F1 Regulations 2026 - EXPLAINED
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honestly, i think these regulations are a result of a lack of direction for f1. They want the fastest, most sustainable, safest and cheapest cars while having the best, fairest racing under a cost cap and want all that to happen from a set of regulations that will 100% for sure bring f1 fans what they want
f1 doesnt know what it wants. how can you design a set of regulations like that?
Yea, its totally schizophrenic. All over the place.
very true, they want it all. imo F1 would be better off if they recognize that its just not gonna have the most dramatic racing. Low tier formats with no downforce and more stable cars are always going to have more excitement and close racing, so f1 should probably just give up on that. it only needs the prestige of being the format with the most cutting edge engineering and elite drivers. To that end, they need only to create regulations that encourage market-relevant R&D, and a budget limit only for the sake of sanity. As it is, the majority of engineering work done in motorsport fails to feed back into road cars.
Boycott F1!
No views at all will teach them to become a proper racing series again!
They deserve to go bankrupt!
They’re like children asking Santa Claus for 9 different gifts for Christmas.
It's all pandering to manufacturers that constantly complain about everything. Cost caps, green fuels, hybrid engines, more electrification, these are all things the manufacturers lobbied for. Then you have different manufacturers lobbying for different approaches so the FIA makes a half-assed compromise to please everyone (which ends up pleasing no one).
The new engine regs are these weird more electric hybrid power trains because FIA desperately wanted new manufacturers to join after Honda initially announced leaving and no one is interested in non-electric powertrains. Then because the current manufacturers were affraid of Audi having too big of an advantage, they crippled the regs further to this frankenstein formula so they still have an advantage but not so big that it would make Audi walk away. Then when they realised the PUs would be too weak for current F1 performance expectations, they tried to put a bandaid on it by adjusting the aero regs to make the new PUs viable. So overall we get this mess of mix-mash regs for the entire car in order for the FIA to hit their commercial desires.
It's all politics at the end, usually centered around money.
burning more fuel around a lap purely to charge the battery instead of burning said fuel for more ICE power is an absolutely heinous crime
basically a generator now lol.
I agree
I can't believe they did this... It makes absolutely no sense. The purpose of the mguk is to harvest energy that would be lost, not to burn fuel to charge a battery and lose energy due to efficiency losses.
@@vinicius9670well that was back when it was introduced, but now it's kinda the other way around. The ice engine is becoming more or less a generator for the main heart of the car, which is all that electric bs.
Well they said that they will never go electric a couple years back. And this is exactly what i was thinking. I was sure we'll get here some day.
Tehnically, they aren't going electric. But in reality, the car's ice engine is a tiny little part that's charging the electric bs that's actually powering the car. Basically a generator.
You know what else has this? A fucking prius, it uses the engine to charge the batteries.
"it's hard for new manufacturers to join" like they want new manufacturers to join🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was giggling at the same thing
they dont want new manufacturers to join, they just want manufacturers to want to join, therefore increasing demand and thus increasing the value of the teams and the sport as a whole.
@@Mqtisse good point, thanks
These cars are really unattractive to me.
@@mosca3289 I also don't like the new car design. Instead of going to the future they're going to the past.
So they decided on suboptimal new engine rules and then tried to fix it with the aero rules... great
There is no such thing as an "optimal engine rule", especially when six engine manufacturers and ten teams all have different opinions that are (of course) totally unselfish and only for the good of the sport and not at all because they hope for some sort of competitive advantange ...
Indycar are somehow making less of an ass of themselves by sticking with 2010's technology than F1 is with their not-so-trailblazing-anymore technology that only needed synthetic fuels to begin with.
@@JOHANNESwhoelse If FIA was as incompetent at introducing something as IndyCar is with their hybrid the web would burn (just look at this comment section). Naw. At least FIA/F1 manages to get things done.
F1 is more stupid with burning more fuel for generating electricity. Is it a race car or an fuel engine generator?
