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

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4.6 • 942 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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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-Cheautemps in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast. Along with Jon Noble and host Edd Straw, Cheautemps 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 Cheautemps 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. SPECIAL OFFER: Get 90% off your first month when you join The Race Members' Club on Patreon today - we even have an F1-only tier! Head to Patreon.com/therace An edit of our London live show is available to purchase here (free for Champions tier members): https://www.patreon.com/posts/live-show-race-121105739 Follow The Race on Instagram, X and Facebook Check out our latest videos on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.2	The Athletic.
1:05.2	The Athletic. The race is on, and even before the 2025 season has got underway, there's already
1:19.3	controversies raging about Flexi Wings and staff movements, while there's still plenty
1:23.3	of question marks about the true pecking order after testing.
1:25.9	I'm Ed Struhe and join me to hit those topics and many more are John Noble and special guest Julian Simone Showton. Well John,
1:33.6	we'll come to you first as our normal guest. So just run of the mill. It's been quite busy
1:38.3	hasn't it since testing? There's lots going on, isn't there, even though the season's not quite
1:41.6	started. Yeah, obviously the test is all, you know, hugely intense.
1:45.7	A lot of teams, but their teams are kind of heads down, sorting themselves out.
1:49.6	They start looking at rivals.
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