You are listening to Mist Apex Podcast. We Live. F1. Welcome to Mist Apex Podcast. I'm your host, Matt Trumpets, and today we will be talking all things tech. So, coming up, we'll discuss how many rear

wings are too many rear wings? What surprises the 26 regulations might have? Why, DRS size does

matter. And we will put a neat little bow on the 24th season by deciding who really had the best

car. But first, a reminder, we are an independent podcast produced in the podcasting

shed with the kind support of our patrons and partners. We aim to bring you a race review

before your Monday morning commute. We might be wrong, but we're first. And today, we are joined by that Titan of Technical F1 and Technical Editor at Motorsport.com, Matthew

Summerfield, aka Summers F1. Welcome back to the Shed, Summers.

Lovely to be back and lovely to be talking to you once again, Matt.

Yeah, I bet it's nice to be indoors in all the chilly weather we're having right now.

Yeah, cold, windy.

What more can you want for this time of the year?

Yes, well, it is kind of appropriate.

But weather is one of the things we're going to talk about.

So if we can get started, I'd like to dive into some little rule changes for the 25 season.

And we've had some, which is not the most unusual things, but there were, they were only two that really

caught my attention.

So let's start with, I think, the most obvious one, which is we had a lot of talk after the

first inaugural race in Qatar about issues with driver cooling.

And now we've seen added to the regs official prescriptions for when and how driver

cooling has to be used.

Yeah, so obviously that first race was difficult for the drivers in terms of the heat

exhaustion that they faced that particular race.

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