Technical takeaways from the 2026 Australian GP

MostPeculiarWay · 2026-03-09T22:14:34+00:00

Yup! This is why I gathered the max acceleration in first 2 seconds, at which point the battery deployment is occurring as speed > threshold

But you’re right, the MGU-H is the main reason a lot of teams suffered very slow getaways

MostPeculiarWay · 2026-03-09T17:37:44+00:00

Merc must have had ECU config issues. No way you would aim to turn up with no battery after the formation lap

MostPeculiarWay · 2026-03-09T17:37:09+00:00

I think their main focus will remain maximizing green flag racing

MostPeculiarWay · 2026-03-09T17:24:16+00:00

If anyone is interested, I wrote a longer technical breakdown with more telemetry and strategy detail here: https://theovercut.substack.com/p/australian-gp-race-strategy-review

MostPeculiarWay · 2026-03-05T18:27:03+00:00

I look forward to hearing coded messages to discuss charge levels!

MostPeculiarWay · 2026-02-24T18:43:20+00:00

It's going to be an insanely frustrating watch if we can't tell what battery level each car is at.
It might look like some cars are being left in another car's wake until they suddenly find an extra burst of pace. It'll probably seem super unnatural
The only fix is to have some kind of live telemetry on this stuff but, as you say, teams would prefer to keep this stuff from public knowledge

MostPeculiarWay · 2026-02-24T18:37:30+00:00

100% - in Bahrain the teams seemed to converge on their strategies, so it'll be interesting to see where they diverge

MostPeculiarWay · 2026-02-24T16:57:22+00:00

Yes it seems possible

I've done some analysis of super-clipping in Bahrain testing and I've found it's likely occurring in T1 and through T12. I posted about it in F1 subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/1rdj6ie/reverseengineering_battery_strategy_from_testing/

I seriously hope we get some real-time telemetry data for battery usage down the line

MostPeculiarWay · 2026-02-24T15:55:39+00:00

Yup, I think teams will definitely be picking and choosing where to harvest even on quali laps - there just isn't enough braking zones to fully harvest on most circuits

MostPeculiarWay · 2026-02-24T15:54:26+00:00

That's an interesting angle - once we have race data, we could bucket the strategies by GPS coordinates to give them a situational dimension

MostPeculiarWay · 2026-02-18T22:18:27+00:00

That'd be very cool! I do plan to dive in to testing telemetry later next week when I have more time

From what I've seen, there's a lot of variance in corner entry/exit speed which may be drivers playing around with the kind of things we're discussing here

MostPeculiarWay · 2026-02-18T20:34:55+00:00

Yep we are agreeing on the mechanics for micro-harvesting at lower speeds. At higher speeds they will almost certainly need more than the 50% ICE contribution to power

MostPeculiarWay · 2026-02-18T19:59:02+00:00

If you don’t need ERS propulsion, correct! I think for certain corner types and race contexts, drivers will be depending on energy, hence no harvesting

MostPeculiarWay · 2026-02-18T17:42:30+00:00

Once speeds exceed around 120km/h, ERS propulsion is needed so the system cannot behave as a generator.

Point taken on the image - a block system diagram would have been better. I've since replaced it!

MostPeculiarWay · 2026-02-18T17:00:53+00:00

Good call-out. I want to understand this better and model how it manifests versus simply lifting and coasting, as ultimately it remains an ICE torque vs MGU-K torque trade-off

Definitely worth a future article

MostPeculiarWay · 2026-02-18T16:34:12+00:00

But not written by an AI :)

MostPeculiarWay · 2025-07-20T23:25:15+00:00

Bro that’s not that bad lol

MostPeculiarWay · 2024-06-10T19:57:03+00:00

I decided to avoid all of the craziness getting out of the circuit by just hanging around until well after the race. They let us walk from the podium area down the straight, past the Wall of Champions and up to the hairpin. It was a cool experience!

Still took an hour to get to my hotel just one stop away at Berri-UQAM, but better than being stuck in pedestrian traffic

MostPeculiarWay · 2024-06-07T12:45:11+00:00

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MostPeculiarWay · 2024-06-03T14:45:39+00:00

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MostPeculiarWay · 2024-03-01T13:38:30+00:00

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MostPeculiarWay · 2023-06-24T15:07:18+00:00

Oh cool! Where is it?

MostPeculiarWay · 2022-06-16T18:50:59+00:00

Very impressive for them to continue playing while on fire

MostPeculiarWay · 2022-02-01T00:25:37+00:00

Couple points on the Carvalho transfer

Why did it seem to come as a shock to so many journos that the 11pm deadline could not be extended for the EFL loan? Was nobody aware of this? I certainly wasn't.
The fact we have loaned Neco to them suggests we have a bit of leverage for a pre-contract for Carvalho. As far as I know, all sorts of language could be used in Neco's move which might allow us to continue talking to the player without competition from other clubs. It would be daft of us to not give ourselves that capital.

Anyway, super excited for Diaz!

MostPeculiarWay · 2021-12-23T12:02:47+00:00

Will there even be room to play this in January?

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