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It’s all change for 2026. Sure, the increasingly electrified powertrains have courted the lion’s share of complaints and column inches through the prelude to the new year, but let’s not forget that Fo

I was pleasantly surprised, when seeing the 2026 cars for the first time in the flesh in Barcelona, that there appeared to be myriad solutions to what had been described as an overly prescriptive set

“We look like we’re four seconds off the top teams, maybe four and a half seconds,” Lance Stroll said during the first week of winter testing at the Bahrain International Circuit. It is a painful conc

Recall the two massive Formula 1 regulation changes of the last 12 years: the switch to hybrid turbo V6s in 2014 and the introduction of the ground-effect cars in 2022. In both cases a fundamentally d

It was hardly a surprise that expectations were kept in check ahead of Formula 1’s 2026 testing season. The memories of the last time that F1 introduced a new powertrain formula, back in 2014, continu

Formula 1 is back, but not as we know it. New rules, new cars, a new style of racing… So will the grand prix balloon keep rising on F1’s warm gust of ever-increasing popularity, or will it burst with