2026 Australian Grand Prix - Melbourne, March 06 - 08

[peewon]

Frankenstein regulations which are neither pushing exciting technology nor providing good racing, specifically crafted for the benefit of one single manufacturer which has immense political and media influence.

[Artur Craft]

Every single active F1 champion said these regulations are bad (Verstappen, Norris, Hamilton, Alonso). the FIA cannot continue like this.

there is a simple solution to mitigate all the problems we have now. Allow everybody to run 2025 ICE and plug them into 2026 eletrical engines. That way, everybody would easily generate enough energy to the batteries (even on the 350 kw limit) and would not only solve the problem of energy management and clipping on the straight but also make Aston Martin instantly competitive. It would also solve the problem of Mercedes being ahead due to "cheating" or exploiting loopholes, if you will.

If it stays the way it is for years to come, it will hinder the sport commercially

[peewon]

Every single active F1 champion said these regulations are bad (Verstappen, Norris, Hamilton, Alonso). the FIA cannot continue like this.

there is a simple solution to mitigate all the problems we have now. Allow everybody to run 2025 ICE and plug them into 2026 eletrical engines. That way, everybody would easily generate enough energy to the batteries (even on the 350 kw limit) and would not only solve the problem of energy management and clipping on the straight but also make Aston Martin instantly competitive. It would also solve the problem of Mercedes being ahead due to "cheating" or exploiting loopholes, if you will.

If it stays the way it is for years to come, it will hinder the sport commercially

Yeah but then Mercedes won't be able to dominate which is the whole aim of this regulation set

[djos]

RIP F1

I think we need to see what playing 4D chess at 300kph looks like, before we declare F1 dead.

[PlatinumZealot]

The chaos is fun at least. The problem is will there be even a fight for wins DNFs not involved.

The Mercedes chassis looks very good. Remember that the aced the flat floor ruleset and they have a very smooth deployment straregy perfect matched with their front wing.

[avantman]

Every single active F1 champion said these regulations are bad (Verstappen, Norris, Hamilton, Alonso). the FIA cannot continue like this.

They all can retire if they do not like.

[Badger]

RIP F1

I think we need to see what playing 4D chess at 300kph looks like, before we declare F1 dead.

[Artur Craft]

This is 2014 but with Bottas instead of Rosberg. That might even be a compliment for Antonelli, what a crappy performance but yet P2. That says it all really

It´s a shame Toto didn´t put Sainz in that seat. At least we would have a fight for P1

[avantman]

RIP F1

I think we need to see what playing 4D chess at 300kph looks like, before we declare F1 dead.

F1 is dead. We already saw 4d gamesmanship at those speeds early on in 2022 with all those imo silly DRS games. Unlike some I never felt that was exciting or something I wanted to see.
I prefer COTA 2021 sort of races and gamesmanship and ultimately excitement, not all this completely artificial who-presses-which-button-first stuff.

[djos]

RIP F1

I think we need to see what playing 4D chess at 300kph looks like, before we declare F1 dead.

https://i.makeagif.com/media/10-05-2015/D2O7UR.gif

That is a possible outcome, but let's wait and see.

[101FlyingDutchman]

Awful. Seeing cars harvest 250m from a corner just isn’t peak f1 on a quali lap (let alone a race). Now it’s looking after tyres and your charge. Where is the knife edge??

[MB_Racer]

There are no 20 kph power advantages or whatever these analysts are smoking. It's Merc's chassis that is making the difference here.
https://i.postimg.cc/DzsfKNCs/speed(1).png
https://i.postimg.cc/66bkY0cJ/speed(2).png

Yeah sure

You should look at the graph it’s interesting

[avantman]

This is 2014 but with Bottas instead of Rosberg. That might even be a compliment for Antonelli, what a crappy performance but yet P2. That says it all really

It´s a shame Toto didn´t put Sainz in that seat. At least we would have a fight for P1

It’s a shame Verstappen turned down the offer. But I do not have any sympathy for him, he had all the cards. Now, having this sort of advantage I very much doubt Toto would keep on pursuing him, unless Russell starts crashing every second race which he won’t do, merely because it doesn’t look atm he even has to try too hard to produce these results. It does really look easy, but also the ease with which Antonelli did the job today backs that up.

[stewie325]

Wow, this is incredible - the pole lap genuinely looks like an out-lap:

[DGP123]

Horrible viewing. Sucked everything out the sport with these shocking regulations. Fully expected domination as that’s usually what a new regulation brings about.

Merc & Russell world champions