"getting in new manufactures" and yet keep blocking Andretti with Caddilac

Fernando 400iq play move to stay with Honda. They will produce a GP2 engine whereas all other engines will be as slow as an F3 🤯

The Fia will shortly introduce speed limits to make sure it’s an exercise in safety and we all cancel our f1 subscription

What I don’t understand is why they talk about road relevance. It used to be that it was innovations in Motorsport that then made their way to consumer vehicles, not the other way around.

Give us smaller, lighter cars (⁠ب⁠_⁠ب⁠)

Ah yes, nothing sends a more powerful environmental message than taking millions in ARAMCO oil money ... oh F1 get over yourselves and just let them build fast cars ffs

"We are targeting lighter cars by tripling the needed amount of electric energy, because the batteries will be lighter"..... it just doesn't add up

I already hate these rules. I don't think the cars have lost nearly enough weight or size either. There's already too much going on on the steering wheel for a start. Too many driver aids, now they want to add more active aero? I already despise DRS, now they're adding more drag reduction components. Its taken many years to try and perfect DRS and it's still off at certain tracks. Now we're gonna spend another decade trying to balance these things? They're too complex as well. Commentators will spend all of the race explaining why the car was responsible for a lost position.

This might be the worst set of new rules I have seen in my 20 years of watching. What an absolute cluster f*ck....

So slower, heavier, more complex cars with less room to overtake and weird power delivery rules ... Well done f1

In my opinion, if F1 goes ahead with these regulations, there needs to be a break away series. •V10 run on synthetic fuels •Smaller, lighter cars (2000s spec with Halo) •18 races a year with no street races Electric and technology doesn't equal better racing and at the end of the day it is motorsport, we want to see racing. I guarantee there would be more interest in the sport from the drivers as well as fans.

The loss of the MGU-H is tragic. It's had ten years of development, weighs just 4Kg and allows for at least 2MJ of energy per lap. It almost never fails anymore, it eliminates turbo lag, it has no downsides. If new manufacturers are incapable of making one, just make it a spec part like the hundred other FIA controlled parts common to all teams. It's not like manufacturers are clamouring to enter anyway, we have Audi, Red Bull are getting some Ford stickers, and the existing teams appear terrified of GM's Cadillac division. Binning the MGU-H is the worst decision since they thought it would be good to fit 18" wheels that look like a plastic trim people buy from a struggling high street motor discount shop. Asinine.

'Designated areas' Lord when will it stop.

DRS is staying and even being added to front wings Override is just the good old engine maps / overtake button / party mode being overregulated and morphed into a DRS-tier gimmick, with an official name Pirelli cancelled the 16 inch rims because teams wouldn't give them enough testing I don't have any faith in these new regs tbh

F1 continually harps on the race cars' "sustainability", even while each team moves the equivalent of a small city from race to race and with F1 personnel flying in company or private jets.

They should give the drivers NOS, with a big dramatic button, add stick shifts, and add about 14 extra gears

As I said many times: adapt LMP1H rules (~2016) to open wheel cars and you'll have different engines, more different aero, very close grid racing wheel to wheel for the whole race. There is no need to reinvent the wheel. The money for those regulations is in F1, it should be used there.

ICE with sustainable alcohol as fuel would have been simpler, lighter, cheaper and a better show.

Surely if you need active aero on the front wing to balance out the car, any damage to it would surely be dangerous and mean that a front wing change would be necessary to continue racing?

At this point, just bring back the 2019-2021 regs with the 2022 front and rear wing. And while we’re at it, bring back the f#%king V12s

F1 would have a seventh engine manufacturer in GM/Cadillac if the teams didn't keep blocking their entry with Andretti.

I'm dreading this a bit. I don't like the incresing inclination towards electric. I understand it is relevant to road cars, but come on. This is Formula 1, it should just be small light cars with fuel.

