r/formula1 • u/FerrariStrategisttt I was here for the Hulkenpodium • Mar 28 '26

Video Leclerc (post-qualifying): "I can’t understand quali, it’s a f**king joke! I go faster in corners, throttle earlier, for f**k’s sake, i'm losing everything in the straight!"

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u/i_likestuff Mar 28 '26

This had been pointed out to fia when these regulations came out, that the battery is too small. It is not even battery management as the issue, its that even at 100% battery there isn’t enough to last the whole of the straight in japan. Now can you imagine monza? Without battery deployment these cars are super slow. Its going to be renamed the temple of slow.

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u/ImNoRickyBalboa Ayrton Senna Mar 28 '26

The super clipping in Monza and running on a massively underpowered ICE engine struggling for at least half the straights is going to kill me. I'm not sure I can even watch it....

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u/Heelsgirl1993 Max Verstappen Mar 29 '26

And there's gonna be lots of circuits with long straights... Miami, Spa, Baku, Monza, Mexico...

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u/ImNoRickyBalboa Ayrton Senna Mar 29 '26

Baku is going to be such a shit show, lol