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Motorsports 2026

Russell Jaslow said:
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.
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Jimjamesak said:
Looking at the photos it was a pretty ugly incident and a significant drivers side impact.
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Jimjamesak said:
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.
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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.
 
Kepler said:
Is this F1 admitting they fucked up or being a-scrurred of Max flouncing?
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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.
 
MichVandal said:
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.
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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?
 
Kepler said:
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?
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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.
 
Race on. Well, practice on.

After a month of not racing, almost all teams brought a lot of upgrades, including Red Bull using the flip wing that Ferrari originally tried earlier this year. Looks cool when deployed.

Of note- Aston Martin brought zero upgrades. And their driver has the gall to whine about the rules, as if his billionaire dad is so hampered compared to the other teams because of the rules. Come on Lance- the layout of the powertrain isn't that much different than your entire career- only missing the e-boost, lowering the ICE output, and increasing the EV output. Sure, it can be argued that they (your team) went to far. But the regulations are not nearly as different as they are the same with tweaks.

IMHO, the EV deployment vs storage is still an issue, since they run out of battery way before the end of the long straights. But all of the details that are supposedly catching them all out is BS to me, since F1 is so very noted for everyone understanding the rules so well that exploiting them constantly happens. Can't tell me that not knowing is some kind of excuse. And the unintended mistakes that cause what is called fake passes are still mistakes that cause passes. They all know what mistakes cause what deployments.

The rules are not perfect. But the whining that you are all being "caught out" is total BS to me. And that they are "fake passes" when the root of the pass is a mistake that caused a deployment- it's just like before, but mistakes are now more important depending on the mistake.
 
Wait, Aston Martin didn't bring any upgrades? Kind of a massive dropped ball when everyone else including Cadillac brought some changes.

Now I wonder if the random social media post I saw that said Stroll tested Formula 3 cars during the break and they were more fun than the F1 cars wasn't an AI generated joke.
 
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aparch said:
Wait, Aston Martin didn't bring any upgrades? Kind of a massive dropped ball when everyone else including Cadillac brought some changes.

Now I wonder if the random social media post I saw that said Stroll tested Formula 3 cars during the break and they were more fun than the F1 cars wasn't an AI generated joke.
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So I watched FP1, and stroll was a pylon out there. Twice he was seen blocking cars on a fast lap. Like really badly- he was swerving to warm his tires, and them just kept doing it as a car closed on him. Then he took his time going into the last sequence of corners blocking another car really badly (who had to go off track to miss the Aston). So either the team is totally incompetent, he is, or both are. It was pathetic.

Stroll reportedly when to drive some GT cars during the break, and had a decent time (earning penalties, too). Maybe he will just move on.
 
aparch said:
Wait, Aston Martin didn't bring any upgrades? Kind of a massive dropped ball when everyone else including Cadillac brought some changes.

Now I wonder if the random social media post I saw that said Stroll tested Formula 3 cars during the break and they were more fun than the F1 cars wasn't an AI generated joke.
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Stroll raced in GT3, not Formula 3, during the break. Just like Verstappen did.

EDIT: It appears Stroll really did test some F3 cars, and said what you posted. This comes from The Athletic. Interesting.
 
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Fun little sprint. McLaren appears to be back, Kimi’s start struggles continue, and a nostalgic wheel to wheel battle between Verstappen and Hamilton.

Edit: Oh, and an insanely brave* overtake of Colapinto by Hadjar.

*Because it worked
 
state of hockey said:
Fun little sprint. McLaren appears to be back, Kimi’s start struggles continue, and a nostalgic wheel to wheel battle between Verstappen and Hamilton.

Edit: Oh, and an insanely brave* overtake of Colapinto by Hadjar.

*Because it worked
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That was a great move by Hadjar. He continues to prove he may be the best Red Bull second driver since Ricciardo.
 
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