Are 2026 F1 regulations broken? How to fix them?

[gromajor]

Except for people watching numbers in details (which are a minority), what's described on this video will not be understood / realized.
The cars are still the fastest in the world, if there is fight on the track and during qualifying, that will do the trick for a large majority of the fans.

[bananapeel23]

Allow for 4000mj/hr fuel flow
Remove 3 engine limit to cover higher fuel flow reliability issues
Restrict recharge only when the brake pedal is engaged with a minimum braking torque

I think Li-Co for regen shouldn’t be banned. Li-Co is often about saving fuel, and there is no reason to waste that energy. What should be banned is ”super clipping”. Fuel flow should be raised though.

[TimW]

It seems energy conservation has become so important that driving to the grip limit of the tires makes you slower. Driving to the limit scrubs speed, wastes energy. If they are not driving to the limit anymore, then F1 becomes a different sport.

[Rikhart]

Alonso is now saying the team's chef could drive the car now, since they can't go anywhere near the limit, because of the idiotic battery.

[gearboxtrouble]

Seems like Max, Alonso and Lewis were just saying what everyone knows. McLaren have now officially come out and asked for what sounds like some pretty material changes. Lowering the MGU-K deployment cap in the race and increasing the superclipping harvesting limit would seem like huge changes to push through this late in the game. Teams would have to throw out all the calibration and mapping they've done for the current limits and start from scratch to build new race only maps. What Andrea Stella is saying about the lack of energy and the impossibility of overtaking is really damning.

https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/mcla ... on-opener/

[Jambier]

I agree with Mclaren in what they are requesting, they should do that absolutely to avoid a real --- show at the first race...

[gearboxtrouble]

I agree with Mclaren in what they are requesting, they should do that absolutely to avoid a real --- show at the first race...

I don't disagree but this would seem to be a very big change so close to Melbourne. They might need to add another testing week at Bahrain just to let teams recalibrate their energy management systems to the lower electrical cap.

[Jambier]

I agree with Mclaren in what they are requesting, they should do that absolutely to avoid a real --- show at the first race...

I don't disagree but this would seem to be a very big change so close to Melbourne. They might need to add another testing week at Bahrain just to let teams recalibrate their energy management systems to the lower electrical cap.

They need to decide before the next test indeed .
They need to realize how atrocious it will be otherwise

[ME4ME]

What a mess. This is exactly what's getting under Verstappens skin. Most of this was clear since the regulations were proposed and much of the issues could've been anticipated.

They better make some changes quickly and accept that even if it's last minute it's the same for everyone.

Tombazis should be fired. I've been thinking so many times reading his interviews that he's either delusional or worse. At some point the teams and FIA most realize that as well.

[chrisc90]

Yeah, it’s pretty bad when you have 3 icons of the sport all coming out and saying the same thing.
This isn’t flat out racing anymore. It’ll be a deployment and simulation game and the driver probably has very little control over it.

Australia might not be too bad with the short straights, but it’s going to be tough to watch.

[chrisc90]

Yeah, it’s pretty bad when you have 3 icons of the sport all coming out and saying the same thing.
This isn’t flat out racing anymore. It’ll be a deployment and simulation game and the driver probably has very little control over it.

Australia might not be too bad with the short straights, but it’s going to be tough to watch.

[Rikhart]

Seems like Max, Alonso and Lewis were just saying what everyone knows. McLaren have now officially come out and asked for what sounds like some pretty material changes. Lowering the MGU-K deployment cap in the race and increasing the superclipping harvesting limit would seem like huge changes to push through this late in the game. Teams would have to throw out all the calibration and mapping they've done for the current limits and start from scratch to build new race only maps. What Andrea Stella is saying about the lack of energy and the impossibility of overtaking is really damning.

https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/mcla ... on-opener/

Yellistener on Youtube already talked about closing speeds approaching 60km/h, and that is very, very dangerous.

[Rikhart]

What a mess. This is exactly what's getting under Verstappens skin. Most of this was clear since the regulations were proposed and much of the issues could've been anticipated.

They better make some changes quickly and accept that even if it's last minute it's the same for everyone.

Tombazis should be fired. I've been thinking so many times reading his interviews that he's either delusional or worse. At some point the teams and FIA most realize that as well.

I would fire everyone that contributed to this clearly broken powertrain regulation!

[SB15]

This video ironically aged well.

[AR3-GP]

I agree with Mclaren in what they are requesting, they should do that absolutely to avoid a real --- show at the first race...

I'd rather see F1 with egg on its face. No one will learn otherwise. You cannot make rules pandering to faceless corporations with agendas that having nothing to do with racing! I will stop short of naming a specific PU manufacturer who is wholly to blame for these shameful PU regulations.