01 Race Weekend Format

Standard weekend: FP1 and FP2 run Friday, FP3 Saturday morning, then knockout qualifying Saturday afternoon — Q1 trims 20 cars to 15, Q2 trims 15 to 10, Q3 sets the top 10 grid slots on final one-lap pace.

Sprint weekend (6 of 24 rounds in 2026, including this one): Friday's single practice session is followed by Sprint Qualifying (SQ1/SQ2/SQ3, 12/10/8 minutes, six eliminated each round) to set Saturday's Sprint grid. The Sprint runs Saturday, then a full knockout qualifying session sets Sunday's Grand Prix grid separately.

Grid order otherwise follows qualifying result directly, adjusted for any grid penalties (parts changes, driving infringements) applied after the session.

02 Points System

• Race: 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1 for 1st through 10th; nothing beyond 10th.
• Sprint: 8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 for 1st through 8th.
• No point for pole. The fastest-lap bonus point that ran 2019–2024 was abolished starting 2025 — it no longer exists.
• Constructors' points are simply the sum of both cars' finishes across race and sprint.

03 Championship Structure

Straight points table — no playoff, no elimination bracket. Both the Drivers' and Constructors' World Championships are decided by cumulative points across all 24 rounds, race and sprint points combined.

Tiebreaker is a countback: most race wins, then most 2nd-place finishes, then 3rds, and so on. Only Grand Prix wins count toward the countback — Sprint wins don't move the tiebreak.

04 Technical Regulations

2026 opened an all-new power unit era: the 1.6L turbo V6 hybrid stays, but the MGU-H is gone and MGU-K output has tripled to 350kW — giving a near-even split between combustion and electric power, and roughly 300% more battery deployment than the previous generation. Cars run on 100% sustainable fuel.

New "active aerodynamics" — movable wing elements that cut drag on straights and add downforce in corners — effectively replace DRS's role with a system built into the car. The cars themselves are smaller and lighter than the 2022–2025 generation.

Pirelli supplies three dry compounds per race weekend from its C1–C5 range (no C6 in 2026); the standard allocation is 13 sets per driver (12 on sprint weekends), and at least two different dry compounds must be used in the race barring wet conditions.

05 Notable Procedural Rules

Parc fermé locks car setup once qualifying begins. On a sprint weekend it applies from the start of Sprint Qualifying through the Sprint, lifts briefly ahead of GP qualifying, then re-applies from Q1 through Sunday's race. Permitted work under parc fermé is narrow: tire pressures, the standard front-wing flap adjuster, engine covers, starter batteries, and fuel draining for weighing. A declared change in climatic conditions (wet to dry or back) loosens the rules to allow brake and radiator duct changes.

01 Race Weekend Format

Practice is a single ~50-minute session, typically Saturday. Qualifying runs two rounds on single timed laps: the 10 fastest from Round 1 advance to a final round where times reset and 1st–10th are set by that round's speed; the rest of the field is set by Round 1 times (or, at tracks that skip qualifying, by prior finishing order or points).

Race distance varies by track — the Daytona 500 runs 200 laps/500 miles; most ovals are shorter.

02 Points System

• Race finish: winner scores 55 points, 2nd scores 35, declining roughly 1 point per position from there; 36th through 40th all score 1 point.
• Stage points: each race splits into 3 stages. Top 10 in Stages 1 and 2 score 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 — the final stage awards no separate stage points, only the race-finish points above.
• Fastest lap earns 1 bonus point, provided the car wasn't sent to the garage during the race.
• Maximum possible in a single race: 76 points (55 for the win, 20 for sweeping both stages, 1 for fastest lap).

03 Championship Structure — new for 2026

NASCAR returned to "The Chase" format for 2026, retiring the 2014–2025 elimination-round Playoff (the Round of 16/12/8/Championship 4 structure). The top 16 drivers in regular-season points after 26 races advance — full stop. The old "win and you're in" auto-berth is gone; the field is set purely by regular-season points.

Points reset once, by seed: 1st seed starts the Chase on 2,100 points, 2nd on 2,075, 3rd on 2,065, then each subsequent seed drops 5 points down to 2,000 for 16th.

There are no elimination cuts — all 16 drivers run the complete 10-race Chase, Darlington through the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway (which replaces Phoenix as host). The champion is simply whoever holds the most points after the finale — a straight points race within the reset field, not a winner-take-all shootout.

