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This week, after Joe Guan News terrifying British Grand Prix accident,

we ask what can F1 learn about car and barrier safety?

Plus, we look to the future with Pat Simmons, who gives us the ultimate guide to what the teams will be putting in

their cars in 2026, synthetic, sustainable fuel. Welcome to the Race F1 Tech Show brought to you by Aramco. As always, we're joined by Gary Anderson,

who has vast experience as an F1 technical director and who has worked for some of the most

famous teams, drivers and engineers in F1 history. How's life, Gary? Life's good, yeah. Yeah,

sun's shining, so I can't complain, really. Enjoyed the last, what was it, 10 laps of the British Grand Prix. That was what I suppose I would call real racing, you know, a bit of origy-bargy, nothing too dramatic, a better respect between the drivers. But, you know, in reality, that's what racing should be. And, you know, the more we see of that, the better it will be be and um you know the more we see of that the better it will be and i think actually the more we see of that the more respect the drivers will get for each other as well you know it's not just to shut the door once and you're not coming at me again you know that was a typical set of laps where you know it doesn't matter what corner you around somebody was going to have a go at it. So, um, more of it, please. Yep, we can but hope. Well, as always, we'll start with a technical topic that's caught your eye this week, Gary. I suspect, given what happened at Silverstone, it'll be what happened at the other end of the British Grand Prix that you might pick to talk about. Yeah, I mean, the accident at the beginning, obviously, was very dramatic.

Visually, it was, it was quite an incredible shunt, to be honest.

But as I say, many times about accidents, the longer they are, the better they are, because at the end of the day, you know, it's the stopping that hurts. Where the car end up, down

in between the crash barrier and the fences

those show I think that you know there is a little bit of room there for a bit of a

change I suppose what we should say is there shouldn't be a gap down there and

those fence poles should be part of the structure that holds the arm co-up so but

again a lot of these things are hindsight.

You know, nobody would have expected the incident to happen in the way it did

and the way the car flicked up right at the last minute.

And again, it seemed to flick up because the gravel was running out

and there was a bit of probably tarmac or something there,

concrete where the tyres and the arm

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