Depends on how you define DRS.
DRS as in the open wings tool is now x-mode. But everyone can use it in the respective zones at all times no matter the distance to the car ahead. Basically like DRS in qualifying.
DRS as the overtaking tool that is only given to the car 1 second behind other car is now MOM.
From what i read, its given for the entire lap. However i have no idea if it goes on "cooldown" after 1 lap if you didn't manage to overtake or whether its persistent (assuming you stay within the 1 sec).
As for x-mode, i would assume every DRS zone is now an x-zone. Given it doesnt play a part in overtaking anymore, maybe even every straight.
I’d assume like DRS, it’d be active as long as you stay within the margin—it’s not like DRS shuts off if you don’t make an overtake within a lap, after all.
To me, the interesting thing would be whether the ERS is capable of recuperating enough energy to run in override mode for lap after lap without draining the battery.
> To me, the interesting thing would be whether the ERS is capable of recuperating enough energy to run in override mode for lap after lap without draining the battery.
I have a million questions but im not sure even the FIA knows yet. Like how much of MOM's design and power is even up to the team and how much is specified by the rules? Is it specified to add X mount of horsepower extra? Or will there be differences in how good the ones build by the engineers are? How will powershare work with the normal battery? How much will ERS be able to keep it going lap after lap? I dont think this is all clear as of now.
I would think it could persistent but it wont be because it's going to murder your battery and cost you laps down the line. That's my impression of it anyways.
I also understood that either Aero mode can be used at any given time it's really up to the driver. But naturally mostly just on straights.
Because they're introduced a new concept so they need more names. Z/X mode is the state of the active aero, which seems like it's going to be switched between multiple times each lap.
This is separate from the boost mode, which is used for overtaking. That's the DRS replacement, functionally; it just comes from the battery rather than moveable bodywork.
No, in the context of a race it's super simple.
The overtaking aid is the Manual Override, which deploys more electrical power.
X and Y mode is quite irrelevant to battling as both drivers will use it equally.
I’m pretty sure saying everyone is allowed to use DRS now is the simplest thing rather than giving it a stupid name.
Drag Reduction System doesn’t say anything about overtaking or when it’s allowed or anything so don’t see why changing when you can use it would change its name that everyone is familiar with.
People are familiar with DRS as an overtaking aid. Most people don't know what the acronym stands for.
Going for a different name as you change the concept itself is a good thing and avoids any confusion.
But given you're calling it "a stupid name", your reactionary opinion is already made up before even having given it a single thought so I'll leave it at that.
X mode is definitely a stupid name lol. Are they trying to make it exciting like Xtreme, X men or what?
Max Verstappen is activating X mode…
They could literally call it moving rear wing or keep the existing name. It’s like something from a child’s cartoon.
Because DRS isn’t really a thing now. There is a low drag and high downforce mode. It will happen all the time.every lap. It won’t be focused on much as it’s not a differentiator now
Yeah there two modes to make pass. Manually activated mode for when the following car is close irrespective of the straights or corner. And x-mode the DRS alternates which opens the both front and rear wings on straights.
E: look at other comments below for clarity.
Going around corners you need downforce, so opening the wings doesn't make sense. On straights you want to reduce drag in order to increase your maximum speed, so you want open wings.
I don't know whether they will physically limit X Mode to straights, or if they're just talking about straights because that is where it is useful.
If it works basically the same way, I bet at least some people will keep the term. It's ultimately still a drag reduction system, or at least that's a large portion of it.
X and Y mode are most definitely still DRS.
That's what they are. They are systems, that reduce drag.
But DRS zones are gone, there will likely not be a graphic to indicate that it is open or not since it will be on nearly every straight.
We WILL have MOM MODE and MOM ZONES
Other way round.
[There will be zones for the X mode (But they will basically be every straight).](https://www.racefans.net/2024/06/06/z-mode-and-x-mode-how-formula-1s-new-active-aero-will-work-in-2026/)
> “X-mode is our terminology for the low drag mode and that gives you your high top-speed,” Somerville explains. “That’s the state you’d be in when you’re on a straight or past exiting a corner. As you approach the braking zone, you’d then pop into Z-mode, which is where the downforce is required to get through braking and around the corner.