Since they have fully sustainable fuel, why don’t they put a monster V10 in it? 😂
Many engineers nowadays are creative and naive, they play too often in software simulators
Yeah because f1 is one big fast advertising board nowadays. The whole 50/50 split is proof of that. Why on earth a racecar would need to be efficient and hybrid assisted? In 2024 we can make 1000+hp easy on a full combustion engine. And don't even try convincing me that they actually give a shit about the envorniment. It's just advertising so that the new tree hugger fans can go wow, f1 is so nice, they think of the planet wow no way.
Also it's a great way of advertising hybrid systems for car brands in their roadcars.
The only motorsport technical youtuber worth watching
Kyle Engineers and Brian Garvey are good too! Garvey just did a video of a cutaway of a DFV cylinder head which is pretty interesting.
@@TassieLorenzoDFV Cylinders?
@@purwantiallan5089 If you don't know what DFV means you don't know much about F1. It's the most famous engine line.
@@TassieLorenzo yes, very true
@@avada0You can explain things without being condescending. Help people learn more about the sport instead of belittling them for not knowing everything.
To solve the high CO2 emissions from the logistics, they introduce sustainable fuel for the cars.
To solve the overtaking relying too much on DRS, they make them slower but with an electric boost.
To solve the cars being slower, they introduce more aero.
Scared of Audi about electric boost, they limit energy recovery.
To solve the reduced energy recovery, they burn more fuel.
That's a complete mess! I just wanted fast exciting cars around a track!
This is 2014 all over again, we will see the consequences of pushing out Ross Brawn and taking in Stefano Domenicali. The problem with Stefano is that the progress on F1 has stalled. He is more political and business but he doesn't understand the technical side of what the car and the fans need. The fact that he listened to the teams , took away the front electric motors that would support the green movement and would also generate alot of energy under braking. A calendar that seems like a child picked the destinations. I only see F1 going down if this continues. Ross Brawn didn't care about the team needs if it impacted the sporting side negatively
Cars wont nescecarily slower. All these are to promote closer racing. Do you want the super fast cars of today? Or close racing? Make up your mind F1 fans goddamnit.
Yeah I love the part where the co2 emission generated by logistics and actual great engines is SURELY the main cause of the global warming😊
@@Hungary_0987 I know I know, you ask one person they say something, you ask another they say something else. That was my personal opinion, since F1 should be the "premiere class" of open wheel racing and, in my opinion, should be mostly fast. If they can make close racing as well that's good, but I personally would not sacrifice speed: after all, we already have Formula 2 for slower but closer racing.
@@morko5150 Yeah, I'm not even getting into that: we're still using coal for energy production to this day...
My grandpa used to say
You can scratch your right ear with your right hand
Or you can use your left hand go around the head to get the same job done .
That's how this entire regulation feels like
How would you make It simpler?
More buses and trucks use an MGU-H than road cars, that’s the image that F1 is moving away from despite having pioneered the technology. This was also one aspect that made quieter engines inevitable (the other is turbo that is common on road cars) which wasn’t so good for marketing the sport, despite their adverts still using V10 or V8 noises.
Supercars and hypercars are getting released with MGU-H.
Porsche just released one, and there are many in the pipeline.
My perspective? F1 and the FIA are getting complacent. They know that they're getting more and more popular, and they're riding that wave. So they're okay with chickening out of innovation and compromising speed. But other categories will be catching up, so I am expecting that the next batch of regulations after 2026 will just jump the F1s a huge leap forward to leave some air with IndyCar, LMdH and LMH and the other F-series.
Endurance prototype racing is in a new golden era
@@mullayho1759 fully agree. It's a shame they have been nerfed in performance by regulations and BoP compared with LMP1s (those things were BEASTS), but it's just great to see the category blossom in creativity and diversity. Plus, they are understressed, so to obtain more power and performance would be quite easy.
I rather they postpone things to 2027 or 2028.
- We can't have more sustainability by having less thermally efficient engines.
- We shouldn't be combusting more fuel under the guise of "bio-fuel."