04 Technical Regulations — Next Gen Car

Engine: 358 cu in (5.86L) naturally aspirated pushrod V8, fuel-injected since 2012. Baseline output is 670 hp, boosted to 750 hp for 2026 at road courses and short ovals under 1.5 miles via a larger tapered spacer — the first horsepower bump since the low-power Next Gen era began.

Chassis: steel-tube spec frame with bolt-on, replaceable front and rear clips, and a symmetrical composite body (unlike the aero-skewed Gen 6 car it replaced). It's the first NASCAR car with independent rear suspension — twin wishbones, 5-way adjustable Öhlins dampers.

Wheels are 18-inch aluminum with a single center-lock lug nut, a step up from the 5-lug wheels still used in the lower national series. Chassis weight is roughly 3,200 lb without driver or fuel.

05 Notable Procedural Rules

The Damaged Vehicle Policy keeps cars that can't drive to pit road in the race — they're towed to the garage instead of eliminated outright. A 7-minute repair clock applies only to active pit-road repairs, not garage work, so a car can rejoin after longer garage repairs.

Overtime (green-white-checkered) attempts are unlimited. Drivers commit to an inside or outside lane at a marked "choose" cone before the restart, and the overtime line — where the race is declared complete if caution flies — is now the start/finish line itself.

01 Race Weekend Format

Same structure as Cup: a single practice session followed by two-round knockout qualifying — 10 fastest from Round 1 advance to a final round that sets the front of the grid on single-lap pace.

02 Points System

Identical structure to Cup: 55 points for the win, stage points of 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 to the top 10 at each of the first two stage breaks, plus a fastest-lap bonus point.

03 Championship Structure — new for 2026

Renamed for 2026 under a new title sponsorship — O'Reilly Auto Parts, a multi-year deal reported near $15M/year announced August 2025 — succeeding Xfinity (2015–2025), Nationwide (2008–2014), and Busch/Anheuser-Busch (1982–2007) before it. The rules lineage mirrors Cup.

The series also moved to The Chase for 2026: top 12 drivers in regular-season points qualify (versus Cup's 16), seeded on the same reset scale — 1st seed starts on 2,100 points, 2nd on 2,075, 3rd on 2,065, then –5 per seed down to 2,020 for 12th. The Chase runs 9 races (Cup runs 10), Darlington through Homestead-Miami, with no elimination rounds — most points after the finale wins. The "win and you're in" auto-berth is gone, same as Cup.

04 Technical Regulations

Same 358 cu in pushrod V8 architecture as Cup, but carbureted rather than fuel-injected (Cup switched to EFI in 2012), and lower-output at 650 hp versus Cup's 670–750 hp.

The body and chassis are a composite, non–Next Gen tube-frame car — roughly 11 in longer, 4 in narrower, and 1 in taller than Cup's Next Gen car, on a 105-inch wheelbase, and about 100 lb lighter than Cup's ~3,500 lb (with driver) car. Wheels are 15-inch steel on 5 lugs, not the Cup car's 18-inch aluminum single-lug setup.

05 Notable Procedural Rules

Functions explicitly as NASCAR's national development tier — Cup regulars are limited in how many starts they can make here per season, a longstanding eligibility restriction meant to preserve opportunities for series regulars, distinct from how Cup or ARCA are structured.

01 Race Weekend Format

Qualifying format varies by track: single-car, one-lap qualifying at short tracks like Hickory; randomly-drawn-group timed qualifying at superspeedways like Daytona; and a two-lap single-car system on doubleheader weekends, where the first lap sets the Race 1 grid and the second sets Race 2's.

02 Points System

Straight points by finishing position, plus bonus points: 1 point for the pole winner. A durability/attendance bonus awards 50 points to any driver who completes every race in a five-race block. Ties are broken by most wins, then most fastest laps.

03 Championship Structure

ARCA has always run — and continues to run for 2026 — a straight full-season points battle with no playoff. Highest cumulative points after the final race of the 20-round schedule, concluding at Kansas, takes the title. That's the clearest structural contrast with Cup and the O'Reilly Series, both of which moved to a Chase format for 2026.