> “So we have these two modes that would be set up in terms of zones around the lap, and the drivers would be able to switch between these two modes when permitted. There may be Sporting Regulations that, for example, prevent use in wet conditions, but otherwise we would expect the drivers to have access to both modes around the track for every lap.”
There won't be any zone for MOM.
[That will rely on you being within a given distance to the car in front as you finish the lap so as to unlock it for the following lap.](https://www.racefans.net/2024/06/06/drs-out-manual-override-mode-in-f1s-new-overtaking-aid-explained/)
>MOM “works in a similar way to DRS,” Monchaux confirmed. “If you are within a given distance, before the end of a lap to the car in front of you, then for the following lap, you will be given the possibility to use more electrical energy than your opponent."
But MOM will only give an advantage above 290kph so unless you have a bunch of highspeed corners, you are only really gonna get the advantage on the straight anyway.
KERS was more in addition to your power output. You could activate it as long as you were above 100kph and you would get a boost relative to someone who did not.
Here it is about the electrical power tailing off as you go down the straights and the override mode means it tails off later.
[Below 290kph, power output is the same](https://i.imgur.com/eIpIrc5.png) so there is no difference.
With the low drag given the active aerodynamics, and the massive amount of electrical power available, these cars are going to hit 290kph pretty quickly, likely quicker than current F1 cars if they are not traction limited. But when overtake mode is off, they'll struggle to go much faster than 300kph given the electric power restrictions. But with overtake mode on, the new cars are just going to keep accelerating all the way up to 350kph. There's likely going to be some huge speed differentials at the end of long straights, but acceleration at the beginning and middle of the straight will be equal for both the overtaking car and defending car. I guess this is to try force the drivers to make an overtaking move in the braking zone, and not in the middle of the straight, as we've seen so many times with DRS.
It seems to me that MOM will be easier to calibrate from track-to-track than DRS currently is. With DRS, you are really limited by the configuration of the track as to how long the zones can be, how many zones you can have, and even the activation line can be tricky -- with some activation lines governing the next two consecutive DRS zones.
With MOM, there will be some limitation on how much energy the cars can regen per lap, but aside from that, in theory you could change the deployment level of MOM from track to track -- maybe on tracks where it is especially hard to follow, you could increase the MOM deployment and for tracks where it's easier to follow, you could reduce it. Plus they could potentially change the following distance necessary to activate MOM from track to track.
Now that I think about it, the 1-second DRS range is arguably too rigid. They could change that threshold from track-to-track. It seems like the impact from dirty air would be different from track to track, so that at a track where the dirty air is especially difficult to deal with, you might want a bigger DRS range (say 1.5 seconds) so that it's harder for the leader to use the clean air to get out of DRS range by the time DRS is activated. But increasing it to 1.5 seconds would make it easier to have DRS trains, so maybe sticking with 1 second is best. I would guess they've simulated different thresholds, but also the fact that it is an even one second makes me wonder how hard they worked to optimize that number.
There are some things in this universe that sound deceptively simple but are impossible. You can't square a circle, you can't make anything move faster than light, and you can't make trailing f1 cars race competitively without mario kart mechanics.
Without any overtaking aid, racing is going to be absolute shit. Everybody thinks that smaller and lighter cars like those from the early 2000s will make for great racing, probably all of them think of Mika's iconic pass on Micheal. But watch any of those races, all the overtaking happened off track in refuelling stops, and it was absolutely crap for racing. We all like to shit on DRS, but if you look at how extremely dreadful 2010 was in terms of action on track action, you'll realise that some overtaking aid is essential for any sort of on track action. And I feel, manual override mode is going to be a way better and way more consistent overtaking aid than DRS. Let the cars race once before we all collectively shit on them.
It will only be called DRS as long as the commentators keep using the term. When it changes, everyone else will change it too. Look how everyone calls the Red Bull junior team "VCARB" now even after despising the name when it was first announced.