- DRS was heavily criticised when it came about, but at least drivers & teams have to work around the sudden aero & balance changes it brings. There's nothing skill-full about just magically having extra electric boost by simply closing a gap. Might as well just call it "FanBoost", but hey FE fans will argue the drivers had to work their pretty smiles off the track to earn even that. At this point we might even hire Tilke to redraw all tracks with "Attack Mode" strips
- Active Aero YES, Finally! The rest of the aero rules I'm less annoyed about since I'm old enough to have seen F1 long enough to know that aerodynamicists always finds a couple ways no matter how impossible it seems.
Counterpoint: 3.0 Litre NA engines running on synthetic fuel.
I would prefer a V8 turbo with a mgu h , or a naturally aspirated V8 with a much smaller mgu k , both using synthetic fuel.
The electric boost is significantly mire skillful. They can also use that more, even to defend. Please stop shitting on not yet existent rules and cars
@@Hungary_0987 do you know what is actually more skillfull, successfully defending your position without extra power or any other aid , same thing goes for successfully making a overtake without aids.
I'd rather they bring it as soon as possible and be done with it early. Bring forward the 2030 regs...
Would be cool if they made the front motor act only as a generator and made that assembly as a "spec part", so nobody could complain about Audi having an advantage
That would've made more sense, but competing manufacturers don't want to associate with Audi powertrains. Maybe in 2027, when the others have kept up tech wise.
If they use "e-fuels" they shouldn't need electric motor and batteries, just go back to NA V8/V10s...
NA V8/V10s are so completely unrelated to anything the engine manufacturers sell , "buy our new small turbocharged hybrid super fuel efficient car, because we are really good at making screaming gas guzzling V10s" doesn't sound like a great ad
@@fuzzy1dk i think the audience of people who buy a car because they like the formula one team are more in the ball park of "hell yeah, race car" rather than "oo hybrid economy car yes please!!"
@@fuzzy1dknot all of them. McLaren, Ferrari, Ford, Mercedes, Audi all produce V8s and Ferrari produces V12s.
In my opinion use a turbo v8 with hybrid power
@@TexasNightmare24 nah thats heavy, just stick a big ol n/a v8 in there
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If we using biofuels what's the point of the battery in the first place
Eficency I guess, but if they want electric stuff, why not work to make the batteries lighter or simpler?
Just like you said many times in this video….it’s a compromise!
Just like every set of rules ever written for anything, ever.
This one is very poorly balanced I fear, least the car's are smaller
if f1 wants to be the forefront of tech, they need to allow more discrete technologies, many of which are available on road cars. active suspension, front regen, MGUH, active aero, e-fules - put it all on the car. since there is a cost cap, the argument for the sport becoming too expensive goes away, and you are left with fast, cutting edge cars.
Reduce the risk of punctures from close racing touches !
Punctures kill racing and drivers are scared of the razor edged floors so they stay away.
Racing would be improved if the FIA mandated floor edges that are kinder to tires.
The new front wing looks like another source of punctures
Idunno, its more curved...
Well see ig
These rules seem like the maybe the biggest slowdown of cars ever.
I expect 5-7 seconds longer lap times, at least.
I mean, 30% less downforce is a DRASTIC difference..no amount of drag reduction can offset that
Imagine the videogame...I won't be buying that anymore 😂
@@geert574 me neither, hope codemasters doesnt renovate his contract
I think that from '26 onwards the only F1 contet I'll keep an eye on will be liveries at lauch, and the not-so-occasional-anymore one-offs.
in my opinion the new 2026 cars look gorgeous, way better than the current ones
reminds me of some of the older cars as well as indycats
Like 00s and 22-25 cars had a kid lol
@@Rb26z right? i see so much f2005 in it lol
Ngl for me the current ones are smooth and clean and looks futuristic rather than the 2026 ones so yh I did wished for a smaller version of the car
The fact that they rejected front regen is such a shame, like ffs we could've made cars lighter with it...
What's front regen?