04 Technical Regulations

Engine: the spec ARCA Ilmor 396 (ARCA Control Engine), a Chevrolet-LS-family-based, fuel-injected unit producing roughly 700 hp and 500 lb-ft — notably higher output than Cup's pre-2026 baseline, and similar to the O'Reilly Series car.

Chassis: steel tube frame on a 110-inch wheelbase. Bodies are visually similar to Xfinity-era shells but are effectively an older generation of stock car body, and ARCA fields run on noticeably lower budgets than either NASCAR national series above it.

05 Notable Procedural Rules

ARCA runs its own restrictor and tapered-spacer packages and aero rules rather than adopting Next Gen equipment — the biggest functional difference fans will notice trackside is the carbureted, higher-revving engine paired with a lighter, less sophisticated chassis than either NASCAR national series.

01 Race Weekend Format

Road and street course weekends run practice sessions followed by 3-round knockout qualifying, with progressively smaller groups culminating in a "Firestone Fast Six" shootout for pole.

Oval qualifying (outside the Indy 500) uses a single- or multi-lap average format, with cars running individually rather than in knockout groups.

The Indianapolis 500 runs its own two-day system for the 33-car field: Day 1 locks positions 16–33; Day 2 sees drivers 10–15 fight through a "Final 15" round for the last three Fast 12 spots, the Fast 12 runs a four-lap average, and the top 6 advance to the Fast Six shootout for pole.

02 Points System

• Standard races: 50-40-35-32-30-28-26-24-22-20 for 1st through 10th, then declining by 1 per position down to 5 points for 25th and beyond.
• Bonus points: 1 for pole (all races except Indy 500), 1 for leading a lap, plus 2 more for leading the most laps — up to 3 extra points for race leadership.
• The Indy 500's Fast 12 qualifying session awards its own points, 12 down to 1 for the 12 qualifiers.
• An unscheduled early engine change before its mileage mandate costs a driver 10 championship points.

03 Championship Structure

Straight points table across the full season — no playoff, no elimination bracket. The champion is whoever holds the highest cumulative points after the final race. No races award double points in 2026, and the Thermal Club exhibition event is not a points race at all.

04 Technical Regulations

Current chassis is the Dallara DW12 in its later evolution — a spec tub for every entrant. Engines are 2.2L twin-turbo V6s from one of the sport's two suppliers, Chevrolet or Honda.

Since mid-2024, a 48V hybrid unit (MGU plus a 20-ultracapacitor energy store) sits in the bellhousing. Regeneration happens automatically under braking/throttle; deployment is always manual, via a paddle or button. Combined with Push-to-Pass, road and street cars can exceed 800 hp on demand.

A next-generation chassis and engine package — the IR-28, a Dallara-built 2.4L V6 targeting 760 hp — has been unveiled but isn't due until 2028; it is not the current spec.

05 Notable Procedural Rules

Push-to-Pass is a road/street-course-only overtake assist adding roughly 50–60 extra horsepower on demand. Allocations vary by venue: 15 seconds per push and 150 seconds total per race at St. Petersburg, Detroit, Laguna Seca, and Thermal; 20 seconds per push and 200 seconds total at the other seven road/street venues. It's unavailable on ovals and disabled for the opening laps everywhere it's used.

01 Race Weekend Format

Oval qualifying runs single-car in reverse championship order — two warm-up laps, then two green-flag laps, with pole going to the fastest aggregate speed over those two laps.

Road and street course qualifying splits the field into two groups, each given 10 minutes of track time; the fastest overall time across both groups takes pole.

On doubleheader weekends, each driver's best qualifying lap sets the Race 1 grid and their second-best lap sets Race 2's. Weekends typically run one or two practice sessions plus qualifying and one or two races; pit stops usually aren't mandatory.

02 Points System

Winner scores 50 points, 2nd scores 40, 3rd scores 35, then declines by 2 per position down to 20 for 10th; from 11th on it declines by 1 per position. Bonus points: 1 for pole, 1 for leading a lap, plus 2 more for leading the most laps.

03 Championship Structure

Straight full-season points table, no playoff — the same philosophy as its parent IndyCar Series. The 2026 season runs 17 races, its largest calendar since 2021.

04 Technical Regulations

One-make spec series: every car is a Dallara IL-15 with a carbon-fiber honeycomb composite monocoque. The engine is a Mazda-AER P63, a 2.0L turbocharged inline-4 producing 450 hp, plus 50 hp available on Push-to-Pass. Cars weigh roughly 1,400 lb, and Firestone is the control tire supplier.

