Scott Mitchell-Malm

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The Race F1 Podcast · How different will F1 look in Miami after rules tweaks and upgrades? · 29 Apr 2026 podcast

But there is also an element here that if F1's backing away from the extremities on the energy management side that have been a massive factor in the start of the season...

and have been, you know, a chunk of the McLaren deficit to Mercedes because the understanding of that and mastery of that has been one of the big works teams advantage in the early races stands to reason to me that that will chip away at Mercedes advantage over a qualifying lap and over a race as well, especially as there is now the challenge of teams getting on top of the way it works in reality, because it isn't just a case of

Okay, well, we'll charge less and deploy less over the lap.

Would it be that simple?

It's going to be, okay, how do you then plan that around the lap?

How does that impact your start procedures, your restart procedures?

Look at George Russell, China and Japan struggling with safety car restarts and being swallowed up thereafter.

when you've got different boost levels in different parts of the lap, when it impacts how you use overtake mode as well, it's not just a qualifying thing.

This is something that will impact every competitive element of the weekend.

So if the ultimate potential of what you can do with your battery and how you use it has been reduced and Mercedes was the best at that,

then Mercedes ultimate potential has come down.

The potential is, sorry, I'll rephrase that.

The ultimate potential is still the same because they've got the same engine, but accessing that potential, Mercedes has been better than that.

So Mercedes performance level should come down a little bit more.

We're talking probably fractions of a percent here than McLaren's.

And on top of that,

we've had the chance for McLaren to really get on top of that car deficit or start to get on top of that car deficit as well.

So when you consider that Oscar Piastri could have won the race in Japan without a safety car, and both Mercedes and McLaren personnel think he would have done as well, can't guarantee it, but Russell said it, Piastri's fairly confident, he would have had a crack as well.

Why can't McLaren win in Miami on merit?

And just to even frame it like that, given where we started in Australia, is another reason why it's so intriguing to get there.

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