2026 Pre-Season Testing

[FrukostScones]

LT seems broken.

[McFAN]

LT seems broken.

Yeah, it's been down for the last half hour or so.

[McFAN]

LT seems broken.

Yeah, it's been down for the last half hour or so.

Seems to be working again

[FrukostScones]

LT seems broken.

Yeah, it's been down for the last half hour or so.

Seems to be working again

yes! : )

[Tommy Cookers]

A 6-phase motor.. results in much better torque delivery ... way above anything else ... in previous gen F1

nonsense !
feel free to explain what is meant by 'much better torque delivery'

[FrukostScones]

1.36.670 by Bortoleto , not bad only using 7 gears ~320 Km/h top speed .

[gearboxtrouble]

1.36.670 by Bortoleto , not bad only using 7 gears ~320 Km/h top speed .

Audi are quietly impressive this test. The car looks horrible with the new sidepods but they've been fairly reliable and gotten some decent mileage at competitive laptimes. They might even be ahead of the Honda engine at this stage.

[FNTC]

Tell us how you really feel, Max. Ouch. Formula E on steroids.

[DGP123]

Tell us how you really feel, Max. Ouch. Formula E on steroids.

Can’t say we weren’t warned. It’s a management/harvesting formula now. Looks slow.

I’m sure he’ll backtrack when his superior deployment from that Ford gives him a lights to flag win down under.

[TeamKoolGreen]

These 26 cars look horrible in the slow speed corners and not much better in the medium ones either. In the medium turns I am noticing a lot of late turn in and avoidance of the apex.

As far as the slow speed corners , maybe this is a symptom of the lack of ride control from the 2021 cars.

As far as the medium speed corners , the venturi floor maintained uniform downforce through curves. But it's gone now

[TeamKoolGreen]

Any info on how hard it is to follow another car?

The only one who has made a comment on that was Ocon in Barcelona and he said it wasn't good.

Nothing else from others as far as I know.

so we are back to pre 2009?

Bearman also said that he lost a lot of front load when he followed a car.

When you take away literally everything that made the 2022 car the only car ever to have a noticable improvement in following , nobody should be surprised that this car can't follow.

[fourmula1]

Yeah this season could be brutal. I'm calling it a mapping formula. Programming and getting the driver to do what is needed to harvest optimally. And power and drag, straight line speed, is the goal.

[TeamKoolGreen]

Horner sounded the alarm about this 3 years ago and everyone scoffed at him for having a bad engine. Oh the irony that the PU program that he started is dog walking the field in testing so far.

Maybe they can have a crisis meeting and bump up the fuel flow rate. Yes cars will have to be redesigned to carry more fuel. But that's the price for being naive. There was no pushback from anyone else about these insane regs.

[chrisc90]

Horner sounded the alarm about this 3 years ago and everyone scoffed at him for having a bad engine. Oh the irony that the PU program that he started is dog walking the field in testing so far.

Maybe they can have a crisis meeting and bump up the fuel flow rate. Yes cars will have to be redesigned to carry more fuel. But that's the price for being naive. There was no pushback from anyone else about these insane regs.

Was just thinking about Horners comments about how this formula would be like. He just be sat there thinking…. “Told you so”

[ScottB]

Horner sounded the alarm about this 3 years ago and everyone scoffed at him for having a bad engine. Oh the irony that the PU program that he started is dog walking the field in testing so far.

Maybe they can have a crisis meeting and bump up the fuel flow rate. Yes cars will have to be redesigned to carry more fuel. But that's the price for being naive. There was no pushback from anyone else about these insane regs.

Was just thinking about Horners comments about how this formula would be like. He just be sat there thinking…. “Told you so”

To be fair, he seemed to stop complaining right around the time the Merc folk they hired must have turned up and let them in on the combustion trick...

Both are probably true, when RBR thought they'd be behind, they were against this, now they look strong, will they still be in favour of an early switch? I guess we'll see. In the same way a few years ago Toto wanted reg changes and now it's 'fix your shitty engines losers' from him.