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":418397,"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":{"0":"post-418396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-f1-calendar","13":"tag-f1-live","14":"tag-f1-results","15":"tag-f1-standings","16":"tag-ferrari","17":"tag-formula-1","18":"tag-formula1","19":"tag-lewis-hamilton","20":"tag-max-verstappen","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-racing","23":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418396","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=418396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}