@@tuffmanchannel Using an electric motor connected to the front wheels to brake the car and at the same time produce electric energy that is fed back into the battery. Its what kers does (for the rear wheels) and what any modern EV does
Reducing downforce is objectively the right decision to improve racing ability of the cars to follow and pass each other. 2026 regs would be great if they would just get rid of the hybrid system altogether.
Ah, this is chaos. They're making actions to fix issues but those fixes create more issues.
I really don't understand how the biggest manufacturers and rule makers mess up this much to make things better. Horrendous...
Manufacturers have interests
How to solve sustainability problems? Race mainly in Europe and few other coutries (Japan, Brazil e.g.), limiting the logistic costs and consequent emissions. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
ditching the mgu-h as the only way to recharge the batteries under acceleration while *adding* more discharge power seems really silly
they should bring back refueling and tire wars
war is expensive.
I somewhat agree with you on refuelling but tyre wars are idiotic, expensive and shit for the sport
no they should not
@@thomashayhurst6547 so is refueling
@@fuzzy1dk now you mention it, yeah it is. They were supposed to reintroduce refuelling in 2017 but the teams gave the FIA data that showed it'd make racing worse
Do you think using rules that include valved air ducts could be used to reduce drag, increase downforce, or adjust balance would be an interesting idea? I imagine that opening, closing or restricting airflow through ducts could be done in a very reliable way with safe failure modes in ,most cases. I don’t know if that’s safer or easier than having to design wing elements that fail into a high downforce configuration. Maybe ducts just aren’t that effective and are too complex, heavy, or large compared to other solutions for improving efficiency with the 50/50 hybrid, rear axle powertrain.
You better make the overtake at the last lap. Probably if you use the overtake mode, you will need to recharge the battery again, by losing some performance on the next lap.
Yes, we'll need new regulations PDQ, these are woefully inadequate.
It’s fun to watch them slowly become Indy Cars.
Just about, only with 200+ more bhp
Simplify and add lightness.
How can you simplify without removing the batteries?
Regarding downforce and drag, isn't the diffuser the most efficient means of producing downforce? Making the rear wing bigger (and active) seems counter intuitive if they want more efficiency.
It is so long as it doesn't stall
The diffusers however cause two major problems
1- They are really really hard to design well.
2- They suck up shit from under the car. Lesving to the impossibility of racing in the wet and the cars lifting debris from the track.
However, the main reason they are on the chopping block is because aero as a whole is being downgraded to reduce energy spent per lap.
Interesting to see the FIA reducing floor and diffuser aero in favour of larger rear wings, since floor aero is more efficient, surely it would make more sense to apply the wing changes and in washing boards to current floor regs, cars have more downforce so laptimes are faster, and teams don't have to engineer to different floor regs
This type of goofiness is why I watch Idemitsu Spec Miata
Mainly good improvements over the general success of the 22 regs.
I'm concerned that generation could be needed mid corner (high revs) or on the straights (lower top speed).
Hopefully they've got sufficient regen ability to avoid this, or by a few more tweaks.
These aren't the final set of regs of course...
Honestly would've loved active suspension for this ground effect era
And also 4wd (electric front) wouldve been neat too
Danke, endlich mal ein Deutscher der es vernünftig knapp erklären kann. Ob auf deutsch oder englisch ist egal - der Akzent vermittelt ein gewisses mindset😂
Danke, Technik wird mit deutschem Akzent erklärt.
I'm glad they reduced the dimensions.
That's the only thing that makes me happy.
Instead of removing the mgu-h they could've just ask Garrett Motion to make a standard MGU-H for all the teams. They basically make the one Mercedes put in the A45 AMG and the Lotus Emira.
The m139 I think.
More on e turbo
Removing the ONE thing that road cars are beginning to implement must be among the dumbest things ever. I said this when this was first announced and it still makes no sense. Introducing active aero makes sense, as that something even simpler cars have. They should also introduce active suspension for the same reason: F1 cannot be a series that doesn't even match what's sold on a 60k road car. That list is active aero, MGUH and active suspension. At least.
Failing to make the tanks smaller also goes down as a huge, well, failure. I believe an MGUH would help in this respect, ironically.
