F1's 2026 Rules Plan

This is a F1 news story, published by Motorsport.com: F1 News, MotoGP, NASCAR, Rallying and more, that relates primarily to FIA news.

F1 news

For more F1 news, you can click here:

more F1 news

autoracing news

For more autoracing news, you can click here:

more autoracing news

Motorsport.com: F1 News, MotoGP, NASCAR, Rallying and more news

For more news from Motorsport.com: F1 News, MotoGP, NASCAR, Rallying and more, you can click here:

more news from Motorsport.com: F1 News, MotoGP, NASCAR, Rallying and more

About the Otherweb

Otherweb, Inc is a public benefit corporation, dedicated to improving the quality of news people consume. We are non-partisan, junk-free, and ad-free. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to remove junk from your news feed, and allow you to select the best sport news, business news, entertainment news, and much more. If you like autoracing news, you might also like this article about

F1 teams

. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality news, junk-free and ad-free, about your favorite topics. Please come every day to read the latest F1 stakeholders news, Renault news, autoracing news, and other high-quality news about any topic that interests you. We are working hard to create the best news aggregator on the web, and to put you in control of your news feed - whether you choose to read the latest news through our website, our news app, or our daily newsletter - all free!

F1 team bosses

Motorsport.com: F1 News, MotoGP, NASCAR, Rallying and more

•

Sports

How F1 plans to avoid “misery and humiliation” in 2026 rules

Summary

Nutrition label

70% Informative

The FIA is factoring a catch-up mechanism into the next rules framework.

Mercedes had been ploughing resources into its project longer and more intensively than anyone else.

The result was almost five seasons of total dominance while rivals struggled to catch up.

The challenge is going to come in threading such a mechanism through F1 ’s financial restrictions.

F1 Commission agrees on principle of a catch-up mechanism for the 2026 engine rules package.

But the specifics had to be booted up the road after Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

Most likely outcome of this will be a sliding scale of dyno testing and engine budget cap concessions depending on scale of performance and reliability disparities.

VR Score

Informative language

Neutral language

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful