This week’s episode is all about those disembodied voices we hear over team radio: the race engineers. What do they do? How important is their relationship with a driver? And what can they do to get the most out of a car AND a driver? To help answer those questions host Edd Straw and former F1 technical director Gary Anderson are delighted to welcome Julien Simon-Chautemps, Kimi Raikkonen’s former race engineer at Alfa Romeo, onto the show for a feature length discussion.Before that Anderson casts an eye over Ferrari’s ongoing technical troubles, and how they might solve them, following their disastrous double DNF in Baku. And then later on in the show he also gives his views on one listener’s ingenious idea on how Mercedes might be able to help their drivers deal with porpoising…The Race F1 Tech Show is brought to you by AramcoFor more on Julien Simon-Chautemps, visit JSC7 Engineering Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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