F1 set for crunch meeting to ‘tidy up’ 2026 power unit regulations
Last August, governing body the FIA approved the ෴new cycle of F1 engines that will feature increased electrical power and 100% sustainable fuels when they are introduced in 2026.
Audi have already announced an 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:entry as an engine supplier and sister Volkswagen Group brand Porsche remain interested in making an F1 power unit. Meanwhile, the Andretti Group recently stated their 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:intention to join the F1 grid together withꦯ General Motors through their luxury brand Cadillac.
Although the power unit regulations have already been published, a meeting involving F1 stakeholders and🔯 ✤the 10 existing teams is due to take place at the end of January to thrash out the remaining details.
“The power unit regulation🦋s are out and published, they’re not finished, we’re now really tidying up,” Symonds said.
“The chassis regulations we have been woℱrking on for a while now, a couple of years on some basic layout, but on January 25 we’ve got a big meeting in Geneva with all the teams, and tha🐷t’s the first sort of real interaction where we sit down with the teams and we say ‘here are the concepts we want to bring into ’26’ and we start getting their views on that.
“E๊ꦗnd of January is when we really turn our attention to spending a lot more time with the teams themselves.”
Symonds stressed one key aim of the looming power unit regulation overhaul is to help “level the pl🌞aying field” for newcomers.
“We set a lot of high-level objectives with the new regulations, and one of the high level objectives for the ’26 power unit was to level the pl൲a🐓ying field for newcomers,” he said.
“The combustion on a current Formula 1 engine is very, very different tꦬo the combustion on what I’d call a conventional one. It’s damn nearly a diesel running on gasoline. It’s a very complex combusti🌼on.
“It’s not something wher🍸e if you’ve been designing racing engines for years and sudden🤪ly you’re tasked with a Formula 1 engine, it’s quite different.
“So we wanted to level the playing field a bit there, because getting people like A𓆉udi and Porsche, Cadillac have raised their head, there ar🐟e others I won’t name - that’s not a bad thing.
“It’s quite good t𒁃o have those names in the sport.”
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