2026 Chinese Grand Prix - Shanghai, March 13-15

[Badger]

Super-clipping brakes for you, the corner is not at the limit of grip because you’re saving energy, and traction has partial throttle recovery to dull the power and harvest. Tell me again, where does the driver come in?

[MJL]

Hi, here is my prediction of the 2026 pole lap: https://x.com/m_lubieniecki/status/2031992301342372301

Should be much better than in Australia!

[AR3-GP]

[De Wet]

Super-clipping brakes for you, the corner is not at the limit of grip because you’re saving energy, and traction has partial throttle recovery to dull the power and harvest. Tell me again, where does the driver come in?

[GSBellew]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HDLd5zuXwAM ... name=large

Forgive me for a silly question, am I reading this wrong or does this mean the cars will be dawdling through turns 7-9 and 11-12 recharging and then blasting down the straights ?

I'd rather see racing through corners than a drag race down the straight.

[AR3-GP]

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[BorisTheBlade]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HDLd5zuXwAM ... name=large

Forgive me for a silly question, am I reading this wrong or does this mean the cars will be dawdling through turns 7-9 and 11-12 recharging and then blasting down the straights ?

I'd rather see racing through corners than a drag race down the straight.

It means, that teams are basically allowed to use only the ICE starting full-throttle during these sections. In all other sections they are forced to start with at least 200 KW MGU-K on full-throttle.

[marcel171281]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HDLd5zuXwAM ... name=large

Forgive me for a silly question, am I reading this wrong or does this mean the cars will be dawdling through turns 7-9 and 11-12 recharging and then blasting down the straights ?

I'd rather see racing through corners than a drag race down the straight.

Depends on whether they can achieve enough speed to be on the limit of grip on the power (mostly combustion in these sections) available.

[venkyhere]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HDLd5zuXwAM ... name=large

Forgive me for a silly question, am I reading this wrong or does this mean the cars will be dawdling through turns 7-9 and 11-12 recharging and then blasting down the straights ?

I'd rather see racing through corners than a drag race down the straight.

It means, that teams are basically allowed to use only the ICE starting full-throttle during these sections. In all other sections they are forced to start with at least 200 KW MGU-K on full-throttle.

a.k.a
FIA : please drive the high speed corners slowly and ensure you blast past the cameras and audience who mainly populate the straight sections
Driver : what ? what's the point of having me, then ? Call Nikita Mazepin or some other rich dad's 'not-an-F1-driver' kid. He will do it for you
FIA : of course, don't overestimate your importance. Next year, you lot are going to be irrelevant ; we are going to have driverless cars. AI bots will drive them for us, they will follow every single presecription that we make.
Driver : bye...
Mercedes driver : what ? us too ?
FIA : No no... don't worry you guys, for you habibi, special price.. sorry special deal, since you are Wolffmeister disciples. You will be allowed to sit in the cockpit while AI bot drives, and also given world champion prize. Our president, the camerabomber sheikh is very kind.

[FittingMechanics]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HDLd5zuXwAM ... name=large

Forgive me for a silly question, am I reading this wrong or does this mean the cars will be dawdling through turns 7-9 and 11-12 recharging and then blasting down the straights ?

I'd rather see racing through corners than a drag race down the straight.

It means, that teams are basically allowed to use only the ICE starting full-throttle during these sections. In all other sections they are forced to start with at least 200 KW MGU-K on full-throttle.

Is this in the rules because they are worried about traction control like usage of MGU-K? Or what would be the reason?

[Ferry]

Hi, here is my prediction of the 2026 pole lap: https://x.com/m_lubieniecki/status/2031992301342372301

Very nice grapichs! Well worth a look.

[karana]

Forgive me for a silly question, am I reading this wrong or does this mean the cars will be dawdling through turns 7-9 and 11-12 recharging and then blasting down the straights ?

I'd rather see racing through corners than a drag race down the straight.

It means, that teams are basically allowed to use only the ICE starting full-throttle during these sections. In all other sections they are forced to start with at least 200 KW MGU-K on full-throttle.

Is this in the rules because they are worried about traction control like usage of MGU-K? Or what would be the reason?

It is so much better to not have the full 200kW from the MGU-K to save battery that the drivers would intentionally stay at partial throttle to prevent deploying.
The reason for the rule requiring 200kW at the beginning of full throttle periods I would guess is to prevent big differences in deployment under acceleration, which could be dangerous.

[Wouter]

Nice video!

[FittingMechanics]

This is wrong. Cars don't slow down when out of battery. They slow down when recharging.

[Farnborough]

This is wrong. Cars don't slow down when out of battery. They slow down when recharging.

Same effect though, they can't be both charging through MGU-K and deploying through that at the same time.

Decision to charge, effectively means no " battery" available to driver.