The RB logo changed to VCARB at some point (I think China?) which is precisely when the commenters switched from reliably calling them RB to reliably calling them VCARB. I'm guessing Visa complained to RBR.
I think the announcers react, we'll know for sure in Bahrain 2026 when we see the little DRS signs at the detection points.
Essentially his whole F2 season was plagued with DRS issues, replacing the entire DRS system on his car and it would still be broken for the next race. Still managed to wipe the floor with the rest of that years drivers which is the most impressive piece
The same will be true with active aero, when both the rear- and now frontwing open up on the straights, except it's for every driver and not limited to certain zones, as far as I understood. So in a sense it's not leaving, it's becoming more of how a car normally works.
But yeah, the extra battery power is not visible, unless one of the new lights is acting as a visible indicator upon activation.
I think it's better to not have any indication of whether a car is using manual override mode or not. DRS with the flap opening up makes it look like the overtake is artificially engineered. Even if MOM is also artificial, I'd rather not have any visual indication of that and assuage myself that it isn't so artificial.
I guess, but usually I am looking at the intervals on the timing graphic to see how close they are to getting DRS anyway. Since it is a lap-by-lap effect, they could maybe have a small indicator on the timing graphic (like they do for fastest lap) to indicate if a car has MOM activated.
'His mom's wide open down the straight...' 'No cars can match verstappens red bull when his mum's active...'
yeah we're going to have some wonderful out of context moments...
Short of ejecting [the rear wing off like your Kimi at Hockenheim 2004](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POJ2rS5ZTck), there will be no drag to reduce with the active aero engaged so you won't be able to reduce it anymore.
There was some talk of forcing cars less than a second ahead of another to run in high-drag mode (Z-mode in FIA-speak) even on the straights, which thankfully didn’t amount to anything. But I could see them considering it if the current rules don’t work out.
As someone who has watched F1 since 2018 and all I've seen is the DRS era cars, I'm nervous this may backfire on them. But they are the experts after all...
Will they be able to use manual override anywhere on a given lap, rather than specific DRS zones? Because if so, that'll be a vast improvement.
You will only be able to use it when you are within a given distance before the end of the lap at which point you will be able to use for the following lap.
But...The manual override will only give any benefit when you are above 290kph. [Below 290kph, there is no difference in power output between normal and the override mode.](https://i.imgur.com/eIpIrc5.png)
So the advantage will only be on straights and for some straights, only really right at the end of the straight.
For the sections which have short straights with DRS (Think the second one at Melbourne or Hungary) it is a negative because in the past you would have DRS where as now you are unlikely to get any benefit.
For the sections which have long straights with no DRS (Think the straight before the last corner at Bahrain) it is a positive as you will get above 290kph and therefore the override mode where as currently you wouldn't have any DRS.
This will be so much better. DRS was inherently very unpopular and an inelegant brute force way of dealing with overtaking issues. It was always the view that in time we wouldn't have to use it.
I feel like the 2026 reg will provide for more dynamic situations as the teams manage battery charge rather than an endless drs train
DRS, as in the rear-wing opening up, will be replaced by "active aero", which is two different modes drivers can use to either open or close their rear and front wing manually. Open on straights like DRS or close for downforce to take corners. And everyone will be able to use it, not only the following car, so it's not an overtake-assist anymore.
Instead, drivers who follow behind get a new battery power boost that is only available when you are close enough/ try to overtake.
1. As far as I understood the new regulations, they open both wings at the same time. The new info calls it "X-mode" and "Z-mode". Confusing, I know. But it seems to be basically "open-wings mode" and "closed-wings mode".
2. I haven't heard of that, sorry. But I wouldn't be surprised if the drivers/ simulations need to adjust to it first.
On your second point the complaints about undriveable cars was back when they were testing cars that only had active aero on the rear wings, but not the front
So when they would activate it in the sims the aero balance would shift drastically to the front causing the rear of the car to become incredibly unstable, even on straights
Didn't know that the changes were this drastic beyond the PU changes. The 2023 Reg made the cars look very different from their predecessor but the racing DNA was much the same. No wonder Max is being vocal about it.
