Edd Straw

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20,001 appearances 77 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2d ago

Edd Straw’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Race F1 Podcast · Tech Show: Why doesn't car compatibility play a bigger role in driver recruitment? · 17 Sep 2026 podcast

There were good elements to it, but they just sort of forgot some of the crucial things. voice-verified

But uh w what what did you make of the progress teams made in terms of coming to grips? voice-verified

rips with uh with that track and uh and mastering it. voice-verified

McLaren seemed to be very good at it. voice-verified

From a a technical perspective voice-verified

What do you think needs to be done in terms of trying to make sure that these tracks hit the mark a little bit more? voice-verified

Because there's some fairly obvious things you can do in terms of track configuration, as I've said a few times when talking about this track, along straight into a big break and a slow corner with a wide entry is never really going to go out of fashion when it comes to overtaking. voice-verified

So that's an obvious thing. voice-verified

But the you know, there's a lot of skill and knowledge and simulation. voice-verified

technology and all of that in F one and even within the constraints of what you can do with the location you've got for your track, you'd have thought there could be a slightly more systematic way to approach all of this, to make sure you get a track that combines being a good challenge with allowing good racing. voice-verified

Yeah, I always think the example of Macau's quite a good one, uh, in that it's a track that's got lots of twisty, challenging bits, and then you've just got the fantastic overtaking part, that's uh that sort of long flat out blast, the flat out mandarin corner, and then Lisboa, the right hander, and that does allow overtaking and passing, so that makes Macau uh pretty much ideal in that regard, combining all of those things as long as they keep the uh the voice-verified

drain covers down 'cause that caused you problems there once, I think. voice-verified

Let's move on to part two of the podcast now, and we're gonna dedicate this section to a question we receive, because sometimes we get a question that maybe warrants an even deeper dive than we normally uh give them. voice-verified

And this one from Ben raises some very, very interesting topics for Gary to get into. voice-verified

So it's a fairly long question. voice-verified

I'll uh I'll read it out. voice-verified

I have a question about how F1 teams evaluate driver car compatibility when making signing decisions. voice-verified

Why does this not appear to play a larger role in F1 recruitments? voice-verified

Daniel Ricardo at McLaren seems an obvious example, yet F1 teams repeatedly sign drivers whose established preferences seem poorly matched to known, persistent characteristics of the cars. voice-verified

McLaren already had an unusual front end slash corner entry characteristic that Norris had spent years adapting to, while Ricardo had a very established braking corner entry technique. voice-verified

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