Ben Anderson

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3,555 appearances 19 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 22 Sep

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The Race F1 Podcast · In-Car Insights: We discuss Friday's F1 action in Belgium · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

That's phase one on the car in Hungary and then probably a phase two chassis-wise plus the engine step for Zandvoort after the summer break.

If that all adds up to what they think it should add up to, a couple of seconds-ish, I've heard two and a half maybe, somewhere in that region, you take that off and they are at Cadillac pace around this track.

So even if it's transformative, is it going to be transformative enough?

to transform their season?

No, it's not.

It's just like the first step on a really horrendous road to not even respectability, just not a shambles.

This is what Alonso was saying on Thursday, where he's like, well, even if the upgrade works as expected, and obviously we have to be careful because we've promised a lot in the past and haven't delivered any of it, he's prepared that...

tracks like Monza coming up, which is probably the most energy starved of the season, worse than even Spa, they're going to be hopeless there.

Because the Honda engine is one upgrade, but it's not like that one upgrade is going to make the Honda engine the best engine in Formula 1, a rival for the Red Bull powertrains thing.

It's just going to be fixing some chronic combustion problems that are making that car so dog slow.

And

Will those updates work?

They might do.

But it's not going to turn the Honda engine into a world beater.

It's going to make it just a little bit less unrespectable than it is now.

So they are targeting those kinds of fiddly tracks where they hope to make more difference with the chassis upgrades, basically.

They've got no chance here.

They've just got absolutely no chance.

Miles off even Cadillac and...

Like I say, if you even just transpose their theoretical update gain onto this weekend, they're just at Cadillac pace.

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