2026 F1 Cars - General Thread

[TeamKoolGreen]

It is ironic to see so many alleged purists romance the rake. The rake only exists because they are trying to get more of a venturi effect out of the flat floor. Only because real venturis are illegal. Therefore the rake is artificial. If venturis weren't illegal ,everyone would be running them.

[TeamKoolGreen]

Lindblads spin caught on camera. You can say it is cold and wet. But it is cold and wet and there's 55% less downforce.

https://x.com/i/status/2013719714933916152

[dialtone]

Lindblads spin caught on camera. You can say it is cold and wet. But it is cold and wet and there's 55% less downforce.

https://x.com/i/status/2013719714933916152

as I wrote in the other thread, I don't think that's a downforce driven spin, he's made a mistake. If you downforce spin you do it in the corner direction, but he spins opposite the corner, he's correcting his corner entry and stuff goes wild.

[Lasssept]

[Emag]

Waterslide sidepods? Hard to tell but to me it looks a bit like their 2022 car from the side.

[cplchanb]

Looks like so far they didn't change their wheel covers from last year

Time to unlock the alpine thread!

[joevanni99]

This is an AI generated image, look at the eni logo on the rear wing and on the body. Also, the ADA logo at the bottom of the sidepod, near the rear tyre, looks distorted.

[Magistos]

Edit - nevermind. Optical illusion fooling me from the front wing.

[f1316]

It is ironic to see so many alleged purists romance the rake. The rake only exists because they are trying to get more of a venturi effect out of the flat floor. Only because real venturis are illegal. Therefore the rake is artificial. If venturis weren't illegal ,everyone would be running them.

I think people like things that they can see (and therefore discuss/analyse) - the problem with the underfloor tunnels is that we very rarely see them. Probably folks romanticise the rake because it harkens back to an era (especially on this forum) where there were a lot of details on the cars to continually pour over - the amount of rake a car is running being one of them.

[AR3-GP]

This is an AI generated image, look at the eni logo on the rear wing and on the body. Also, the ADA logo at the bottom of the sidepod, near the rear tyre, looks distorted.

That’s not AI. That’s just low resolution.

[TeamKoolGreen]

I know that the actuator makes the rear wing look bigger than it is. But still, why is the rear wing so big ? 30% less downforce and 55% less drag and the rear wing looks bigger than before. The pitch wont be as big and there's no beam wing but still

[Stu]

I know that the actuator makes the rear wing look bigger than it is. But still, why is the rear wing so big ? 30% less downforce and 55% less drag and the rear wing looks bigger than before. The pitch wont be as big and there's no beam wing but still

There is a lot of longitudinal depth to that wing box (still), it is the vertical depth that has changed (hence the actuator now looks out of scale).

[michl420]

After I see the first cars I think the drag reduction of this flattend front and rear wing is relativ small given how tiny both are. "If" they (FIA) would like a better lap time, they could just make the rear wing bigger.

[cepatv2]

After seeing the cars which have rolled out so far, what do we think, aero wise are they closer to what we saw in 2020/2021 or closer to the begining of the turbo hybrid era?
Seems like some concepts from the v8 era too.

[Gridlock]