I'm glad they're making the cars shorter behind the driver. But now that the MGUH is gone they should have made that even shorter. This is just dumb imho.
Also, spec end plates: nonono. F1 must avoid using spec parts unless it's absolutely necessary. Or just get a Dallara chassi for everyone and call the series Indy or something. This is truly ridiculous.
I do think the new rules will work, that's not the problem here. They just feel like they asked the UN to pen them down.
What happened to the 6 gear gearbox? Still a thing?
if active suspension is introduced, it needs to have some limitations. Active suspension on circuit racing can lead to some unstable and and anti-competitive cars.
" F1 cannot be a series that doesn't even match what's sold on a 60k road car". dude, that's stupid. by your logic, F1 has been worst than a $16k car, let alone a $60k car because F1 doesn't allow traction control nor ABS.
Spec endplate IS needed, why do you think they went that far? Did you not watch the video?
@@Hungary_0987 perhaps a bit of drag being created bc teams find ways to bend the regs is ok. finding those solutions in the regulations is what f1 is all about
The MGU-H going is good because now the engine sound will be great again. Although it would have been good to keep it if it meant the fuel tank got smaller
It's easy to complain about these new regs but the amount of compromise... I am not sure they made the right choice.
Barely any shorter, barely any lighter. Won't make any difference to how the drivers feel, or make the cars more agile. They need to cut 1 metre out of the length, and 100kg out of the car, and then make the wheels and tyres and suspension lighter too.
IN ONE RULESET? jesus. Its like you dont understand how ut works. Be happy they are going in the direction. Also the cars (personally) do feel smaller to me, even if rhey arent by much
@@Hungary_0987 I didn't say how they were going to implement it. The cars are more than a metre longer than the 90s. Some of that is safety, most of it is designers wanting a longer car for aero benefit - even though we all agree the aero is part of the problem with close racing, and we all know the cars being so long is problem at tight corners. And we know the cars being heavy makes it difficult to stop them going out of track limits or hitting each other because of momentum. They aren't as fun to drive as agile, smaller cars, and they aren't a fun to watch. 200mm here and there makes no difference, and 30kg won't matter (even when they may end up adding weight instead). The unsprung weight is really high, because they are asked to build stupid tyres for stupid cars. As Scarbs said, the suspension is designed for aero benefit not low weight.
Worrying about fuel burn of the race cars is down right crazy….
If you have ever been to a race F1 or other race, but let’s stay with F1, have you ever seen the amount of fuel burnt by the Fans getting to the race? Let alone all the fuel burnt for celebrities to fly to the track….
The race cars are a mere drop in the bucket…
Can someone start an NA V10 formula series? All we need are light weight and powerful monsters out there. Nothing too fancy. And with refueling bc its not run by pansies. No fuel use limits either. It might not be as fast as F1 but it could capture the spirit better. And just maybe it will fun! Smoking is encouraged as well in the garage.
We are waiting Andretti! Spend your $500m on that V10 breakaway Grand Prix series instead of complaining! Unfortunately I don't think Andretti want to set $500m on fire, they seem more interested in the commercial value of Formula One, than being motivated by a true desire to build and race Grand Prix cars (for example in a breakaway series), hence why I think their bid is cynical.
Well, at least Aston Martin seems to be participating 2025 IMSA/WEC/Le Mans with a N/A V12
Well, if enviromentally friendly cars is what you're after, it makes sense to reduce weight for performance rather than have a powerful heavy car.
And it makes sense to reduce drag to achieve high straightline speed over having to push a brick harder through the air.
Cars should have less power, be more compact, have less weight and be more slippery, in other words, be more efficient.
Many says that 2026 F1 cars maybe gonna have less 1000bhp (only 650).
Except for the smaller car sizes those regulations suck.
Can we get a Le Mans BOP analysis?
Put a wind turbine fixture at the back of the car to recoup electricity spent? (this is a troll science)
I feel like active aero will be bad for racing. We'll have to see.
And please, can we get a V8/V10 on biofuel añready?
