Liam Lawson has raised the unknown levels of reliability as the major “question mark” hanging over Formula 1 ahead of the new rules era.<\/p>\n
For 2026, the power units have undergone their biggest fundamental change since the turbo hybrids were adopted in 2014, with beefed-up electrical systems.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The new systems are now capable of producing 350k\/w of power, up from 120k\/w in 2025, with the removal of the MGU-H, and the use of sustainable fuels.<\/p>\n
This is in addition to the chassis changes, such as the introduction of active aerodynamics and the shorter, narrower wheelbases, whilst a further complication for Lawson’s Racing Bulls’ team is the fact that it will be using Red Bull’s first in-house power unit, with boss Laurent Mekies indicating “struggles” will be expected.<\/p>\n
Looking ahead to the cars finally getting on track and the season-opening Australian Grand Prix on March 8th, Lawson detailed how reliability was the big question hanging over every team.<\/p>\n
“I mean, immediately, to be honest, after testing, I think obviously the question mark will be reliability,” Lawson told TalkSPORT at the Racing Bulls launch.<\/p>\n
“[It will be] for a lot of teams going into the race, but we’ll obviously try and figure that stuff out very quickly in testing.<\/p>\n
“We’ll do a lot of different styles of planned running, and I think obviously through the season, there’ll be development and there’ll be teams finding their way.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“But I think very quickly, after testing, we’ll have an idea of what sort of package we have.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson has raised the unknown levels of reliability as the major “question mark” hanging over Formula 1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-422561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1-calendar","12":"tag-f1-live","13":"tag-f1-results","14":"tag-f1-standings","15":"tag-ferrari","16":"tag-formula-1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motor","20":"tag-motor-sports","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-motosport","23":"tag-motosports","24":"tag-racing","25":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}