Together with Max Verstappen and Lando Norris, Alonso has been one of many drivers most crucial of the 2026 guidelines.
Drivers really feel the brand new hybrid engines, which have a close to 50-50 cut up between inside combustion and electrical energy, have diminished F1’s problem.
The important thing issues are the very fact the automobiles run out of half their vitality lengthy earlier than some corners, a course of often known as “derating”, and that a few of the sport’s most demanding corners have been neutered as a result of they’re used to cost the batteries.
Alonso, as is his manner, has produced some notably pithy turns of phrase this season to precise his unhappiness.
He has known as F1 the “battery world championship”. He has described quick corners as “the charging station for the automotive” and mentioned that “the chef might drive the automotive” in a specific nook in Bahrain that was a significant problem.
And he is been dismissive of the elevated variety of overtaking strikes created by offsets in vitality ranges between automobiles, calling them “avoidance actions”.
How did he sq. all that with deciding to maintain racing these automobiles he dislikes a lot?
“That is an excellent query,” he says, “as a result of that was the toughest factor for me.”
He says he hopes the modifications being made to alter the ability ratio to 60-40 in two steps by 2028 “will make issues a little bit bit simpler”.
“This yr, there have been some good races and a few dangerous races,” Alonso says. “Perhaps a few of the shorter circuits that you just had the battery till the braking level are altering the best way you understand the driving.
“And a few of the circuits like Silverstone, Spa, Suzuka, they had been very dangerous, you recognize, as a result of they derate and issues like that.
“Perhaps even for subsequent yr they will tweak a little bit bit the battery energy to have a little bit bit possibly much less battery for longer or one thing like that as a result of F1 in the mean time will not be pure driving.
“Reaching the highest velocity in the midst of the straight, it goes in opposition to the motive force intuition of braking late and happening energy earlier. Plainly if you wish to drive these automobiles quick, you ended up going slower and that is not the best way it must be.”
Alonso says that, as one thing of an elder statesman, he “feels some duty additionally on this regard to assist the game” make the precise choices for the longer term.
And the willingness of governing physique the FIA and business rights holder F1 to just accept there’s a drawback and make modifications to deal with it has additionally been a reassurance.
“It does assist that the game retains chasing concepts and speaking to the drivers and the groups (about) tips on how to make issues higher, even for the following set of laws,” he says.
“This offers me additionally some hope that I’ll get pleasure from extra the driving subsequent yr than I did this yr.”
