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⚠️ El #JaponDAZNF1 🇯🇵 pierde un 49% de la audiencia en directo con respecto a 2025 ⚠️ 📉 La carrera reunió a 💥 63.000 espectadores y un 8.3% de share💥 👀 En algún momento conectaron 82.000 espect. ➕ Suma 188K en diferido. Lo más visto del día. 🔙 2025: 124.000 2024: 137.000 2023: 152.000 2022: 143.000 2019: 48.000 2018: 33.000

In Spain, the race at Japan lost 49% of its live audience compared to 2025 2026: 63000 2025: 124000 2024: 137000 2023: 152000 2022: 143000 2019: 48000 2018: 33000

2026 🚀 No battery management. Or clipping (whatever that is). Just straight up RACING! SEPANG PREVIEW gt-world-challenge-asia.com/news/960 #GTWorldAsia | #GTWorld

@MV33Racing F1 is no longer exciting at all.

Toto Wolff: "F1 is turning into pure and very exciting races." Apparently, driver safety isn’t a priority for Toto. x.com/Pirellilowcost…

🚨 MAJOR CRITICISM from Norris and Verstappen. Lando Norris and Max Verstappen slam 2026 F1 overtaking as artificial "yo-yoing". 👉 They blame a lack of driver control over battery deployment for predictable maneuvers. This undermines the authenticity of wheel-to-wheel racing.

🚨 HAAS BOSS DEFENDS COLAPINTO AFTER JAPANESE GP CRASH. 👉 Ayao Komatsu attributes Oliver Bearman's high-speed incident to a DANGEROUS 45KM/H CLOSING SPEED caused by F1's new energy management rules. He calls it a SYSTEMIC CHALLENGE, not driver error, highlighting major safety concerns for the 2026 season.

@daz0790 @TimCoronel @F1 It's not a race, but it's not entertainment either. At least I haven't found anything entertaining in it yet.

@TimCoronel @Rika1___ @F1 It’s entertainment not racing.

They are slowly regulating F1 to death. The 2026 rules feel like a test phase, not the pinnacle of motorsport. Drivers saving energy instead of pushing, strategy over pure speed. If racing gets worse, we’ve solved the wrong problem. Are we still racing? #F1 #Formula1

I'm hearing some interesting admissions off the back of Suzuka - namely, that there's a growing awareness within the FIA that the 50/50 split has been the wrong direction. It's understood that, in the short-term, energy deployment limits are being looked at while, longer-term, a change in the ICE vs. electrical split. Getting the drivers and teams in alignment is a hurdle to clear, with the teams not all agreeing with their drivers on the issues, but there is an awareness now that changes are needed. #F1 #JapaneseGP

@thomasmaheronf1 It's too late. Competitors, fans, reporters, commentators hate it. F1 value on the stock exchange and viewership have falled since the first race. Ticket sales next year would also fall. No racing. No overtaking. Why would we watch?!

@AntonioSabatoJr I've been watching F1 since I was six months old. Since then, I've watched 99% of the FP, qualifying, sprint, race. I woke up at dawn, sometimes I didn't even sleep. I watched it on my mobile if I wasn't home. Today was the first race that I didn't even watch, this is not race.

This season is a joke and you all know it & we the racers and fans don't really care who wins anymore. This is not racing this is not Formula 1!

Incident between Bearman and Colapinto during the Japanese GP. Thoughts?

@Formuladdict The question wasn't if there would be an accident because of this, but when.

Millions of fans are leaving for good you guys have destroyed the sport that i have loved my entire life and my great father before me.

@That80sG They keep coming back saying that viewers are enjoying it. But who are they? Because drivers is dropping drastically. Competitors hate it. Commentators try to present it in a boring tone that it's enjoyable. The problem is, small changes won't make a difference.

@Rika1___ I would like to hear some educated ideas on how to change it mid-stream or to start 2027. They're showing signs that they do in fact hear the discontent. They can't keep trying to hide from it

"A number of meetings are therefore scheduled in April to assess the operation of the new regulations and to determine whether any refinements are required." There is nothing to examine here, it is clear that not only fine-tuning is needed, but a drastic rewriting of the rules.

@formularacers_ @telegraaf Max's retirement will be a big blow. He lasted longer than I did. I retired as an F1 fan after the Chinese Grand Prix. I have faithfully watched the GP, qualifying and 99% of the race, since I was 6 months old.

🚨 | Max Verstappen is reportedly "seriously considering" retirement from Formula 1 at the end of 2026. [@telegraaf]

You were warned about what these regulations would be like 3 years ago. It’s an absolute shit show. The drivers are fed up and the fans are fed up. You use off board cameras to hide the flaws with these engines because it’s a bad look, are you really surprised by the outcome?

@That80sG I'm sure that if they don't drastically change F1 will be dead for years.

@Rika1___ Not sure how they undo this. The season is turning into a throwaway. Still need to find out if they Merc PU is even legal lol

@F1BigData "A number of meetings are therefore scheduled in April to assess the operation of the new regulations and to determine whether any refinements are required." There is nothing to examine, it is clear that not only refinements is needed, but a drastic rewriting of the rules.

OFFICIAL FIA STATEMENT A number of meetings are scheduled in April to assess the operation of the new regulations and to determine whether any refinements are required

F1 has been about building some of the biggest challenges in terms of race cars and sure they might have their faults but the cars were still the most sought after, If Max Verstappen is pushed into a retirement, FIA and FOM need to have a look in the mirror because they've failed as the custodians of the sport