05 Notable Procedural Rules

Indy NXT functions explicitly as the top rung of the Road to Indy ladder feeding directly into IndyCar. Its Push-to-Pass system and stripped-down aero package are deliberately simpler than IndyCar's own, keeping the emphasis on driver development rather than technology.

01 Race Weekend Format

Friday: FP1 (45 min, morning) and FP2 (60 min, afternoon) — FP2's combined time decides which 10 riders go straight to Q2 and which have to fight through Q1.

Saturday: FP3 (30 min), then Q1 (15 min, top 2 advance) and Q2 (15 min). Q2 sets grid positions 1–12 for both the Sprint and Sunday's race; the rest of the grid is filled by Q1 non-advancers on their Q1 times. The Sprint itself runs Saturday afternoon, roughly half Grand Prix distance.

Sunday: a 10-minute warm-up, then the Grand Prix at full distance in the afternoon. The grid holds 22 riders, arranged 3 per row across 11 rows.

02 Points System

• Grand Prix (Sunday): 25-20-16-13-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 for 1st through 15th.
• Sprint (Saturday): 12-9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 for 1st through 9th only — points stop there.
• Maximum for sweeping a weekend: 37 points (25 + 12).

03 Championship Structure

Straight cumulative points table across the full season — no playoff. Riders', Constructors', and Teams' World Championships all run in parallel and are all decided the same way.

04 Technical Regulations

2026 is the final season of the current formula — 1000cc engines on Michelin control tires. A major reset to 850cc engines and Pirelli control tires arrives for 2027, so treat this season's specs as expiring, not permanent.

Engines are frozen mid-tier for 2026: Ducati, KTM, and Aprilia must race on engines homologated in 2025; Honda could homologate once at the start of the season but can't change it mid-year; Yamaha, still in the lowest concessions tier, retains in-season development freedom.

The concessions system ranks constructors A–D by their share of the prior season's constructors' points. Lower-ranked manufacturers get more test days, more permitted engine designs, aero upgrade allowances, and more flexible tire allocation than the frontrunners — a deliberate competitive-balancing mechanism unique to MotoGP among the series covered on this site.

05 Notable Procedural Rules

The long lap penalty (introduced 2019) sends an offending rider through a marked, slower alternate line at a specified corner rather than adding time after the fact — typically costing 2–4 seconds. Riders get 3 laps to comply, or 5 if a double long-lap penalty is issued.

The sprint format itself remains the series' defining structural quirk versus every other championship on this site — nearly every round is effectively two points-scoring races.

01 Race Weekend Format

Qualifying runs a Hyperpole system: an initial ~30-minute session sets who advances, then Hyperpole itself runs in stages — an opening round narrows the field, a final round is a one-shot pole shootout — for each class separately. At Le Mans specifically, the top 15 Hypercars and top 12 LMP2/LMGT3 cars advance to Hyperpole.

Race distance varies by round: 6 hours at most stops (Imola, Spa, São Paulo, Fuji), 8–10 hours at a couple of others, and 24 hours at Le Mans.

02 Points System

• 6-hour races: 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1 for 1st through 10th — the same scale F1 uses for a race win.
• 8–10 hour races: a heavier scale — 38-27-23-18-15-12-9-6-3-2.
• Le Mans (24 hours): points are doubled relative to the standard scale — the single biggest points swing of the season.
• Pole earns 1 bonus point per class — Hypercar and LMGT3 each award their own pole point.

03 Championship Structure

Straight points table, no playoff, across all 8 rounds of the season. Separate championships run in parallel: Hypercar Drivers' and Manufacturers' World Championships, and LMGT3 Drivers' and Teams' titles — manufacturer works entries compete in Hypercar, customer GT3-spec teams in LMGT3.

04 Technical Regulations

Hypercar uniquely blends two rulebooks converging on similar performance: LMH (Le Mans Hypercar — manufacturers largely free to design their own chassis, aero, and hybrid system) and LMDh (a defined-components approach: chassis from one of four approved suppliers, a single-source rear-axle hybrid system). Both compete against each other under Balance of Performance.

The hybrid envelope runs to roughly 500kW (~680 hp) combined output; a ~200kW (272 hp) front-axle motor-generator engages above a set speed threshold, making the cars four-wheel-drive under hybrid boost even though the combustion engine only drives the rear wheels, through a 7-speed sequential gearbox.