The cars will be slower again. Not great. Wonder when (or if) we'll see a faster cars than those one we had in 2004 or 2020.
A lot of people call for slower cars with less downforce to improve racing though? Maybe it's not a big deal, I dunno. I like the fast cars that corner at 5g, but plenty of (old timers?) prefer the 3g cornering of F2 and Indycar and think F1 should be like that for some reason -- "F2/Indycar still looks fast to me" (they look slow and ponderous to me, but I dunno).
Well considering the FIA is already talking about 2030 regs, I think they too realize the compromised position they put themselves in. That said, just because the cars are slower doesn't mean we can't still have good battling. We'll just have to wait and see. I am cautiously optimistic on this one.
Thanks.
Excellent video as always. Personally, I am very curious to know how these cars will work. But Formula 1 is no longer the pinnacle of technology. Too many compromises to have a more electric power unit. I like the WEC regulations better, more freedom, and maybe it would limit fuel consumption, or something like that.
2:05 So silly to not have regen braking at the front too.
I guess this to prevent VW group (Audi or Porsche) take too much advantage in terms of experience in Le Mans
@@kidpagronprimsank05 Like none of the other manufactures, ever raced in Le Mans with hybrid cars. Alpine has, Ferrari has. This argument that who ever brought up, is so stupid. It would be like saying, a few years ago, that ground effect shouldn't be introduced, because Ferrari and Williams already had experience with this. Just stopping innovation because somebody has experience with something is just stupid and honestly not the spirit of F1.
@@titaniclp1851 Alpine with rebadged Rebellion, and Ferrari just joined recently.
What a mess. Cars already have to coast during races, this will further make the situation worse.
The MGU-H is the biggest innovation of the current engine regulations. It makes a significant step in efficiency. It IS becoming road relevant, it's just that the auto industry moves very very slowly. The benefit of any car tech created by or imposed onto F1 is that development becomes many many times faster than otherwise.
They should not drop the MGU-H
On this page, there are 911, and some like AMG ONE. But we don't know if that going to be limited production like 911 Dakar, or it going to be full production car. MGU-H are good for niche market, and possibly aviation (and for aircraft, it actually old technology from late 40s). Normal car consumer for MGU-H are not ideal
When the battery have no energy, yup it's gonna be slower than an F2 car lol
Was never a fan of the 2026 power unit regs. They have higher focus on electric power but they are less efficient so it’s actual a step down in terms of tech plus they don’t sound any better. The car regs I like the cars are getting a bit smaller
Why not going back to 2016 spec cars with DRS removed, but with a 100 KW push to pass? The more complicated the regulations, the more loopholes and worse racing
Instead of all these attempts to reduce outwashing by restricting specific aero elements, can the FIA not just quantitatively limit the total amount of outwash using CFD and wind tunnel measurements?
I never understood why they don't just simplify the front wing regulations and then ban anything teams come up with that they don't like.
@@Ruylopez778 might as well become a spec series then because what would be the point of developing anything
@@szymonsmutek4248 Not really. A simple wing means less opportunity to create outwash, not that teams can't innovate. It's nothing like a spec series. All the teams agree outwash makes racing shit. All the teams aero makes the racing shit. But none of the teams will budget an inch.
This is simply not doable. You can’t exactly measure the precise amount of outwash a car is producing at any given time. It’s not an easily measurable thing. Downforce and drag can be easily measured but measuring outwash would be impractical and almost impossible to effectively police.
@@alecmillea4539 You can measure the effect a car has on a protoypical car placed behind it, either virtually or as a model.
Yeah, I think SuperGT GT500 class has better implementation of hybrid that actually used by many road cars despite being a prototype themselves
And why don't we have true hybrid instead of this kind of gimmicky regulations. If its 50/50 make it both active at the same time, without gimmicky regs like this.
They make MXGP and AMA Motocross looks like a true prototype racing
Nice. The FIA almost got it right this time. Now they just need to make the cars a bit narrower, shorter, and lighter, get rid of anything that resembles a wing, and completely open the engine/driveline rules.
