The truth about F1's controversial 2026 cars
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- čas přidán 30. 04. 2024
- F1’s 2026 rules are a massive source of wild speculation and controversy.
Drivers having to downshift on straights, cars spinning out of control, extreme drag levels and weird active aerodynamics tricks - we’ve heard it all over the past year or so.
The next generation of F1 car is less than two years from being reality, but the regulations still haven’t been defined with a deadline of June 2024 fast approaching.
A lot of what has been claimed about the rules is rooted in outdated information or has exaggerated some issues that were never really serious topics or concerns.
So here's the truth about where F1's headed in 2026.
00:00 Intro
02:05 What F1's trying to achieve
04:11 Weird engine tricks?
06:37 Not push-to-pass
09:53 Out of control cars?
11:46 A small win for 2026
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"getting in new manufactures" and yet keep blocking Andretti with Caddilac
F1: "We want new manufacturers"
Andretti: *raises hand*
F1: "Not you" *whispers* "never you"
@@lankyboy90 they coming in 2028
@@lankyboy90”but VISA Cash App and Stake, you’re allowed!”
They want Cadillac without Andretti.
why f1 aren't allowing andretti join the grid?
Fernando 400iq play move to stay with Honda. They will produce a GP2 engine whereas all other engines will be as slow as an F3 🤯
Or even 2.5x slower than 2010 LMP1 cars like Emma Verde and Karin Asaka's Peugeot 908 HDi FAP.
@@purwantiallan5089 bro, please stop
@@Ariespradana13Agree JESUS CHRIST I’M GETTING TIRED OF THIS RANDOM CHARACTERS JESUS!!! 😵💫😵💫😵💫🤮
The most toxic driver in history.
@@diethersantos6404 context pls
So slower, heavier, more complex cars with less room to overtake and weird power delivery rules ... Well done f1
Like early 2014 👏
They're lighter though
Huh... no? Did watch it?
I hope this sport goes into shambles and get zero ticket sales. Already the old fans do not care much about F1 and have shifted to other motorsports while the social media DTS fans have started losing interest as well. Manufacturers like Ferrari and Honda will pull out from this sport as a result. I really hope this sport faces severe loss and never recovers again.
@@polarpenguin3 they are lighter but the engine will be heavier... More rear end weight
The Fia will shortly introduce speed limits to make sure it’s an exercise in safety and we all cancel our f1 subscription
I already pirate the races :p
There always was a speed limit due to safety concerns
Yes. That’s what they will do.
Jesus you guys are jerking in circles. Hard.
Already canceled mine. Total bore fest.
@@spamcan5461 how are you doing that cause i want to as well lmao
Give us smaller, lighter cars (ب_ب)
Thats what 2026 is doing.
@@DonRaynor They don't sound lighter
They are heavier, and are slightly smaller. Nothing serious@@DonRaynor
They're making cars shorter and less wide and making changes to the chassis to reduce weight. I still don't think they can achive the 50kg weight reduction, but let's see. 25kg lighter and 20cm shorter and 10cm less wide will still be better than now @@aayushkhare656
With 50% less aero.
Ah yes, nothing sends a more powerful environmental message than taking millions in ARAMCO oil money ... oh F1 get over yourselves and just let them build fast cars ffs
I genuinely don't understand why they made the ARAMCO deal, literally goes against what they've been trying to achieve in the last 10 years🤦♂️
@@barobaro1 because ARAMCO was the best 💚
Interesting how everyone has an issue with aramco, but not with shell, which commits more environmental and human rights violations in a single day than aramco does in an year. But yeah, i get your point, all this environmental talk ia just for the show.
@@askeladden450 but shell is dutch/british
Money will always be the top priority. That doesn’t mean the environment isn’t a priority, just not the most important one to them.
This is the primary difference between a non-profit and corporation. (Not legally)
"We are targeting lighter cars by tripling the needed amount of electric energy, because the batteries will be lighter"..... it just doesn't add up
the batterys are almost irelevent in terms of weight. they are electric assist bike size. its the motor, cabling the whole package
The cars will be shorter and narrower which makes them lighter. It's not rocket science.
@@thevinisoit will help but its not any of the big value items for the cars. the top 5 are 1) driver 2) ICE 3) hybrid 4) tyres 5)chasssis 6) halo.
making up 80, 100, 50, 50, 50, 20kg respectivly. 350kg. for the cars 20 years ago save 70kg. it would have been 200-250kg for gearboxes suspention, stearing wheel everything. the current cars are 450kg for everything else. its all had to be beefed up for that extra 70kg to lug around. extra margin to be used for the whole season. f1 use to life component's to 400km now its 20,000km. that is the cause of the bloat.
Battery of modern car are now lighter than few years ago. After watching new Taycan video I kinda surprise that battery weight are getting lighter without much compromise. So it possible to make it lighter
As I said many times: adapt LMP1H rules (~2016) to open wheel cars and you'll have different engines, more different aero, very close grid racing wheel to wheel for the whole race. There is no need to reinvent the wheel. The money for those regulations is in F1, it should be used there.
and if they really want to shove environmental rules down our throats, just impose a maximum net emmison value or something.
Or even take a look at lmdH / GTP, endurance prototypes know how to make a rule set
@@halfassproductions2715 Nah, LMH/GTP is what sports car needs. But for F1 they need more.
LMP1H was the perfect rule book, but too expensive for LM.
@@Willbrsepeak lmp1 was reaching the budgets of pre cost cap f1. That and relying on only 2-3 teams meant they weren't going to last long
@@neo1711 *"The money for those regulations is in F1, it should be used there."* that's why this is there...
Also some reports said while Audi was spending $200m, Toyota was around $100m. Regulations also allowed different budgets to race wheel to wheel. Which is perfect for F1 cost cap.
This might be the worst set of new rules I have seen in my 20 years of watching. What an absolute cluster f*ck....
Yep. 2026 F1 cars are predictably gonna have only 450 to 560bhp max. Slower than even IMSA DPi cars.😢
@@purwantiallan5089 Well that's flat out wrong. They'll produce similar power as now at peak, it's just they wont be able to stay at peak nearly as long.
