F1 2026 Regulations: What’s REALLY Changing?

Discover the key changes in F1 for 2026, from car designs to power units. What’s going to transform the sport? Find out everything you need to know in this video!

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[Yoshaz]

99% of F1 carbon footprints came from flights, trucks, and cargo ships that transported them around the world, therefore lowering carbon footprints is pointless unless they change their calendar.

[gentlemanghost]

What i find so dumb is that they bring up the environment as the reason for hybrid engines. But they still add more races to the calendar. More logistics that would require to fly more planes and drive more trucks around

[adrianwolff]

Production quality of this video is phenomenal.

[lucystafford]

If anything, they should change their schedule so they go around the world instead of across. Would help the drivers and team with jet lag, and reduce carbon emissions from planes and moving parts.

[MaxyHo]

@4:07 "the goal of these changes is to make racing more dynamic and strategically diverse" while showing the Ferrari pit wall 😆

[DumpingTroll]

50% electric power? What is this? FormulaE-1?

[muradtechwizard]

instead of 50/50 split just use the green fuel without the battery it will give us more great racing

[gforcefalcon-]

The animations were SOO smooth and satisfying to watch. Can’t believe that this content doesn’t have a million views!

[Rndmcarvids]

If these cars give better racing and most importantly better sound I'm down for the idea

[mustavogaia]

I hope they revert to pure ICE power units - that would massively decrease the car weight

[Synystr]

- The cars will be slower due to needing to keep the batteries charging constantly. Expect massively slower race lap times than qualifying.
- Since everyone has DRS, there will be no draft, hence the dependance on electrical boost to aid overtakes... which means more charging. (If you wanted to make it easier to overtake, you would add drag to the cars and removing DRS. This allows for more organic overtakes. Look up the 1999 US 500 race. They installed a flap on the rear wing to slow the cars down, and offer 40-50kph drafting speeds at 350 kph.)
- The cars length and width, without *significant* reduction in weight, only achieves a smaller floor area, reducing the best downforce. It also doesn't magically make it easier for cars to overtake.
- Reducing the cars ability to generate downforce via the floor will make it harder to follow.
- Shrinking the size of the tires will give the cars less free mechanical grip, making it harder to follow and harder to race side by side.
- "Optimizing efficiency" is great for endurance racing and transport trucks. Not for F1. Formula 1 is about speed and technology. Not fuel and tire saving.
- The majority of F1's carbon footprint comes from logistics, power grid usage at the tracks and maintaining the classy experience at the tracks. Not the cars. Charter flights for the teams. Make everyone fly economy. Ban driver's private air travel. Reduce wasted power at the circuits on things like a giant F1 sign at Las Vegas. Don't run night races any more due to lighting demands. Reduce plastic usage and wasteful fancy foods that are shipped in from all over the world. Use local.
- 7:28 except Andretti.

[Addyboy]

The weight gain was never a safety reason, in your graph, the spike from 2005 to 2011 was when they added KERS and 2011 to 2014 was when they went full hybrid i.e. they added more batteries to the cars, around 80kgs from 05-14, the 30kgs from 14 to 17 was the halo which is a definite safety improvement, not sure what 19 added when they simplified the front wings then but maybe the additional side impact structure, and I guess the 50kg in 22 was from the floor becoming more 3d and need the reinforcements

Also what do you mean by 100% sustainable fuels, like full synthetic easy to produce with easily renewable sources or did they plant some tree or built some carbon capture crap

[chrissdevano]

The new manual override button I think will be better than DRS because DRS is free to use while the manual override increases energy deployment for a short bit at the expense of losing that energy for later in the race. This will incentivise drivers to overtake as quickly as possible, which will hopefully reduce boring DRS trains

[wfrancke]

Loved it 👍. We need more of your technical input for this channel. Very impressive and outstanding... Keep up the good work 👍

[arcroyal]

All chapters/timestamps
0:00: intro
0:19: car dimensions
2:00: Tyres
2:40: Aerodynamics
4:24: Power unit
7:36: New teams/names

[MrZillaman]

Just shrink them down to Go kart size so we can have 10 going into the corner all at once!

[MikesTropicalTech]

F1 really needs to stop crowing about its sustainable / net zero carbon efforts. As soon as they stop the fleet of cargo aircraft and diesel trucks, then let's talk. And the schedule should be updated to make a simple loop around the planet rather than jumping from continent to continent for each race.

[eedoamitay]

Honestly, active front wing is just going to be causing so much problems. Compared to a fixed front wing, the amount of performance you will lose if the active part stops functioning will be ridiculous and potentially dangerous, all types of balancing issues. I really think the active stuff is not the smartest thing to implement, but let's see how it goes I guess.

[tomasburian]

Whoever does graphics for you deserves a raise!

[nicholastotoro]

How environmentally friendly and sustainable are those larger batteries?