The 2026 cars rolled out of the garage at the Australian Grand Prix and into one of the most polarized receptions a new Formula 1 regulation set has ever received. The promise was a closer, more strategic, more sustainable form of racing. What fans have gotten, at least at first, is a lot of arguments about batteries.And then the Bahrain and Saudi Arabia GPs were canceled amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, leaving five weeks between Japan and Miami with nothing to do but argue louder.We dropped a fan survey into that gap on the Monday before Miami to gauge fans’ feelings about the new cars and racing so far. 2,488 readers responded. About 300 of those came in after Saturday’s sprint race, once the FIA’s mid-season tweaks had gone into effect and the drivers had sounded less angry about the regulations than in Japan. We isolated those responses in each section to see whether one weekend had moved the needle.It had. Overall negativity toward the cars dropped 12 points after the FIA’s mid-season tweaks went into effect in Miami. The share calling the racing worse fell from 49 percent to 38 percent. Demand for a complete regulatory overhaul dropped by 8 points, while the “wait and see” camp nearly doubled.One race didn’t make believers, but it did make many skeptics pause.But let’s get to the full survey results and hear from you. The results are organized around six areas: the cars, the racing, the regulations, driver skill, fan comprehension, and what comes next.Editor’s note: Reader comments have been edited for brevity.