@@ihateeveryoneofyou So what you're saying is that they will be considerably slower?
@@Fruske1 Like 2014?
@@Fruske1 Over a single lap, no, over a race, yes.
'Designated areas' Lord when will it stop.
"Designated Areas"?
@@purwantiallan5089 "Designated Areas"!
"Designated areas"...
@@albertalonso9133 the tyres should be placed on the wheels
"The white zone is for designated active aero only. There is no manual override in the red zone."
What I don’t understand is why they talk about road relevance. It used to be that it was innovations in Motorsport that then made their way to consumer vehicles, not the other way around.
Still gonna be the case. Manufacturers negotiated a ruleset that allows them to do r&d on hybrid technologies. Since that is a direction these manufacturers increasingly want to explore
That's still the case. It's arguably why they moved away from and are never going back to the V10s; hybrid engines and tech is more useful for manufacturers, for obvious reasons
Show me NEW hybrid Mercedes with F1 tech that BMW does not have. I can show Toyota tech that is doing just fine without F1 presence.
@@rubengrigorian1864 Toyota used to be in F1...
@@thesupremekai1980s not with hybrids
In my opinion, if F1 goes ahead with these regulations, there needs to be a break away series.
•V10 run on synthetic fuels
•Smaller, lighter cars (2000s spec with Halo)
•18 races a year with no street races
Electric and technology doesn't equal better racing and at the end of the day it is motorsport, we want to see racing. I guarantee there would be more interest in the sport from the drivers as well as fans.
As nice as this sounds, the engines alone would see this hypothetical series be dead on arrival, unless rebadged old units were repurposed.
No OEM worth shit wants to produce NA V10’s and spend millions doing it. It’s a design cul de sac that they’ve already exhausted, and won’t result in any benefits to road going models, which is a priority for them, whether the fans care or not
My long shot hope is that Andretti buys out Roger from Indycar and turns it into a F1 competitor to spite F1 and all their bullshit
@@RD-wg9em Bio fuels alone are more relevant and important than anything, its not the v10's its the biofuels, just like no one is driving 1.6 liter v6s that rev to 16k
@@barthy_ bio fuels are a fascinating solution, but teams can investigate them whilst still performing r&d on the hybrid tech.
Keeping hybrids becomes a no brainer given that context. This is why the VW group pushed for the ruleset we currently have
who are you going to find to make these V10s?
ICE with sustainable alcohol as fuel would have been simpler, lighter, cheaper and a better show.
Mate, with alcohol or petrol, fuel consumption in F1 is nothing(6 ton per weekend for all 20 cars). I don't understand why F1 must be technologically relevant to the road cars? I've never seen a single technology from modern F1 in my car 😂😂
F1 should be an exciting motorsport, not an efficiency show.
@@sam-nariman6236you’re just ignorant lmao
Running good old E85 like IndyCar for decades and just add batch "made from confiscated alcohol only!"
@@sam-nariman6236 ehh? pretty much all tech comes from racing cars, kind of obvious imo
its quite unbelievable that it snt simply do what you like just use clean fuel. in fact most of us with ice cars should use it if we can afford it to dive down the price. its only about 5 times the price of regular petrol
DRS is staying and even being added to front wings
Override is just the good old engine maps / overtake button / party mode being overregulated and morphed into a DRS-tier gimmick, with an official name
Pirelli cancelled the 16 inch rims because teams wouldn't give them enough testing
I don't have any faith in these new regs tbh
Pirelli cancelled 16 inch because teams wouldn't give them test dummy cars with developed aero to fit the bloody 16 inch. And also because pirelli themselves wouldn't want it. All their cars and racecars start at 18 inch
people will cry as usual, then when things are just fine, they will still cry
@@Tommmmmmmmmmmm Well because things arent just fine..they werent just fine for quite a while.. just because you dont see something is wrong doesnt mean its fine.
@@RealWheelDrive39 what exactly is so not fine huh?
@@Tommmmmmmmmmmmthe racing sucks. watching that sprint race was so unsatisfying. it was exciting for about 2 minutes while hamilton was leading and for a moment i even though that there might be a battle to see who would win the race. but then verstappen pressed a button on the steering wheel and got to go way faster than hamilton and pass him for free and hamilton just moved aside for him. wow very exciting very suspenseful. i definitely want to spend hours watching this. oh and i really enjoyed alonso's brilliant defending meaning nothing in the end since everyone behind him just gets a free speed boost to go right past him. i mean why are we even still pretending like this is actually racing?
I already hate these rules. I don't think the cars have lost nearly enough weight or size either.
There's already too much going on on the steering wheel for a start. Too many driver aids, now they want to add more active aero? I already despise DRS, now they're adding more drag reduction components.
Its taken many years to try and perfect DRS and it's still off at certain tracks. Now we're gonna spend another decade trying to balance these things?
They're too complex as well. Commentators will spend all of the race explaining why the car was responsible for a lost position.
Side from active aero, driver aids have been banned since the mid 2000’s
There’s no ABS, traction control, automatic gearing etc.
New active aero probably activates the same as DRS
They lost some weight and size, that's something. When was the last time that even happened?
Removing one of the most technically advanced parts of the drivetrain makes them simpler actually
@@theviniso I googled it for weight reduction, not gonna bother with size: it happened multiple times in the 1980's trying to keep non-turbo cars relevant, and it hasn't happened since.
The loss of the MGU-H is tragic. It's had ten years of development, weighs just 4Kg and allows for at least 2MJ of energy per lap. It almost never fails anymore, it eliminates turbo lag, it has no downsides. If new manufacturers are incapable of making one, just make it a spec part like the hundred other FIA controlled parts common to all teams. It's not like manufacturers are clamouring to enter anyway, we have Audi, Red Bull are getting some Ford stickers, and the existing teams appear terrified of GM's Cadillac division.
Binning the MGU-H is the worst decision since they thought it would be good to fit 18" wheels that look like a plastic trim people buy from a struggling high street motor discount shop. Asinine.
The issue is that he MGU-H is another part to engineer, test, and plan around. It helps to make the equipment less complex.
