We challenge F1 boss Stefano Domenicali on 2026's biggest problems
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In a very special episode of The Race F1 Podcast, Edd Straw and Jon Noble travel to F1's HQ in Biggin Hill to quiz F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali on the biggest criticisms of the 2026 rules from drivers, teams and the fans.
Sat in Domenicali's office, Edd and Jon press the Italian on whether the recently agreed rule changes will fix 2026's problems, discuss the impact on fans, and ask him to explain what he sees as F1's future engine direction.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Coming up |
| 0:05.7 | Well first of all, John, I think that there's not a problem of resolving the problem for one. |
| 0:09.6 | From One is not any problem. |
| 0:10.8 | From One is a great shape. |
| 0:11.9 | It's very simple. You check it. |
| 0:13.6 | Sold out every race. |
| 0:15.0 | The vast majority of people watch around the world. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm not caring about jewel, mega jewel, these clips, super clips. |
| 0:22.3 | They don't know what we're talking about. |
| 0:23.8 | So we need to stand up and explain to them the great form of phone one that is today. |
| 0:29.0 | I don't understand why you want to be so in that respect. |
| 0:32.1 | I will respect your position. |
| 0:33.8 | We are not stupid. |
| 0:35.4 | We don't think about mega jewel. |
| 0:36.6 | We think about the things that are relevant for the sport. |
| 0:39.9 | Hello, I'm Ed Straw and welcome to a very special edition of the Race F1 podcast. On Tuesday, the day |
| 0:45.9 | after F1 made some rule changes to tackle the criticisms of the power units. We headed to Bigin Hill, |
| 0:53.0 | where F1's Media and Technology Centre is. |
| 0:55.8 | And there we had an exclusive one-to-one interview, or rather, two-to-one interview you could |
| 1:00.2 | perhaps say, given Jonathan Noble was also involved with F1 boss Stefano Domenicali. |
| 1:05.6 | There in his office on the first floor, we challenged him on the key concerns raised by |
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