Formula One enters an enforced five-week break with plenty to ponder following Sunday\u2019s Japanese \u2060Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
The third race of the \u2060sport\u2019s new engine era exposed the shortcomings of the \u2060rules overhaul, billed as Formula One\u2019s most sweeping ever, in a way the first two in Australia and China had not.<\/p>\n
The hybrid power units, now split nearly 50-50 between electric and combustion power, have introduced an element of energy management to the racing with fresh challenges for drivers.<\/p>\n
They are having to tactically \u201clift and coast\u201d, easing off the throttle early and coasting into \u200ca corner, so the combustion engine can recharge the battery.<\/p>\n
They are also having to contend with \u201csuper-clipping\u201d where the power unit automatically diverts energy from the engine to the battery, slowing down the car even if the driver is flat on the throttle.<\/p>\n
Formula One\u2019s governing body, the Federation Internationale de l\u2019Automobile (FIA), said meetings to take stock of the new rules would take place in the April break created by the cancellation of races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia due to conflict in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Formula One enters an enforced five-week break with plenty to ponder following Sunday\u2019s Japanese \u2060Grand Prix. The third…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[821,2495,64,63,936,4971,13275,512,817,845,826,837,813,835,816,28109,5328,21764,16406,85],"class_list":["post-575828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-alpine","tag-aston-martin","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bahrain","tag-carlos-sainz","tag-charles-leclerc","tag-china","tag-f1","tag-fernando-alonso","tag-ferrari","tag-fia","tag-formula-1","tag-formula-one","tag-formula1","tag-grand-prix-drivers-association","tag-haas","tag-james-vowles","tag-japanese-grand-prix","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575828","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=575828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}