The downside is money. At the end of the day, that's all the matters.
MGU-H is a great bit of kit, but it's expensive. That's what it comes down to, sadly.
And the 18" wheels were a good move, the aero disc covers are what you are mad about (as am I, since you don't get to see the much-improved wheel designs).
Agreed, and I never liked the turbohybrids anyway. Ridding the turbocharger literally limps the efficiency and power of the ICEs
F1 would have a seventh engine manufacturer in GM/Cadillac if the teams didn't keep blocking their entry with Andretti.
and thats just the engine we have all dreamed woud be in f1 one day lol
Clearly Andretti not 100% ready yet, lol
@@PazLeBon F1 wants to appeal to more manufacturers for higher revenues, so another one is in their interest no matter who it is.
@@Flared Sure, i do agree ;)
@@Flared lol sure tell that to the WEC and IMSA gaining more manufacturers then F1, F1 is definitely doing something wrong.
I'm dreading this a bit. I don't like the incresing inclination towards electric. I understand it is relevant to road cars, but come on. This is Formula 1, it should just be small light cars with fuel.
This is the gap between full on fossil fuels, and full on renewable fuels. Vettel is probably a vital name who is pushing heavy for new fuels, and showed this in the Mansel Lap.
No one's happy with this direction, fans don't like it and those climate activists will never be happy until abolishing Formula 1 altogether
@@Jaytalise Totally, that's why I'm supporting Vettel's wacky initiatives. But truth be told, fuel for the cars must make up for 0.00004% of the emissions of F1 if we're being honest. So this is all kind of pointless to me. Maybe let's not have 24 races a season, keep it in 20 and that way they more than compensate the fuel from the cars.
Yeah, I would much prefer that they focus on encouraging teams to experiment with e-fuels. It could still be road car relevant, environmentally sustainable, potentially less expensive, lighter weight cars, more likely to make appealing engine noise, and not conform to this all-eggs-in-one-basket electrification trend.
@@LPChipi It's not about making up the emissions, it's about making a fuel that is sustainable. If the F1 cars used a fuel like Vettel's, it would only be a matter of time before the road going cars follow, which in turn would then cut the emissions of travel down etc... I do agree that if they cut tracks out then it's obvious that'll compensate. Im just saying that the current era of electricity is just a stop gap before we get to that point.
F1 continually harps on the race cars' "sustainability", even while each team moves the equivalent of a small city from race to race and with F1 personal flying in company or private jets.
Sounds like a complete mess with new regs.
F1 2026 is going to suck
It does already.
Did they also said it in 2013 about 2014 rules ? “large cut of downforce, the cars will be uncontrollable… with the high torque ..
it sucked since the hybrids came along
@@joribremer5260 They did suck. 2017-2021 were better. Although the racing is better at times now.
I think it's time to switch to watching WEC
I love regs talk. Has The Race done a video or article covering what the staffers would do for their ideal Regulations? I would like to hear what Gary Anderson would do.
I would like smaller cars, open regs V10s encouraging teams to get the max out of internal combustion tech, and active suspension.
Gary who hasn't actually been active in F1 for nearly 2 decades and can't spot a successful design unless it has a bull on the back??
If F1 was a computer program it will be on Version 3.467D2-V3-Final-2.1. Patches, patches, patches. This is ridiculous.
Yeah we should've just stuck with 1.0, no aero, no monocoque, no grippy wheels, no safety etc
@@kristoffer3000 Maybe its wrong we expect these people (who get pain quite a lot) with years of experience, with 100 years of data of racing to make any good regulations on how a race car should look like and behave. Maybe if they could do anything other than copy paste the old regs coupled with Chinese propaganda it wouldnt be as crap..
@@kristoffer3000 You mean like 1966 rules (3.0L or 1.5L supercharged)? There were basically no rules then. An F1 car built with modern technology to 1966 rules would not be anything like a 1966 F1car. It would be a 1.5L turbo, fan car with active suspension, with a CVT etc etc.
@@TassieLorenzo And the limitation would be the drivers, not skillwise but physically as it would literally try to kill them with g-forces
Just sounds to me like F1 is becoming more artificial. Less of actually the teams and drivers finding the maximum pace and more just the regulations artificially pushing everyone closer.
This was all a very complex way to explain what will look the same as DRS does now. Car behind presses a button and zooms past on the straight.
The severe amount of regulation in deploying the Overrride and Active Aero, is very concerning
There should be more manual input from the driver
I don't see why it is so difficult to have the front and rear wings to be manually operational, within a set amount of wing angles changes
Like they had in 2010, but slightly more sophisticated - so the driver can adjust their wings when following / leading another car
To me that is just far more sensical, but they have dug a pretty big hole with the engine regulations that will 100% be very harvesting / generating critical in order to maximise laptime
My big concern is how screwed you can be around tracks with less braking zones, where you harvest much less energy. You will likely not be able to use this Override due to the amount of energy it will burn against how much more you then have to recover
I am all for the lighter cars, why the heck we still have the larger 18inch wheels is total nonsense. As them combined with the suspension is a massive weight increase, alongside the poor ride and compliance that the cars suffer from now
This genuinely seems very much like a bodge job sticking plaster, on a problem they have created purely pushing for manufacture interest - worrying about the racing later
Teams don't offer enough testing on 16 rims
@@yellybeam2869 They never should've changed from 13. It made no bloody sense too ... using road relevance as an excuse was total nonsense
Seems like 2026 F1 Cars would be far slower than even LMP1 cars from 2006.
Nope
I honestly wouldn't care about that if the cars can actually follow and produce better racing than what we have right now
@@barobaro1 F2 & F3 actually have better racing.
@@renesonse5794 because spec series??
@@Ariespradana13 Yes, and?
They should give the drivers NOS, with a big dramatic button, add stick shifts, and add about 14 extra gears
Ridiculously complex. Bring back modern V10s, no active aero, no DRS, no ERS, much lighter and smaller, regulate outwash for following.
This. Someone who understands
No OEM is gonna waste money on a V10, they’re bad engines outside of the noise and they’re not road relevant.
