Racing Bulls team principal Alan Permane thinks Formula 1 should be ready to continuously trial energy management tweaks because of the upcoming pair of sprint weekends.
F1 stakeholders, including governing body the FIA, the 11 teams and their respective power unit representatives, are holding a series of meetings to formulate and then vote on solutions to improve the 2026 regulations.
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After the first three race weekends under the new-for-2026 ruleset, the April break offers a few weeks of reflection for the FIA and Formula 1.
On 20 April, team principals will meet to further discuss possible adjustments that have been brought up in technical discussions, including a meeting of technical experts last Thursday.
The possible tweaks are mainly related to energy management to ...Keep reading

Formula 1 CEO and president Stefano Domenicali is confident the world championship will make the required adjustments to improve the 2026 regulations - but insists F1 is on the right track amid growing worldwide interest.
F1 overhauled its technical regulations for 2026 with a much bigger reliance on electric energy, featuring a near 50-50 split between the internal combustion engine and a ...Keep reading

Lando Norris’ revelation that he essentially overtook Lewis Hamilton by accident during the 2026 Japanese Grand Prix, as a result of inadvertently triggering a different engine mode, was among the hottest topics of post-race debate. The role of the driver in pushing a car to its limit cuts to the essence of what motor racing is all about.
‘Boost-gate’ also highlighted how much less linear ...Keep reading

Unlike the Formula 1 summer and winter shutdowns, there are no rules preventing teams from powering on with developments during the unexpected April break due to the cancellation of the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian rounds.
Therefore each team has been hard at work, either back at base or on the track, to solve its most pressing problems, whether it is focused on its car, engine, software or ...Keep reading

Having raced on three very different circuits in Melbourne, Shanghai and Suzuka, the early stages of 2026 have provided a first look at which teams hit the ground running in Formula 1's bold new era and who has missed the mark.
Mercedes came out swinging with a clean sweep of the first three races, while questions will be asked at struggling Williams and Aston Martin. Here's an overview of all ...Keep reading

Former Red Bull team advisor Helmut Marko has become the latest figure to criticise the new Formula 1 rules and regulations, as he points to where the problems began and how he hopes solutions can be found.
F1’s new era has received a mixed response at best, with the increase in action and overtaking contrasting complaints by drivers about artificial overtakes and unnatural ways to drive the ...Keep reading

Are F1’s 2026 rules going to be tweaked, and when?
Formula 1’s new-for-2026 rules have received a mixed reception so far. Drivers tend to enjoy the smaller, nimbler cars, but this has been overshadowed by the greater emphasis on electric energy and the consequent preponderance of energy management.
Drivers are openly dissatisfied with the amount of energy-saving and energy-harvesting ...Keep reading

"He's going to kick my butt because of the start. I deserve that,” is what Kimi Antonelli said in response to his major area to improve within his dream start to 2026, in which the entire month of April – in part due to the cancellations of the Bahrain and Saudi Arabia GPs – he will have spent leading the Formula 1 world drivers' championship. Antonelli knows he has a job to do, kick up the ...Keep reading

Autosport's driver ratings have been going on for, well, decades, and the responsibility of giving the drivers a score out of 10 has passed through the hands of many esteemed writers and journalists through the years. 
Framed by that previous sentence, you might be thinking "well, why do you do them now, then?". And that's only fair...
Since the driver ratings were also launched online ...Keep reading