{"id":589605,"date":"2026-04-06T18:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/589605\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:14:11","slug":"better-overtaking-or-engineered-racing-in-2026-f1-hot-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/589605\/","title":{"rendered":"Better overtaking or engineered racing in 2026? F1 Hot Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The F1 2026 season has brought a wide variety of opinions to the table, with the sport having had a major regulation change this campaign.<\/p>\n<p>We asked you for your hottest takes on the short season so far, and our Editor, Mat Coch, along with our permanent paddock journalist, Thomas Maher, have responded.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH: We respond to your F1 Hot Takes from 2026 so far<\/p>\n<p>Chaired by our in-house presenter, Sam Redgate-Large, Mat and Thomas respond to some of our readers\u2019 reactions to the 2026 campaign so far.<\/p>\n<p>Mat and Thomas also share their own responses to the first three races of this new era, with two differing opinions coming to the table.<\/p>\n<p>Without further ado, watch on our YouTube channel and don\u2019t forget to leave us a like, subscribe and offer your thoughts on the 2026 campaign!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The F1 2026 season has brought a wide variety of opinions to the table, with the sport having&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,818,44,85],"class_list":["post-589605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-home-page","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589605","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=589605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}