They added the new systems because the cars can't recover enough energy to deploy for a full lap. The new regs remove the MGU-H, so the car can't recover as much energy as they used to, and since they want it to be 50/50 between thermal power and electrical power, the only solution is to reduce as much as possible the drag of the cars.
Why is everyone saying DRS is going away ? it's not going anywhere, in fact there's going to be more DRS since the front wing will move on straights too. It's just not going to be used for the same purpose.
Seems to me DRS as a mechanism to facilitate overtake is going away; active aero will be usable to everyone in any situation.
Instead, its actual replacement will be the power boost in a push to pass like alternative
The power boost is actually a good idea imo, because you can't constantly use it to stay within a second like with DRS, because you'd run out of energy, so to stay within a second of a car ahead, you actually have to consistently be at their pace with sustainable energy usage.
So it should hopefully reduce the number of trains and open things up a bit.
Goodbye DRS, Welcome MOM. (manual override mode)
This is a great opportunity for his mum to tweet "Hello MOM mode"
Manual override mode mode
Can only enter MOM mode with a PIN number
we are all bots here except for you
Classic case of the RAS syndrome
aka PNS syndrome (personal identification number number syndrome syndrome)
Am I the only one who's going to say it? Enter mom? Ewwww.... 😂🤣
That would be for the driver who's home race they're racing at that weekend, allowing Oscar to be adopted.
At an ATM machine that uses RAID disks
1 2 3 4. It’s obvious.
Same number as my luggage!
No. It will be a subscription-based feature.
lol out loud
Smh my head.
This occurence has a name!! RAS syndrome. Redundant acronym syndrome syndrome. . . Someone had fun coming up with that name.
Team Radio Driver: "What's the problem?" Engineer: Your MOM
Yes, but she is Aussie and we say “mum”.
Well it could be the Manual *Under*ride Mode because Aus is upside down.
Is his mother then Momster Piastri?
You activate mom mode by calling your mom and telling her that you love her
"MOM. I did a thing."
„And again Piastri activates his MOM!“
His MOM was good last night.
Dude the way he MOMed on George was clean
George’s MOM’s got nothing on Oscar’s MOM!
Nicole Piastri has the best F1 twitter rn
Nope, that’s separate. DRS alternative is called X-Mode lol.
Depends on how you define DRS. DRS as in the open wings tool is now x-mode. But everyone can use it in the respective zones at all times no matter the distance to the car ahead. Basically like DRS in qualifying. DRS as the overtaking tool that is only given to the car 1 second behind other car is now MOM.
But like DRS, do we now have MOM zones 🤨? Or can MOM be activated any time, anywhere in lap (given the car infront is within 1 second)
From what i read, its given for the entire lap. However i have no idea if it goes on "cooldown" after 1 lap if you didn't manage to overtake or whether its persistent (assuming you stay within the 1 sec). As for x-mode, i would assume every DRS zone is now an x-zone. Given it doesnt play a part in overtaking anymore, maybe even every straight.
I’d assume like DRS, it’d be active as long as you stay within the margin—it’s not like DRS shuts off if you don’t make an overtake within a lap, after all. To me, the interesting thing would be whether the ERS is capable of recuperating enough energy to run in override mode for lap after lap without draining the battery.
> To me, the interesting thing would be whether the ERS is capable of recuperating enough energy to run in override mode for lap after lap without draining the battery. I have a million questions but im not sure even the FIA knows yet. Like how much of MOM's design and power is even up to the team and how much is specified by the rules? Is it specified to add X mount of horsepower extra? Or will there be differences in how good the ones build by the engineers are? How will powershare work with the normal battery? How much will ERS be able to keep it going lap after lap? I dont think this is all clear as of now.
Isn't the manual override just an outlet for KERS?
I would think it could persistent but it wont be because it's going to murder your battery and cost you laps down the line. That's my impression of it anyways. I also understood that either Aero mode can be used at any given time it's really up to the driver. But naturally mostly just on straights.
Sound like you can choose to deploy anywhere, but it costs you energy, so you have to be mindful.
