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

So Yeah.

So they I mean, if you take it back to its basics, the technical purity of it would be if they've come up with an innovation into a second or lap faster

That's it.

That's what you've got.

And that's how it that's how it should be.

Um and uh the I think the uh in an ideal world from that technical, puritanical point of view, you've got eleven teams.

Ideally it would be eleven different ways of achieving exactly the same lap time.

But that's never gonna happen.

So i i you know it it it's you've got to be practical on in and considering the why of this.

Question.

Yeah, you're ruining it.

Be um a lot of military grade um d material science going on and metal matrixes that uh had to be clamped out in the late nineties, early early two thousands.

Um you started getting all the beryllium in engines and that

Yeah, I mean you who knows how light you could have made a a thousand horsepower engine and already and got it down to ninety kilos.

So you know, it's just uh so um y yeah, uh i it there has to be a practical limit and i it's no matter where you you put that limit, there's always an ingenious way around it which then has

It's implications on the competitiveness of and and therefore the entertainment value of the sport and also the the the cost element and therefore the the commercial viability of it.

No, and I think uh if you look through the history of Grand Prix Racing, including pre F one Grand Prix Racing, um i it it it has varied a lot.

So um I think initially the pre war Grand Prix racing scene in the main was f factory dominated, automotive dominated.

So there was no lack of um uh money available to to really press armor

radical new technology.

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