Ongoing negotiations between Fia and Team/Motorists to change the distribution
75% Endothermic Motor
25% Electrical part
For 2027
Potentially you could reach a 65% - 35% agreement.
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Ongoing negotiations between Fia and Team/Motorists to change the distribution
75% Endothermic Motor
25% Electrical part
For 2027
Potentially you could reach a 65% - 35% agreement.
The race is confirming that a move away from 50/50 is under review though they're hinting more at 65/35 for quali and 60/40 for the race with a 650hp ICE. Seems that Mercedes might be on board with this move but against going further. Better imho but still a half step - unfortunately F1 is likely to want consensus among the manufacturers even though the other 4 could force it through in a vote and override any Mercedes opposition. To avoid a massive drop off in performance upon battery depletion and to eke out enough full MGUK deployment time, 75/25 would be ideal. Its still mildly positive that no matter how much Stefano Domenciali does his best Bagdad Bob impression on the current rules, the changes happening behind the scenes for 27 and also the next engine rules in 2030/31 show that F1 has realized these engines were a bad decision thats led to a poor product on track and on tv.
What I see being proposed in the article is 450 kW ICE with 300 kW MGU-K, which is a half measure IMO. I think a 500 kW ICE with a 250 kW MGU-K is probably the optimal balance where you will start to see a lot of these compromises going away whilst you can still get some yo-yo racing from the 33% electrification. At that stage you could even start considering getting rid of SLM, or reducing its use.gearboxtrouble wrote: ↑25 Apr 2026, 16:20The race is confirming that a move away from 50/50 is under review though they're hinting more at 65/35 for quali and 60/40 for the race with a 650hp ICE. Seems that Mercedes might be on board with this move but against going further. Better imho but still a half step - unfortunately F1 is likely to want consensus among the manufacturers even though the other 4 could force it through in a vote and override any Mercedes opposition. To avoid a massive drop off in performance upon battery depletion and to eke out enough full MGUK deployment time, 75/25 would be ideal. Its still mildly positive that no matter how much Stefano Domenciali does his best Bagdad Bob impression on the current rules, the changes happening behind the scenes for 27 and also the next engine rules in 2030/31 show that F1 has realized these engines were a bad decision thats led to a poor product on track and on tv.
https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/the- ... e-changes/
If they want these hybrid PU's to stay, I'd say they have to change to even 550/200; that's 100hp in electrical more than the last decade.
I really think the real world numbers on viewers and attendence (probably only next year available) will be so shocking, even Toto will understand that.Audi and Honda have already stated that their participation is not contingent on "50/50" and never was, only Mercedes seems to be insisting on this. The rulemakers already pandered to them when they authored this regulation set, I sincerely hope they don't pander to them again with a half measure now that it has proven to be flawed.
Why? The racing is good and I don't really notice the superclipping that much.
WardenOfTheNorth wrote: ↑27 Apr 2026, 17:23Why? The racing is good and I don't really notice the superclipping that much.
The Race said something interesting on their latest podcast, I think it was Mark Hughes. Something to the effect of 'once you learn that the overtakes you see are simply two computer algorithms fighting each other, how impressive is it really?'.
