Testing The F1 2026 Engines In The F1 Game

The F1 2026 engine regulations have been announced this week, so I thought I'd try them out in the F1 game! What do you think?

My wheel is the Fanatec CSL DD Boost Kit, buy direct from Fanatec:

[FirstnameLastname-wedh]

I'm pretty sure they want to significantly reduce the size of the cars. This would also make the cars weight a lot less.

[RRVCrinale]

The engine feels good, much slower than before. Amazing.

[bdd]

This video makes me worried only to remember that F1 has some of the best engineers in the game. I'm sure they'll find a way to keep similar pace to current F1 cars with the new regulations.

[Tyler_Evans]

I would love to see turbo lag in the game and trying to see how pulling a Senna to keep it spooled up would work

[nanawilliams]

Hopefully they change something, because a f1 car’s race pace will be similar to F2 quali pace

[billylong]

Read this breakdown yesterday. Will be interesting to see how the power delivery is and exactly how much extra energy can be recovered under braking.

[altpersonas]

Yeah it’s a real shame. The engines are gonna feel massively down on power, and for no other reason than just physics. You can’t get around the physical limitations imposed as a result of the artificial ones

[Dispariabooks]

F1 2026: when going back to a feeder series or GTE means driving a faster car.

[bernardoberner]

F1 already said the aero regs will change, they're aiming for a lighter, shorter and less wide car, so they will probably increase the battery size, although I don't really know how they'll be able to make a car shorter, with a bigger battery, cus todays cars are enormous because of the battery

[jameszhou]

I fully expect the engine to sound a bit worse than it is now. Reducing the fuel consumption while remaining the same cylinder capacity, usually means a lower revving engine and therefore less sound.

It might have a sound that is similar to F2 cars today. But not as loud because smaller capacity.

[angel]

Thank god we have hypercars in Le Mans. This is not looking good...

[toaster-real]

The main problem with F1 right now is the 1.6L turbo-hybrid PU's., they are way too heavy, way too expensive and they sound like a lovechild of a vacuum cleaner and a blender. A 2.5L bio-fueled V8 (accompanied with a lighter chassis) would be much preferable

Great video anyways:)

[papasauce]

I don't really get how they will make the engines more efficient, removing the mgu-h will definitely make them less efficient, I think the way they are getting the engines to be more efficient is literally just them making less power

[solar_ignition]

they might as well implement supercapacitors to replace the energy store with how easy the MGU-K drains energy in the game, there may have been changes to the electrical system that haven't been mentioned in the regulations, but supercapacitors would more than likely be a better option with how quickly they can discharge and recharge

[Owen-wgmd]

I'm still in favor of scrapping these engines all together and running v8 or v10s off carbon neutral fuel it would make the cars so much lighter. Bonus points if they make them smaller

[LArenadelCAOS]

I already miss 2021 engines, not mentioning the old V10-V12.
Future looks kinda sad.

[Kiwi-spwq]

Saw a video where they calculated the energy based on the rules and said the mgu-k can deploy the max power only for about 26s per lap and the battery couldn't even store half of the recovered energy. So in future it's even more managing, exactly what the fans want.

[arianamirgholami]

One of the differences (if I'm current) is they would be removing read break discs so the rear axle can only break with regenerative breaking

[Powerslide]

If they’re moving to biofuels, why not drop the motors and just go back to better ICEs? We can go back to light and nimble cars that (hopefully) sound good.

[Henrix]

The thing you missed in config is regenerative braking. It would be a lot stronger and allow much more recovery, less time on actual brakes. In the race you also never lifted and coasted.