Tech Show: Should the FIA have clamped down on certain Miami upgrades?
The Race F1 Podcast
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🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
On the latest episode of The Race F1 Tech Show, Edd Straw is joined by former F1 technical director Gary Anderson to discuss the multitude of tech storylines that came out of the Miami Grand Prix weekend.
First up, following Gary's heartfelt tribute to Alex Zanardi, Edd and Gary look at the significant upgrades we saw on most of the cars in Miami, and the impact they had on the racing. Should the FIA have clamped down on some of them? Gary suggests they should have...
After that, Edd and Gary run the rule over F1's engine future, following comments made by FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem that the sport will abandon its current V6 hybrids and revert to V8 units with “minor electrification”. Is this the right move?
And finally, Gary tackles another selection of listener questions. If you'd like to ask Gary a question, send it to podcasts@the-race.com
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Gary questions whether the FIA should have clamped down on certain Miami Grand Prix updates, |
| 0:15.5 | gives his verdict on F1's future engine plans and answers your questions on Red Bulls Troubles, TPC running and active |
| 0:22.4 | Aero. |
| 0:28.8 | Welcome to another edition of the Race F1 Tech Show. I'm Ed Straw and with me as the star of the show, |
| 0:34.4 | Gary Anderson. We're convening just after the Miami Grand Prix, loads of |
| 0:39.2 | technical interests there. But Gary, a slightly more personal note, I think you wanted to start on. |
| 0:45.5 | Yeah, well, it's obviously the passing of Alex Anardi, someone that I knew pretty well. I worked with |
| 0:51.5 | him obviously. He drove for us at Jordan in 1991 for a couple of races |
| 0:55.3 | and I got to know him |
| 0:57.8 | then followed his career |
| 0:59.8 | quite well you know through the |
| 1:01.5 | through his few teams that he drove for in Formula One |
| 1:04.0 | I sort of wish it was able to have been able |
| 1:06.2 | to stay with us because he was one of these drivers |
| 1:08.2 | it's um it's a bit like |
| 1:10.2 | Max Verstapen in a way. |
| 1:11.4 | I mean, he'd give it his all all the time. |
| 1:14.5 | And Formula One didn't really work out for him. |
| 1:16.9 | You know, he got his chance with Williams, but it just didn't work, really. |
| 1:21.5 | So he went to Indycars and won a couple of championships there with Chip Ganassi. |
| 1:29.5 | And then went back to drive for Mnun in a team when I went out there to work with Raynard in 2001. |
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