It is nothing new that the Formula 1 evolves year after year and, since the FIAthey always try innovate searching favor as he show as the sustainability of the competition.
However, the decisions of the FIA are not exempt from controversy even by the teams and pilots themselves. It is the case ofmax verstappenand of Red Bullwho do not look favorably on the changes that Formula 1 is going to receive in the face of 2026.
In some statements collected by ‘Race Fans’, max verstappen has been shown enough criticalensuring that the regulations for 2026 will produce single-seaters “terrible“.
“The problem is that it seems that it is going to be a competition of combustion engines, as if the one with the strongest engine had a great benefit. I’ve been talking about it with the team and I’ve also seen the data in the simulator. For me, looks pretty terrible“, argues the two-time champion.
“If you go full throttle on the Monza straight, you have to downshift, because that’s faster. I think that’s not the way to go“, Add.
However, this is not the only problem. The weight of the cars is going to rise significantly in the future: “The weight is going up again so we have to look at this seriously because ’26 isn’t that far away.”
“Right now, for me, looks very bad by all the numbers and what I already see in the data. So It’s not something I’m very excited about right now.“, underlines the Dutchman, pessimistic about the changes.
