F1 2026 - Watchalong Thread

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Happy New Year.

This is going to be an interesting year with the regulation change.

Rumours are Mercedes and RB engines are exploiting a loophole and so may have the most powerful engines.

AM will have a car with significant input from Adrian Newey.

Sauber becomes Audi and we have an 11th team, Cadillac.

Christian Horner seems very keen to get back into F1, preferably Alpine with Flávio - they deserve each other.

There is closed door testing in Barcelona then open testing from 11 February at Sakhir.

Edited for typo and thread title.

OMG I was being lazy and just typed in Mumsnet F1 2026 to Google and the AI response had a link to this thread. It’s slightly scary.

Race week yay.

Yachts have arrived in the harbour so lots of coverage on YouTube.

Oscar made an appearance on Clarkson’s Farm Series 5 - I love his dry sense of humour.

It’s McLaren’s 1000 race so lots of celebrations. Lego themed helmets for Lando and Oscar with matching Lego helmets to buy. Cute.

The big question is will Kim K be on the Grid? The even bigger question is can a Ferrari be on pole!

Just catching up with the McLaren celebrations on YouTube and was working out which former drivers were missing - Kimi Raikkonen and Sergio Perez came to mind.

That was a lap from Charles.

OMG what a quali
Well done Kimi. Lewis P3 - yay
Bad luck Charles

Wow Kimi is just going from strength to strength.

Wow, what a quali session. It’s 12.45am where I am and I need to get to sleep at some stage.

Kimi seems unbeatable.
Disappointing for CLC

Kimi is going to be such a star, love Bono doing his proud dad chat.
The Bulls are starting to improve
Sad day for McLaren and Williams
Brilliant quali, sadly the race is unlikely to be so exciting

I hope there is a bit more competition later in the season, much as I think Kimi is an amazing talent, it will be less interesting if he wins every time.i thought it would be Mercedes v everyone else, this year, but George hasn't had the start that everyone predicted, last year. It must be pretty disappointing for him. The Feraris were tipped as favourites in Monaco, which might have mixed things up a bit, although its a good start for Max on the front row

Kimi was brilliant, he's really grown into himself this year, and he really held his nerve. Hopefully he will get a good start tomorrow, as he has struggled with starts and it will be a mission to make them back up if he drops places at Monaco 🤞
I've been impressed with Hadjar too, he's really holding his own in that second red bull seat with max, which is no mean feat, though I'm sure red bull is a very different place without Horner.

Kim didn’t want to speak to Martin Brundle!

They never do, the Williams sisters are the same.

Afternoon all, how is Monaco going today do we reckon?
Max pips Kimi for the lead into the first corner, I think. Then we either have a Monaco procession or wall carnage and multiple safety cars. I going for the latter.
Hardly surprising KK dissing Martin, she's way too important!

Well I didn't predict that. Shame for the race.

I’m hoping wall carnage to mix it up.

Thats not the start i was expecting!
I hope something happens...but not too optimistic.
They are so spread out, DS thinks Kimi could end up getting a free pit stop...not that he'll esp need it!
Hopefully another podium for Lewis

Isaak is real being the top 3 as they are building a pit stop gap.

Oh Lewis 5s penalty.

Kimi is doing an epic job. They are not showing him on the TV feed but he is just pulling away.

5 sec penalties agogo....although they're mostly so spread out it makes no difference.

Super disappointing for Norris (again!!)

The pit lane sensor needs investigating

Definitely something off with all the pit lane pens.
Albon rightly pissed off with having to give up his place to Sainz.

Im so confused now

fiz I only have bbc 5 live to listen to. It always does my head in trying to figure out who's doing what.

Pit lane camera is clearly broken. Don't they have one or two back ups?

Oh Charles 😭😭