I strongly believe that we as fans are responsible for the clusterfuck that the 2026 regs are. Only thing being talked about is more overtaking and how are we making the racing more speactacular etc. In return FIA is always changing rules to please everyone. WE JUST NEED CONVERSION. Let the rules stabilise for 5 years and eventually the top 3-4 teams will all be on a level playing field, especially during a budget cap era. We are currently seeing ferrari and mclaren finally catching up only for 2026 to come and then a single team dominating again. Let the rules marinate, let teams catch up and eventually the races will once again be fun. Take the 2021 season for example. Nobody remembers the overtakes. Everyone remembers the epic title fight. Why are we always trying to reinvent the wheel??
I like the rules other than no MGU H
People don’t get that F1 is the pinnacle of development regarding to cars.
They choose to make the engine smaller because thats the shift in todays cars.
Same regarding to adding E-Motors - every freaking car has it now.
Whats win on Sunday sells on Monday.
Still and always be the moto of racing
Bringing V10 or the V8 is going back in development though should it be more exciting for us to watch it is not the way cars are going.
They made some good changes for the aero to make the racing closer so we can see some more overtaking
Because THATS THE ACTUAL PROBLEM NOT THE ENGINES
I mean if cars burn more fuel they could of brought refuelling back, such a missed opportunity.
The 2026 inwashing barge board will merge with the wheel vortex causing lift along the edge of the floor.
The whole point in the battery is to harvest wasted braking energy and save fuel. That makes sense. These new rules are missing the point by charging the battery with more fuel! Might as well have a v10 running synthetic fuel.
Imo the regs are too restrictive.
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GREAT VIDEO!
A gigantic battery pack is a huge blunder. Drivers are never going to be able to fully charge the bloody thing.
Nothing can be slower than F1 2014
Bring back the V-10!
Using fuel to power the battery is like those electric cars that need to be recharged by electrical generators powered by diesel.
Slow doesn't means Worse
Karting
F3
Truck Racing
Won't they also need to increase the battery size massively so that it can actually deliver 350kw for the new, bigger e-motor? Which should also increase the weight a lot. But I guess this gets counteracted by the car being smaller and the turbo being removed. Although I still think it's gonna be quite hard to hit the new lower weight limit.
From Formula E:
"Comprising motor, inverter, differential and transmission all combined, the new motorsports drive unit produces 469 horsepower - despite a weight of only 70.5 pounds (32 kilos) - and is capable of a max rotor speed of 19,500 rpm. It features the same state-of-the-art high-voltage continuous wave winding and proprietary microjet cooling system that can be found in the motors powering the Lucid Air sports sedan."
This was in January 2023, they'll surely be able to make it even lighter by 2026. Batteries for this don't weigh much either.
@@swecreations That's cool, but however light the battery is, it's gonna have to be 3x heavier now. Unless, for some reason, they weren't using the highest possible power density battery - which I am sure they were.
@@test987665 I mean these batteries progress at a pretty fast rate, even today they could probably get away with a battery weight of around 35kg, less in 2026. The MGU-H they removed certainly doesn't weigh nothing either.
Edit: nevermind, the MGU-H apparently only weighed around 4kg, in which case it really doesn't make sense to remove it as it likely saves more fuel than it weighs in a race.
I think F1 in general is not sustainable anymore as it is. The racing is most of the time boring since they can't overtakie without DRS or with the new regulation more electrical power and if raced hard the drivers beginn to cry.
With the rising fanbase of WEC and the great sportcar racing in other series I feel you can have more fun watch races in other series. Another reason, at least for me, is that the price to watch f1 races in person or in streams is so high. I have to pay like 200€+ to watch F1, meanwhile I pay 40ish€ for WEC and DTM is free
It's a mess, I agree with smaller(mostly shorter) cars, but most other things...
Just go ahead and put the drivers in all premier racing series in power wheels. Style the bodies from F1, IRL, Nascar, etc. My bet is on the Barbie Corvette....lol
The Mazda MX5 Cup racing in much closer and exciting than just about anything F1 has produced in years. Spend millions and millions and it's still a parade.
