Williams F1 driver Alex Albon opened up about the challenges of energy deployment and navigating through traffic in qualifying under the 2026 technical regulations following his first point-scoring finish of the season at the Miami GP. After coming home in P18 in the Sprint race, Albon managed to only set the sixteenth-fastest time in Grand…
F1 drivers Max Verstappen, Carlos Sainz, and Esteban Ocon have shared their insights on how well the recent changes to the technical regulations mitigated the energy management issues and improved the quality of racing during the 2026 Miami GP weekend. The introduction of the new power units and chassis has undoubtedly produced more on-track action…
Mercedes Team Principal Toto Wolff has opened up about the impact of the revised energy management requirements on racing, the evolution of the pecking order, and how they turned their race weekend around to overcome McLaren following their fourth win of the 2026 F1 season at the Miami GP on Sunday. Bouncing back from a…
Heading into the race weekend in Miami, Mike Krack and Shintaro Orihara have opened up about Aston Martin and their power unit supplier Honda working together since the Japanese GP to resolve the many issues that the AMR26 faced in the first three rounds of the 2026 F1 season. The new works partnership has been…
FIA single-seater director Nikolas Tombazis has shed more light on the new start procedure test in Miami and the possibility of F1 teams abusing this safety mechanism to gain an unfair sporting advantage. Following a series of talks on the contentious 2026 regulations, the FIA, FOM, the OEMs, the power unit manufacturers, and the F1…
McLaren CEO Zak Brown has stood firm following suggestions that F1 is risking alienating the wave of new supporters it has gained over recent years. He argued that criticism of the FIA’s 2026 regulations is arriving far too early. Speaking during a media session at McLaren’s Woking Technology Centre last Wednesday, Brown emphasised that the…
While drivers like Lewis Hamilton and Pierre Gasly have started the new F1 season with a clean slate, there have been several others whose on-track outings in the early rounds of 2026 have been nothing short of disappointing. With the majority of the teams battling reliability concerns as they try to get to grips with…
Four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel has weighed in on the contentious 2026 F1 regulations and the proposed changes that are set to come into effect from the Miami GP in early May. The introduction of the new power units and chassis has undoubtedly produced more on-track action than in the past few seasons. However, the…
F1’s key stakeholders gathered on Monday and agreed a package of changes to the regulations ahead of the 2026 Miami Grand Prix, bringing an end to weeks of debate over the sport’s troubled new regulations. With the season resuming in Miami on the 1st of May, the FIA, teams, power unit manufacturers and Formula 1…
Mercedes Team Principal Toto Wolff pressures the FIA to carefully examine how it helps manufacturers within the F1 2026 regulations. The Additional Development and Upgrade Opportunities (ADUO) is a mechanism introduced by the FIA in 2026 to ensure a level playing field for all power unit manufacturers. It offers some relief through technical and financial…
