Tech Show: A racing revolution? Our tech preview to F1 2026
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The Race F1 Tech Show returns, with Edd Straw and legendary former F1 technical director Gary Anderson discussing all the big tech talking points heading into 2026.
Gary gives his assessment of each team heading into the new season, plus shares his thoughts on the new power units, deployment regimes, energy harvesting, the start sequence and more.
He also answers questions from listeners on bargeboards (or should that be floorboards?), the loss of the MGU-H, the weight limit, and lift wings vs downforce wings.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.0 | In our season preview episode, Gary gives his verdict on F1's new 2026 cars, |
| 0:16.0 | explains why the energy management equation is so difficult to solve |
| 0:19.2 | and tackles your questions on everything |
| 0:21.0 | from the loss of the MGUH to lift wings. |
| 0:28.3 | Welcome to the first in a new series of the Race F1 Tech Show and there's no better time to start |
| 0:34.6 | this particular series than just before the start of the 2026 season. |
| 0:40.1 | We've had testing, we've seen the cars, we've got a good feel for what's going to go on, |
| 0:43.8 | and some of the challenges that may be faced. So the perfect time to look ahead to the year |
| 0:49.9 | with a technical focus on it. So I'm Ed Straw and far more importantly. |
| 0:54.3 | Back with me is Gary Anderson. |
| 0:57.0 | Another season, Gary, |
| 0:58.0 | and some pretty big changes for us all to get our heads around. |
| 1:01.6 | Yeah, it's another season. |
| 1:02.7 | It's just around the corner whenever we'll kick off. |
| 1:05.1 | And as we always say, |
| 1:06.6 | we'll find out what's really happening when they get to Melbourne. |
| 1:09.0 | But actually, I probably won't. |
| 1:11.4 | Because there's so many changes this year with both the P.U. |
| 1:15.0 | The use of the P.U. |
| 1:17.1 | And the chassis itself, obviously, quite different characteristics for the car, from the ground effect days to what we're calling now a more of a flat bottom car. |
| 1:27.0 | It's still produced downforce from |
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