Balance of Performance (BoP) equalizes power, weight, aero, and fuel flow across different chassis and engine combinations so LMH and LMDh cars — and different manufacturers — can race competitively together. For 2026, BoP calculations use only the best two of the most recent races (down from three) to converge faster; Le Mans uses its own standalone BoP based on homologation data rather than recent-race form.

Tires are single-supplier and class-specific: Michelin for Hypercar, Goodyear for LMGT3, which itself is homologated to the customer-racing GT3 ruleset shared with GT3 categories worldwide.

05 Notable Procedural Rules

Every driver carries an FIA-assigned category — Platinum, Gold, Silver, or Bronze — based on racing record. Hypercar lineups cannot include a Bronze-rated driver (Silver/Gold/Platinum only), while LMGT3 lineups must include at least one Bronze driver plus another rated Bronze or Silver — a deliberate rule keeping the GT3 class accessible to gentleman/am drivers rather than turning pro-only.

Teams typically rotate up to 3 drivers per car, with individual stints generally running 45 minutes to an hour, plus overall maximum driving-time caps per event — endurance-specific fatigue-management rules with no equivalent among the other series on this site.

01 Race Weekend Format

A single practice session is followed by single-truck time-trial qualifying: two timed laps at tracks 1.25 miles and under, one flying lap at longer ovals, and knockout-style group qualifying on road courses.

Truck races are frequently run as Friday-night companion events to Cup and O'Reilly Series weekends — Bristol, Martinsville, Homestead, and Phoenix all run their Truck race on a Friday during the Chase — though New Hampshire's Aug 22–23 weekend runs the Truck race on Saturday alongside a Whelen Modified Tour doubleheader, one day ahead of Sunday's Cup race.

02 Points System

• Race winner scores 55 points (up from 40 pre-2026), 2nd scores 35, 3rd scores 34, then declines by 1 per position from there.
• Stage points: top 10 in each of the first two stages score 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, on top of race-finish points.
• Bankable "playoff points" bonuses and the old "win and you're in" automatic Chase berth are both gone under the 2026 format.

03 Championship Structure — new for 2026

NASCAR reverted to "Chase" branding across all three national series for 2026, ending the 2016–2025 elimination-bracket era. The Truck field is 10 trucks, seeded entirely by regular-season points — no automatic bids for race winners outside the top 10.

The regular-season champion opens the Chase with 2,100 reset points, a 25-point cushion over 2nd (2,075); 3rd on down drops in 5-point steps. From there: a Round of 10 (Bristol, Kansas, Charlotte — back to the oval layout for 2026) cuts the field to 8; a Round of 8 (Phoenix, Talladega, Martinsville) cuts it to the final 4; those four race for the title at Homestead, where the highest finisher wins the championship outright.

Also new for 2026: Cup drivers with 3+ years of experience can now run 8 Truck races (up from 5) — but remain barred from all 7 Chase races and the finale, keeping the title fight to series regulars.

04 Technical Regulations

Chassis: a steel tube-frame design with an integrated roll cage — a different platform from Cup's composite/unibody-style Next Gen car. Suspension is a solid, live rear axle; unlike Cup's Next Gen car, Trucks (like the O'Reilly Series) run no independent rear suspension.

Engine: a spec Ilmor NT1 crate V8, 358 cu in (5.86L), pushrod, naturally aspirated — and carbureted, making Trucks the last NASCAR national series still running a carburetor rather than fuel injection. Output is roughly 650 hp unrestricted, dropping to about 450 hp behind a restrictor plate/tapered spacer at Talladega.

Transmission is a 4-speed manual in an H-pattern, shared with the O'Reilly Series car (Cup runs a 5-speed sequential transaxle). Wheels are 15-inch steel on 5 lugs, wheelbase is 112 inches (versus Cup's 110 and the O'Reilly car's 105), and minimum chassis weight is roughly 3,200 lb without driver or fuel.

Ram joins as a manufacturer for 2026 — a five-truck Kaulig Racing program and the series' first new OEM addition in years, racing alongside Chevrolet, Ford, and Toyota.

05 Notable Procedural Rules

Tandem drafting — two trucks locked nose-to-tail to build speed — has been a black-flag offense since 2014, a response to safety incidents unique to how these trucks draft compared to Cup or O'Reilly Series cars.

