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Start Issues Will Soon Cause “Massive Shunt” in F1 2026, Warns Sergio Perez
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Melbourne Near-Miss Exposes F1’s 2026 Start-Line Time Bomb
Melbourne served chaos with a grin: Ferraris flew, and an Alpine threaded a needle at 200 km/h past a car that basically said “nah” on the grid—off-camera, of course, until the onboard made everyone’s palms sweaty later. The shiny 2026 tech was meant to help, yet the start now feels like flipping a coin with a rocket; some drivers launch like heroes, others become very expensive traffic cones. Was there a warning light, a flag, or just hope and …
Perez Warns of Major Crash Risks Following Melbourne Near-Miss
The opening race of the 2026 F1 season in Melbourne at the Australian Grand Prix may have passed without a major accident – but according to Sergio Perez, the sport’s sweeping new regulations have introduced a dangerous variable at the very moment when the field is most vulnerable: the race start. And after a heart-stopping near-miss between Liam Lawson and Franco Colapinto at the Australian Grand Prix, the Cadillac driver fears Formula 1 may be…
The new starting procedures introduced with the regulation of Formula 1 of 2026 are still cause for concern. Sergio Pérez believes that even a major accident is inevitable if nothing changes, after the spectacular near-attack between Liam Lawson and Franco Colapinto at the Australian Grand Prix. During the opening round of the season in Melbourne, Lawson took a bad flight and was then deprived of power. Behind him, Colapinto managed to make a st…
Cadillac Racing driver Sergio Perez has expressed concern about the complexity of the starts in the new Formula 1 season. According to him, this system could soon lead to a “massive crash”, as was evident during the Australian Grand Prix. During the inaugural event, Liam Lawson had a bad start due to a lack of battery power, while Franco Colapinto narrowly avoided an accident when he saw the Racing Bulls cars stop in the middle of traffic. This …
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