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On the final tech show of the year, Gary gives his verdict on F1's ground effect regulations era and answers your questions on how to write better rules, the lack of car geometry tweets by the FIA, and whether active

suspension should have returned.

Welcome to the race F1 tech show.

I'm Ed Straw, of course, for this final episode of 2025.

The Real Star of the show is Gary Anderson. Gary got through to the end of another year.

Imminent move on to 2026. And it's been an interesting time in recent years, hasn't it, with the way

the cars have been. We're going to talk about the regulations as they've been in this episode.

And I guess it's always nice. It's just F1, isn't it? One era ends,

another era starts immediately. That's just the nature of the beast, isn't it?

It is the nature of the beast, but, you know, as I say, it probably started six months ago for most teams.

You have to have your head focused on the new regulations, even though you're still working on the current

cards still fighting for championship points to you know constructors points because constructors points

pay big money so you can't just give up in 2025 but your focus will really be on the new

year you know this season's ended and sunday night in Abu Dhabi in reality.

And you have to put a line through it and you have to say, that's it, done, done and dust it.

And then you look at all your, all the stuff that makes the team operate well during the winter to try and optimize it.

You know, pit stop, pit stop equipment, manpower, how you use them, how you utilize your company as far as backup-based backup, etc. So there wouldn't as a time to sort of try to engage

new systems in a place to try to make sure that you're on top of the new year coming at you,

because next year is going to be different. It's a new set of regulations.

So from day one of running those cars, you will be getting information.

Your job list before you even go to the first running will be enormous,

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