Key Highlights
- We bid adieu to 2025 and Formula 1's ground-effect era (2022-2025) and welcome a new set of regulations. Will the new formula shake up the running order?
- Will it be the tonic for what ails Ferrari?
- Will it help Cadillac hit the ground running in its debut season?
- ESPN answers those questions and more as we detail the storylines that will define the 2026 campaign. Will F1's new cars be an improvement for racing?While 2025's three-way championship fight went to the wire, racing was arguably the worst it has been for a while in what was the final year of the controversial and much-disliked ground-effect cars that came into being in 2022.
- Formula 1 has a clean slate this year, a complete overhaul of the rules on both the aerodynamic and engine side of things. As a result, F1 will look and feel radically different in 2026.
