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Hello and a very warm welcome to the late-breaking F1 podcast presented by Harry Ead, Sam Sage and me, Ben Hocking, back for this final Sunday episode before we're back to some good

old Formula One action, Sam. Dutch GP in a week's time. We've got a wonderful episode here today. Yeah, a very serious episode to be getting on with. We're not talking about this season at all. We're talking about next season, the old 2026 regulations. We'll get to on track action a bit. Harry Ears, you love serious late breaking. You must be thrilled that we're not going Not can we having a single laugh for over an hour?

No, laughing is banned on this episode.

And if you hear a laugh,

you get to send an abusive message to us.

Because as we promised, we won't...

No.

No.

We get enough of those.

We've laughed already, so it's to this game over.

Yeah, something a bit different for you here, folks,

but hopefully you enjoy or find it informative at the very least.

Yeah, we're going to be chatting all things, 2026,

because boy, oh boy, they be some big changes coming.

You are very correct.

We've had this sort of request for a little while to do this sort of an episode.

As you say, 2026 is such a drastic change versus what we've had in the current set of regulations.

So we're going to go through a full episode dedicated to these 2026 regulations. We're going to try and

split it evenly. So we're going to kick off the discussion with a bit of a chat around

the power unit and what's happening there. We'll take our first break, then talk a little bit

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