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Hello and a very warm welcome to the late breaking F-on podcast presented by Sam Sage and me, Ben Hocking, back with another midweek episode. But before we crack on with today's episode, just a quick update from late breaking and more specifically from Harry, who sadly isn't on today's

episode. Those that were listening around Christmas time would have heard an update from

Harry regarding a loss in the family. He has decided to take a little break from the podcast

as a result of that, but he's very excited to get back when he's ready. He will miss you all greatly because you're all wonderful people. And I'm sure he very much appreciates all of your well wishes that, of course, come from us as well. Of course. Yeah. Harry has our love, our English support. We're always here to make sure that it's all good and it just needs a bit of space. So Ben, I reckon we should get on with what's going on today.

Let's do that because we are going to, we're going to go back to some of our World Championship

predictions that we made last year. We did a bit of an exercise where we went through a number

of drivers and asked, would they ever win a world

title?

So we're going to take a short trip back down memory lane to see how we answered and if we'd

answer those any differently.

We've got news from Colton Herter and Cadillac that he'll be doing four FP1 sessions

throughout the 2026 season.

But we're going to start with undoubtedly the biggest news of the week.

We knew this was coming at some point, and that is that a number of refinements are taking

place to the 26 F1 regulations. They were agreed on Monday with the FIA, team principles,

CEOs of Power Unit Manufacturers and FOM. They were all involved in an online

meeting to determine these changes, many of which will take place from the Miami Grand Prix

in just over a week's time. We're going to try and split this up a little bit because there's

maybe four key elements that they're changing here. And we'll try and tackle each one at a time.

And then maybe at the end of the segment put together a bit more of our combined thoughts of

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