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Podcast: Inside Line F1 Podcast
Episode: Meet F1’s new “Flappy Wings”
Description: The 2026 F1 season is a full reset, and the fun part is how quickly teams will try to stretch the wording.
In this first short episode of the season, we break down what the new regulation set is really aiming to change, and what it could mean for the way F1 actually races: power unit priorities, driver modes, and why aero conversations are about to sound very different.
And yes, we also get into the first big “everyone’s watching this” storyline of the new era: the compression ratio debate and the kind of interpretation battles the FIA wants resolv...