While his future technical partner Adrian Newey publicly criticized the next regulatory era to come (read here), Mike Krack, director of the Aston Martin F1 team, was keen to defend them, following the very recently agreed changes in the regulations of Formula 1 for 2026.
F1’s planned rules for 2026 originally envisaged a drastic reduction in aerodynamic performance. However, the teams agreed earlier this month to ease some of the restrictions, and Krack said he was happy with the change.
“There are areas where we still have work to do but, overall, we will land on a reasonable compromise,” he confirmed after the F1 Commission meeting which took place last week.
“I say compromise because a set of regulations is always a compromise. We decided to go in this direction with the powertrain 50/50 with the electric and some of the other points are significant as well in terms of changes. “
“We have very ambitious weight goals, we have ambitious aerodynamic goals, but ultimately we talked about where you can be free, where you need more freedom and all that And little by little, again by collaborating, by doing studies together – the FIA asked the teams to do studies on areas where we can improve the car or where we need to increase freedom and where we need to. must remain restrictive – and they took this into account. We must give them credit, they took this into account.”
“And I think we’re in a much better place than we were in June. Which shows that despite all the ambitious deadlines we had, I think we’ll be able to create a coherent set of rules.”
“Of course, not everyone will be happy with everything, but I think it will be an acceptable compromise.”
