langedweil wrote: ↑13 Mar 2026, 17:10
This whole circus-format is really unwatchable imho, it has literally nothing to do with racing at all. Dropping speed halfway at the backstraight by dunno .. 75kph(?) is completely ridiculous.
It really is some sort of Mario Kart series now, and no racing will occur at all over the whole season; overtakes aren't overtakes anymore, just 60kph difference battery passes. Might as well take the drivers out of the equasion and robotize the sjit out of it.
And everything is kinda tokanized locked in just like 2014, so there will be no light at the end of the tunnel. ADUO won't change a thing.
It's extremely silly tbh
Hopefully they will cut harvesting to ~6 MJ at energy starved circuits and 7MJ at energy rich ones, then cut MGU-K deployment to 200 kW without overtake and 250 kW with it. The cars will be horrifically slow, likely losing seconds per lap, but at least they would likely be able to push in quali and wouldn’t be lifting and coasting and super clipping into turn 14.
Either that or they could retain 350 kW, but then make it start tapering off rapidly from like 150 kph, hitting 200 kW at perhaps 220 kph, then tapering off further. That way they get to keep the nominal 50/50 split and good traction performance, but would make excessive deployment difficult and extend battery life significantly. At that point they would mostly just be trading top speed for the removal of super clipping and LiCo, which is fine in my book.
Either way the harvesting limits need to be cut back enormously in order to get the drivers to push in every corner. 350kW super clipping would likely also be advantageous for the few scenarios in which they would still need to super clip, since it is still slightly better than LiCo.
