Motor Sport
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I think Toto now would have a much different decision to make with what he now knows to be true for 2026 - a) the car is fast and b) the driver pairing and the team dynamics are positive.
All teams want to win the manufacturers' title, which requires two drivers. I don't think Max and George would be a good mix, and I think Max could destroy Kimi's mental growth.
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So happy for Kimi! Great battle between Ferraris. The hybrid setups are still dumb. 7 DNFs!?
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Yup and it seems like the fia is still wanting to stay tight-lipped about the issues with the cars
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@louisbosco said in Motor Sport:
there's probably no catching mercs and Ferrari at this point.
The FIA fuckers will most likely change the rules to sort that out.....
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@Giles pretty sure the whole sport in the past few years have revolved around that whenever there's major advantage to 1 or 2
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I guess we're not getting Jolyon Palmer's Analysis for the 2026 season? That's extremely disappointing.
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@mclaincausey just wait until next season when they introduce green and red shells, and banana peels to go with this season’s mushrooms
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Glad Bearman was able to walk away from that one. GD 50G!
Maybe this is common knowledge but I did some reading and found that FIA has some adjustable parameters built into the 2026 regulations for optimization of energy management. In order to fix the massive discrepancy 'Boost/Overtake' causes with closing speeds, it seems like a simple fix: adjust the slider to the other end of the "full-time power" vs "Boost/overtake" spectrum. This would remove the Mario Kart mushroom pass/re-pass and give us back our skill-based overtakes.You can't just race cars capable of doubling their performance class on the same track at the same time. This is like having F1 cars drop in performance to an F3 while harvesting. Maximize full-time power, minimize Boost.
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@louisbosco i did, that was also super gnarly.
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These regs suck. The drivers have been warning the FIA about exactly what happened to Bearman since before the season started.
They let Mercedes cheat with the compression ratio hack, then they accepted their bullshit excuse that their cheating aero was a “miscalculation” (as if the likes of excessive plank wear aren’t also “miscalculations”). It translates to racing that isn’t enjoyable to me to watch. I hope they figure it out but it won’t be this season.
Think it, be it.
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@Tago-Mago I had to laugh at Max’s quote of trying to find the blue mushroom…
Edit my apologies for the misquote: “Finding the mushrooms is going quite well, the blue shells is a bit more difficult.
"I'm working on it. The rocket is still not there; it's coming!"
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@mclaincausey It does suck, it’s a joke. I hope they come to their senses during the meetings in April and the fix is as easy as adjusting the power for more full-time bias rather than the revolving battery charging fake battles.
"The whole future lies in uncertainty: Live immediately."
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Stroll shines again......
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@WhiskeySandwich I worry that there isn’t really a fair way out of this that doesn’t damage investments made based on the regs as the stand. I’m hoping there’s a move like removing the AI battery management that can make racing back at the edges again while not unfairly disadvantaging teams.
The whole thing has kind of soured me on hybrid PUs. Which shouldn’t be the case because they are so fast when built correctly.
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@mclaincausey I’m sure the order could be shuffled but given that the adjustable parameters in the regs could/should have been considered and implemented by the teams since the cars inception, I would hope they’re prepared and adapt. The first few races as a test before adjustments are made makes sense when covering such vast changes like this gen has. Regardless, one team or another is sure to lose out and be sour about any changes made.
