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Motorsports 2026

Juha Miettinen was killed at the Nurburgring during an NLS event, part of the N24 qualifiers, in a seven car pileup. He was driving a BMW. They immediately red flagged the race (25 minutes into the race) to deal with the situation and then canceled the rest of the race. The other six drivers were checked out, some in the hospital, with no life threatening injuries. They will run tomorrow's four-hour race of the doubleheader weekend.
Looking at the photos it was a pretty ugly incident and a significant drivers side impact.
Here's the live coverage of the race from YouTube.

At around 50:00 you just suddenly see red flags come out and everyone confused for a minute.

Edit: Apparently one of the cars involved (the #992 Porsche) had a YouTube live feed has been unsurprisingly deleted.
Just bumping the '26 thread with this info.
 
Video about the incident from Misha Charoudin.

For those of you who don't know, Misha is a Russian/Dutch YouTuber who lives near the Ring and makes a bunch of content at the Ring. He's also part of a team along with simracers Jimmy Broadbent and Steve Alvarez Brown (aka Super GT) that races in NLS and the 24 hours of the Nurburgring so his team was racing today. He did seem to confirm that the story about there being oil on the track was true. He also states that his car was one of the first people to the accident scene and render aid though he doesn't say who was driving.
 
Some fantastic racing between Haase in an Audi and Max in an AMG at the Nürburgring yesterday. Max won the battle but his team lost the war, a front end problem that needed repairs dropped them from an almost sure P1 to 39th.
 
Is this F1 admitting they fucked up or being a-scrurred of Max flouncing?
I think they always knew that the rules were not perfect and could be tweaked. It not as if they rules are being abandoned, the max recharge per lap has gone down 12.5% and the max charge rate during super clipping has gone up. There are some minor changes to make the teams who didn't really consider the start do better- which I think is really lame- Ferrari specifically asked about that situation and they were strictly told to design around it. They were the only ones who did.

The Race suggests that this should result in about a 1 second drop in lap times, which probably won't be noticed.
 
I think they always knew that the rules were not perfect and could be tweaked. It not as if they rules are being abandoned, the max recharge per lap has gone down 12.5% and the max charge rate during super clipping has gone up. There are some minor changes to make the teams who didn't really consider the start do better- which I think is really lame- Ferrari specifically asked about that situation and they were strictly told to design around it. They were the only ones who did.

The Race suggests that this should result in about a 1 second drop in lap times, which probably won't be noticed.
I was wondering if it was the first step in them backing the new rules out entirely.

This is my first big F1 rule change as a fan (last significant one was 2014?). Do tweaks really happen during the season or between seasons?
 
I was wondering if it was the first step in them backing the new rules out entirely.

This is my first big F1 rule change as a fan (last significant one was 2014?). Do tweaks really happen during the season or between seasons?
They do. But it’s a lot harder now to do significant changes due to the cost caps. While these rules seem like a huge change from the last rules, the only significant differences are the electrical contribution and the removal of the eturbo. The eturbo is why the starts suck, and the additional ev is why you see harvesting on the straights.
 
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