The latest twist in Red Bull and McLaren's off-track battle
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we tackle the latest technical intrigue between Red Bull and McLaren and look ahead to the potential for an upset in the Monaco Grand Prix.
Scott Mitchell-Malm and Ben Anderson join Edd Straw to explain the real story behind the technical directives that were issued before the Imola race, but only emerged after it.
They also ask how the mandatory two pitstops might impact the Monaco race, and if there’s a way for a backmarker to leap up the order with some clever strategy.
We also tackle listener questions on Red Bull’s driver situation with Yuki Tsunoda’s struggles, Liam Lawons’s troubles at Racing Bulls and Isack Hadjar’s strong start.
There’s also questions on warm-up lanes, Ollie Bearmans pace relative to Esteban Ocon, similarities between McLaren this year and Williams in 1997 and more.
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| 1:22.5 | The race is on, and with the emergence of yet more technical directives, what's behind the latest chapter in F1's legality rails. |
| 1:32.4 | And what should we expect? |
| 1:33.5 | From two-stop Monaco. |
| 1:35.0 | I'm Ed Strawn joining me to answer those questions, and many more are Scott Mitchell Malm and Ben Anderson. |
| 1:41.4 | Well, Scott, we didn't have you on the Imola Review podcast unusually, so you must have lots to say. Well, we'll see what we get into topic-wise. I don't have too much to say about Imola, partly because you all covered it so well on the post-race podcast, and also because it was fairly straightforward, really, at the front, wasn't it? So there wasn't, there probably isn't just too much really to dwell on from that. |
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