> Or can MOM be activated any time The jokes just write themselves. They're going to need a new acronym before 2026.
What does MOM actually do, if not open the wing?
will keep calling it twitter
that caught me off guard and made me laugh really hard
But you can use it whenever you want. It isn't the same as DRS today.
So it's like the KERS button that we used to have in 2011s
In a way, but it's not for overtaking. All drivers can use it.
Not really. DRS is an overtaking aid, X-mode isn't. The overtaking aid DRS is replaced by the overtaking aid Manual Override.
Wait what? I thought the override thing will give you more boost to overtake.
Yeah X Mode is aero, MOM is power boost.
There's another mode that increases energy recovery Harvest Acceleration Manual System Turbo Energy Recovery Drivers are expected to pair that with X
HAMSTER
Is there a Richard Hammond in every F1 car now?
They access this mode through a new interface on the steering wheel: The Power Output Rate Normalizer Hub
I see what you did there lol
Oh no
Idk why they have to make the naming more complicated. DRS is now X-mode and normal is Z-mode?? We already had DRS on or off
But you can use the silly named aero modes any time you fancy.
Because they're introduced a new concept so they need more names. Z/X mode is the state of the active aero, which seems like it's going to be switched between multiple times each lap. This is separate from the boost mode, which is used for overtaking. That's the DRS replacement, functionally; it just comes from the battery rather than moveable bodywork.
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Neither of the things I described are like KERS. There is some good energy recovery on these cars, but that’s not the boost mode.
The announcers are going to love this, going to be a disaster trying to explain it to normal people.
No, in the context of a race it's super simple. The overtaking aid is the Manual Override, which deploys more electrical power. X and Y mode is quite irrelevant to battling as both drivers will use it equally.
I’m pretty sure saying everyone is allowed to use DRS now is the simplest thing rather than giving it a stupid name. Drag Reduction System doesn’t say anything about overtaking or when it’s allowed or anything so don’t see why changing when you can use it would change its name that everyone is familiar with.
People are familiar with DRS as an overtaking aid. Most people don't know what the acronym stands for. Going for a different name as you change the concept itself is a good thing and avoids any confusion. But given you're calling it "a stupid name", your reactionary opinion is already made up before even having given it a single thought so I'll leave it at that.
X mode is definitely a stupid name lol. Are they trying to make it exciting like Xtreme, X men or what? Max Verstappen is activating X mode… They could literally call it moving rear wing or keep the existing name. It’s like something from a child’s cartoon.
Because DRS isn’t really a thing now. There is a low drag and high downforce mode. It will happen all the time.every lap. It won’t be focused on much as it’s not a differentiator now
This
I figured that your MOM isnt about aero
Yeah there two modes to make pass. Manually activated mode for when the following car is close irrespective of the straights or corner. And x-mode the DRS alternates which opens the both front and rear wings on straights. E: look at other comments below for clarity.
X mode is available for all drivers regardless of track position.
Ah cool. F1 video explains only on straights. https://imgur.com/Xo4cQOf
Yes, only on straights, but track position is irrelevant. The car you're trying to pass can also use it.
Ah gotcha, thanks for the correction.
They did say there would be aero to allow for overtaking too. Then didn't elaborate.
Going around corners you need downforce, so opening the wings doesn't make sense. On straights you want to reduce drag in order to increase your maximum speed, so you want open wings. I don't know whether they will physically limit X Mode to straights, or if they're just talking about straights because that is where it is useful.
Hello X-Mom
Problem that most F1 fans say "mum".
man i love mom
Forget the drivers, he’s about to become related to the car itself.
I hope Oscar won't have MOM issues
Piastri's MOM has got it going on!
"Charles, engage the Mom."
In Australia we say mum.
Old context on Oscar’s and DRS relationship https://www.threads.net/@fray_f1/post/C74RU_SNQKj/
This needs to be on the top! Hilarious
How did I take so much time to find this lmao
Gold. Thanks for this. 🤣
If it works basically the same way, I bet at least some people will keep the term. It's ultimately still a drag reduction system, or at least that's a large portion of it.
