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Gary Anderson: What Red Bull should reverse on its 2025 F1 car

Red Bull went back on a wing design concept for 2024 while its rivals used it to great success. Gary Anderson compares the teams and asks whether Red Bull needs its old nose design back

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Gary Anderson: The biggest challenge facing each F1 team in 2025

What is every F1 team up against in 2025? Gary Anderson takes a team-by-team look at what each one needs to improve this season, including his early prediction of where they'll end up

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Gary Anderson's verdict on each F1 team's 2024 performance

Here's ex-F1 technical director Gary Anderson's detailed and forthright verdict on every team's 2024 efforts

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Gary Anderson's verdict on F1's skid block clampdown

F1 2024 has another technical controversy. Gary Anderson is your guide to skid blocks, giving his take on the new technical directive and asking whether it will really tackle the problem of cars bottoming out

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Gary Anderson: How to handle an F1 driver and team split

As several Formula 1 team and driver partnerships head into their final races - including Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes - Gary Anderson looks back at how his F1 teams handled their driver splits

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Gary Anderson: Red Bull's McLaren tyre water theory doesn't add up

Red Bull’s confusion about its declining competitiveness this season has led to all sorts of suspicions about what rivals are doing, which isn’t unusual in Formula 1. But the concerns about McLaren and others using fluid in tyres doesn’t add up

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Gary Anderson: How dominant McLaren's new rear wing works

McLaren introduced another version of its rear wing and beam wing assembly in Brazil. So far, it looks like it is another positive development from the team that has done the best job in development across the season

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Gary Anderson: An F1 designer view on Red Bull's contentious tool

Former F1 car designer Gary Anderson has a theory as to the benefits Red Bull's in-the-spotlight 'bib' adjustment tool may have provided

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Gary Anderson: The one 2026 rule F1 needs to drop

There’s a simple change that can be made to the 2026 Formula 1 regulations: drop one rule and teams, drivers, fans and the tyre supplier will all benefit

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Gary Anderson: Where Haas's big Toyota F1 deal could go wrong

Adding Toyota to its existing Ferrari/Dallara mix gives Haas yet another element to manage. This one could pay off hugely or be a nightmare, reckons Gary Anderson

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Gary Anderson: Ferrari's F1 upgrade risks cancelling itself out

Ferrari's new Formula 1 front wing appears to include one definite positive step but another that could lead to a bit of head-scratching, as Gary Anderson explains

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Gary Anderson: McLaren's flexible rear wing is misguided

So, McLaren will have to modify its low-downforce rear wing if it wants to use it again in the 2024 F1 season. Having examined the design, Gary Anderson wonders whether the reward was even worth it

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Gary Anderson on Red Bull's crucial Baku F1 upgrade

Red Bull's Baku upgrade is intended to get its F1 season back on track. Gary Anderson takes a closer look at its rather makeshift reworking of the RB20's underfloor.

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Gary Anderson: How I'd fix F1's latest flexi-wing suspicions

As Red Bull and Ferrari raise an eyebrow at the behaviour of McLaren and Mercedes' front wings, Gary Anderson suggests a small rule tweak he reckons would clear the situation up

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Gary Anderson: What Aston must do to ensure it doesn't waste Newey

It now seems certain Aston Martin will be Adrian Newey's next Formula 1 employer. But the team might have to change a lot to accommodate him, reckons Gary Anderson

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Gary Anderson explains Ferrari's big Monza upgrade

Ferrari's major Monza upgrade is designed to solve the problems that have derailed its 2024 Formula 1 season. Here's Gary Anderson's take on what it's changed

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Post-Newey slump? Gary Anderson on Red Bull's spec experiments

Red Bull's curious spec experiment at Zandvoort - amid a heavy defeat - hints at an F1 team unsure of its development direction. And it just so happens to be the team that's losing Adrian Newey

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Gary Anderson on Williams's 'first proper upgrade' of 2024

Lead Williams F1 driver Alex Albon has described the Zandvoort-spec FW46 as the team's first major performance package of the year. Gary Anderson dives into the details

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Gary Anderson on F1's intriguing new brake rule tweak

There has been a lot of talk lately about a small addition to the brake system section of Formula 1's technical regulations. Ex-F1 technical director Gary Anderson explains what is likely being prevented

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Gary Anderson on the overlooked part of Red Bull's big upgrade

Red Bull's made several changes to its Formula 1 car ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix. But there's one area that's easy to overlook that could have significant benefits.

