Racist? WTF are you on about?
What I can't believe is that Formula E is 50kg heavier than the F1 cars but are the size of the F2 cars. Something has to change.
Because of the double battery just makes the cars heavy like boats
How? It is all about physic. Gasoline holds 42 times the energy with same weight as battery. Unless battery technology has leap and bound revolution Formula E will be heavy.
@@catchnkill But having a battery and a fuel tank is just making the cars unnecessarily large.
@@eternal_trashero F1 is doing green marketing and is using hybrid PU. They cannot get away with large battery if they insist hybrid.
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No, that would be awful, people are already complaining about max dominating after winning 3 seasons, could you imagine the goatifi domination if they let him back in?
I think the shorter wheelbase is the key. The cars will be more challenging to drive.
Absolutely but more agile
Smaller cars for a start id even be contemplating a move to just an I.C.E again to reduce weight and size of the car....top it off all the drivers aids to return with actice suspension, aero abs edb traction control if its on a road car it shold be in F1 too
Great step in the right direction and congrats on 15k! 👊🏻
Thank you brotha and I think the same
Finally getting around to watching some of the vids I missed the first time around. 15k subs, and only 3 months ago. 🙂 I do like the look of the '26 spec cars. The current era has gotten so big. I think things are moving in the right direction.
The problem with these cars, in terms of size and weight, is the hybrid unit. They have to have so much cooling on board to keep the engine and the hybrid system in prime operating conditions that half the car becomes a radiator. So, when you say "the car needs to be smaller" without changing any other piece of the regulations it just leads to problems keep the power unit(s) cool.
As for DRS, I don't have an opinion on adding more/different moving parts. The change I want to see is that, in addition to the existing rule, a driver should also be able to use it if they are more than 10 seconds behind the car in front. This would allow drivers to get back in the mix, allow lapped cars to potentially unlap themselves and bring out some interesting strategy calls to get back into the race rather than just writing the whole thing off.
10 seconds is outrageous this isn’t proper Motorsport if ur getting dragged along but u know ur team made a much slower car
This is not so much because of the hybrid, in the past the cars blew a engine every 3 races. What changed is the fact that with the costcap and new rules it is to punishing to push the engines to the edge and sometimes beyond. In a way F1 is not as extreme as it was in the past, it's more and more about playing it safe both on and of track.
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Woa, 15k! Congrats man
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Not the perfect response, but it's a massive step in the right direction. I really can't wait for 2026, and seeing what the future brings
Agreed my friend
a step but not massive enough
Congratz on 15k!!!
Thank you brotha for always being around
Very informative as always.
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I hope so my friend that would be a life’s goal
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The wider floor will also result in greater ground effect and downforce as a result. As far as the weight is concerned I remember Vettel saying the cars would have to lose 150 kgs to get anywhere close to the 2010 handling levels so no I dont expect them to be "chucking it", its more of a damage limitation thing to lose 40kgs than improvement...Also, I wish they simply brought back the blown diffuser.
All good points and man do I love a blown diffuser
One of the biggest issues with current cars are brakes, drivers cant push braking too much cause they overheat and lose performance so i think losing weight is the main thing they should seek
This is true and a big priority
Low drag, instant torque & least possible turbulence is a promising formula. The track position jousting in the braking zones should be high entertainment. IF they get it right i.e.
While the step in the direction to make the car smaller is a good idea and I'm all for it these cars don't feel or look like an F1 car, they look more like a mashup of an IndyCar and a F2 car. They need to look more aggressive to make the sport more appealing.
Go back 40 years to '86 regs, proper size, proper noise, and we wondered not WHERE a car would finish, but IF it would finish.
Granted, the safety standards weren't top-notch...
True loved those cars if not even 10 years ahead but as you said safety was not there
It's back to the future. Remember when there were adjustable front wings controlled by the driver? I get the appeal of active aero but it strikes me as adding more cost to F1 build.
Yea and for the 2022 season they made aero reg changes that were supposed to improve overtaking too.
"Innovation" under a cost cap is just a dream.
Innovation in this sport needs to be mostly transferrable to regular cars to make overall driving more efficient and safe. Sure, we want to see innovation to make these cars faster too but I do think it wasted if it is so limited that it does not drive the whole driving experience for everyone in general forward. Afterall, there are so many considerations but surely, it would be obvious to me, that these innovations push motoring forward not only mechanically and in security, but also environmentally which, if applied to regular cars, would lower the impact cars in general have on the environment, but not only, also safety and efficiency. This is one of these elements that makes F1 unique as what it does can have a nett benefit for the world and our planet. As usual, my friend, awesome video, still my N° 1 reference for all things F1 !!