It's not even close to F1 lmao, one wet F1 race tops an entire Mazda season...
By then, I had stopped competing in the Formula 1 Fantasy League. I gave up hope on Lewis Hamilton at Scuderia Ferrari. Because I'm not going to blend my blood with Italia Red. Plus, I prefer driving the 550 Barchetta over the Testarossa and I think the F40 is better than the F50 in terms of looks Enzo seems overpowered so I go with the 250 GT LM and GTO because I feel like I hate myself for driving a Ferrari as much as Sega hates me for driving a Ferrari because Sega is blue like Sonic. And About the 2026 Regs, Audi Vs Ferrari will be a thing. And I care less for Honda in F1 to avoid The IndyCar.
Not subbing to f1 app anymore. ill save my, money
Does the front aero fail safe if youre going 200mpg into a hairpin? This whole idea seems dumb.
Yes, it's similar to DRS in that if the driver touches the brake pedal, high downforce is restored.
The system of operation for active aero hasn't been disclosed yet, but it will be fairly failsafe like DRS is.
No system is 100% failsafe.
Removal of MGU-H was a really bad decision. It's just insane to reduce efficiency.
This will be basically to me Formula E+
Personally I like the more nimble looking rendering. But I doubt, that the engine regulations are so clever.
Mandatory 2 stops with current regs would be a good thing. But no
They will have to introduce front engines to maintain credibility
Removing the MGU-H was lame.
Why not the nice Stuff from 2006?
So the team who could develop an OP engine will basically dominate this regulation??
The whole thing now is about how to produce sufficient electrical energy, changing the aerodynamics to save energy, deploy more electrical energy than the car in front to overtake. is this now Formula E, it sounds exactly the same.
Russel expressed safety concerns about too high speeds of 2026 cars… You say it will slow🤷🏻
On full battery charge with much lower drag it can be fast on the straight for one lap, but in terms of long run it’s a different story.
They been afraid of AUDI is the most stupid and pathetic thing ever
Audi‘s LMP1 development department is long gone…
The big risk is that one team or manufacturer will nail the regs and dominate the next era.
Sound familiar??
Make them all use a spec na v8 with bio fuel.
Why do people use "bio fuel" and "synthetic fuel" interchangeably? They are different. Bio fuel (as in ethanol from corn or elsewhere) is old technology, synthetic or e-fuel made from hydrogen gas from sea water combined with captured carbon dioxide is the new technology without the pitfalls of diverting food production. Synthetic fuel made using renewable electricity is hideously inefficient compared to just putting the renewable electricity directly into an onboard battery though -- obviously battery density is really poor though and 105 kg petrol = 2500kg battery, which is a problem for a fully electric F1 (yes I know FE has exclusive rights).
@@TassieLorenzothen only two things to concern for synthetic fuel are quality and (for future normal consumers) costs then
It's the same damn argument every single time. 2009, 2014, 2019, whatever. Every single time a new idea came out, people cried over how painfully slow the new cars were going to be. Instead, you ended up with cars that didn't go so fast on the straights, but managed to beat the old cars in almost every other way.
What people need to understand is that these are just concept cars showing general ideas of what they are going to be like. The constructors will always research these concepts and push out something better and more efficient for the sake of winning the championships. This is the beauty of F1 not being a spec series: Even with these regulations, nothing is set in stone in terms of techs and R&D. You cannot truly anticipate how the cars are going to be made and upgraded in reality.
And don't even try to claim that this will be the slowest F1 ever. This sport has come a long way that even today's backmarker can easily outperform the legendary McLaren MP4/4. You need to be extremely backward to be slower than the cars in the 80s, let alone those cars without any wings in the 50s.
safety is about the only thing that improved. the size and weight decreased insignificantly. Meanwhile everything else seem to get a lot worse. 2026-2030 looks grim right now.
Speed is immaterial - what people want is competitive racing - not one team domination. There should be MORE teams, not fewer.
they should just make the cars use corn alcohol as there 100% sustainable fuel of choice