Ben Hocking

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4,984 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5 Aug

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The Late Braking F1 Podcast · Revisiting our 2027 F1 grid predictions: What's changed? · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

Yeah, I'm going unchanged.

I know there were some rumors a while back of Hertha being brought in early to replace Bottas when Bottas was struggling versus Perez, which admittedly I think is really tough to tell in that car.

But since then, I think it's been a lot more even.

I don't think there's been much to choose between the two drivers over the last few races.

So I think Hertha gets some more experience in F2, gets some more practice sessions before they consider making a move for 2028 possibly.

But I'm saying this will be Perez and Bottas again.

Sam?

60% said that Bottas and Perez will remain as the driver line-up there.

20% saying Perez and Hertha.

Some interesting changes there, I think.

It feels like, again, Verstappen and Alonso, they feel like the big guns that will either make this completely ridiculous or shut it down and there'll be one or two changes.

Yeah, could be very interesting indeed.

But let's move on to something I wanted to chat about briefly, which is Haas and the cost cap issue that they've got going on at the moment.

Komatsu was recently asked about the situation in regard to budget.

He said, it's one of the top priorities on my job list to ensure that they actually use up the entire cost cap to be able to fund this team so that we can operate at that cap.

It's not a reflection of our guys.

It's more of a reflection on my side.

I need to be able to get better revenue to this team and provide a better environment for our guys.

Then once we've done that, we've got the guys to do it.

We've got the drivers to do it.

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