F1 Tech Show: What’s going on with F1’s 2026 engine drama?
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On the latest episode of The Race F1 Tech Show, Edd Straw and former F1 technical director Gary Anderson take a look at the current drama surrounding F1’s 2026 engine regulations, with stakeholders discussing significant changes to the rules aimed at heading off fears about cars repeatedly running out of energy.
Do these changes suggest the rule direction was wrong in the first place, or are there other factors at play?
Before that, Gary muses on Lewis Hamilton’s current predicament at Ferrari, and suggests the setup direction he’d push the seven-time world champion in if he was in Ferrari’s engineering team.
And finally, the episode is rounded out with four excellent questions from listeners, which cover dirty air, how car liveries are applied, Max Verstappen’s recent upshift issue, and whether Renault might be tempted back into the power unit game, should F1 revert to V10 engines one day.
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| 1:24.4 | Gary tackles Lewis Hamilton's technique troubles, F1's power unit puzzlement, |
| 1:28.9 | and your questions on outwash, paint jobs, gear shifts and Renault V10. |
| 1:42.1 | Welcome back to the race F1 tech show. As always, I'm Ed Straw, but joining me is the star of the show, a designer of Grand Prix winning cars, who you all know well, Gary Anderson. |
| 1:54.2 | She's had a triple header, Gary. We were just talking before we started about the frequency. I mean, a lot went on in that triple header. |
| 2:00.7 | Zooka feels like a very long time ago, and that was just the start of it. Yeah, I mean, it is interesting. I think you can have too much of a good thing. I'm not sure where the level actually lies, because once you start to have on race after race, I mean, it's nice to look forward to the next race. But, you know, you have them every weekend. It sort of becomes a bit boring and the old family ties start to struggle a little bit. I suppose you might call it with the half of the family. It's not really as interested in motor racing as myself. I'm sure that happens around the world. So it is a happy medium. 24 races in the season. Difficult to do that without having triple headers but um you know |
| 2:36.7 | maybe maybe double headers would be would be the right thing to have two two races and then a two |
| 2:41.9 | week break and then two races and two week break and sort of balance it out that way so once you're |
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