F1 Tech Show: What’s going on with F1’s 2026 engine drama?

The Race F1 Podcast

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4.6 • 942 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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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. If you'd like to ask Gary a tech question, email [email protected] Follow The Race on Instagram, X and Facebook Check out our latest videos on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.4	Gary tackles Lewis Hamilton's technique troubles, F1's power unit puzzlement,
0:47.2	and your questions on outwash, paint jobs, gear shifts and Renault V-10. Welcome back to the Race F1 Tech Show. As always, I'm Ed Straw, but joining me is the star of the show,
1:03.4	a designer of Grand Prix winning cars, who you all know well, Gary Anderson. She's had a triple
1:09.5	header, Gary. We were just talking before we started about the frequency.
1:13.8	I mean, a lot went on in that triple header.
1:15.6	Zooka feels like a very long time ago, and that was just the start of it.
1:18.9	Yeah, I mean, it does interesting.
1:20.4	I think you can have too much of a good thing.
1:23.3	I'm not sure where the level actually lies, because once you start to have on race after race,
1:27.9	I mean, it's nice to look forward to the next race.
1:31.0	But, you know, you have them every weekend.
1:32.5	It sort of becomes a bit boring in the old family ties start to struggle a little bit.
1:36.8	I suppose you might call it with half of the family.
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