Volkswagen and the other teams would’ve pushed the FIA on them when they negotiated the engine rules otherwise
@@RD-wg9em nothing about these cars have ever been road relevent
@@CascadeSport a lot of tech in road cars owes its start to F1. Minor things like steering wheel buttons and carbon fibre, to active suspension, and split turbocharging, to hybrid tech, where brake regeneration developed in the sport is utilised.
There’s a 5-10 year lag, but a lot of the work done is relevant, the manufacturers use that fact to justify the costs
@@titancheatunderstands what exactly
Not F1 certainly
Don’t understand why they are going down the electric root.. formula e does that.. cars are way too big, too heavy and don’t sound like an F1 car. hard to like modern F1 cars well from 2014 onwards
It's mentioned in the video. They want more engine manufacturers in the sport and manufacturers like the emphasis on electric
@@gusryan As demonstrated by formulaE, nobody watches races to see electrical cars.
@Left4Coragem
I'd love to see what the ratings/viewer amount is for a race weekend for the E brand. Lower than the viewers for the women's division or whatever it's called ..
@@gusryan they are doing the opposite it doesn't attract manufacturers it pushes them away.
@@LimitPro1this is factually false.
Audi specifically entered because they had a hand in negotiating the new engine regs. It’s what brought them to the table.
The road relevance gives them a justification for the costs of running a full engine program, that wouldn’t exist otherwise.
I have a feeling these cars are going to be a complete disaster
We all know it’s going to be shit lol, cars are being made unnecessarily complex and they’re just going to get even bigger.
@@tjayk9127 well to be fair they are getting a big smaller, and i dont think complex is neccesarily bad. However, i do think that what they are doing if not going to be so good
@@tjayk9127They literally said at the end that the cars will be smaller. Watch the video before commenting, seriously.
They'd be amazing if they ditched the electrical hybrid side of the ICE.
so much worry to prevent 400km/h but they should not worry. cars will be deploying 1000bhp then dropping to 400 without drivers control.
Surely if you need active aero on the front wing to balance out the car, any damage to it would surely be dangerous and mean that a front wing change would be necessary to continue racing?
Good point.
Even maybe a DNF if there is a DRS in it
At least in terms of balance, damage to the front wing will always result less downforce and thus understeer. So there's no real risk of spinning out.
They're gonna make it like an inferior mix of Indycar and Formula E. They really give absolutely zero fucks about what fans actually want.
you presume all fans want the same thing
@@PazLeBon I never said ALL fans
The fans aren’t spending 100s of millions developing engines.
If you want other tech you can go watch SLOW cars driving around in circles. Looks like NASCAR or something with the 1930s tech is more your style. 👍
@@rapisidro4821 you didnt say 'some' fans you said fans which impies all
@@paperplane-db8qf its more millions of peoples style, millions f global fans that is, so some fans but a huge number
If you set up regulations to where the battery wont be able to give power past a certain speed, doesn't that stop teams from developing faster engines? Once you reach that limit, can't deploy anymore energy, and can't go any faster, then what would be the point for a team to try and get an extra couple kph out of their engine?
Engine dev has already been locked anyhow
@@TorqueTestChannel engine development for the 2026 engine is locked? I don't know if that's correct. They don't even have the regulations done yet. How could the teams be locked in development for PU's yet to be finalized?
The electric motor in F1 has been power limited since it's introduction back in 2011. The actual internal combustion engine has never been directly power limited.
Push back these regs to 2028 if needed, but get rid of electric engine and just have normal engine. Also make cars smaller and lighter and smaller wheels. Go back to early 2000's
Nice try Max, you don't get to dominate an extra two years lol. Regs need to change 2026 or they'll lose every fan when red bull keeps winning everything.
@@racecarrik They didn't lose the fans when Lewis and Merc were drop kicking everyone for 6 years. Double standard much?
@@razick0 Whataboutism at its finest, any long term dominance is bad, as was Merc's, though look at how many different winners there used to be during those seasons compared to literally everything being won by Red Bull nowadays...
@@jondasek I agree with you on everything, but I was talking about double standards. When Merc was winning people were quiet, and that was for 7 years. This one has been going for 2 and people are asking for Verstappen’’s head. And as an addendum, I’m a supporter of neither of them.
@@racecarrik Im not Max fan. I want his domination to end. I want close racing and dont want anyone to dominate. But i also dont want F1 to be slower than F2.
Literally take the 2022-25 regulations and force the cars to be smaller and shorter by regulations and also force a higher rpm to make the engines louder whilst keeping the sustainable fuel requirement for 2026. Put the minimum weight way down and have all the teams battle it out to reduce weight the quickest. It’s so simple yet so hard for the FIA it seems 😂
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You've overused 'more on that shortly' in this video. It's a bit annoying.
They gotta make the cars lighter and smaller.
Which is exactly what they are doing.. As stated by this very video.
Get rid of electric engine and battery and you get smaller and lighter cars.
Lighter, smaller and bring back nostalgia sounds plus a 1200bhp.
@@FabledGentleman They need to be MUCH lighter.
@@FabledGentleman They should be at least 100kg lighter, not 10-15kg
Just put a powerful, SIMPLE, combustion engine in a small, lightweight car, with no active nonsense, and keep it this way until sustainable fuels are ready. That will keep costs down. It’s simple.
Then you lose the manufacturers, because they want the advanced tech to later put in their roadcars.
That would be the simplest and smartest solutions but unfortunately they are obsessed with these fucking hybrid bs
@@Orcawhale1 or you accelerate the investment and curiosity surrounding sustainable fuels and end up with this tech a lot faster than you would otherwise. I don’t think electric is the way to go.
@@Orcawhale1much like Hyundai cars do.
@@Milkydrummer These plans have been set in motion, almost a decade ago.
So the manufacturers can't just change it around, that's not how it works.
How can new competitors be more competitive when they won't let another team in?🤔🤷🏻♂️😂
By buying Haas and Rbulls. Thats what they want.
