Stefano Domenicali has addressed the upcoming F1 regulations (Image: Getty)
has brushed off concerns about the upcoming F1 regulation changes and is instead looking forward to the ‘many new challenges’ teams will face from 2026 onwards.
The sport is currently preparing for its most anticipated season of the decade after and took the 2024 Constructors’ Championship title battle down to the final race in Abu Dhabi.
Heading into 2025, drivers from , , , and will be eyeing the Drivers’ Championship title, setting up a historic year. However, with 2026’s revolutionary power unit regulations on the horizon, the unprecedented parity we are currently enjoying is likely to be whisked away.
Fans, for the most part, fear a repeat of the 2022 season. After watching and take the 2021 Drivers’ Championship fight down to the final race, the swathes of new supporters who were attracted to the sport by that battle were let down when roared out of the gates the following year, and faltered.
However, the sport’s CEO isn’t too concerned. Speaking to Autosprint about the new regulations, Domenicali said: “When there is a new regulation, it is always like that. I don’t forget that when the 2022 regulations were introduced, the teams were complaining that the single-seaters would be six seconds slower.
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There is currently a remarkable parity in F1 (Image: Getty)
“We arrived in four years at a very strong convergence. Now, we start again with a different regulation, with many new challenges and different things to fine-tune. At the beginning, we won’t have this kind of gap, it would be unrealistic to think that. But, the way the F1 2026 regulations are designed, the convergence will come.”
With new regulations inbound and Cadillac and Audi waiting to join the grid, F1 CEO Domenicali believes the series is in a positive spot moving forward. “There are many themes that will develop,” he continued. “It is normal that, from the teams’ point of view, there is a conservative approach.
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“Several new constructors are coming in, favoured by these technological changes that serve to keep the evolutionary and positive tension of those who see our formula as a development platform for the future. We need to look at the whole picture and not the details. We need to think big.”
While some teams will fear the arrival of the new regulations, others, like , will welcome them with open arms. The Silver Arrows dominated in the turbo-hybrid era but have struggled to consistently extract performance from their ground-effect machines.