F1 is back - what to expect from Spa
The Race F1 Podcast
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🗓️ 24 August 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Ben Anderson and Mark Hughes join Edd Straw to look ahead to resumption of F1 hostilities in the Belgian Grand Prix at the legendary Spa-Francorchamps. Coming into round 14 of the season, Red Bull's Max Verstappen leads Ferrari's Charles Leclerc by 80 points - but who has the better chance of victory in this weekend's race? And how will the mid-season rule tweaks impact the competitive order?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.0 | The Race is on and Formula One is back this weekend with hostilities resuming at the Belgian Grand Prix. |
| 0:16.8 | But how will the rule changes impacting the floor affect the competitive order |
| 0:20.0 | and what should we expect from the revised spa circuit in what could be its last Grand Prix for a while? |
| 0:26.1 | I'm Ed Sture and joining me to answer those questions and many more are Mark Hughes and Ben Anderson. |
| 0:32.5 | Well, Mark, back to reality after your summer off, presumably a leisurely few weeks? |
| 0:41.3 | Yeah, Portuguese time and very much that sort of tempo as well. So yeah, back to normal speed now. Excellent. I've got the idea that |
| 0:49.9 | Portugal just moves a lot slower. Is that the general feeling? Well, in that sort of heat, |
| 0:54.5 | it's only right, isn't it? Things start a bit later and don't move quite as fast. |
| 1:02.2 | Look at our Portuguese listeners complaining. All the Padreau-Larmy fans will be out in force to push back. |
| 1:07.4 | And Ben Anderson, how are you doing? Yeah, good, thanks. I was in Canada recently, |
| 1:11.3 | so that was my tactic for avoiding the UK heat wave. Yeah, that was a quite good trick. |
| 1:15.9 | How's the pace of life in Canada? Well, the pace of life on my holiday, probably quite similar to |
| 1:20.9 | Mark's slow. But I mean, with kids in tow, you can't get the same kind of leisurely start. It's all early start and early |
| 1:30.2 | finish. Well, early start and late finish, actually. Excellent. So back to work is actually the |
| 1:34.8 | relaxation for you. That's, uh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I'm serene now. Excellent. Well, that's what we need |
| 1:40.3 | in a podcast, nice serene performance from you. Let's delve straight into it. |
| 1:45.4 | And Mark, one of the big talking points is going to be the rule changes the FI is introduced |
| 1:49.0 | to prevent liberties being taken with the plank and skid flexibility. Of course, |
| 1:52.9 | nobody's doing that, as they all do point out, at great length. So can you explain what's |
| 1:57.9 | changing for SPAR and the potential impact? So for SPAR, which was originally for France, but postponed, |
| 2:04.7 | the interpretation of the regs concerning the plank mounting has been tightened up. |
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