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F1 2026


Remember when this used to happen in F1.

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Cars used to let go with some regularity.

I suspect these days with all the sensors teams have monitoring everything they just retire the car or tell the driver to stop.

Clouds of billowing white smoke and bits of cam follower spitting out the back used to be a feature of F1.
 
Watched the Indy Car highlights from St Pete’s and the racing all throughout the grid was insane. F1 has gotten something wrong with all the movable nonsense. Cars were 3 wide going into corners that an F1 race would dare try.
 
Zweiguys said:
Watched the Indy Car highlights from St Pete’s and the racing all throughout the grid was insane. F1 has gotten something wrong with all the movable nonsense. Cars were 3 wide going into corners that an F1 race would dare try.
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The way I see it, the moveable nonsense is purely to hide the power stoage & delivery issues with the PUs - i.e. they need to lower drag to lift top speeds so that F1 doesn't look stupid.
Which is, of course, stupid.
 
PTR said:
The way I see it, the moveable nonsense is purely to hide the power stoage & delivery issues with the PUs - i.e. they need to lower drag to lift top speeds so that F1 doesn't look stupid.
Which is, of course, stupid.
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We would not be in this situation if F1 had big V10 engines.

I still maintain less, not more regulation is the way to get better racing.

Fuel tanks, owt ya want. Engine 5.0l V10. Have a minimum weight, a max total length/width, must have a halo,

Wheels and tyre size mandated.

The rest - like aero/side pods/floor/ride height fill your boots.
 
Bloody hell, Chainbear is back
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On Bluesky too -
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Big Jeff said:
I suspect these days with all the sensors teams have monitoring everything they just retire the car or tell the driver to stop.

Clouds of billowing white smoke and bits of cam follower spitting out the back used to be a feature of F1.
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Most of the time they can see that something is going to let go before it does. The amount of telemetry data they have is staggering.
 
Full on-screen line-up for 2026:

Experts & analysts: Martin Brundle, Jenson Button, Nico Rosberg, Jacques Villeneuve, Naomi Schiff, Bernie Collins, Karun Chandhok, Jamie Chadwick and Anthony Davidson

Presenters & reporters: Simon Lazenby, Natalie Pinkham, Ted Kravitz, Rachel Brookes and Craig Slater

Commentators: David Croft and Harry Benjamin

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