All To Drive For! 2026 F1 Season Preview
F1 Nation
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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And the team make their pre-season predictions: who will win in Melbourne, and who will be the 2026 F1 World Champion?
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| 0:00.0 | Based on just what he's saying, how he's saying it, you know, I'm hopeful that it's going to be an even, you know, leveled up version of Lando Norris now that the pressure of the championship is off his shoulders. |
| 0:11.7 | If he's beating Lewis Hamilton, that's very good. If he's beating Kimi Antonelli by the amount he did, that's extremely good as well. I think he's a champion in the making. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm excited. I think every Ferrari fan is excited and it would be great, wouldn't it, to see, you know, Charles and Lewis able to fight up there for a championship. And they might turn up to Melbourne, |
| 0:30.6 | have nothing more in the tank. They actually weren't sandbagging in Bahrain and we're all going to look really silly. |
| 0:35.6 | We just don't know how it's going to roll out. |
| 0:41.8 | Welcome everyone to F1 Nation. |
| 0:44.7 | I'm Tom Clarkson here to preview the first race of 2026 and the season as a whole |
| 0:50.6 | with two drivers turned F1 TV experts. |
| 1:00.0 | We have IndyCar race winner James Hinchcliffe and former Renault driver Jolian Palmer, who retired from the 2017 Australian Grand Prix with break failure. |
| 1:05.0 | I guess you remember that well, JP. |
| 1:08.0 | What a buildup, yeah. |
| 1:10.0 | That was a pretty terrible weekend for me. I |
| 1:12.8 | can't remember if it was break failure or hydraulic failure or power unit failure because the |
| 1:18.3 | year was full of all of them. But I'll trust you, break failure. I had happier memories the year |
| 1:23.3 | before, though. And Hinch, where are you right now? Well, we're talking about first races. It's the |
| 1:29.7 | first race of the IndyCar season. So I'm down in St. Petersburg, Florida, getting geared up for |
| 1:34.5 | the start of that series. Good luck with that. And JP, you've been at a racetrack recently. You were |
| 1:42.0 | testing in Bahrain. Were you excited by what you saw? Yeah, |
| 1:46.9 | really excited. I mean, it's new regs. There's been so much chat. We spent kind of the back end of |
| 1:53.1 | last year, obviously talking about the title fight and that was amazing, went down to the wire. |
| 1:57.6 | But all of this in the background was new regs. Who's turning off the tap to |
| 2:01.7 | their 2025 design? Who's going to be leaping forward? Who's going to be the, you know, making |
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