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F1โs 2026 active aero plan set for change after alarming simulator findings
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My initial thoughts are simply that active aero seems like a thing the pinnacle of motorsport should have. I hope they can make it safe and not eat up cost caps.
The engines being so weak still feels bad though. With each team selfishly guarding their stake and turning a more straightforward profit can't we afford to divorce F1 constructor development a bit from the real world? Like damn man they're going to keep teams out, nerf the sport to make it cheap, make bigger and bigger profits, and everything needs to help their business outside F1? Can't some stuff be about the racing and passion?
why do you automatically equate ICE with passion? why canโt we be passionate about electric drivetrains too?
I don't. I prefer the sounds of the newer hybrids over v10s for example.
I meant that we shouldn't have to have so many regulations conducive to tech trickling down to consumers now that that cycle is less of the profit margin. They're making more and more simply from occupying a grid slot, some of that should come back to fans in the form of rules for racing's sake.
but you don't need massive, overcomplicated ICE's for racing's sake, that's the point.
Because electric drivetrains are boring.
The soul of a car almost always comes from the engine. The experience of driving the car is massively impacted by the engine. All of that is gone in an electric drivetrain, replaced with basically a go button.
Iโll never have an interest in driving an electric car as a road car, let alone as a race car.
this is just metaphysical nonsense.
And thatโs all that passion is. You asked why electric drivetrains don't invoke the same kind of passion as ICE drivetrains, and I gave you an answer.
Electric cars can be objectively better, and Iโll still prefer to drive an ICE.
but weโre not talking about driving, weโre talking about watching f1.