Good point with the regular cars and I do like the idea of that. I do think the engine way they are going definitely pushes that agenda but aero wise these things will always be works of art. Safety should be transferable as you said and something to work on. Thank you for always being here my friend ❤️❤️
F1 and road cars are significantly different. The sport makes money by being a good spectacle, not by being relevant for the auto manufacturers.
The V6 era was brought, because Renault (and perhaps Mercedes) were pushing for "road relevancy". Ten years later, there is only one car with a MGU-H on the roads, and you can hardly call it a road car.
My point - Road relevancy is nice, but it should be a secondary or tertiary consideration at best. Spectacle and safety should be the primary goal of F1 ruleset.
P.S. Clarification - F1 should not become a zombie like NASCAR - with a ruleset stuck in the 60s.
In that sense the rules should be relevant to what's currently achievable or used in road cars.
@@raymondo737 The cost cap is too restrictive and this in itself kills innovation. What happens is that every one will copy eachother and thus all the cars become alike .... like NASCAR. And yet, NASCAR is not a spec series and Indy is. And yet, Indy is more exciting which is what fans want.
As an aside, I find it disingenuous that the FIA imposes a cost cap but does not make much effort in stream lining logistics and the GP's ... like having the GO's follow a continental circuit instead of bouncing left and right across the globe .... which is a huge burden on teams.
As for transferable tech, I think you have misconstrued what I mean. Making engines more efficient is transferable, making turbos simpler ot smaller or better output is transferable. Structures and composite construction materials is transferable as is management systems. F1 should platform technologies that should make cars more efficient and therefore cheaper, sturdier and therefore more secure. If it is just a show, why have a cost cap ? Football does not have a cost cap and neither does tennis or golf.....
@@cococalm By mentioning NASCAR, I was referring to a ruleset stuck in a past era. Large V8s, pushrod valves and (up until recently) carburettors. In F1 terms, this would be like bringing the NA V10s back.
About "transferability" - It's a nice to have, but shouldn't be the primary concern of the F1 ruleset. It's a fool's errant! Why? Because the needs of F1 and road vehicles are vastly different. Same for the manufacturing methods involved.
Giving a billion $ budget to a group of engineers tasked with designing the fastest single-seater, open wheeled, slick tired, very stiffly suspended, ground-effect, 15k revving, hand-manufactured super machine in the hopes that some of this technology will transfer to your 7-seater SUV ... might make sense for your marketing budget, but not for your R&D one.
Give me an example of something which has trickled down from F1 onto road cars in the last 30 years. Exotics not counting. Something which you can find, on a 7 seater SUV or a small city car. Paddle shifters, ...! Jet ignition (like the one by Mahle), ... perhaps, but pre-combustion chambers existed long before they got introduced in F1. Can't think of anything else.
What's the state of the changes in tire and wheel dimensions in 2026? Are they still thinking of going with 16" wheels?
Still 16 from the articles
@@F1Unchained Such flipping and flopping, they go from tiny little 13" wheels to huge 18" wheels, back down to 16" ones! Couldn't they have gone with 18" carbon fibre wheels right from the start? They'd be lighter than 18" aluminiums
As long as F1 is still considerably faster than the rest and don't look horrible or weird like most cars from 2014 except Red Bull and Mercedes I actually don't mind them being made slower from wanting to improve the famous "raceability". However in the future I would like to see a formula that even surpasses 2020 just for the incredible awe of speed. Most likely with only little but still realistic restrictions the cars could already be made so fast that it becomes near impossible to drive.
I agree with all these points
It's still not an official render, only a render made by AMUS themselves based on rumors from the paddock, it can change a lot before 2026
True but it’s based off of interviews with the FIA and speaking to members around the paddock
7:38 I’m actually really curious about how they’re gonna implement active aero in the front wings. Cuz as of rn, I can’t think of a single way that can happen.
dw, they'll have me
Could be made the same way the flexing works
@@MoGumbo_ if they had you, that Would be a cause for worry.
@@F1Unchained If they’re gonna implement flex based active aero in 26’, then why crack down on it now. I’m baffled
@@nevadatorres2865 :(
I was just looking for a 2026 video XD
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THey have to be smaller, narrower and lighter.
