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I looked into your post(s) in the PU 2026 thread , interesting. a bit hard to understand these PU harvesting and deployment rules. but I (we) will get there. hopefullyBorisTheBlade wrote: ↑04 Feb 2026, 23:01This will IMHO be one of the biggest topics and performance differentiators in the beginning.
Also, there might be a very different pecking order for qualy pace compared to race pace.
If done right, energy storage SoC differences between directly competing cars could lead to lots of interesting situations.
Hopefully, FOM can transport this to TV well through some nice visuals.
It could make the racing feel very unintuitive for many. Can they do real time live battery charge state and deployment graphics? Similar to old KERS and indycar push to pass graphics?BorisTheBlade wrote: ↑04 Feb 2026, 23:01This will IMHO be one of the biggest topics and performance differentiators in the beginning.
Also, there might be a very different pecking order for qualy pace compared to race pace.
If done right, energy storage SoC differences between directly competing cars could lead to lots of interesting situations.
Hopefully, FOM can transport this to TV well through some nice visuals.
They'll probably paywall that and leave regular viewers - and potentially non-F1 TV commentators - confused and frustrated, be realistic...fourmula1 wrote: ↑05 Feb 2026, 17:20It could make the racing feel very unintuitive for many. Can they do real time live battery charge state and deployment graphics? Similar to old KERS and indycar push to pass graphics?BorisTheBlade wrote: ↑04 Feb 2026, 23:01This will IMHO be one of the biggest topics and performance differentiators in the beginning.
Also, there might be a very different pecking order for qualy pace compared to race pace.
If done right, energy storage SoC differences between directly competing cars could lead to lots of interesting situations.
Hopefully, FOM can transport this to TV well through some nice visuals.
Well one reason that people are talking about the Merc engine trick isn't just the bit of extra engine power, but also that they could essentially use that power advantage to run less energy deployment for essentially the same overall power deployment as others, saving them energy use, making it so they can either use more energy in more critical moments or simply having to do less recovery.fourmula1 wrote: ↑04 Feb 2026, 22:05Ah this is super informative. Is there a skill/tech gap to recovering that much energy on a lap? Or can all teams do it fairly equally/efficiently? If it is difficult to do and one team is able to do it at no lap time cost while other teams are losing loads of time this is going to make for some serious field spread over the race.FittingMechanics wrote: ↑04 Feb 2026, 21:12You can use 8.5 MJ of energy per lap but you can store only 4 MJ.
Some of the energy will be retrieved through normal braking.
Not sure Lico will be needed on qualy laps.
Fwiw I had another try at using the old OTT app and found I could now link that with my Apple TV account (that option wasn’t there a couple of weeks ago) so that’s all pretty clear and easy now.f1316 wrote: ↑09 Feb 2026, 03:53For anyone in the US, do we know how this will work with Apple TV and if they’re even showing testing? I used to use the OTT app and that was great but haven’t seen anything in the Apple app yet and totally unclear how that’s all going to work (seems like there’s precious little info out there).
