As Formula One accelerates towards a new set of regulations, the teams and power unit manufacturers are busying themselves with designing new machinery to handle a vastly different set of challenges.

Let’s recap the basic changes that are being made and delve into some of the alterations that have been made to the regulations since the first draft entered the public domain.

Monumental changes ahead

This new set of regulations is the biggest shift the sport has seen since 2014, when the sport introduced the hybrid power units we’ve been using since. But, whilst the power unit that will be employed from 2026 remains a hybrid, the MGU-H has been removed entirely, putting more emphasis on the MGU-K for recovery and deployment.

Meanwhile, the internal combustion unit remains 1.6 litre V6, s

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