To further help minimise the risk of trouble, the FIA is mandating for Monaco the use of a different engine mode setting that limits maximum power deployment on the straights.<\/p>\n
As our exclusive image shows, the engine map known as \u2018Rev 1\u2019 means that maximum deployment of the MGU-K has to start tapering off from its 350kW cap at 200km\/h.<\/p>\n
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This is much lower than the standard mode setting \u2013 known as \u2018Base\u2019 \u2013 which begins restricting maximum deployment from 290km\/h.<\/p>\n
The \u2018Rev 1\u2019 setting for Monaco means that the cars will not be allowed to run any battery deployment once they are up to 300km\/h.<\/p>\n
With overtake mode still in play for Monaco, that engine mode sees the reduction rate reduced less aggressively \u2013 with the offset ending up with drivers who have it activated to having 150kW at 300km\/h.<\/p>\n
It then tapers off more dramatically to be at zero deployment by 310km\/h.\u00a0<\/p>\n
No silly lift and coast<\/p>\n
The restrictions that are being imposed for Monaco come with the venue having the shortest power limited distance of the season.<\/p>\n
These are areas of the track where mandatory power-reduction rates have to be used by drivers.<\/p>\n
Monaco\u2019s power limited distance of 1388 metres is a fraction of what F1 is going to experience at venues like Spa (4594m) and Monza (4218m).<\/p>\n
Here are the tracks where the power limited distances are the shortest this season.<\/p>\n
Top 10 shortest power limited distances \u00a0<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Monaco 1388m<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hungaroring 1885m<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Mexico City 2101m<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Singapore 2185m<\/p>\n
5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Interlagos 2278m<\/p>\n
6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Zandvoort 2411m<\/p>\n
7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Barcelona 2440m<\/p>\n
8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Montreal 2682m<\/p>\n
9.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Austin 2847m<\/p>\n
10.\u00a0Red Bull Ring 2923m\u00a0<\/p>\n
While the extra power restrictions because of the \u2018Rev 1\u2019 mode means cars will not be running at maximum potential on the straights, the expectation is still that the venue will show off the 2026 regulations at their best.<\/p>\n
Drivers anticipate that, after the annoyances over end of straight speed drops off and extreme harvesting tactics needed so far this year, Monaco could be one of those places where things are as natural as they were in the past.<\/p>\n
Haas driver Ollie Bearman said: \u201cMaybe they’ll be a bit more fun to drive! That could be nice.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don’t think there’s really much opportunity to innovate in terms of energy in\u00a0Monaco, just because of the limits with the speed, it’s very early in\u00a0Monaco for obvious safety reasons.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I think it’s just going to be a bit more like last year, where we can just drive how we want, use the gears that we want, and not have to do any silly lift-and-coast and these things.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m actually quite looking forward to it. It should be good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ferrari\u2019s Charles Leclerc echoed Bearman\u2019s thoughts about a weekend where the focus was back on intuitive driving.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Monaco is actually going to be one of those races where these cars might be very good,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst, we have now lighter cars, which for a track like Monaco, I think this has its benefits.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe electric side is going to be a lot less big in Monaco, just because we’ll be recharging quite a bit with all the corners that there are. So I think, yeah, I’m quite excited for Monaco. I think it should be a good track for these cars.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Formula 1 drivers will have their top speed potential pegged back at the Monaco Grand Prix as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-702407","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-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702407","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=702407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}