Active Aero Latest 2026 F1 Car Rule to Be Panned: Why ‘It’s Really Dangerous’

F1’s New Aero Makes Passes Perilous, Russell Warns

New F1 toy, same old chaos? In Melbourne, the 2026 active wings did their party trick—until George Russell went for a move and the front end behaved like a shopping cart with a mind of its own. Think slipstream, big speed, one brave twitch… and a wing that suddenly gets shy. He even raised it mid-cooldown chat, GPDA cap on, asking for a small safety tweak that could change how fights look down the straights. So is Straight Line Mode the clean cu…

Active aero latest 2026 F1 car rule to be panned: Why ‘it’s really dangerous’

F1’s new active aero rules have been criticised for creating dangerous first laps of races