I want to see overtakes anywhere other than the main straight The FIA just doesn’t get it

Literally take the 2022-25 regulations and force the cars to be smaller and shorter by regulations and also force a higher rpm to make the engines louder whilst keeping the sustainable fuel requirement for 2026. Put the minimum weight way down and have all the teams battle it out to reduce weight the quickest. It’s so simple yet so hard for the FIA it seems 😂

I love regs talk. Has The Race done a video or article covering what the staffers would do for their ideal Regulations? I would like to hear what Gary Anderson would do. I would like smaller cars, open regs V10s encouraging teams to get the max out of internal combustion tech, and active suspension.

The severe amount of regulation in deploying the Overrride and Active Aero, is very concerning There should be more manual input from the driver I don't see why it is so difficult to have the front and rear wings to be manually operational, within a set amount of wing angles changes Like they had in 2010, but slightly more sophisticated - so the driver can adjust their wings when following / leading another car To me that is just far more sensical, but they have dug a pretty big hole with the engine regulations that will 100% be very harvesting / generating critical in order to maximise laptime My big concern is how screwed you can be around tracks with less braking zones, where you harvest much less energy. You will likely not be able to use this Override due to the amount of energy it will burn against how much more you then have to recover I am all for the lighter cars, why the heck we still have the larger 18inch wheels is total nonsense. As them combined with the suspension is a massive weight increase, alongside the poor ride and compliance that the cars suffer from now This genuinely seems very much like a bodge job sticking plaster, on a problem they have created purely pushing for manufacture interest - worrying about the racing later

Ridiculously complex. Bring back modern V10s, no active aero, no DRS, no ERS, much lighter and smaller, regulate outwash for following.

You've overused 'more on that shortly' in this video. It's a bit annoying.

Seems like 2026 F1 Cars would be far slower than even LMP1 cars from 2006.

I have a feeling these cars are going to be a complete disaster

Honestly I'd like to see F1 bin off the electric hybrid side of the engine and leave that to formula E to develop instead focus on fully synthetic fuels or engines. All my life F1 has been the pinnacle of motor sport and development on both engine and aero, look at the 2000s they had, jaguar, honda, Ferrari, mercedes, Renault and Toyota in the sport as either manufacturers and engine suppliers in some cases because they were helping to road car side. Switching to synthetic fuels would allow for oil based engines to exist be sustainable as F1 wants and then also lead the way for this to eventually become part of the road car designs

A powerful environmental message...what a load of old tosh... 10,000 people to design and build 20 cars and then countless more people to design and build the power units, not to mention flying around the planet 24 times a year... F1 has got 'environmental' stamped all over it...FFS...

If F1 was a computer program it will be on Version 3.467D2-V3-Final-2.1. Patches, patches, patches. This is ridiculous.

F1 2026 is going to suck

So now F1 spectating will be 50% Formula E + 50% Engineering Phd…..Netflix will need to rename their show Drive to Battery Harvest.

It'd be interesting to see a team tackle the battery weight problem. Solid State batteries with higher charge densities immediately come to mind. Not only would the cars be lighter (more advantageous to the team who can get it right) but also accelerate the tech with road going vehicles.

Don’t understand why they are going down the electric root.. formula e does that.. cars are way too big, too heavy and don’t sound like an F1 car. hard to like modern F1 cars well from 2014 onwards

Sounds like a complete mess with new regs.

It honestly does seem like there are significant flaws in the basic concept if you need all that complicated stuff around it to deliver on good racing.

I dont understand why they want more electrical power from the engines, not like there is an entire separate series fully driven on electrical power or anything no no

Push back these regs to 2028 if needed, but get rid of electric engine and just have normal engine. Also make cars smaller and lighter and smaller wheels. Go back to early 2000's

Just sounds to me like F1 is becoming more artificial. Less of actually the teams and drivers finding the maximum pace and more just the regulations artificially pushing everyone closer.

Personally I'd love to see F1 cars barreling down a straight at 400kph.

Engine regs sound okay, honestly nobody really expected anything else. However if I were on the board, I'd support shortening the wheelbases, reducing the weight (even at the cost of power if necessary), cap downforce, and eliminate DRS in favor of moveable aero.