Should the end goal of all these rule changes be to be able to get to a point where the cars race well enough that DRS is no longer required?
That should be the goal not needing drs anymore because the cars are able to overtake pretty much everywhere not just straights
W13 is the perfect platform for this concept
You’re right a no side pod design or the Ferrari bathtub is great for this inwash concept
Except it being at least a meter to long...
So the 2026 regulations are currently: not going far enough with weight loss
Removal of the MGU-H which goes against the whole f1 sustainability angle by actively making the engine less efficient and worse *and* potentially bringing back turbo lag for no good reason
Even less fuel than before so less powerful ICE this is before the new energy fuel flow limit
Added weight from batteries and still haven’t addressed the recharge issues we already have recharge issue at certain circuits and we are gonna *triple* the battery allowance
And trying to reduce the downforce massively so slower cars
And potential active aero to make the car in front ahead slower to “spice up the show”
Yeah you can see my reservations for 2026
I can see these concerns
Take one look at the current calendar and there is so much to gain if environment would be an issue.
During a race 20 cars use 110kg of fuel during the race, double that for a weekend. Thats about 5000 liters of fuel. One trip to a far country is multiple cargo planes full of fuel. One Boeing 747 8-F can hold up to 226.000 liters of fuel! They require 6 to 7 cargo planes per event!
One race requires more then a million liters of aircraft fuel, nobody is talking about that when adding another bullshit race in a bullshit country... The whole hybrid nonsense in F1 is just that -> nonsense. The whole "yeah its amazing technology to be added in road cars" -> false, nothing from the current gen engines will EVER end up in mainstream cars.
Plus it ruins the racing....
bring back freedom of engine design.
I can not put into words how much I dislike DRS. It was a gimmick, and instead of the FIA banning it, they made it part of the rules. They want to make "aero" the end-all-be-all, which is where it trends by the FIA nerfing the PUs, and it makes no sense. No one asked for it.
It makes the cars incredibly unpredictable with a single point of mechanical failure. Sure, RB goes brrrrrr because of it, but we've seen quite a few DRS systems getting stuck. All it'll take is one faulty DRS recovery before a tight turn, and it'll be a tragedy… At least the Lotus 79 concept had adaptive ridges on the side that didn't allow for the curbs to disrupt the floor downforce much.
With today's cars, you are running the cars insanely close to the grid and bad bounce will mean most of your downforce is gone. So, now you are ridding an out of control car, with super tight suspensions. To quote Colin Jost: "Why? You are going to get me murdered!".
But isn’t the same thing that occurred in these current regulations going to happen with the 2026 regulations. Like at the beginning of 2022 the aero efficiency was much better and cars could follow much closer but as upgrades came through and more downforce was produced the current cars are now suffering the same issue as the previous regulations.
So the 2026 cars will generate less dirty air but as upgrades come in and teams look for more performance won’t the same thing happen again?
Feel like might this regulations work
I think they will
I have serious issue's with F1 and the FIA thinking F1 needs to be 'fixed'. I understand you need to have certain directives to define what a F1 car approximately is through set dimensions and max size wings ect. but the whole Idea that the directives try to 'improve'cars' and force the route in which they evolve like the switch to groundfloor concept IMHO is against the spirit of F1. The cool thing about the series has always been not knowing what they came up with next.
No mention is made of the biggest disaster in F1 right now: Hard suspension, low ride heights and micro bumps on seemingly flat circuits flinging cars into the scenery. Until F1 accepts that resurfacing almost every track every year is unsustainable, the current disaster will continue beyond 2026.
Expect a 3-5 second drop in pace
I’ll take it for better racing
@@F1Unchained if the look good I’ll take it too 🤟🏻 another banger video man keep up the awesome content!
2026 rules for a competitive F1.
All teams use the same exact Formula Ford car and 1.2l flat air cooled engine. Stickers used to represent power units. Suggest “Eveready bunny” for battery company. Tires sourced from Pirelli, bicycle division. Flat steal bottoms. Active aero that randomly triggers producing addition + or - lift. Minimum weight of 500 kgs. 50 kgs added for prior race win, 35 kgs for second, 15 kgs for 3rd. Penalty kept for entire season. Grid reversed, position multiplied by 3 and then divided by 2.
All German teams must start from the back of the grid.
RB will add 50 kgs for any car driven by someone named Max. Mexican drivers will carry an addition 35 kgs.
