Max Verstappen says he is “open-minded” about F1’s huge regulation reset for 2026, and is not spending much time thinking about it.<\/p>\n
For 2026, F1 cars are set to feature the biggest-ever change from season to season, with all-new chassis and power unit rules set to shake up the grid.<\/p>\n
Such is the scale of the change, with the introduction of active aerodynamics and increased electrical power from the engines being two examples of new rules, the chances of the F1 field being scattered and a new pecking order being established are extremely high.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For Verstappen and Red Bull, the new package creates a chance to re-establish itself as the benchmark in F1 having been dethroned in the late ground effects era by McLaren, should he even remain with the team.<\/p>\n
There has been much speculation that Verstappen could defect to Mercedes for 2026, as the Dutchman insisted that whatever team he is with next season “will figure out” the huge changes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m in the middle. Maybe it’ll be good, maybe it’ll be bad \u2013 we\u2019ll see,” Verstappen mused to media, including RacingNews365.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m very open-minded, honestly. I don\u2019t even think about it too much \u2013 I’m just enjoying the moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“When I sit in the car next year, we\u2019ll figure it out. I\u2019m not making the rules anyway.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Even if I have my concerns, it\u2019s not going to change anything. So I\u2019ll just jump in and drive it, and then we\u2019ll, along the way, get better at it, understand it better, like any regulation in the past.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“You keep optimising, keep improving, and then just go from there, really.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen says he is “open-minded” about F1’s huge regulation reset for 2026, and is not spending much…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,2476,578,2479,2477,2480,2478,930,576,577,932,1885,2475,582,82],"class_list":["post-10255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}