If you set up regulations to where the battery wont be able to give power past a certain speed, doesn't that stop teams from developing faster engines? Once you reach that limit, can't deploy anymore energy, and can't go any faster, then what would be the point for a team to try and get an extra couple kph out of their engine?

They gotta make the cars lighter and smaller.

do love a journalist telling an F1 team what’s right and wrong

gunna be so much fun when cars start dropping from 1000bhp to 400 at different points on a straight

What's up with THE RACE??? They made a video longer than 10 minutes!?!?

Cheaper and simpler isn’t the route to remaining / becoming “the pinnacle of motorsport!!” 🤦🏼‍♂️ …push a button to overtake… honestly this is a farce. 😢

it's just like every other major regulation change. like how the turbo hybrid regulations were pushed from 2013 to 2014, or how the 2021 ground effect regulations were pushed back to 2022. i'm expecting the 2026 regulations to be pushed to 2027 for fear of not being able to finalize them/running out of time.

They should add the chance to pickup power ups, like throwing shells or dropping bananas

I miss when they just had the KERS boost battery head up display... it was so simple. Around 8 seconds of electrical energy boost per lap. If this system is just that but its more of an overcharge (since the electrics are working all the time now instead of only on command like in 2010, then fine. I just worry that the electric motors are becoming the centre point. I started to worry about that when they insisted on naming them Power Units instead of Engines. Aim for sustainably fuelled ICE's, that would be my ideal F1 future.

Red Bull makes literally any statement. Scott: I'm angry, I'm very very angry

Funny, as a 30 year fan and working with a wide range of vintage Formula cars...the more I see and hear about 'the future' of F1, the less excited I am about it and see how silly some of these concerns are. Just a simple yet powerful engine is fine. Nobody sees under the covers anyway. Just race already...🙄

Hydrogen Combustion V10s are what we need

This is crazy... save money and complexity and remove much of the tech !

Just put a powerful, SIMPLE, combustion engine in a small, lightweight car, with no active nonsense, and keep it this way until sustainable fuels are ready. That will keep costs down. It’s simple.

Adds 35kg to engine takes away 40kg from the chassis. But we know they’ll be the same weight if not heavier than they are right now

Honestly thank god for The Race. No click baity hyperbole or needlessly stirring the pot. Just even keeled analysis of F1. It’s so refreshing. There are so many garbage channels that pail in comparison

How can new competitors be more competitive when they won't let another team in?🤔🤷🏻‍♂️😂

No which team will be on top, I just hope that we don't fall back into a engine formula where the difference between the best and worse engine is 3-4 seconds per lap. We have come so far in reducing the gap from best to worse team to within 1.5 seconds and are about to blow that away. Let's hope.

7:39 “re-homologate every track…” So I only know the term homologate In reference to factory car numbers for public sale and use in order to use that same car on track. How does one homologate a track? And what does homologate mean exactly? I’m not googling damnit. Help!

With the changing aero and buttons for override, overtake, front DRS and rear DRS ......F1 is like "Let me introduce Transformers F1"

If they're concerned about Active Aero and the shift in balance whilst DRS is active, then they should allow the Double DRS that Mercedes pioneered in 2012. It will enable the cars to keep their balance under DRS

I think this all stems from confusion about what F1 is supposed to be. Is it the top level of motorsport made for the show or is it a weird attempt at a tech demo for tech (hybrid) that in all honesty is losing mainstream relevance in some fruitless attempt to make motorsport seem “green”. The two are clearly at odds and between the off track drama about regs and the on track one team show, it’s really had a detrimental impact on F1 over the years.

I suspect these aero rules are going to be pretty tough to suss out with the current budget caps and wind tunnel/CFD restrictions. 2026 is going to make 2009 look like a spectacular win for new aero regs.

This whole active aero thing is so silly. Just bring back the trick suspensions of the previous regs. When the rear squats down under load it reduces the angle of the front and rear wings.

They're gonna make it like an inferior mix of Indycar and Formula E. They really give absolutely zero fucks about what fans actually want.

