Edd Straw
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20,421 appearances
78 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard yesterday
Edd Straw’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Red Bull has similarly spent years cycling.
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Through second drivers, despite Verstappen consistently extracting performance from very pointy cars with a mobile rear that several teammates have struggled to exploit.
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In the NFL, for example, teams spend enormous resources evaluating whether a prospective player will fit their particular scheme rather than simply ranking players by overall ability.
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Yet F1 teams repeatedly sign drivers whose established preferences seem poorly matched to known persistent characteristics of their
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Cars.
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It made me wonder whether teams could effectively build a driver compatibility fingerprint.
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Preferred your response, front axle sensitivity, tolerance of rear instability, trailbreaking behaviour, corrective inputs, etc., and actively scout drivers whose telemetry suggests compatibility with the team's established design philosophy.
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How much analysis like this actually happens behind closed doors when F1 teams recruit drivers?
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Could teams meaningfully call
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Quantify driver car compatibility from telemetry and simulator testing, and if they already do this extensively, why do we still see so many apparently predictable mismatches?
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Well, Gary, there's a lot in there.
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Uh thought provoking, where do you want to start?
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I think one of the things that is interesting here is certainly you'd want to get a good idea of the physiological abilities of drivers and there's there's various bits of science into where some of those things come. 'Cause I always tend to think of it in terms of
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the sensitivities or tolerances, et cetera.
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And the the Verstappen pointy car example is a great one because
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He he wouldn't call a car over steery or pointy that some other drivers might.
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We know there's a spectrum of that tolerance, so we know Verstappen is potentially the most extreme.
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We know Ollie Behrman is pretty good at that.
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We don't know exactly where he sits on that spectrum compared to Verstappen.
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We know Ocon is a little bit further away because he can't quite deal with the same level of rear instability as Behrman can.
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