2026 Pre-Season Testing

[edu2703]

It's fine that you can't wait, because you'd be waiting your whole life. There's around 0% chance for it to happen.

Well above zero. What's currently being discussed for the next regulation change is precisely the return of the 2.4L naturally aspirated V8 and a reduction in electrification to around 220 kWh.

I would say that it's quite plausible that this will actually happen. A simpler, less complex, cheaper engine with less dependence on electricity and no turbo, running entirely on sustainable fuel. If the current engine proves to be bad, there will be a lot of pressure to introduce this new regulation before 2031.

[FittingMechanics]

Should make for great racing, some variability in race starts would really help spice things up. Hopefully not as bad as these (someone not starting at all).

Russell spun his rears so that shouldn't be too hard to solve.

A cluster f*** at the start would be interesting but it is not good racing.

Max had a hard time overtaking Bottas in his Cadillac in attack mode today. It took 2 tries.

https://x.com/MV33Racing/status/2024594 ... 35588?s=20

(the tweet is wrong in that it says "they promised us better overtaking". No they didn't. Their only goal was to make an F1 car that could function with these power units. And they barely accomplished that. Overtaking or following was not a priority at all. They just gave it some lip service and thats it.)

My point was that cars having different strengths would make racing more interesting.

What is wrong with that Hadjar overtake? Perfectly fine.

You could see on Thursday Hamilton catch Piastri and try and overtake, he was able to be very close in corners and drive alongside on the straights, took him half a lap to make the move. Looked good. I do think laptime difference at that moment was 1-2s so maybe not perfect match for what races will be but it looked much better than DRS flybys. Here is a link https://streamain.com/en/XarZscgoFKJG9Kj/watch

[TeamKoolGreen]

Should make for great racing, some variability in race starts would really help spice things up. Hopefully not as bad as these (someone not starting at all).

Russell spun his rears so that shouldn't be too hard to solve.

A cluster f*** at the start would be interesting but it is not good racing.

Max had a hard time overtaking Bottas in his Cadillac in attack mode today. It took 2 tries.

https://x.com/MV33Racing/status/2024594 ... 35588?s=20

(the tweet is wrong in that it says "they promised us better overtaking". No they didn't. Their only goal was to make an F1 car that could function with these power units. And they barely accomplished that. Overtaking or following was not a priority at all. They just gave it some lip service and thats it.)

My point was that cars having different strengths would make racing more interesting.

What is wrong with that Hadjar overtake? Perfectly fine.

You could see on Thursday Hamilton catch Piastri and try and overtake, he was able to be very close in corners and drive alongside on the straights, took him half a lap to make the move. Looked good. I do think laptime difference at that moment was 1-2s so maybe not perfect match for what races will be but it looked much better than DRS flybys. Here is a link https://streamain.com/en/XarZscgoFKJG9Kj/watch

What is wrong with the overtake is that it is one of the top cars in the field with one of the bottom cars in the field. If a top 3 car can barely pass a bottom 3 car, then what does that say about how much passing is going to happen in the top 10 ? Or the bottom 10 ?

Thanks to the flat floor, it will most likely result in just gaps. There won't be DRS trains because everyone will be gapped out. There was no such thing as DRS trains in the non venturi era. Because everyone just gapped out.

[AR3-GP]

One thing that I'm looking forward to is more pitstops in races. It seems like tire degradation will be higher and the "negative deg" phenomenon is no longer. So we should see fewer 1 stop races.

[AR3-GP]

I've seen it happening again. Drivers don't go full throttle out of the last corner when starting a hot lap. They want to charge the battery to have 4MJ crossing the start/finish line. That means they have 4MJ + 9.5MJ maximum to use on the lap. If they go full throttle out of the last corner, they'll have much less energy to use on the next lap.

It is a followup on this post: viewtopic.php?p=1326589#p1326589

[ME4ME]

F1TV livestream seems to be a mess at the moment. Anyone else having problems?

[AR3-GP]

F1TV livestream seems to be a mess at the moment. Anyone else having problems?

It's working better than the forum servers...

[ME4ME]

Lol
F1TV was a mess for the first 10 minutes now its fine.

[AR3-GP]

Ocon's on inters. thought it was a timing bug...

[Wouter]

[toraabe]

I think that FIA if dangerous situations occurs because of clipping needs to re introduce the MGU H. All the providers except Audi have them in stock so it would be a minor job to bolt it on. Audi could buy it from one of the other providers...........

[Ufi]

Let's hope we get some variability in starts. It would be great to have slower cars overtake faster cars at the start so we get more on track action.

It will be bad if Ferrari is the fastest in race sim and fastest at starts .

dont give me hope

[CjC]

I think that FIA if dangerous situations occurs because of clipping needs to re introduce the MGU H. All the providers except Audi have them in stock so it would be a minor job to bolt it on. Audi could buy it from one of the other providers...........

Also, Renault will have a few old PUs from last year lying about as well- maybe they could fire that program back up and start supplying a few teams on the grid as well?

[ScottB]

Cannot cope with Croft at all anymore. Ant Davidson would have more luck trying to teach a dog particle physics.

[ME4ME]

I think that FIA if dangerous situations occurs because of clipping needs to re introduce the MGU H. All the providers except Audi have them in stock so it would be a minor job to bolt it on. Audi could buy it from one of the other providers...........

F1 cars aren't made of Legos.