X and Y mode are most definitely still DRS. That's what they are. They are systems, that reduce drag. But DRS zones are gone, there will likely not be a graphic to indicate that it is open or not since it will be on nearly every straight. We WILL have MOM MODE and MOM ZONES
Other way round. [There will be zones for the X mode (But they will basically be every straight).](https://www.racefans.net/2024/06/06/z-mode-and-x-mode-how-formula-1s-new-active-aero-will-work-in-2026/) > “X-mode is our terminology for the low drag mode and that gives you your high top-speed,” Somerville explains. “That’s the state you’d be in when you’re on a straight or past exiting a corner. As you approach the braking zone, you’d then pop into Z-mode, which is where the downforce is required to get through braking and around the corner. > “So we have these two modes that would be set up in terms of zones around the lap, and the drivers would be able to switch between these two modes when permitted. There may be Sporting Regulations that, for example, prevent use in wet conditions, but otherwise we would expect the drivers to have access to both modes around the track for every lap.” There won't be any zone for MOM. [That will rely on you being within a given distance to the car in front as you finish the lap so as to unlock it for the following lap.](https://www.racefans.net/2024/06/06/drs-out-manual-override-mode-in-f1s-new-overtaking-aid-explained/) >MOM “works in a similar way to DRS,” Monchaux confirmed. “If you are within a given distance, before the end of a lap to the car in front of you, then for the following lap, you will be given the possibility to use more electrical energy than your opponent." But MOM will only give an advantage above 290kph so unless you have a bunch of highspeed corners, you are only really gonna get the advantage on the straight anyway.
Oh it's LAP based? So it's literally Kers but you only get it if you're close enough?
KERS was more in addition to your power output. You could activate it as long as you were above 100kph and you would get a boost relative to someone who did not. Here it is about the electrical power tailing off as you go down the straights and the override mode means it tails off later. [Below 290kph, power output is the same](https://i.imgur.com/eIpIrc5.png) so there is no difference.
I say fuck it. Bring back kers but let it ride on when it's used. I wanna see Nando park it on an apex and take off like a rocketship.
With the low drag given the active aerodynamics, and the massive amount of electrical power available, these cars are going to hit 290kph pretty quickly, likely quicker than current F1 cars if they are not traction limited. But when overtake mode is off, they'll struggle to go much faster than 300kph given the electric power restrictions. But with overtake mode on, the new cars are just going to keep accelerating all the way up to 350kph. There's likely going to be some huge speed differentials at the end of long straights, but acceleration at the beginning and middle of the straight will be equal for both the overtaking car and defending car. I guess this is to try force the drivers to make an overtaking move in the braking zone, and not in the middle of the straight, as we've seen so many times with DRS.
It seems to me that MOM will be easier to calibrate from track-to-track than DRS currently is. With DRS, you are really limited by the configuration of the track as to how long the zones can be, how many zones you can have, and even the activation line can be tricky -- with some activation lines governing the next two consecutive DRS zones. With MOM, there will be some limitation on how much energy the cars can regen per lap, but aside from that, in theory you could change the deployment level of MOM from track to track -- maybe on tracks where it is especially hard to follow, you could increase the MOM deployment and for tracks where it's easier to follow, you could reduce it. Plus they could potentially change the following distance necessary to activate MOM from track to track. Now that I think about it, the 1-second DRS range is arguably too rigid. They could change that threshold from track-to-track. It seems like the impact from dirty air would be different from track to track, so that at a track where the dirty air is especially difficult to deal with, you might want a bigger DRS range (say 1.5 seconds) so that it's harder for the leader to use the clean air to get out of DRS range by the time DRS is activated. But increasing it to 1.5 seconds would make it easier to have DRS trains, so maybe sticking with 1 second is best. I would guess they've simulated different thresholds, but also the fact that it is an even one second makes me wonder how hard they worked to optimize that number.
I hate this. It's like Mario Kart. Can they really not find a way to have cars race competitively without giving the car behind an artificial boost?
