Is Verstappen right about F1 2026? Hill and Herbert's verdict
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Max Verstappen has been incredibly critical of the direction F1 has taken with its 2026 rules - but does he have a point? Is F1 still F1?
That's the key topic of conversation in the latest episode of Stay On Track, in which 1996 world champion Damon Hill and three-time grand prix winner Johnny Herbert look ahead to the season-opening race in Australia and contemplate what we can expect from the racing in this new era of F1.
They also discuss whether they'd have liked to have driven these cars, speculate on how the team-mate battles might play out in the 'big four' teams, and pick a winner for the first race based on what they saw in testing.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | It's F1 Jim, but not as we know it |
| 0:07.0 | Coming up on this episode of Stay on Track |
| 0:11.7 | We used to burn rubber, now we're burning rubbish |
| 0:13.7 | You make a mistake and it could be a very, very powerful loss |
| 0:17.1 | Of performance or even a race win |
| 0:19.2 | I have my concerns about some drive |
| 0:20.8 | Just be able to cope with all the list. |
| 0:22.7 | And I was sort of going, are you? |
| 0:25.7 | Are you, Australia? |
| 0:26.6 | Or are you just doing your bit of sandbagging? |
| 0:28.9 | They have to sit on the grid for like 10 seconds, revving the nuts off the car. |
| 0:33.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:34.5 | To get the turbo to wind up. |
| 0:36.3 | I still understand lift and coast. |
| 0:38.1 | Lift and coast. |
| 0:40.3 | Lewis is like a greyhounder, isn't he? You show him a rabbit. |
| 0:43.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:43.9 | He'll be off. There's no rabbit. Then he doesn't know which way to go. |
| 0:58.7 | Yeah, well, welcome. |
| 1:02.1 | That's not it. |
| 1:03.3 | Is that it? |
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