{"id":4111,"date":"2025-05-22T06:56:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T06:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/lewis-hamilton-is-concerned-about-f1-rules-for-2026-its-not-going-in-the-right-direction\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T06:56:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T06:56:04","slug":"lewis-hamilton-is-concerned-about-f1-rules-for-2026-its-not-going-in-the-right-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/lewis-hamilton-is-concerned-about-f1-rules-for-2026-its-not-going-in-the-right-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton is concerned about F1 rules for 2026: &#8220;It&#8217;s not going in the right direction.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Lewis Hamilton raised concerns about the new F1 rules in 2026, acknowledging that he doesn&#8217;t think he&#8217;s &#8220;going in the right direction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside><\/aside>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In 2026, F1 has introduced new regulations to make cars slightly smaller and lighter, focusing on power on the power unit side.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It also has active aerodynamics and is expected to have a significant impact on wheel-to-wheel racing.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Several drivers and team staff have already questioned the new rules after initial testing on the simulator.<\/p>\n<aside><\/aside>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">When Hamilton spoke to SkyItalia in Imola, he expressed his opinion on the new rules.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Personally, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s going in the right direction,&#8221; Hamilton said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Maybe I&#8217;ll be surprised next year. Maybe we&#8217;ll arrive and the car is really good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside><\/aside>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He added:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I mean, I think they&#8217;ll be lighter next year, but this generation of cars are the heaviest cars I&#8217;ve raced. I miss the sound. When I hear the V12 Ferrari, it&#8217;s passion.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a good idea to go to the world from a sustainability perspective as soon as we started the V6, but I think it was positive in that respect. But we can&#8217;t get away with the fact that it&#8217;s not the same as when we saw Michael Schumacher&#8217;s car passing in 2003.<\/p>\n<aside><\/aside>\n<h2>Hamilton reflects on his &#8220;busy&#8221; start to Ferrari&#8217;s career<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Hamilton revealed how busy his busy life has been since he moved to Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The results on the track aren&#8217;t meeting expectations, but Hamilton admitted that the pressure is the highest ever.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;This year was the busiest first half I&#8217;ve ever had,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<aside><\/aside>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt certainly is the pressure is the best and I want everything about myself.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cBut when you are in the face of reality, we are not currently fighting for the World Championships from a purely pace perspective.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;My first year at Mercedes was also difficult for the first six months, because this is a Ferrari.<\/p>\n<aside><\/aside>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The direction and setup I pushed the car worked well in China. And we have to pull back some things. Since then, we haven&#8217;t been able to get there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton raised concerns about the new F1 rules in 2026, acknowledging that he doesn&#8217;t think he&#8217;s &#8220;going in the right direction.&#8221; In 2026, F1 has introduced new regulations to make cars slightly smaller and lighter, focusing on power on the power unit side. It also has active aerodynamics and is expected to have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[375,377,19,374,373,117,376],"class_list":{"0":"post-4111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-concerned","9":"tag-direction","10":"tag-formula","11":"tag-hamilton","12":"tag-lewis","13":"tag-racing","14":"tag-rules"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}