Tech Show: Is Red Bull's technical approach hurting driver strategy?
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of The Race F1 Tech Show, hosts Edd Straw and former F1 technical director Gary Anderson discuss Red Bull's impending decision on which of its drivers race where in 2026, and ask whether the senior team's technical direction is giving it an unnecessary headache when promoting drivers from Racing Bulls.
After that, Edd and Gary discuss the title run-in, and in particular Oscar Piastri's struggles on low-grip surfaces compared to team-mate Lando Norris. Will we see a change of fortunes for Piastri on the higher-grip Interlagos circuit?
As ever, the episode is rounded out with a bumper questions section, with Gary answering questions from listeners about 1970s F1 budgets, overheating on the grid, and missing F1 tech.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.0 | Gary offers his solution to Red Bull's driver conundrum |
| 0:13.0 | and looks at the differences between those who thrive at high grip versus low grip |
| 0:17.0 | and answers your questions of 1970s budgets, overheating on the grid and missing |
| 0:22.9 | F1 Tech. |
| 0:28.5 | Welcome to another episode of the race F1 Tech show. I'm Ed Straw and the real focus of this |
| 0:34.5 | podcast is of course Gary Anderson with just over half a century's experience in and around F1. |
| 0:42.4 | Under his belts, there's pretty much nothing he doesn't know about the world of F1. |
| 0:48.7 | So, Gary, how's life? |
| 0:50.2 | Yeah, life's okay, actually, yeah. |
| 0:52.4 | Looking forward to these last four races to see what really unfolds, |
| 0:55.4 | because we've had this climax building up. |
| 0:59.0 | Could all turn out to be a damp squib pretty quickly. |
| 1:01.6 | But I think it will be a battle to the end between the top three. |
| 1:06.2 | For sure, there are going to definitely be fireworks for sure. |
| 1:10.5 | But it's the mix of the others, you know, the Russell, LeClerc, Hamilton, |
| 1:16.0 | who's going to sort of dictate the championship from outside of the championship contenders |
| 1:21.4 | because that's what they've got to watch for. |
| 1:22.7 | It can be something like that that sort of stitches it all up, |
| 1:25.9 | some of those guys taking some of the big points and |
| 1:28.5 | so i think everybody's going to be racing hard to close down the season with success because that's |
| 1:36.6 | really how the motivation carries you through the winter and until next year you know you really want to |
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