Oscar Piastri believes F1 could be set for a “recipe for disaster” if drivers are allowed to use straight-line mode (SLM) at grand prix starts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The new mode for 2026 is also known as the active aerodynamics and opens the rear-wing in a DRS-style whilst also lowering the front-wing flaps to dump drag before popping back up for corners.<\/p>\n
There is already growing concern over F1 starts and launches from the grid after drivers began to struggle with the new procedures, which are easy to make mistakes.<\/p>\n
With the removal of the MGU-H, they must manually spool the turbo up to eliminate turbo lag, but be careful not to over-rev the engine and put too much battery charge into the system.<\/p>\n
Talks are planned next week to find a solution, with Piastri believing the ability to use SLM at grand prix starts could be “a recipe for disaster.”<\/p>\n
“We’re certainly going to be needing those three days to get everything working the way closer to what we want,” Piastri told media, including RacingNews365.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The extra testing time has definitely been necessary for just the systems, and as a sport, we need the time. From a performance point of view, you don’t really need it, probably, but there are so many things from a borderline safety point of view that need to be figured out and addressed.<\/p>\n
“The starts are the most obvious ones for now, and overtaking, but it is always going to be tough until you’ve actually had a race.<\/p>\n
“[It is] whether we use straight line mode at the start because I think a pack of 22 cars with a couple of hundred points less of downforce sounds like a recipe for disaster to me.<\/p>\n
“So, there are a few of those aspects that need to be spoken about.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri believes F1 could be set for a “recipe for disaster” if drivers are allowed to use…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476199,"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-476198","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\/476198","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=476198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}