Our verdict on F1’s plans to fix 2026 rules

Formula 1 stakeholders are meeting to decide how to change the 2026 F1 rules this week.But of the changes on the table that The Race revealed last week, will any of them be able to make a meaningful difference?Here’s what our team thinks…F1’s trapped by decisions made years agoEdd StrawFix? No. Mitigate? Yes. There are some ideas on the table that, if implemented correctly, will have a tangible effect, particularly on the neutering of qualifying, but there are hard limits that F1 is stuck with for as long as these power unit rules exist. The laws of physics are notoriously stubborn and the fundamental problem is the 4MJ battery. To achieve a decent laptime, this must be charged and discharged continually, even on a qualifying lap. Ideally, you would not want it being charged at all, or at least requiring only …