Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri delivered a damning verdict on the 2026 Formula 1 regulations and their recent tweaks following the Miami Grand Prix on Sunday.

Without delving again into the disastrous 2026 regulations and what makes them so, the Miami Grand Prix was the first test for the tweaks the FIA and Formula One Management have introduced over the April break in an attempt to fix the situation.

Anyone who knows racing and watched Formula 1's weekend in Miami knows that the patching up by the sport and its governing body was a failure.

And while Max Verstappen said ahead of the weekend in Miami that the changes were not enough, his McLaren counterparts', Norris's and Piastri's, respective assessments of the changes were far from being complimentary, which is worse since both drivers had great races and finished on the podium.

"I think the reducing the harvest limit in qualifying has helped a bit," Piastri said when asked about the rule changes during the post-race press conference. "It's not fixed the problem or all the problems, but it's helping with one.

"The races are basically exactly the same, and I think today was my first proper experience of overtaking people and then having to defend and stuff like that. It's pretty crazy, to be honest.

"At one point George [Russell] was one second behind me and managed to overtake me by the end of that straight. And it's just a bit random," he added.

It also seems from what Piastri said that the safety issue with regards to closing speeds has not been sorted.

Closing speeds are still huge

The Aussie said: "The closing speeds are huge, and trying to anticipate that as the defending driver is incredibly tough to do. And obviously for the overtaking driver, I wasn't that pleased with one of the moves that George did, but I kind of found myself almost doing the same move about five laps later, just because the closing speed is enormous.

"So from that side of things, not much has really changed. I think the collaboration again from the FIA and F1 has been good, but there's only so many things you can change with the hardware we have.

"So some changes in the future are I think still needed for sure. How quickly we can do it is the big question," Piastri mused.

Miami Grand Prix winner Kimi Antonelli tried to be a bit more diplomatic but could not ignore the issue of closing speeds.

"I mean, not a lot to add," Antonelli said. "As you said, qualifying feels better, more natural. Races, the closing speed, as I said, is massive, and you also need to trust the guy who is defending because, also with this active aero, the car is pretty lazy when you want to change direction, so you need to think in advance.

"And as I said, you need to trust as well the driver who is defending. But it was a small step in the right direction, and let's see what's going to happen next," the Italian concluded.

However, Norris believed there is nothing that can be done to fix the current regulations.

"I think they covered it well," he said. "It's a small step in the right direction, but it's not to the level that Formula 1 should still be at yet.

"I think we said yesterday, still in qualifying, if you go flat out everywhere and you try pushing like you were in previous years, you still just get penalized for it.

"You still can't be flat out everywhere. It's not about being on as early on throttle everywhere. You should never get penalized for that kind of thing, and you still do.

"So honestly, I don't really think you can fix that. You just have to get rid of the battery. So hopefully in a few years, that's the case," the reigning Formula 1 Champion concluded.