https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/f1-teams-agree-plan-to-cut-race-distances-2027/#
Races are going to be shorter by a couple of laps next year with the exception of Monaco.
Sadly, I seem to be losing interest.
An ill-conceived car
seemingly endless rule tweaks to compensate
AppleTV
cancelled races with possibly more coming (though no fault of F1)
It's been tough to get excited...
Waah, get off my lawn
Didn’t see the Gasly pole happening but I’m happy for him
What the heck happened to Ferrari between practice and qualifying?
It may have been the FIA mandated changes to the harvesting settings. I did not know until yesterday [*] that there are 3 harvesting allowances per race and that they change for every race. For Monza the teams can use a maximum of 7.5 MJ per lap for practice, 5.0 MJ for qualifying and 7.0 MJ for the race. So the energy available changes as the weekend goes on and the driving technique and the overall power available will change too.
Why? It seems the FIA don't want the cars to fall into "super-clipping" during qualifying because that makes them look poor on the straights. Then the power harvesting can go back to clipping/depletion Yo-Yo racing [**] for the first laps of the race.
[*] Thanks to Peter Windsor's excellent podcast.
[**] Other jokes are available.
