Edd Straw

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The Race F1 Podcast · Is the FIA right to help Alonso and Honda? · 19 Sep 2026 podcast

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A number of the interesting seasons that are often celebrated, there have there are ones where there's been interventions that have been at least partly motivated by the desire to create a certain sporting outcome. voice-verified

Not f not quite fixing, but tilting the plane voice-verified

field either to bring somebody back so it's a bit more competitive and all of these things. voice-verified

It would be it would be really foolish to not think that that happens. voice-verified

And it happens in one way, shape or form in all sports of this level, and actually even lower levels as well. voice-verified

But it just happens to be that motorsport Formula One is so technically complex there's maybe more levers you can pull to enact that. voice-verified

Yeah, and I think the really important context here if anyone's seething about the favouritism is if you look back at the fundamental problem, the system isn't quite right. voice-verified

So that that's the thing I think there has to be the the focus. voice-verified

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Yeah, if if it was that simple, then I think you could justify it and just say, Well, you're just completely rubbish, but you don't want to lock people in a complete lack of competitiveness. voice-verified

You've got to give them some hope and some opportunity to catch up. voice-verified

But of course, if you get it wrong and then a year down the line Honda has got the best power unit by a country mile and they're winning every race, then people say, Uh, hang on, what's going on here? voice-verified

So it's it needs a delicate. voice-verified

They won't be complaining then. voice-verified

Exactly. voice-verified

It needs a very delicate uh touch. voice-verified

But yeah, that there is uh as I always say, there is the real politic under it, and I think it would be be naive to assume that this sort of stuff doesn't happen in one way, shape, or form. voice-verified

And remember, if you had free development and you could do what you want, then there'd be no justification for doing this, but you are constrained by those limitations and it's about just voice-verified

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