Ben Anderson

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3,555 appearances 19 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 6d ago

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The Race F1 Podcast · Belgian GP: Antonelli heaps more misery on struggling Russell · 19 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah, that was VSC distorted as well.

But then also you have the element of, if you extrapolate the strategy, I mean, you can't say that he would have started on the hard and been the only one to start on the hard.

Then he could have benefited from the VSC.

But there was also a feeling...

from Stella that you know maybe in hindsight they could have utilised the VSC period and given Norris a longer stint to do on the mediums because they were holding up much better in the second half of the race than they did in the first half of the race because as ever the track rubbers in the fuel loads go down and the tyre performance is different to how you predict and he could have had a better result so yeah you were in this unfortunate situation where the stronger McLaren overall just had too much ground to make up and Piastri

Well, he had a pretty decent race.

That incident with the clerk cost him, Stella reckoned he was down two to three tenths of a second per lap in terms of damage from that.

And it wasn't so much that the damage was just costing the car performance.

It was that he had to take more out of the tyres.

as a result of that to keep up with the lead group and then he would pay the price in terms of degradation later so imperfect races for both McLarens for different reasons but an overall uplift on performance on this track because of its profile certain technical things that happened and just the way the tyres interacted with the car mainly

Yeah.

They were saying that to do that well here, where they just expected to be behind because they have a power deficit, gives them a lot of hope for tracks like Hungary coming up, where that shouldn't be such a factor.

You think we shut them up?

It was very Mercedes in Canada type battle, I thought, where they're like absolutely pushing the very limit of what you could possibly do with a teammate without actually running into each other.

He was desperate to keep the track position off the pit stop wasn't he?

Sergio Perez Esteban Ocon at Force India was very much like that.

Yes to both.

But every time, I mean.

Like, every time.

Almost regardless of the circumstances, it's like... No.

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