Simple, when "Corporatism" becomes the mantra one chooses to maintain a sport by. The "prime suspects", namely FOM/Liberty Media, Mercedes (Daimler-Benz), Ferrari ( FCA-Stellantis) and other interested parties are trying to create an oligarchy by utilizing the rules, as well as the future Concord Agreement. The problem is that it would " lock out" any possible team or manufacturer that does not substantially increase the amount of revenue or resources as defined by them. It's a self-defeating game, which will cause substantial damage to F1 in interlying years. WEC/IMSA are looking to pass them, as they have chosen to make it about the sport, and not their bank accounts.
The difference between now and the 2000's is that there is no "Bernie and Max" to save them...
@@CharlesMiddleton-ms2ng Bernie and Max were just as bad, if not worse, because they didn't give a shit about the teams, only their own pockets.
The word you are looking for is "franchise system", because they've seen how well it works in US sports to ensure each team is financially sound. But even US sports have expansions from time to time.
I want to see overtakes anywhere other than the main straight
The FIA just doesn’t get it
Yep. It would nice to see passes that involved some actual skill.
Cheaper and simpler isn’t the route to remaining / becoming “the pinnacle of motorsport!!” 🤦🏼♂️ …push a button to overtake… honestly this is a farce. 😢
2021 was a fluke, this sport has been trash for a decade now
@@WOWWOW-hk1tb2021 F1 Season was the last ever season where F1 is "GREAT". Ever since 2022 its now awful.
2021 didn’t exactly end is a blaze of glory either. An outrageous peice of incompetence.
It's not a overtake button, it's a compensation method for DRS losing it's effectiveness at high speed.
@@456MrPeople - Dude you just made it sound even less appealing than “an overtake button”
The cars need to be simple enough for the drivers talent levels to differentiate on track. Without that, the sport is dead.
Formula E - 1....losing interest
gunna be so much fun when cars start dropping from 1000bhp to 400 at different points on a straight
Red Bull makes literally any statement.
Scott: I'm angry, I'm very very angry
Not at true lol
SMM has to start with speculation as to motive rather than reviewing potential real impacts to racing and driving dynamics and developing a story about whether these concerns are credible or motivated by secondary gain - I can not make it through any of his videos - thank goodness we get real content from GA and ES We didnt hear much about what the “motivations” were for teams calling for transparency
He have a hate boner for RBR. Also Edd Straw too as he is the editor, but less
@@polarpenguin3 100% true what the hell
Scott is a whiney lil you know what 😂 i find it difficult to listen to the race thanks to his endless self righteous proselytising
What's up with THE RACE??? They made a video longer than 10 minutes!?!?
Very first time in fact there is a video longer than 10mins.
Tbf it’s understandable that they keep their CZcams content shorter when they have podcasts and such for longer form content
@@Hugo-ie4cp also how many people still have the patience, the time or the attention spam to watch long videos?
I miss when they just had the KERS boost battery head up display... it was so simple. Around 8 seconds of electrical energy boost per lap. If this system is just that but its more of an overcharge (since the electrics are working all the time now instead of only on command like in 2010, then fine. I just worry that the electric motors are becoming the centre point. I started to worry about that when they insisted on naming them Power Units instead of Engines. Aim for sustainably fuelled ICE's, that would be my ideal F1 future.
Honestly I'd like to see F1 bin off the electric hybrid side of the engine and leave that to formula E to develop instead focus on fully synthetic fuels or engines. All my life F1 has been the pinnacle of motor sport and development on both engine and aero, look at the 2000s they had, jaguar, honda, Ferrari, mercedes, Renault and Toyota in the sport as either manufacturers and engine suppliers in some cases because they were helping to road car side. Switching to synthetic fuels would allow for oil based engines to exist be sustainable as F1 wants and then also lead the way for this to eventually become part of the road car designs
Personally I'd love to see F1 cars barreling down a straight at 400kph.
a. k. a. Drag racing
NHRA it is.
Force increases with the square of speed, so I can understand why they would be hesitant for straight top speeds to jump from 350 kph to 400.
This is crazy... save money and complexity and remove much of the tech !
But Just Stop Oil will be angry about that.
@sam-nariman6236 - what a bunch of crazy misguided cultists they are. Do they forget that all their vegan clothes and accessories come from oil? 😅
Much of the tech? Just MGU-H. And they'll add active aero and that 'turbo boost' tech.
If they're concerned about Active Aero and the shift in balance whilst DRS is active, then they should allow the Double DRS that Mercedes pioneered in 2012. It will enable the cars to keep their balance under DRS
At this point, just bring back the 2019-2021 regs with the 2022 front and rear wing. And while we’re at it, bring back the f#%king V12s
such a powerful environmental message to be seeing these huge expensive batteries getting crashed and binned every other weekend
No which team will be on top, I just hope that we don't fall back into a engine formula where the difference between the best and worse engine is 3-4 seconds per lap.
We have come so far in reducing the gap from best to worse team to within 1.5 seconds and are about to blow that away.
Let's hope.
I think this all stems from confusion about what F1 is supposed to be. Is it the top level of motorsport made for the show or is it a weird attempt at a tech demo for tech (hybrid) that in all honesty is losing mainstream relevance in some fruitless attempt to make motorsport seem “green”. The two are clearly at odds and between the off track drama about regs and the on track one team show, it’s really had a detrimental impact on F1 over the years.
I miss when F1 was about the driver's skill and not about how advanced the car is.
Honestly, just bring back the low downforce skinny f1 cars
Hydrogen Combustion V10s are what we need
A simple fix in my opinion is bring back the 2016 chassis size regulations.
Those cars were far smaller in terms of length and width compared to today so use those cars with a rule that they can't exceed a certain length as I believe Mercedes started the trend each year of going longer and longer with the cars, use this current ground effect floor curved front/rear wing and sculpted sidepod design regulations , a halo and 16 inch low profile wheels instead of the big visual obscuring low profile 18s.
Those 2016 chassis had v6 hybrids in and I believe with this ground effect regs the cars would be faster than the original 2016 cars due to them producing alot of downforce and efficient downforce and the understanding teams have now of the engines compared to back then.
