How Worried Should We Be About These New F1 Regulations?

The Ringer F1 Show

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4.3 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Meg and Spanners are here to ask all the burning questions around this new round of testing and regulation sets. They are joined by Matthew Somerfield to get the technical perspective on all things Formula One concerning these new rules, what teams to look out for, and who will dominate this coming season. (00:00) Intro (01:31) Should We Be Worried, Really? (04:34) New Engines, New Problems? (13:58) New Vocab Lesson! (23:08) Top Tracks to Watch in 2026 (30:01) Is Red Bull All Hype? (33:32) Audi and Cadillac Outlooks (41:08) Will Mercedes Dominate? Hosts: Megan Schuster and Spanners Ready Guest: Matthew Somerfield Senior Producer: Steve Ahlman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.0	Hello, welcome to the Ringer F1 show, part of the Ringer Podcast Network.
1:17.2	I am your host, Megan Schuster, and we are here to talk about the new F1 regulations.
1:22.0	Joining me, as always, is Spaners.
1:24.0	And this show, we also have a special guest who is here to help us understand all things F1 Tech. So it's not enough for us to just randomly say what we reckon, rant about stuff, then change our mind the next week. I mean, we sure could, but I don't know if that would be the most informative use of everyone's time. Okay, well, in that case, I've got a personal friend of mine to come and explain things to us. Is it okay to introduce him now? Please. He is one of the nicest guys in F1 Media. Really proud to call him a friend. Pretty sure I beat him at golf last time we played. He's an independent tech journalist. And even if you think you don't know his work, you have seen his work somewhere. It is the absolutely fantastic Matthew Summerfield, Summers F1.
2:03.5	Hello, Summers. Hi, Spanis. Good to be on. Thank you for joining us. We've got a lot of questions for you today, Summers. And we're hoping that you can explain some of this to us like we're five years old, because I personally will admit I've gotten quite lost in the
2:17.7	sauce of all the new terminology that we're dealing with in this regulation set, as well as some of
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