F1 Gossip: 2026 engine regulations open the door for Audi & Porsche

- Formula 1’s 2026 engine regu𒀰lations are taking shape with the MGU-H being scrapped, while energy recovery will be increased from 120 to 350 kW - on the rear axle only.
100% CO2🌜 neutral fuels will be used from 2026 onwards, while these changes are expected to appeal to Audi and Porsche. ()
- A Saudi Arabia official has admitted that it is in a “race against time” to get its Jeddah circuit ready for the grand p🥂rix later this year. ()
- Local promoters remain confident that F1 will return to the Marina Bay Street C𓆏ircuit in Singapore for 2022. ()
- Should the Chinese GP not go ahead next year, Imola is the leading conte🎃nder to replace🍃 it, while Turkey could deputise for Singapore. ()
- Mic🍃hael Masi has revealed the Istanbul Park track surface has been 𝄹treated to avoid having a ridiculously low grip surface as seen in the 2020 race.
He told : “We do regularly, each season, send an ಌupdate tꦐo the teams of any circuit changes for upcoming events, be they barriers, fences, gates, whatever it may be, areas of resurfacing,” he said.
)"it's definitely going to be crazy to think that I never👍 dr🐼ove for Ferrari".
"Of course I look at the colꦉour and the red, it's just... it's still the red. I have a couple of Ferraris at home, so I do get to drive a Ferrari, just not the one!
"For everyone that's a dream p🅷osition to be iไn. It was just never really fully on the cards for me.
"I'll never know♛ fully exactly why, but I wish them all the best and I'm going to spend the next bit of my time stopping them from winning the championship!"

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