The ground effect regs also provide much less dirty air for closer following so that together with lighter and smaller cars could be a recipe for great racing because lets be realistic F1 will not drop this eco friendly hybrid crap. They already planning on removing the mgu-h so that's one step closer to making things simpler and slightly lighter.
Get rid of hybrid engines and battery, bring back v10 and cars get much smaller and lighter.
@@nakki123like I said we have to be realistic obviously that would be the best route but because F1 won't drop these eco friendly hybrid crap they should then atleast go with my first comment to make racing better and much simpler
@@MV1-OP81-Mclaren I think the new safety regs made the car bigger so dont think they could go back to 2016 car size with hybrid engine.
@@nakki123 I believe that was the reason as well but if you look back at the crashes drivers had back then in 2016 they almost always came out unscathed or atleast just minor injuries for example Alonso's crash in Australia he just had a broken rib but if you look at the accident you wouldn't say it's as minor as a broken rib
One issue with making the cars narrower is they will lose a big amount of mechanical grip making them slower in the low speed corners but potentially faster on the straights. They need to pick the right dimensions that make racing interesting and disturb the air the least. Maybe really wide and flat rear wing would work. Also it depends on where you want the cars to be fastest on track. 2021 was and insane spectacle because the cornering speeds were so high
Funny, as a 30 year fan and working with a wide range of vintage Formula cars...the more I see and hear about 'the future' of F1, the less excited I am about it and see how silly some of these concerns are. Just a simple yet powerful engine is fine. Nobody sees under the covers anyway. Just race already...🙄
do love a journalist telling an F1 team what’s right and wrong
Whole video felt like an F1 puff piece
Oh but he's secretely a spy who has infiltrated all of F1 therefore knows what's going on! Sure the teams may not have the full regs but this guy does! All joking aside most of the so called CZcams F1 analyst are absolutely garbage.
smaller cars, less downforce.
but smaller and lighter means less needed
It honestly does seem like there are significant flaws in the basic concept if you need all that complicated stuff around it to deliver on good racing.
It's like that add something then have to add something to address problems by the first thing. Then you have to add a third thing to fix the second. Why not just not do the first thing instead?
They should add the chance to pickup power ups, like throwing shells or dropping bananas
A powerful environmental message...what a load of old tosh... 10,000 people to design and build 20 cars and then countless more people to design and build the power units, not to mention flying around the planet 24 times a year...
F1 has got 'environmental' stamped all over it...FFS...
Sounds like they have made the power units (the battery component especially) far too strong and not considered the consequences of that ahead of time. Only way around that is to make everyone run ridiculous levels of drag to prevent cars being too fast for the tracks, the drivers, the run off areas and their own brakes.
I thought a goal was to make the cars lighter in some regard? The engine itself being over 30kg heavier doesn't fill me with confidence at all, so god knows how the drivers feel about it.
as you said tho, due to tracks, they kinda do have to slow them down.. or build bigger american style tracks
So now F1 spectating will be 50% Formula E + 50% Engineering Phd…..Netflix will need to rename their show Drive to Battery Harvest.
Honestly thank god for The Race. No click baity hyperbole or needlessly stirring the pot. Just even keeled analysis of F1. It’s so refreshing. There are so many garbage channels that pail in comparison
It'd be interesting to see a team tackle the battery weight problem. Solid State batteries with higher charge densities immediately come to mind. Not only would the cars be lighter (more advantageous to the team who can get it right) but also accelerate the tech with road going vehicles.
Born in 1982, watching racing since 1990 ish. F1 is about to become old news soon 😔
yeah my dad was saying the same shit in the 70s
@@PazLeBonlmfao
Getting rid of fans like yall is a net gain.
Oh my god, AND they’re making the engines heavier! 😂 So, thinner tyres (less grip) - Thinner chassis (potentially less grip) … and heavier engines. This is getting beyond ridiculous. F1 you are close to losing a lifelong, 30+ year fan here.
Same here honestly. 2026 F1 was something I was looking forward to, but with everything that's going on in and around F1 right now I might be gone as a fan long before then unfortunately. A shame since I've been following the "sport" since 1992.
@@Dannykm i like your sarcasm
That was a mistake.
The 2026 minimum weight of 185kg includes the ICE, turbocharger, MGUK and battery.
The current PU minimum weight of 151kg includes the ICE, the turbocharger, MGUH and MGUK but not the battery.
The 2026 rules has the ICE + turbo + MGUK + MGUK transmission = 150kg.
The battery weight for 2026 is 35kg, but that includes the battery box, the cells, and other electrical components. The 20-25kg weight for the current batteries is only for the cells and some connecting parts.
So the 2026 PU is not really gaining weight over the current PU, and if it is it is only by a few kg, not the 30-odd kg presented here.
Still, being a less powerful PU overall, the 2026 PU shoudl have been lighter.
inb4 Super Formula becomes the fastest road racing series in 2026
@@Willbrse they can't, because inline four 😂
Engine regs sound okay, honestly nobody really expected anything else. However if I were on the board, I'd support shortening the wheelbases, reducing the weight (even at the cost of power if necessary), cap downforce, and eliminate DRS in favor of moveable aero.
You got my vote for the parts you suggested...but lets make the aero paid for by Aramco and all aero testing open access along with the data being shared..
it's just like every other major regulation change.
like how the turbo hybrid regulations were pushed from 2013 to 2014, or how the 2021 ground effect regulations were pushed back to 2022. i'm expecting the 2026 regulations to be pushed to 2027 for fear of not being able to finalize them/running out of time.
It's so ridiculous! Race cars are NOT supposed to be fuel efficient or green! Consumer cars I get completely but RACE cars are for going fast and entertainment! Drop this electric BS and let's go back to v8's. The amount of fuel they use is so insignificant to the rest of the world it's like taking a thimble out of the ocean and saying all better. Such a waste of an amazing sport. I've been a long time fan and I'm getting close to just letting it go. The racing is getting terrible the cars are way too big. It's just turned into a joke.
Totally agree, but the endless complaint is that the manufacturers would leave F1. Good, they are destroying the sport. There are other companies who will make F1 engines if they are not mind numbingly complicated like they are now.
