The Athletic.

We hear from Ashton Martin's team principal Andy Cowell about overseeing the

26 F1 car project, offer a technological solution to the Red Bull versus McLaren Tate Wars

and answer your questions on engine

deck, rain in the cockpit and fuel suppliers.

Welcome to the Race F1 Tech Show presented by eBay. I'm Ed Straw but far, far, far more important

is Gary Anderson here with me to offer his

wisdom drawn from half a century of involvement in Formula One. How's life, Gary?

Life's good, yes. I enjoyed Austin. I enjoyed the sprint weekend in Austin, actually. It was

good. It was a good track. Demanding track, obviously the wind affected it.

But there was, you know, it was action all the way, I suppose you might say.

I mean, action maybe they didn't want the first corner of the sprint, but it happened.

But just in general, the racing was quite decent.

I mean, I know Norris, you know, you'd expect him to pull the pass on LeClerc. But at the end of the day, you know, Leclerc did the right thing for what they were doing and starting with the soft tires. That was quite clever. That was ahead of the others, to be honest, in my book, because he was able to get what he wanted out of it, which was a jump off the start, get into a better position, which he did, 20 second.

And then he held that there for quite a long time.

I mean, he almost did it, but not quite.

So I have to give Ferrari and the credit for that, part in the back,

because that's, you know, we always abuse them whenever they get the strategy wrong.

But I think they probably got the strategy right there.

Obviously, others, you know, they waited and saw what he could do before they decided on

the, I'm putting on the soft tire for the second stint.

So it was Ferrari leading the bunch, as far as that was concerned for me, for leading the strategy

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