A new F1 season is here, one that should be filled with much excitement with new rules, new cars, new teams and a new driver/circuit. With more questions than answers available about the F1 year ahead, even with AI, we offer up Captain Hindsight’s Obvious 2026 F1 Season Predictions.
With so many other better websites and publications, and News Ltd, rolling out their “bold 2026 sporting predictions, The Gurgler is going down a different path, opting for the sensible know-it-all obviousness of Captain Hindsight to give the obvious sporting predictions in advance, before he would tell you that they were going to happen after the event.
Only Captain Hindsight can deliver the most obvious predictions, using his special 0-0 hindsight in advance powers to deliver opinions and predictions that are so obvious they can be found on breakfast TV shows.
No one does obvious 2026 Sporting Predictions like Captain Hindsight and The Gurgler.
Captain Hindsight’s Obvious 2026 F1 Season Predictions
MERCEDES AND RED BULL WILL BE STRANGELY QUICKER THAN THEIR TESTING TIMES
Having sand-bagged their way through testing, balancing out the need to impress slightly while not getting too excited about their supposed advantage that some say is outside the spirit of the regulations, both Mercedes and Red Bull will become mysteriously quicker in Q2 of the Australian Grand Prix, the traditional time where sand bags are removed and true new season pace revealed.
This will ensure that the FIA aren’t able to ban their tricks until later in the season.
FERRARI WILL BE CURIOUSLY SLOWER THAN THEIR TESTING TIMES WHEN THE SEASON STARTS PROPER
On the opposite end, Ferrari don’t want to ruin their hopes too early, so a few quick times in testing is the medicine they need to get people off their back, and until they can stuff up a race with strategy.
MERCEDES AND RED BULL WILL BE STRANGELY QUICKER THAN THEIR TESTING TIMES
Having sand-bagged their way through testing, balancing out the need to impress slightly while not getting too excited about their supposed advantage that some say is outside the spirit of the regulations, both Mercedes and Red Bull will become mysteriously quicker in Q2 of the Australian Grand Prix, the traditional time where sand bags are removed and true new season pace revealed.
LANDO NORRIS’ DAD WILL GET MORE COVERAGE THAN ESTEBAN OCON
There’s nothing F1 TV bosses like more than F1 parents, and despite being less interesting than Esteban Ocon, which takes some doing, Lando Norris’ dad will feature in more total screen time than the Haas driver in 2026.
SKY F1 PRESENTERS WILL MOAN ABOUT THE EAR:LY RACE TIME SLOTS FOR HALF THE COVERAGE
That’s despite the race being overwhelming balanced towards European viewers and massively biased towards British fans.
HAVING MARK WEBBER AROUND LESS IS A GOOD THING FOR OSCAR PIASTRI
No offence to Mark Webber, who we love forever, but having one of F1’s unluckiest men around you less when in a title fight, is probably a good thing. In addition to trying to get over perceived team biases with the driver who suffered it during his career, is probably a good thing.
A GRAND PRIX RUNNING UNDER A HIGHWAY WITH A FAKE HARBOUR IS USUALLY NOT A GREAT GRAND PRIX
The Miami Grand Prix is in the top one of our least favourite races, with very little to get excited about. Luckily they double down and have a sprint race too. It also coincides with Danica Patrick being part of the coverage, which never helps.
FERNANDO ALONSO WILL BE GRUMPY UNTIL SUMMER
Maybe because he’s getting older, or maybe because the Aston Martin appears to be 2026’s slowest car, despite Adrian Newey, but Fernando Alonso will be the grumpiest of bears in 2026.
LIAM LAWSON WILL BE GRUMPY ALL YEAR
Racing Bulls Liam Lawson will have a better car than Alonso, so less reason to scowl his way through every weekend. But he will scowl, and what are you gonna do about it?
LANCE STROLL WILL UNDERWHELM BUT KEEPS HIS JOB
No matter the appalling performance, or depth of gravel traps he’s imbedded in, Lance Stroll will remain in F1 for as long as his father can keep paying the bills at Aston Martin.
PEOPLE WILL OFTEN FORGET THAT WILLIAMS IS ON THE GRID
A lot of people tend to like Willaims, mostly nostalgia buffs, and fans of Alex Albon and Carlos which there are, and should be plenty of. But sometimes they are so in the middle pack of the F1 weekend that you forget they’re there. Not terrible enough to laugh at, not a distinctive enough livery to ooh and ahh at, and not fast enough to get in the way of the TV coverage. Sort of like F1’s middle child in a big, old fashioned Catholic family of 11.
DONALD TRUMP WILL MAKE A NUMBER OF IGNORANT TEXTS ABOUT F1
Why should F1 be excluded from the range of topics that get the Truth Social treatment.
RACING BULLS WILL CHANGE THEIR NAME TO SOMETHING ELSE
Red Bull’s second team will no doubt announce another ne name for the team towards the end of the season.
