Why Aston's at odds with Ferrari, flexi wing row latest, and Raikkonen's engineer on testing
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We hit the big news stories in Formula 1 and delve into the stories of pre-season testing with the help of Kimi Raikkonen’s former race engineer Julien Simon-Chautemps in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast.
Along with Jon Noble and host Edd Straw, Simon-Chautemps sheds light on the successful legal bid mounted by Ferrari to prevent Enrico Cardile starting work for Aston Martin before July, and the latest in a long-line of flexi wing controversies.
We then look back at pre-season testing, which includes Simon-Chautemps running through long-run pace analysis produced by motorsport software, data and technology company Paceteq and shedding light on how teams approach analysing and improving their own performance - and that of rivals.
He also explains what teams do between testing and the first race of the season in a bid to implement the lessons learned.
And finally, we discuss the latest FIA controversy with Motor Sport UK’s David Richards launching a public critique of president Mohammed Ben Sulayem.
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| 1:22.5 | The race is on, and even before the 2025 season has got underway, there's already |
| 1:30.6 | controversies raging about Flexi Wings and staff movements, while there's still plenty of |
| 1:34.8 | question marks about the true pecking order after testing. |
| 1:37.3 | I'm Edgdra, and join me to hit those topics, and many more, are John Noble and special guest |
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| 2:01.6 | Well, John, we'll come to you first as our normal guest. So just run of the mill. Been quite busy, hasn't it, since testing? There's lots going on, isn't there? Even though the season's not quite started. Yeah, obviously the test is all hugely intense. A lot of teams, but their teams are kind of heads down, sorting themselves out. They start looking at rivals. But I think we've already got our first narratives of the season. Flexi wings again, |
| 2:08.1 | FIA politics again, kind of discussions over staff movements and all the typical soap opera |
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