F1 butchered its 2026 cars for an ideal it might now discard

Formula 1’s 2026 regulations were founded upon one key tenet, an article of faith dictating the rulemaking decisions that followed. This was the requirement for an approximate 50/50 split of conventional internal combustion power and electrical power. The fact that, as revealed by The Race, a proposal to drop the power of the electric motor from 350kW to 200kW (a reduction of around 200bhp) is eve...
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