@@raytrevor1 who?
yes they are supposed to be efficient, thats also part of racing obviously
That is just blatantly wrong on multiple axis..... You want your racing engines to be as efficient as possible to either produce more power per used liter of fuel or ,if your power is capped by regulations, to carry less fuel and make the car lighter.
That's an extremely ignorant comment. The current Hypercar class is designed explicitly with fuel efficiency in mind with hybrid systems designed explicitly to make the ICE work less in order to save fuel, not add more power, and they have brought about what's considered by many to be the golden age of endurance racing in WEC and IMSA. Evidently, the problem isn't the hybrid system, but rather the platform as a whole.
Just bring back V10's and run them on renewable fuels with minimal emissions, this electric technology is not the way forward and will not save the world
Not relevant
Something like this would be awesome. ICE is just as much a core element of F1 as the cars being open wheel, imo. I cannot imagine F1 without an ICE powering the cars. It doesn't need to be a V10, of course. I mean, Porsche's flat 6's, and BMW's old inline 6's are legendary, but only in natural aspiration form. I'm okay with some sort of mild hybrid system, but just lose the turbochargers so we get the full pure glorious symphony from the ICE.
I agree 100%
If they do that all the engine manufacturers except Ferrari will leave immediately
@@predator931 LOL you sure about that? It might be a great push for renewable fuels
I suspect these aero rules are going to be pretty tough to suss out with the current budget caps and wind tunnel/CFD restrictions. 2026 is going to make 2009 look like a spectacular win for new aero regs.
Things to bring back :
- Different powerplants I4, V6 single turbo, V8, V10, V12, H12, V16 and so on
- Active aero front and back
- Equal P/W ratio for all teams amateur and pro
- mass damper and hydropneumatic suspension
- refuel in race
- Ladies in Pit cheering the team and pilot (grid girls)
- High banking turns and Nordshleife GP, Avus return and Monza full.
- Old-timers safety cars : Lancia Delta, Mercedes CLK, Chevy Camaro
- More straight lines no more chicanes
- Turbine driven diffusers and 6 wheeled f1's authorized
Why the active aero part couldn't be done by flexing wings ? it is banned today, but it could allow better efficiency and maintaining a good amount of downforce? Same with active suspension : reduce drag, better control of balance and floor downforce, better confort ?
For reducing weight, they made the right choice i think. Unfortenatly, Pirelli didnt want to make smaller wheels for heat control issues but it s heading in the right direction
Pirelli should've let them made smaller wheels to reduce weight further.
If Pirelli didn’t want to make the tires why did F1 sign them up for more years at the tire providers for the sport especially as Bridgestone was around
@@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1 they said making smaller wheel will induce more degradation because the tire has less time to cool before getting to the ground again as the radius is smaller (which is logical). That is what they explained and it was after the deal was signed
That's a good question. I wish I knew the answer.
It can be... the flex rules arent working now ...the front wings deflect about 1 inch at high speed in the closeup Sky Sports shows. Active suspension could work with the advances in computer technology of today versus 2-3 decades ago.....but it has to be equally shared by all. Other wise you get Red Bull type dominance of the past 3 years with little racing . and the sharing will drive costs up as all teams push to test their cars .
It’d be funny scene if 26 spec is no faster than f2
That has nothing to do with the engine regulations, and everything to do with the aero regulations
Like the lower half of the 2014 grid then.
It's happened before.
Let teams choose their configuration and up the budget cap… let racing determine the best package
Adds 35kg to engine takes away 40kg from the chassis. But we know they’ll be the same weight if not heavier than they are right now
With the changing aero and buttons for override, overtake, front DRS and rear DRS ......F1 is like "Let me introduce Transformers F1"
They might as well preprogram all the races results with each car at a predetermined speed in each corner for each driver. Just give us the list of who is going to be champion in '26, '27 and so on.
This whole active aero thing is so silly. Just bring back the trick suspensions of the previous regs. When the rear squats down under load it reduces the angle of the front and rear wings.
The Fuel tank will also be 30-40kg's lighter when full, so the engine weight increase is nullified that way.
Awesome video btw guys, keep the 2026 videos coming
The only positive about these regs that i can see is the 50/50 ice-electric power split reminds me of LMP1-H. Main difference being that LMP1 uses the electric power for the front wheels making 4WD
GR010 and Porsche 919 Hybrid both used those for the first time.
Electric engine and battery is huge negative. That's why cars are heavier.
The 50/50 engine spilt will give full power for not very long as the new regs wouldn’t allow them to store anymore power than the current levels we already have an ERS deficiency at certain tracks it’s only going to get worse
A 500HP ICE will be the lowest HP produced since the *1970s*
@@purwantiallan5089 the GR010 is a Hypercar not an LMP1
@@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1 No strictly true. They are allowed to Harvest more power per lap, but the minimum state of charge has remained the same at 4mj. So they are hopefully able to continuously deploy *some* power via the MGU-K for the whole lap. However, that full 350kw is only available for 11 seconds per lap if used continuously.
"it's not push to pass!" *Describes push to pass*
I can't see any distinction either
Push to pass can be used at any speed. The override button is a compensation mechanism for DRS being less effective at higher speeds. But to be fair, DRS itself is basically push to pass.
@@BiggieTrismegistus Push to pass is miles better than this. This new system seems to activate together with DRS, meaning only the following car has an advantage. Push to pass is limited use during the race and whenever you want. The leader could use it all in the first few laps and hope for no SC, as a strategy for example. Most importantly, this would also give a chance for defending car to deploy it, without just being breezed by on a straight.
The problem with removing the MGU-H... you basically head back to 1980s F1.. turbo lag... the MGU-H was the 1 thing that kept the turbo spinning so that you don't get ALL the power on the later part of the exit of a corner.
You’re getting ford Honda and audi in F1 because it’s very popular rn because of DTS not because of the turbo hybrid v6. It would be far easier and cheaper for these manufacturers to build a v10 than these complex turbo hybrid systems.
Engine shouldn't become something like Formula E. Overtaking shouldn't be dictated by active aero or power boosts.
It's fricken MarioKart with powerups.