Formula E - 1....losing interest

The Fuel tank will also be 30-40kg's lighter when full, so the engine weight increase is nullified that way. Awesome video btw guys, keep the 2026 videos coming

One quirk of the 2026 PU rules is that they will have more energy available to power the car over the race distance at Monaco than at Spa. Spa will only have ~60% of the recovered electrical energy at Monaco, even though Monaco is 260km, and Spa is 308km.

Sounds like they have made the power units (the battery component especially) far too strong and not considered the consequences of that ahead of time. Only way around that is to make everyone run ridiculous levels of drag to prevent cars being too fast for the tracks, the drivers, the run off areas and their own brakes. I thought a goal was to make the cars lighter in some regard? The engine itself being over 30kg heavier doesn't fill me with confidence at all, so god knows how the drivers feel about it.

smaller cars, less downforce.

The problem with removing the MGU-H... you basically head back to 1980s F1.. turbo lag... the MGU-H was the 1 thing that kept the turbo spinning so that you don't get ALL the power on the later part of the exit of a corner.

"it's not push to pass!" *Describes push to pass*

A simple fix in my opinion is bring back the 2016 chassis size regulations. Those cars were far smaller in terms of length and width compared to today so use those cars with a rule that they can't exceed a certain length as I believe Mercedes started the trend each year of going longer and longer with the cars, use this current ground effect floor curved front/rear wing and sculpted sidepod design regulations , a halo and 16 inch low profile wheels instead of the big visual obscuring low profile 18s. Those 2016 chassis had v6 hybrids in and I believe with this ground effect regs the cars would be faster than the original 2016 cars due to them producing alot of downforce and efficient downforce and the understanding teams have now of the engines compared to back then. The ground effect regs also provide much less dirty air for closer following so that together with lighter and smaller cars could be a recipe for great racing because lets be realistic F1 will not drop this eco friendly hybrid crap. They already planning on removing the mgu-h so that's one step closer to making things simpler and slightly lighter.

Born in 1982, watching racing since 1990 ish. F1 is about to become old news soon 😔

The solution to reducing the costs incurred by hybrid engine technology is not to double down on hybrid engine technology, especially in F1, the pinnacle of motorsports. Anyone that wants to watch EVs race can already do that with Formula E. I don't hate the V6 turbo engines, but to me it makes more sense to downsize the electrical stuff and push harder for sustainable fuels. Especially since the market is starting to decrease for EVs. The more that they screw with the regulations, the more unintended consequences they introduce.

I don't understand why they can't make v10's... or really, why they restrict piston count at all. Let anything from 2-10 cylinders and keep the restriction on max fuel and fuel flow. One team could run a v-6, another could do a v-8, another could do a v-10. Each would have advantages (weight savings, reliability, torque vs hp, etc) and would be more fun to see who comes up with what. Similar to how it was done a very long time ago.

Why the active aero part couldn't be done by flexing wings ? it is banned today, but it could allow better efficiency and maintaining a good amount of downforce? Same with active suspension : reduce drag, better control of balance and floor downforce, better confort ? For reducing weight, they made the right choice i think. Unfortenatly, Pirelli didnt want to make smaller wheels for heat control issues but it s heading in the right direction

At this point with the domination we currently have in f1 just let the teams make whatever car the want to as long as it's safe and eco friendly. want a hybrid make a hybrid. want a car that runs on synthetic eco fuel make it.

This is all getting so incredibly complex. Where are the times of just racing with an engine, and the fastest wins.

You’re getting ford Honda and audi in F1 because it’s very popular rn because of DTS not because of the turbo hybrid v6. It would be far easier and cheaper for these manufacturers to build a v10 than these complex turbo hybrid systems.

Oh my god, AND they’re making the engines heavier! 😂 So, thinner tyres (less grip) - Thinner chassis (potentially less grip) … and heavier engines. This is getting beyond ridiculous. F1 you are close to losing a lifelong, 30+ year fan here.

