Verstappen has already got his hands full: “I tried it on the simulator and I was laughing. It’s a different track.” Max Verstappen has already got his hands full ahead of the next Silverstone weekend in which the cars will be in debt of energy on a very fast track that has few places to recharge the battery. “The battery barely lasts one lap, you’re always at wide open throttle, it will be very difficult because you can’t recharge the battery,” underlined Verstappen. In fact, from Luffield, Turn-7, up to the Esse Vale braking section, or Turn-15, there don’t seem to be any particular braking points. This means that for 35-40 seconds the cars will not be able to recharge the battery, somewhat recreating the situation that had already occurred in Melbourne in Australia. Making the situation worse will be the fact that the corrections after the first races have lowered the energy limit to 6 Mega Joules. Silverstone will be brutal on 2026 cars. T7 to T15 will be about 35-40s without heavy braking. Will be very similar to Australia T5-T11; could be even worse due to the new 6MJ limit in which. pic.twitter.com/f6TcQ3rep0— yelistener (@yelistener) June 29, 2026 This is not good news for Ferrari. The-Race.com newspaper, in fact, writes: “There are very few major braking zones in which the Ferrari can recover the energy needed to avoid losing ground more quickly than the Mercedes and Red Bull at points such as the descent towards Copse. There is very little energy to expend on the subsequent straights and this seems to be Ferrari’s worst nightmare.”
Automobile Magazine – Formula1 English, News
2026-06-30 17:00:00
