At the end of the second day of testing in Bahrain, Max Verstappen shared his honest opinion about the new Formula 1 regulations, and it is fair to say he is far from impressed. Speaking during the English-language media session, he described the package as “anti-racing” and “Formula E on steroids”.
In the Dutch media session that followed, he went a step further and revealed that he found the car so unpleasant to drive that last year he told Red Bull that he did not even want to continue testing the 2026 machinery in the simulator.