There are some things in this universe that sound deceptively simple but are impossible. You can't square a circle, you can't make anything move faster than light, and you can't make trailing f1 cars race competitively without mario kart mechanics.
Without any overtaking aid, racing is going to be absolute shit. Everybody thinks that smaller and lighter cars like those from the early 2000s will make for great racing, probably all of them think of Mika's iconic pass on Micheal. But watch any of those races, all the overtaking happened off track in refuelling stops, and it was absolutely crap for racing. We all like to shit on DRS, but if you look at how extremely dreadful 2010 was in terms of action on track action, you'll realise that some overtaking aid is essential for any sort of on track action. And I feel, manual override mode is going to be a way better and way more consistent overtaking aid than DRS. Let the cars race once before we all collectively shit on them.
Crofty is literally dying to make this joke right now.
So are passes in the Monaco tunnel on now?
It will only be called DRS as long as the commentators keep using the term. When it changes, everyone else will change it too. Look how everyone calls the Red Bull junior team "VCARB" now even after despising the name when it was first announced.
Commentators didn't choose that term, they were told to use VCARB instead of RB. They talked about it on the broadcast when it happened.
The RB logo changed to VCARB at some point (I think China?) which is precisely when the commenters switched from reliably calling them RB to reliably calling them VCARB. I'm guessing Visa complained to RBR. I think the announcers react, we'll know for sure in Bahrain 2026 when we see the little DRS signs at the detection points.
Oh, the commentators themselves weren't too shy saying they had literally been asked to.
Serious throwback for Piastri fans here
This is his way of saying”die in a fire and never come back” I suspect.
I mean, the replacement is far more gimmicky.
True, but Piastri has personal bad-blood with the DRS system specifically.
I'm ootl then, what's it in reference to?
Essentially his whole F2 season was plagued with DRS issues, replacing the entire DRS system on his car and it would still be broken for the next race. Still managed to wipe the floor with the rest of that years drivers which is the most impressive piece
F3 2020 actually
Then it was both f3 and f2 which makes it even worse
Lol damn that's crazy, Oscar is a legend
Oscar is literally OP
Look Mom, no DRS
I have MOM now
Even if the effects are the same it seems DRS has the major advantage of being a visible thing fans can spot on TV.
The same will be true with active aero, when both the rear- and now frontwing open up on the straights, except it's for every driver and not limited to certain zones, as far as I understood. So in a sense it's not leaving, it's becoming more of how a car normally works. But yeah, the extra battery power is not visible, unless one of the new lights is acting as a visible indicator upon activation.
Time to slap some LEDs to the HALO.
I believe having additional lights to indicate ERS state is part of the project.
Neat!
I think it's better to not have any indication of whether a car is using manual override mode or not. DRS with the flap opening up makes it look like the overtake is artificially engineered. Even if MOM is also artificial, I'd rather not have any visual indication of that and assuage myself that it isn't so artificial.
I guess, but usually I am looking at the intervals on the timing graphic to see how close they are to getting DRS anyway. Since it is a lap-by-lap effect, they could maybe have a small indicator on the timing graphic (like they do for fastest lap) to indicate if a car has MOM activated.
It's ok they'll probably put some LEDs on the halo like in formula E or something
Oscar's public engagement is insane haha, the kid is just too likeable
'His mom's wide open down the straight...' 'No cars can match verstappens red bull when his mum's active...' yeah we're going to have some wonderful out of context moments...
He is celebrating tonight
Taking bets on how long until DRS gets added right back in along with MOM
Short of ejecting [the rear wing off like your Kimi at Hockenheim 2004](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POJ2rS5ZTck), there will be no drag to reduce with the active aero engaged so you won't be able to reduce it anymore.
Damn, you weren’t kidding when you said ejected
Both the front and rear wings will already be open anyway so idk how you are gonna reduce even more drag
Take the wings off and party like it was 1960
There was some talk of forcing cars less than a second ahead of another to run in high-drag mode (Z-mode in FIA-speak) even on the straights, which thankfully didn’t amount to anything. But I could see them considering it if the current rules don’t work out.
