The Athletic

In today's very special episode, we're on location with HASS for a TPC test at Silverstone.

Gary gives his verdict on F1's power unit rule tweaks, and there's questions about

damaged parts,

turbo size and P.U penalties.

Welcome to the race F1 tech show. I'm Ed Straw, and I'm here with Gary Anderson. We should start

off with where we are, because we are at Silverstone, where

Hasse are currently on the second of a two-day TPC test. That's testing of previous cars.

Now, Gary Anderson, the star with the show, of course, quite nice just to turn up at F1.

You call it events, if you like, but it's quite low key. We've just been sort of roaming

around the garage and they've set up a little extended hospitality area and everything here. So it's quite nice just to have a kind of relaxed poke around, isn't it? It is nice to see the cars up front, you know, without it being old hush and cloak and dagger stuff. you know we can have a snoop around and see the cars in reality and

it's amazing you know it's a year old car um the size of everything is just enormous i mean you look at

this this garage here this is one of the formula one garages underneath the wing um but the reality of

this is probably 20 times the size of what jordan gromprey had as a factory back in

1991 just this one garage so times has changed dramatically in formula one and it's it's nice to see

the cars as i say the size of the teams etc but yeah it's a big day at silverstone here and a very

open-ended question but what have you noticed? What's caught your eye?

What have you looked at and thought, well, that's really interesting. And perhaps more excitingly, what have you looked at and thought, that's a bit stupid? Well, the interesting bit is just how complicated the cars have got. You know, regulations have led to all that stuff. But, you know, when you look at, obviously, they're powered by a Ferrari engine, the Ferrari gearbox sitting behind behind us here, which I've had a bit of a snoop round. But we're not allowed to film. We have to be, the has stuff we can, but the Ferrari stuff, if we point our camera near them, which we've been not doing, but if we're, that we get a little bit of an eye from them, which quite rightly so, because we've promised not to do that. It is rightly so. I mean, they don't like to let their secrets out, but, you know, a bit of a snoop around for me is quite interesting because, as I say, just a complication of it, just the technology, the way it's moved on through the years. I mean, I was involved with it up until the early 2000s. So, yeah, it was changing dramatically even from 1991 to them or from even back from

1973 to then for my time involved with it. But it's just, you know, the ability to do stuff,

the machinery, the modelling, etc., to optimize something, instead of machining something

in a square block and putting a couple of unions into it,

now it's a five-dimensional unit,

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