{"id":947096,"date":"2026-10-26T16:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947096\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T16:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:12:13","slug":"f1-in-texas-the-american-race-that-fans-love-to-attend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947096\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 in Texas: The American race that fans love to attend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But like this year\u2019s F1 machinery, McNish\u2019s hybrid Le Mans winners were also highly automated. \u201cSo in 2014, when they brought in the new regulation for an energy per lap, with that first year, it was very manual, and it was just impossible for the drivers, to the point where I was sitting on the pit wall happy I wasn\u2019t driving because of the brain overload,\u201d McNish said.<\/p>\n<p>Quickly, the power unit control was automated to give the drivers mental bandwidth to manage all the other tasks required during a race stint. \u201cWhat strategy of tire feedback, the information, maximizing different things on differential\u2026 whatever it may be that he\u2019s getting spoken to about. But at the same time, he\u2019s racing. And so the more you can take away from the driver, the better it is,\u201d McNish said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, ultimately, the driver has got to maximize. So there\u2019s a lot of communication with the driver and there\u2019s a lot of adaption as the race goes on. As fuel load comes down, as tires degrade, a circuit grip comes up, as maybe the track cools off as it should do here on Sunday afternoon. So it is definitely adaptive,\u201d McNish told me.<\/p>\n<p>Zzzzzz<\/p>\n<p>            <a class=\"cursor-zoom-in\" data-pswp-width=\"3000\" data-pswp-height=\"2000\" data-cropped=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GettyImages-2301985855.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-pswp- rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n              <img width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GettyImages-2301985855-1440x960.jpg\" class=\"fullwidth galleryFull\" alt=\"AUSTIN, TEXAS - OCTOBER 25: Race winner Andrea Kimi Antonelli of Italy and Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team celebrates on the podium during the F1 Grand Prix of United States at Circuit of The Americas on October 25, 2026 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Clive Rose\/Getty Images)\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/><br \/>\n            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>              Soon, Antonelli will be F1\u2019s youngest champion.<\/p>\n<p>\n                  Credit:<br \/>\n                                      Clive Rose\/Getty Images\n                                  <\/p>\n<p>\n      Soon, Antonelli will be F1\u2019s youngest champion.<\/p>\n<p>          Credit:<\/p>\n<p>          Clive Rose\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The race itself was not one of the season\u2019s more exciting contests. Antonelli scored pole on Saturday and disappeared into the distance on Sunday to win comfortably, extending his lead. George Russell needs to score 23 points more than Antonelli in Mexico City to remain in title contention; Lewis Hamilton must score 24 points more than Antonelli to remain with a mathematical chance. Neither is likely to happen, and we\u2019ll almost certainly see Antonelli seal the deal next time out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But like this year\u2019s F1 machinery, McNish\u2019s hybrid Le Mans winners were also highly automated. \u201cSo in 2014,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-947096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947096","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=947096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}