Ben Anderson

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3,555 appearances 19 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard yesterday

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The Race F1 Podcast · Mailbag: Is Norris '27 title favourite + Why does F1 keep adding soulless street tracks? · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

And those circuits are cool. matched

To go back to the question, it felt to me like you're talking about the vibe of a place. matched

And yeah, I mean, I agree. matched

I love the old school racetracks and I love their kind of picturesque settings. matched

And the fact they are a bit hard to get to and whatnot, but it doesn't fit with the business model of F1, which is to just, as you say, pack people in as much as you can. matched

So you are just going to end up kind of with, as Formula E did, these kind of quite same-ish looking tracks. matched

and you're looking for kind of the little bits that you can add that are different. matched

Ultimately, it's business over the sport to matched

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unpick this situation fully because Anthony could be the generational talent that Mercedes thinks he is and just fundamentally better than Russell. matched

And the more time he spends in any version of Formula One, he's just going to relentlessly and marginally, because it is small margins. matched

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This idea that this particular generation of cars, the 2026 cars, is suiting certain ways of driving. matched

And someone like Norris Antonelli, who are particularly good with what you always describe as micro-sliding, Ed, this high-pressure tyres, lack of grip, the nervousness into the corner, anticipating it, matched

managing to control it and therefore have a smoother, straighter exit, which doesn't use up so much of the infill MGUK deployment, therefore not creating these deployment issues that Russell has had. matched

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