Damon Hill

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2,334 appearances 9 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 15 Aug

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The Race F1 Podcast · Has F1 become anti-innovation? · 10 Aug 2026 podcast

I think it's um i i it it invites them to let go of the the strings a little bit uh on on the technology and I'd be interested to see what would happen if they did that.

But they do seem still to be a bit scared of it.

But I think the fear goes back to the

pre Liberty days and and and and the the the environment that we had then.

So although it's quite an esoteric question, it's not just about technology because it it's it's about the whole environment.

Why this is why, it's it's because it's it's so multifaceted.

Yeah, for the following year.

Yeah, so y they they could have it there.

And the way they designed around that innovation and the way they'd laid the front of the car out meant that um it couldn't be copied that yeah.

It would have required a new bulkhead and a new monocoque and everything like that to to m to make it work.

Hence Red Bull pushing for it to be banned immediately because they couldn't even if it was allowed.

Or w was allowed for the rest of the year.

They couldn't do it.

So yeah, that's that's another part of the the the contest, you know.

If we did that and we did that and that they they won't be able to do it 'cause they'll had a conventional layout at the front and uh the yeah.

So yeah, that's that's all part of the competition.

You could also envisage how if you were able to do that, if you were allowed to do that, you might configure it um in term in the the way you've sheathed the suspension to interact differently with that sheathing.

So you got a different aerobalance at low speeds to what you've got at high speeds, and then you get in and uh you know, you opening up the whole setup window of the car.

Then it's a movable aerodynamic device as well.

Well it's not because it's you know, it's it's just incidental that the air

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