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.

Lewis tops FP1 - please let that be a sign of things to come! I SO want a Hamilton win at Silverstone!

Ollie out 🥲

Poor Ollie - pipped to the post

Well done Lewis

Lewis pole. The track will be bouncing

Handbag, sun cream, hat, Loops, plasters & raincoat. What have I forgotten?

Forgot picture

Snacks and drinks? At a minimum a water bottle.

Sunglasses.

My mum has pack of 12 water bottles for the taxi. We will have LOTS of food & drink available once we are there.

My normal glasses are reactolight or whatever it’s called these days

Power bank!

I have two x 1hr client calls tomorrow.

Guess what time they are. Go on, guess...

12 noon & 4pm

It really does feel like Ferrari have realised Lewis knows what he is doing and are now listening to him. I was amazed last year when he was writing reports to the different departments. The fact the break disc change and change to Carlo Santi have worked gives him a lot of credibility.

The good thing is Fred has obviously supported Lewis has helped.

There is a real feeling Lewis is building a team like Michael did. Michael had Ross Braun and Lewis has Fred.

Winner's podium!!

OP p7 ....fairly predictable now....
I hope Lewis can do it tomorrow (and/or Sunday!).

Sprint race ahead - hope everyone who is at the race has a good view 👋

Jenson saying his Dad John used to tune Lewis’ go cart engines.

Wow - most overtakes ever in a sprint race must be under threat

well done Kimi, Lewis and Lando.

The Merc just has too much power compared to the Ferrari.

The McLaren livery is a bit confusing with the Mercs. The Lando stand looks so good with all the Fluor yellow shirts.

Given I got seats last minute through a reselling site the seats are amazing.

Wow wow wow! So envious! Wish I was there. We did Monaco this year because DH’s mate wanted to come with us and had fantastic seats but I would choose silverstone over Monaco any time

@JamesWebbSpaceTelescope Thank you for the photos. Sir Jackie is amazing.

Oh amazing views

The one race I can watch live.

Me too. But ds is working so watching alone (with strict instructions no spoilers).really enjoyed the sprint (and not having to dodge any media).

The view looks amazing at Silverstone.

3 weeks for us before our 1st ever race (budapest). Ds is getting very excited and discussing outfits (different f1 tshirts for each day)! Any tips greatly recieved (going all 3 days), I'm starting to worry about logistics a bit as I'm a wheelchair user and hoping its not to restrictive for ds (although he'll go for a wander alone I'm sure).