F1 Formula 1 - 2026 Season

[TopspeedPT]

Do Lando Norris & McLaren feel ready to defend their titles?

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[leylandi]

bahreyn test day 1

 

[SKY]

The aero of the AMR looks spectacular. Really curious about the new air intakes of the Audi too.

My money is on Red Bull.

 

[Monster]

The aero of the AMR looks spectacular. Really curious about the new air intakes of the Audi too.

My money is on Red Bull.

The AMR looks to have Incrediably tight packaing. Based on visual observation, it looks like a more advanced version of the RB19, which was also another masterpiece by Newey.

 

[SKY]

The AMR looks to have Incrediably tight packaing. Based on visual observation, it looks like a more advanced version of the RB19, which was also another masterpiece by Newey.

I have been following Alonso's remarks on the car and it seems the development is well behind the others, resulting from Newey coming on board on March 2025. Apparently, there was no car inside the wind tunnel until April, a full 4 months behind other teams.

Also. It seems MB is hiding the potential of its engine in order to avoid FIA's ban. Red Bull's engine has surprised for its reliability, while apparently also benefiting from the compression trick of MB (they hired engineers from MB when they were building RB Powertrains).

 

[TopspeedPT]

Lando Norris Sets The Fastest Lap Of Day 1 | F1 Pre-Season Testing 2026

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You can see the battery status (white bar) on the right side of the steering wheel, how it discharges and charges back during braking.

Little blue bar above the gear number showing whether the car is harvesting (left) or deploying (right).

 

[tonyshaw]

Leclerc recorded the fastest time on day 2 of pre-season testing in Bahrain.

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[Swissbob]

"Großer Schritt zurück": Max Verstappen übt heftige Kritik am neuen Reglement

Max Verstappen findet bei den Formel-1-Testfahrten in Bahrain deutliche Worte zum neuen Reglement: Es sei wie "Formel E auf Steroiden" und mache "keinen Spaß"

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Mad Max „loves“ it.

It's more like Formula E on steroids. But the rules apply to everyone, so you have to deal with it."

Perhaps it would be better to drive in Formula E, then? Because there it's all about energy, efficiency, and management."

 

[TopspeedPT]

 

[TopspeedPT]

McLaren calls for "imperative" safety tweaks ahead of F1 2026 start

• The first is the race starts, which have become more complex because cars are now relying on the V6 engine to spool up the turbo at the start.
• There are also concerns over the necessity to lift and coast at the end of a straight, which could cause dangerous closing speeds with a car going flat out behind.
• Another worry is the fact that cars are so energy starved that they run out of battery power so early that in the absence of a DRS-like system there is less scope to gain overspeed on the car in front.

"We need to make sure that the race start procedure allows all cars to have the power unit ready to go, because the grid is not the place in which you want to have cars slow in taking off the grid," Stella explained. "This is a bigger interest than any competitive interest. So, I think all teams and the FIA should play the game of responsibility when it comes to what is needed."

"In the past, DRS created such an advantage from an aerodynamic drag point of view for the following car," Stella set out. "This year, when you follow somebody, you have the same drag and the same power, so it becomes quite difficult to overtake. Our drivers have been racing with other drivers during these three days of testing in Bahrain and they found it extremely difficult to overtake."

"The fact that you have an additional amount of energy when you follow and you are within the one second is difficult to exploit, because this extra energy may mean that there is just a little bit more deployment at the end of the straight, if anything," Stella said.

Stella's final point on limiting the need for lifting and coasting is also a big safety concern given the extreme closing speeds with the current cars when the car in front runs out of battery, which could see a repeat of incidents like Mark Webber's huge airborne shunt in Valencia in 2010.

"This may not be an ideal situation when you follow closely and this can give a race situation like we have seen before a few times with Webber in Valencia, [Riccardo] Patrese in Portugal and there are a few more that definitely we don't want to see anymore in Formula 1," Stella cautioned.

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/mclaren-calls-for-imperative-safety-tweaks-ahead-of-f1-2026-start/10797523/

 

[tristatez28lt1]

f#cking F1 man... Domenicali... god how i hate these rules changes and some leaders in that organization.

 

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[bmwz4coupe]

Unfortunately it was as I suspected, too much economy race. I want full-gas racing back.

 

[Swissbob]

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That’s ridiculous.