The race is on, and with Formula One launch season rapidly approaching, the watching world is eagerly anticipating the first glimpses of 2021's not so new cars.

But where does each team need to improve and what are the chances of them doing so?

I'm at Straw and joining me to answer those questions are the chances of them doing so. I'm Ed Strawer and joining me to

answer those questions are Gary Anderson, Scott Mitchell and Mark Hughes. Gary, hello, does this

time of your bring out a little bit of post-traumatic stress disorder or something from your

memories of rushing to get cars ready? Yeah, it does, but it's, you know, it's very, very different now.

And again, it's very, very different for this year, because obviously the cars as such,

we call them carryover from last year, not quite, but the same basic chassis structure

and whatever will be in place.

So this year is probably going to be the easiest year for teams to identify the problems

from last year and probably rectify them.

So if there is such a thing as a year of the grid closing up, from my point of view,

2021 should be that year because it's the first time we've had this type of scenario yeah there's a few

little changes and it'll be into each team to sort of dissect them correctly and optimize the car around

it but i think 2021 could be the closest season we'll have seen for a long time that's a nice upbeat

positive note to start on mark h Hughes, do you share that positivity?

Obviously, a few little aero changes this year, but looking forward to getting to see some of the

cars, even if they are carryovers. Yeah, I do. And it's quite interesting. When you look last year

at the teams that made progress, quite a few of them were just doing it, weren't them quite sort of unfashionable cars.

I'm thinking about Alfa Tari is a good example

where they just kept working and working

and established theme and it was getting better and better and better

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