I love this man
As someone who has watched F1 since 2018 and all I've seen is the DRS era cars, I'm nervous this may backfire on them. But they are the experts after all... Will they be able to use manual override anywhere on a given lap, rather than specific DRS zones? Because if so, that'll be a vast improvement.
You will only be able to use it when you are within a given distance before the end of the lap at which point you will be able to use for the following lap. But...The manual override will only give any benefit when you are above 290kph. [Below 290kph, there is no difference in power output between normal and the override mode.](https://i.imgur.com/eIpIrc5.png) So the advantage will only be on straights and for some straights, only really right at the end of the straight. For the sections which have short straights with DRS (Think the second one at Melbourne or Hungary) it is a negative because in the past you would have DRS where as now you are unlikely to get any benefit. For the sections which have long straights with no DRS (Think the straight before the last corner at Bahrain) it is a positive as you will get above 290kph and therefore the override mode where as currently you wouldn't have any DRS.
This will be so much better. DRS was inherently very unpopular and an inelegant brute force way of dealing with overtaking issues. It was always the view that in time we wouldn't have to use it. I feel like the 2026 reg will provide for more dynamic situations as the teams manage battery charge rather than an endless drs train
So what is difference DRS and the new tech?
DRS, as in the rear-wing opening up, will be replaced by "active aero", which is two different modes drivers can use to either open or close their rear and front wing manually. Open on straights like DRS or close for downforce to take corners. And everyone will be able to use it, not only the following car, so it's not an overtake-assist anymore. Instead, drivers who follow behind get a new battery power boost that is only available when you are close enough/ try to overtake.
1. Drivers have to choose open their rear or front and not both? 2. I heard that the active aero makes the car undrivable (or similar to that)
1. As far as I understood the new regulations, they open both wings at the same time. The new info calls it "X-mode" and "Z-mode". Confusing, I know. But it seems to be basically "open-wings mode" and "closed-wings mode". 2. I haven't heard of that, sorry. But I wouldn't be surprised if the drivers/ simulations need to adjust to it first.
Ahh I see, thanks
On your second point the complaints about undriveable cars was back when they were testing cars that only had active aero on the rear wings, but not the front So when they would activate it in the sims the aero balance would shift drastically to the front causing the rear of the car to become incredibly unstable, even on straights
Didn't know that the changes were this drastic beyond the PU changes. The 2023 Reg made the cars look very different from their predecessor but the racing DNA was much the same. No wonder Max is being vocal about it.
Huh ?
2027: hello DRS my old friend.
I’ve come to open up for you again.
Going to be honest, thought he died at first
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They added the new systems because the cars can't recover enough energy to deploy for a full lap. The new regs remove the MGU-H, so the car can't recover as much energy as they used to, and since they want it to be 50/50 between thermal power and electrical power, the only solution is to reduce as much as possible the drag of the cars.
The front car can't use MOM to engage more battery
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Ah ok then I misunderstood what you were referencing. I guess it aids efficiency not having such drag on the straights.
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Oscar uses MOM(mode) against Charle Leclerc
Manual override mode mode
2027: DRS RETURNS!
Goodbye fabricated overtaking.
wait what
His old tweets about drs (2019? 2020?) were hilarious! I also actually didn't know F2/F3 also had DRS.
2020/2021 (if my memory serves right) cause he had issues in both F2 and F3
Goodbye DRS, hello MOM!
Surely we will just come to refer to it as “MO”
He’s one of the funniest and talented drivers nowadays
Why is everyone saying DRS is going away ? it's not going anywhere, in fact there's going to be more DRS since the front wing will move on straights too. It's just not going to be used for the same purpose.
Seems to me DRS as a mechanism to facilitate overtake is going away; active aero will be usable to everyone in any situation. Instead, its actual replacement will be the power boost in a push to pass like alternative
The power boost is actually a good idea imo, because you can't constantly use it to stay within a second like with DRS, because you'd run out of energy, so to stay within a second of a car ahead, you actually have to consistently be at their pace with sustainable energy usage. So it should hopefully reduce the number of trains and open things up a bit.
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