Mercedes drivers will always start on pole. George on odd days, Lewis on even. Mercedes to receive double points, plus matching points equal to RB total points.
Alonzo to be given 10 points per race for the embarrassment of driving with Lance. But only if Lance finishes in front of Alonzo.
Did I leave anything out? Oh, Ferrari get 2 “ team strategy “ do overs each race. FIA to figure out how to enforce.
How can you be innovative with restrictive regulations?
So basically f1 consulted with Dallara and came up with a car that is similar to IndyCar?
Time to ditch the hybrid system tbh...
Wouldn’t mind if they did
2:45 we are at the 800 mark basically it’s 798kg as the minimum weight without fuel
With fuel at the start of the race that’s over 900kg in 2010 the cars were 620kg including drivers before fuel lol
That’s honestly ridiculous how much fatter these cars have gotten
Crazy honestly I couldn’t remember the exact number for the minimum weight but just insane that with fuel as you said it’s that much. So damn bloated
@@F1Unchained when I got into the sport the cars were 595-605kg I remember when the cars went up to 640kg for 2011 due to KERS coming back from 620kg in 2010 which themselves due to longer cars and bigger fuel tank were up in weight from 605kg in 2009 and people were complaining the cars were getting too heavy, how we wish for those weights again now
I fear these new engines will lower the quality of the sport
If people think these engines are bad they don’t know what’s coming for the 2026 engines
They’re gonna be the least powerful ICE engines since the 1970s and less efficient than the current engines and probably won’t be able to have full power as often due to more reliance on battery power but not enough places to charge up the batteries around a track and heavier due to more batteries being used
Welp.
I hope not but the sound will be back and power should be the same
@@F1Unchainedwill it actually sound good? Better then v6’s?
fancy mic but in my opinion the sound isn't very good.
Bring back V10 engines
This is an idea actually from a comment on a different video. But i think it needs discussing. With 100% net zero carbon emissions, why can't we go back up to a v10 WHICH EVERY FAN WANTS!
Or make drs available at any time in the lap if you're within a second... Let's see who's got balls big enough to take eau Rouge with drs enabled 😉
Making the cars narrow is just DUMB. They should reduce the length, not the width of the cars. And the wide floors look like IndyCars, so they shouldn't go in that direction. And they are ugly as hell.
I think some width is okay but agreed on the length. I agree never been a fan of a big floor
It will be another gong show.
1:22 Tbh, i don’t really like the look of these renders. The renders make it look kinda Boxy, like a Stock car. I prefer my F1 cars to be long, spaceship looking things; not boxy, nascar looking things.
I agree as well. The thing is the cars will look much better when they design it within the regs
The FIA need to hand the sport o we USELESS BUNCH
get rid of DRS, more mechanical grip. why are we still having this dicussion?
You think that would increase fights on the field?
@@F1UnchainedF1 needs rawness.. we need hardcore raw racing not artificial overtaking. i rather see 10 overtakes a race with no DRS, than 40 with.
@@tallesttreeintheforest i agree with this
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you do release the wooden car AUDI made is nothing like what will hit the track in 2026 lmfaooooo
What
@@F1Unchained “You do realise that the concept car Audi made is nothing like what will hit the track in 2026 lmfaooooo.” That’s what I think he said
Merde
So.. looks like this concept is a flop according to the latest news
Dirty air isn’t the major problem. It’s the Pirelli tyres. They overheat like. Crazy, which means drivers can’t push anyway near the amount that they want to. It also makes a car that deliberately protects its tyres, go from a 0.2-0.3 second advantage moderately dominant car to a car that produces the most dominant F1 season to date. Pirelli need to sort themselves out.
I hope they get rid of drs, only benefits redbull
Well teams can develop it to help them. It’s still necessary atm
That's ignorant, redbull just made the best car based on regulations, with air god newey on their side.
Red bull simply built a better DRS system than the others
It is what it is
Mercedes looser again from 2026😂😂😂
Mate plz don't take this the wrong way, but do you have any experience in motorsports engineering or mechanical engineering in general? Because your explanation always seems to be accirate on point and understandable. You don't point it (engineering background/credentials) out at the beginning of the vids like other CZcamsrs like brrakef1 or kyle.engineer, which got me a bit curious.
I’m glad you like my explanations :). I’ve researched and studied a lot on my own time about these beautiful cars and have watched from experts like scarbs and other magnificent engineers to be able to speak about it. I’m always still learning, but I always make sure that I know what I’m talking about in these videos. ❤️