Minimum driver age is notably younger than Cup or the O'Reilly Series: 18 for ovals 1.33 miles and longer, but just 16 for shorter tracks and road courses — reflecting the Truck Series' role as NASCAR's entry-level national development tier.

01 Rally Weekend Format

Unlike circuit racing, a WRC round is contested over closed public and forest roads specific to that event, split into 15-20 timed special stages run across three competitive legs (typically Friday through Sunday), preceded by a shakedown stage for setup and reconnaissance.

Crews complete limited pre-event reconnaissance runs to prepare pace notes, then tackle the live stages against the clock one car at a time, with road position and running order adjusted daily based on the standings.

02 Points System

• Overall rally result: 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1 for the top 10 classified crews.
• Power Stage: up to 5 bonus points for the fastest crews through the final, live-televised stage.
• Super Sunday: up to 5 more bonus points for the best combined time across Sunday's other stages.
• Maximum available per rally: 35 points. Co-Drivers' points mirror the Drivers'; Manufacturers' points sum the best two crews per marque.

03 Championship Structure

Straight full-season points table across all 14 rounds — no playoff. Separate titles run in parallel for Drivers', Co-Drivers', and Manufacturers', all decided by cumulative points after the Saudi Arabia finale.

04 Technical Regulations

Rally1 cars have run without hybrid assistance since 2025, when the plug-in units introduced in 2022 were dropped. Cars use a 1.6-litre turbocharged four-cylinder engine on 100% fossil-free fuel, with the air restrictor trimmed from 36mm to 35mm and minimum weight lowered to 1,180kg to keep performance in line with the outgoing hybrid-era cars.

A more sweeping overhaul — offering manufacturers alternate bodywork options (B-class, C-class, compact SUV, or a bespoke concept car) on a common safety cell, with power capped around 330bhp and a €400,000 cost cap — was proposed to arrive for 2026, but the FIA pushed the changeover back, meaning the current Rally1 ruleset carries through this season with 2027 now the target for the next generation of cars.

05 Notable Procedural Rules

Running order on Saturday and Sunday flips to fastest-first from the previous day's classification, unlike circuit racing's grid-holds-until-the-next-session structure — meaning the rally leader often opens the road on loose-surface stages, sweeping debris into the racing line for those behind.

Hankook is the championship's sole tyre supplier across all conditions, supplying separate compounds for dry and wet asphalt and a dedicated gravel tyre used across the loose-surface rounds like Chile.

01 Race Weekend Format

Standard weekends run practice and a knockout qualifying format (duels or group-based depending on the season) to set the grid, followed by a single E-Prix.

New for the GEN4 era: double-header weekends — eight of them on the 2026-27 calendar — pair a shorter, higher-power "E-PrixUnleashed" sprint race with a traditional E-Prix on the same weekend, giving fans two distinct styles of racing rather than two similar-length races.

02 Points System

Race points follow a Formula-style scale for the top 10 finishers, with additional bonus points historically available for pole position and fastest lap. Both races on a double-header weekend award full championship points.

03 Championship Structure

Straight cumulative points table across the full season — no playoff. Drivers' and Teams' World Championships are decided by total points after the season finale, this year a double-header in Tokyo.

04 Technical Regulations

The outgoing Gen3 Evo package (used through Season 12) was the first Formula E car to race internationally with all-wheel drive, combining a 250kW front powertrain with a 350kW rear unit for up to 600kW combined, and was the first-ever "net zero carbon" race car by design.

The incoming GEN4 car, debuting in Jeddah this December, raises peak power to 600kW (roughly 815hp) with permanent active all-wheel drive throughout the race (rather than only under braking), 700kW of regenerative braking capacity, and a 0-100kph time of just 1.8 seconds — a significant step up in performance that has pushed the calendar toward faster, more permanent circuits.

05 Notable Procedural Rules

Formula E has historically relied on tools like Attack Mode (a power boost activated by driving through an off-line activation zone) to encourage overtaking on tight street circuits — specifics of how these carry over are among the details still being finalized for the GEN4 ruleset.

Three new venues headline the 2026-27 calendar: the Circuit of the Americas (Austin), Zandvoort, and Brands Hatch — the latter replacing London's ExCeL as the series' UK home.