[German Auto MotorSport] New Details on F1 Regulations 2026
[German Auto MotorSport] New Details on F1 Regulations 2026
Red-Bull-Teamchef Christian Horner warnt, dass die neuen Motoren ab 2026 der Formel 1 die Show stehlen könnten. Doch welche der Kritikpunkte sind berechtigt und welche begründen sich auf fehlerhafte Simulationen? Wir haben bei den Experten nachgefragt und interessante technische Infos bekommen.
Key takeaways:
Gearboxes will have 6 gears instead of 8.
The cars will have to use 30kg of fuel only to generate electric power.
The wheelbase will be shortened by 30 cm
shorter cars is a welcome change
I realize the safety structure makes it hard to reduce the size too much but maintaining current sizes or reducing them a little bit should help with on-track racing, especially on the tight street circuits F1 seems to love these days
As far as I understand it it's actually a bit of a misconception that the size of the current cars is due to safety. Part of it is the size of the hybrid engine and battery, but beyond that the wheelbase is actually artificially lengthened by the teams currently in order to fit more aero on the car. At least that's what I've been told.
I don't like the direction where this is going. Front axle regen makes so much sense, removing it because a team or two finds it too challenging to implement (?) or think that Audi is too OP in this regard (?) is stupid in my opinion. Replacing this with the new proposal to burn fuel to generate electric power when the engine isn't under full load (in corners I guess) isn't great. Removing the MGU-H is already sad if you ask me, although understandable if new engine suppliers are to join in.
I dislike simplifying the gearbox to only have six gears and be a spec part as well. Stop making more and more parts spec parts, F1 isn't supposed to be a spec series. I enjoy F1 also because of the car development!
We'll see where it'll end up in a few years.
The cars will have to use 30kg of fuel only to generate electric power.
...why?