I am now convinced that #F1 2026 technical #regulations—especially those governing #battery use—were generated by a CRUD coder using a low-grade #LLM.
Anyone who has driven a #race car, from amateur level on up, knows these:
• Car racing is pointless, wasteful, and harmful to the environment
• But racing is loads of fun
• That fun is the only justification for racing (the phrase "racing improves the breed" applies to horses, not cars; engineering improves cars)
• To sustain the fun, there must be proximity of cars (mirror-to-mirror racing)
• There must be proximity of capabilities (driving talent, engineering capabilities, etc.)
• There must be proximity of limits (racing at the limits of track traction and car capability)
• There must be proximity of car and driver (the immediacy of physical, and perhaps even emotional, connection between the car and the driver)
F1, over the past decades, has been steadily drifting away from its racing moorings, and closer and closer to its commercial holdings. It is evident that in 2026, F1 has gone so far off the track that it can longer be seen from the race track.
