Domenicali open to longer regulation stability

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Domenicali open to longer regulation stability after 2026

With the upcoming technical regulations changes for 2026, Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has suggested the sport may look to encourage longer periods of stability between major rules changes into the future.

“This is a point of ‘is really now the time to do, in 2030, another step change?’,” Domenicali told Motorsport.com. “We are not in a position to answer today, because we need to wait and see how this new technology will come in and how this will be developed.

“Therefore, there will be a point at which we need to discuss about it, and we need to understand if the need of the manufacturers, the need of teams and the need of the engineering is definitely there as it was when there was the need to change the regulation.

“The need for change normally is put on the table for two reasons. One is because we are the pinnacle of motorsport, and we are endorsing the top level of technology. The second in the past was that, because it was pretty clear: the objective was stopping a dominance period of cars.

“But now with the new elements of regulations, budget cap and aerodynamics restrictions, I think that this point is not anymore on the table of discussion. So the real thing is technological challenge in the future. Is it relevant that the change will be in such a short time cycle of five years? That will be the point of discussion for the future.”

Red Bull announces new juniors

Red Bull has announced it has signed two karting prospects to its junior team.

Fourteen-year-old Swedish karter Scott Lindblom, the current leader of the WSK Euro Series in the OK class, and 16-year-old Northern Irish talent Fionn McLaughlin – who races under a license of the Republic of Ireland – were selected to become the successful programme’s newest members following a multi-day scouting event at the Jerez circuit in Spain.

They join Red Bull’s roster of young talent, including fellow prospects Enzo Tarnvanichkul, James Egozi and Enzo Deligny. Red Bull also have two supported drivers in Formula 2, Isack Hadjar and Pepe Marti, and a trio of drivers in F3 in Arvid Lindblad, Tim Tramnitz and Oliver Goethe.

De Vries to join Super Formula

Former AlphaTauri F1 racer, F2 champion and 2021 Formula E world champion Nyck de Vries…