Formula 1: heavily criticized since the start of the season, the new technical regulations will be readjusted

Will the pilots win their case? The main players in Formula 1, including the managers of the teams and engine manufacturers, have reached an agreement to marginally modify the technical regulations criticized since their entry into force this season.

The International Automobile Federation (FIA) listed, in a press release published this Monday, more than a dozen changes aimed at “promoting performance” during qualifying and improving race safety, which will be effective from the next Grand Prix, in Miami at the beginning of May. The specifications inaugurated in 2026, giving way to electric power in lighter single-seaters, divide both drivers and fans after three meetings.

Super clipping will be adjusted

Oliver Bearman’s accident in Japan at the end of March, while wanting to avoid a competitor who was doing “super clipping”, – driving slower to manage the energy of his hybrid engine -, relaunched the debate on the merits of a regulation supposed to contribute to improving the spectacle on the track according to its promoters.

The latest adjustments plan to lower “the maximum duration of super clipping to around 2 to 4 seconds per lap,” explained the FIA. Its maximum power will increase from 250 kW to 350 kW, always with the idea of ​​reducing running times dedicated to energy management and battery recharging.

Boost power, which provides more power for overtaking, will be capped at “+150 kW” in racing, but without compromising “overtaking opportunities and overall performance characteristics.” »

These modifications were able to be decided on the sidelines of various meetings, organized thanks to the break allowed by the cancellation of the Bahrain and Jeddah Grands Prix due to the war in the Middle East. They will come into force after an electronic vote of the FIA ​​World Council, recalled the body.