Oscar Piastri has mentioned how System 1 racing might change for viewers in 2026 with the introduction of the brand new rules.
The 2026 season will begin the subsequent period of the championship with a fifty-fifty cut up between inside combustion and electrical energy, smaller and lighter automobiles, and the introduction of lively aerodynamics to exchange DRS, amongst different modifications.Â
“I feel it undoubtedly will likely be completely different, sure,” Piastri informed TODAY when requested how the regulation modifications might influence the racing expertise for viewers.
“I feel when it comes to how we race one another, it is going to be fairly completely different. I feel the hybrid component and managing the battery degree goes to be a very essential factor.
“I imply, it has been essential up to now, however with that component being a lot greater from this season onwards, there’s going to be much more administration of that from the drivers ourselves.
“So, I feel particularly the start of the season, you would see some attention-grabbing situations between drivers the place some are extra tactical and saving their battery, some are simply making an attempt to get monitor place, and it might be an attention-grabbing sort of tactical battle there.
Oscar Piastri, McLaren
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“In all honesty, I additionally don’t know how it is going to pan out, however I feel it will be entertaining a method or one other.”
Piastri completed the 2025 season third within the drivers’ championship after a detailed battle along with his McLaren team-mate Lando Norris and Crimson Bull’s Max Verstappen. Whereas the brand new rules will act as a reset of the grid, the Australian driver is hoping to take what he has learnt from 2025 into the upcoming season.
“There’s a number of alternative ways you’ll be able to take the 2025 season for me, however I feel I discovered quite a bit about myself each on and off the monitor. I really feel like I actually developed rather a lot as an individual,” he mentioned.
“I really feel extra mature. I really feel extra accountable. I do know what I desire a bit extra now. And likewise only a sense of satisfaction. Regardless that the top consequence wasn’t precisely what I needed, I feel to have the quantity of success that I had was one thing that I might have dreamed of at the beginning of the 12 months.
“Clearly, there have been just a few moments I might reasonably have once more or reasonably not have, however I feel on the entire, very pleased with what I used to be in a position to obtain. Loads of classes discovered, each good and unhealthy, to take into the longer term.”
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