In the round-up: Aston Martin team principal Mike Krack has backed the recently-agreed changes to Formula 1’s 2026 regulations.
In brief
Krack praises 2026 F1 rules changes
F1’s planned rules for 2026 originally envisaged a drastic reduction in aerodynamic performance. However teams agreed earlier this month to relax some of the restrictions, and Krack said he is pleased with the change.
“There are areas where we still have some work to do but, all in all, I think we will find a sensible compromise,” he told Nailing the Apex. “I say compromise because a set of regulations is always a compromise. We have decided to go that way with the power unit and then some of the some of the other points are consequential.
“We have very ambitious weight targets, we have ambitious aerodynamic targets but at the end of the day we have discussed where can you be free, where you need more freedom and all that. And step-by-step, again by being collaborative, by doing some studies together – the FIA has asked the teams to do some studies [of] which are the areas where we can improve the car or where we have to increase the freedom and where we have to stay restrictive – and they took it on board. Credit to them, they took it on board.
“And I think we are in a much better place than we were in June. Which shows despite all the ambitious deadlines that we had I think we will manage to create a set of rules. Sure, not everybody would be happy with everything, but I think it would be an acceptable compromise.”
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