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🔧 Tech Show: Mercedes' ongoing struggles with heat + a floor breakthrough for Ferrari?
🕑 Added 2025-07-02 12:13:02 +0000 UTCOn the latest episode of The Race F1 Tech Show, host Edd Straw and former F1 technical director Gary Anderson take a closer look at two of the big tech stories coming out of the Austrian Grand Prix.
The first is Mercedes' ongoing struggle to extract performance in high ambient temperatures, with George Russell finishing over a minute down on the race winner at the Red Bull Ring having won commandingly in Canada two weeks earlier.
The second is the potential breakthrough Ferrari have made with its upgraded floor. Edd and Gary discuss the changes and ask whether a genuine step forward has been made, and whether upcoming changes to the rear suspension of the SF-25 should bring a further performance step.
And as ever the episode is rounded out with Gary answering tech questions sent in by listeners. This time the subjects covered include whether teams can measure brake pressure and whether anti-dive is adjustable or not.
Comments
Chris M
I hope you don't mind that I just copied this from the last episode. It looks as though I posted it just a couple of hours before this episode released
Chris M
Question: In Austria, where I was lucky enough to have a great view of the track from the turn 3 grandstand, we saw many drivers using the DRS not just as an overtaking tool, but also as a general performance boost to cling on to quicker cars. My question relates to using the DRS to improve overall lap time by optimising ERS regen while in the DRS of another car. Is it possible for a driver to manually clip their power unit early and start harvesting as they get closer to the car ahead, sacrificing the overtaking opportunity but utilising the reduced drag in addition to the slipstream effect to top up their battery significantly more than they do on a normal lap? Is this how Fernando clung on to Lawson for such a long time? Is it something that we can expect to see at many other circuits?
Franz Herman
Could Gary outline the differences between Piastri and Norris’ suspension set up?
