You all listening to Mist Apex More Gost, we live F1.

I'm your host Matt Trumpet, and it's time for tech, and we're lucky enough to be joined

by that story, Denizen of the Tech Deep, Matthew Summerfield, aka SummersF1, who is technical

editor at Motorsport.com.

It's good to see you again, thanks for taking the time.

Not a problem, but it's an absolute pleasure, as always.

Indeed, and there's so very, very much for us to talk about today, but before we get started,

I need to remind everyone that we are an independent podcast, produced in the podcasting

shed with a kind permission of our better halves.

We aim to bring you a race review before your Monday morning commute.

We might be wrong, but we're first.

And since you kindly interrupted your summer holidays to have a few words with us, I

felt like maybe now is the time to start trying to weave a narrative out of all the technical

adaptations we've seen over the season.

So with your permission, I kind of want to go back to the beginning, to the very beginning

to testing, and just the story for me, the most amazing thing for me, has to be just the

wildly divergent side pods solutions that we saw.

So for our viewers and listeners, could you just go over why we are seeing these solutions?

What are they trying?

What are the teams trying to do with these different looking side pods?

I mean, obviously the side pods were the big story, because I think one of the things

that we really thought about these new technical regulations was that we were perhaps going

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