It's so ridiculous! Race cars are NOT supposed to be fuel efficient or green! Consumer cars I get completely but RACE cars are for going fast and entertainment! Drop this electric BS and let's go back to v8's. The amount of fuel they use is so insignificant to the rest of the world it's like taking a thimble out of the ocean and saying all better. Such a waste of an amazing sport. I've been a long time fan and I'm getting close to just letting it go. The racing is getting terrible the cars are way too big. It's just turned into a joke.

Crazy idea, but what if they, I don't know, aimed the exhaust gasses at the diffuser so that the cars made their own downforce on corner exits. Maybe they could even get them to blow exhaust off throttle so that they'd have more grip mid corner

The cars are still going to be too heavy 😢. I was hoping that the move to sustainable fuels would reduce the need to rely on the electrical power, not increase it. That’s disheartening. We’ve had active aero before, like adjustable front wings but an active rear wing is interesting. I can’t help but think that an active suspension set up might have been the better approach? I’m glad the cars are getting shorter but this just feels like 1 step forward and 4 steps back.

It’d be funny scene if 26 spec is no faster than f2

Engine shouldn't become something like Formula E. Overtaking shouldn't be dictated by active aero or power boosts.

One can't be suprised that engine will have to run high RPM most of times to get that 50/50 even near to reality. Cars will literally slow down once electric juice ends (even now one can see that on longer straights like Baku where top speed is achieved around start/finish line and it drops few km/h down before braking unless in overtake mod and is using also next lap battery). And active aero (even if it is somewhat balanced from drivers perspective) also directly sounds like recipy for less overtaking/recipy - if all cars can do well in corners and still be slippery (relatively for ruleset) on straights, there won't be much chance for overlap. Maybe it is time to... just close it entirely 😆

such a powerful environmental message to be seeing these huge expensive batteries getting crashed and binned every other weekend

The only positive about these regs that i can see is the 50/50 ice-electric power split reminds me of LMP1-H. Main difference being that LMP1 uses the electric power for the front wheels making 4WD

I fear they are going to be even worse than this regulation era's cars..

Let teams choose their configuration and up the budget cap… let racing determine the best package

F1 is a very complicated venture from the get go. But it seems like removing the MGU-H in the bid to simplify and reduce cost is only over complicating things and adding cost in other areas. I can't see the benefit. Its like a change for the sake of change. I know they said removing the MGU-H was to entice other manufactures, but did they know what that would mean in terms of development and complication else where? We all wish they would bring back the V10s, but in lieu of that it would of been good to see this rule set for another couple years for the other teams to catch up to Redbull under the aero restrictions and had another 2021 season. (Without the controversial ending)

Recently, a Private individual configured His SIM car to emulate the 2026 power unit and Chassis Regs, and the car is virtually undriveable. In order to complete a lap, you have to stay out of the throttle so much that these new cars are now SUBSTANTIALLY slower than the current F2 Cars. They made the power unit regs first, and then tried to correct the differences by adding active aero features that literally upset the balance so much that it puts the car into an uncontrollable spin. Literally, its the stupidest thing I have ever seen. Not only that, by the time these Regs are put into play, the auto manufacturers will have all quit their unsellable electric car production, and the shift will have already gone full force towards hydrogen as a sustainable fuel. The entire 2026 Formula is already irrelevant to the Manufacturers that said "This is what We want" even when the F1 Fan base AND Racing Teams said "This is ridiculous".

Just bring back old gen cars and we will automatically have better racing. We are living in an era where all 4 tyres and wheels combine weigh in 88kg when in 2019 they were only 40kg

Is there any weight savings for fuel with more electrification? I.e. with the race starting weight. Thanks for the explanation of where the rules are at now.

The only impact hybrid era cars have is making the cars heavier and overly complicated. It's racing, now a competition to see who is the most green for a few hours every weekend while the teams spend hundreds of hours flying around in private jets shipping cars and equipment all around the world. The resources and R&D far makes up for the ~ 100l/ car fuel saved. Active aero? Pretty soon these will just be giant RC cars.