At this point with the domination we currently have in f1 just let the teams make whatever car the want to as long as it's safe and eco friendly. want a hybrid make a hybrid. want a car that runs on synthetic eco fuel make it.
"... the domination we currently have..."? F1 has almost always been a one team way in front show. We just a few years ago had 7 years of Merc dominance, now it's the Bulls, and in 2 years it's... All I know is that the show is not improving.
@@peterdiepstraten5897 the dominance cycles will continue, but it's a bit much to say the "show is not improving" when nearly the entire field is covered by 1 sec in Q1. Aside from Max the alien, the midfield and upper field still have plenty of battles.
While I agree 100% that no TEAM'S objection will be altruistic, I think it's worth viewing Max's statements slightly differently. For years, he has been beating the drum of simpler aero, minimal electronic powertrains if any, and much lighter cars. He has been very vocally opposed to the hyper-focus on buzzword engineering that has destroyed the RACING asoect of F1. Max wants to race and knows that his peers can give him a good title fight.
I see him like a senior airline pilot: he still loves to fly and the planes are cool but its just a job. But put those same pilots in a Cessna 172 and they've all got silly grins on most of the time.
The cars are still going to be too heavy 😢. I was hoping that the move to sustainable fuels would reduce the need to rely on the electrical power, not increase it. That’s disheartening. We’ve had active aero before, like adjustable front wings but an active rear wing is interesting. I can’t help but think that an active suspension set up might have been the better approach? I’m glad the cars are getting shorter but this just feels like 1 step forward and 4 steps back.
If F1s highest priority is efficiency then they should just dissolve the series. Why bother racing if your only objective is to save fuel and reduce emissions?
Because people need transportation and racing is a high-pressure crucible for developing the technologies to supply it. At least, in theory.
Trying to move back toward this is why manufacturers are arguing for greater “road relevance.” MGU-H was a technological dead end for road cars, given series/parallel hybrids and electrification.
Exactly we already have Formula E for those who want to see efficiency in Motorsports
@@MV1-OP81-MclarenExtreme E also.
@@oluseyisonaiyaare Road cars capable on installing MGU-H devices?
Yeah. If they want to reduce emissions they should stop racing around the world.
Just bring back old gen cars and we will automatically have better racing. We are living in an era where all 4 tyres and wheels combine weigh in 88kg when in 2019 they were only 40kg
Really? Why
Those cars we much worse for racing lol
Old gen cars had the worse close racing in the history of F1.
2000s f1 saw the worst close racing lol, everyone just overtook using pit strategies because and the 2019 era f1 had minute long gaps from hamilton and everyone else, I remember in 2021 when Max won, he lapped everyone up to third place, people dont like to admit it but this era’s racing has been pretty close for f1 standards apart from Max but every era’s had insane dominance from the mp4/4 in 88, williams in 92 and 93, schumi in the 2000s, vettel in the 2010s and hamilton in 2014-2020 and now its max
You should rather check your sources...F1 tires have not become over 2 times heavier...
One quirk of the 2026 PU rules is that they will have more energy available to power the car over the race distance at Monaco than at Spa.
Spa will only have ~60% of the recovered electrical energy at Monaco, even though Monaco is 260km, and Spa is 308km.
Flowing tracks which don’t have many heavy braking zones will suffer with these regs and it’s not like you’ll be able to store more energy as well
The engines are going to be underpowered most of the time even on Q3 laps
7:39 “re-homologate every track…”
So I only know the term homologate In reference to factory car numbers for public sale and use in order to use that same car on track. How does one homologate a track? And what does homologate mean exactly? I’m not googling damnit. Help!
Recently, a Private individual configured His SIM car to emulate the 2026 power unit and Chassis Regs, and the car is virtually undriveable. In order to complete a lap, you have to stay out of the throttle so much that these new cars are now SUBSTANTIALLY slower than the current F2 Cars. They made the power unit regs first, and then tried to correct the differences by adding active aero features that literally upset the balance so much that it puts the car into an uncontrollable spin.
Literally, its the stupidest thing I have ever seen. Not only that, by the time these Regs are put into play, the auto manufacturers will have all quit their unsellable electric car production, and the shift will have already gone full force towards hydrogen as a sustainable fuel.
The entire 2026 Formula is already irrelevant to the Manufacturers that said "This is what We want" even when the F1 Fan base AND Racing Teams said "This is ridiculous".
I'd pump the brakes there on hydrogen. Hybrid technology is the dominant driving force in the automotive market, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. However, there's right and wrong ways to do it. LMP1 is an example of the right way to do it. It just become too expensive for WEC but F1 definitely could have made it work.
I fear they are going to be even worse than this regulation era's cars..
That's impossible, I think we will see 3 different race winners in the new regs maybe if we're lucky 4
@@JohnH100-ih3he maybe we should use 3 balls in football, give other clubs a chance?
Finally a video from you guys that feels like actual journalism and not just pushing clickbait melodramatic nonsense.
The rules sound like at best F1 is going to look much the same as it does now, only with more electrical power and sustainable fuels so manufacturers can greenwash to oblivion. Not very confidence inspiring, but not tragic either. I think we want to avoid a repeat of 2014 and as long as we get an actual championship fight between 2 teams in 2026 and the racing is decent, I think we'll be fine.
The dream of loud engines and small agile cars is unfortunately permanently dead it seems, but we'll have to wait and see how the cars end up behaving.
I'm not sure how much the regaulations have changed since this video by Engineering Explained: czcams.com/video/KxDQBVzXWt4/video.html, but basically, the key figure here is the 4Mj minimum SoC figure of the battery. Increasing the Harvesting allowance is a great move, but as I understand it you can only deploy 50% of what you harvest on any one lap to make sure that you don't fall foul of the minimum state of charge of 4Mj.
Potentially, this does mean that you don't get the situation where the drivers are having to do "charge laps" to fill up the battery, it also means that they can't deploy the full power for a large portion of the lap. I'm sure they'll be able to tweak this in the deployment maps and the software, to limit the power deployed under certain circumstances, but it just seems a waste that there's going to be quite a large portion of a lap where the cars will only be 500bhp lugging around big battery packs