MOTORSPORT – FORMULA 1 is a trailblazer and the introduction of new regulations from next season should be celebrated, says Mercedes F1 Team boss Toto Wolff.
Speaking during a team principals’ Press conference yesterday at Bahrain International Circuit (BIC), held on the sidelines of the second day of F1 Aramco Pre-Season Testing 2025, Wolff praised what will be a new era in motor racing’s top flight, starting from 2026 – one that will include closer racing, improved efficiency and handling, redesigned power units with more battery power, greater safety and sustainability, and revised aerodynamics, among other new rules.
“We should be excited about these new regulations coming in next year – we should be talking them up,” Wolff said. “This is our sport. It is important to have positivity about it.
“Such an exciting motor comes into the car, we are pushing the boundaries of battery technology, on sustainability – it’s the first year we are having 100 per cent sustainable fuel.
“Nobody knows where all of this is going to pan out, and that is really exciting that Formula 1 is trailblazing.
“All of us stakeholders should be really cheering for this and making sure that the sport is perceived in such a high-tech way that it needs to be, and less driven by opportunistic thoughts.
“This is a five-year cycle. This is the journey onwards.”
The FIA announced the new regulations last year. They were developed in consultation with the FIA F1 Technical Working Groups, and formulated in collaboration with F1, the sport’s 10 teams, and with equipment and power unit manufacturers
“These regulations mark a significant moment in the future of our sport as we look forward to a new generation of car and power unit that aims to give our fans closer and exciting racing,” F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali said upon the announcement of the new rules.
“We enter this new regulatory cycle with the sport in the strongest position it has ever been, and I am confident that the work done by the FIA to create these regulations will further strengthen the position of the sport around the world.”
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