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Gary Anderson: Is Red Bull's F1 upgrade complicating too much?

Red Bull has worked hard to bring its latest F1 upgrade package to the Hungarian GP. Gary Anderson takes a closer look at the extensive reworking the team's undertaken - and ponders whether it's asking for trouble with a potential 'mix-and-match' package strategy

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Gary Anderson's verdict on all 10 F1 teams at 2024's mid-point

At the halfway point of the 2024 Formula 1 season, ex-F1 technical director Gary Anderson analyses all 10 teams and the relative performance level of their car and drivers

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Gary Anderson's theory for why Ferrari's upgrade sent it off course

Has the upgrade Ferrari dropped mid-weekend at the British Grand Prix caused some of its recent problems? Gary Anderson can see why that might be the case

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Ferrari's 'downgrade' lays bare its big weakness

Ferrari knew the British GP weekend would be difficult. But Silverstone hasn't just exposed a weakness in fast corners - it's demonstrated how big a bouncing problem it's battling with its 2024 F1 car

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Mercedes on top? Gary Anderson's Silverstone trackside verdict

The Race's technical consultant Gary Anderson spent opening Silverstone practice assessing the cars' handling from a tricky trackside spot. Here's what he made of them all

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Gary Anderson: The whole-car impact of McLaren's new front wing

If it hadn't been confirmed already, McLaren is now undoubtedly Red Bull's closest challenger. Gary Anderson explains how its new F1 front wing works and the other major parts of the aero it's working with that have improved its performance

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Gary Anderson: The importance of an overlooked F1 design area

Four Formula 1 teams have introduced modifications either to the halo fairing or the cockpit headrest over the last few weekends, highlighting an often overlooked area of F1 development

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Does Mercedes' upgrade match its optimism? Gary Anderson's view

Mercedes' F1 drivers reckoned Friday at the Monaco GP was the best day they've had on track in 2024. But does that feedback line up with the step its made with its latest upgrade? Here's Gary Anderson's view

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Why even McLaren is surprised by its winning F1 upgrade

There's no doubting the effectiveness of McLaren's recent F1 upgrade package, but even the team itself has been surprised by the "extra premium" that's come with it. Edd Straw explores that, while Gary Anderson gives his take on the value of McLaren's improvements

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Gary Anderson explains troubled Red Bull's Imola upgrades

Red Bull had a tough Friday at Imola, just as it introduced some upgrades. Was there a link? Gary Anderson gives his take on what Red Bull has changed and what the drawbacks may be

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Gary Anderson on Ferrari's major Red Bull-inspired F1 upgrade

Ferrari is convinced it's on the cusp of challenging Red Bull, so hopes are high for the major upgrade package it's brought to Imola this weekend. Gary Anderson gives his full rundown - and he's impressed

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Ferrari's Imola F1 upgrade will test its audacious Red Bull theory

Ferrari claims it's a "small step" away from Red Bull. So will its major Imola F1 upgrade provide just that?

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Gary Anderson: Mercedes' upgrade trend shows it's still lost

The first part of a Mercedes upgrade package at the Miami GP didn't have a tangible impact on its performance. In Gary Anderson's eyes, what it changed - and the trend that conformed to - was more evidence it still doesn’t understand what to do to get performance out of this generation of F1 cars

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Gary Anderson's take on FIA's radical new F1 'spray guard' trial

The FIA's latest Formula 1 'wet weather package' trial was certainly visually distinctive. Gary Anderson gives his view on it

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Gary Anderson's verdict on McLaren's race-winning F1 upgrade

McLaren's 10-part upgrade produced a victory at the first time of asking. Ex-F1 technical director Gary Anderson analyses it in detail

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F1 Tech Show: What Newey should do next

What departing Red Bull design genius Adrian Newey should do next and McLaren's race-winning new upgrade package are among the topics on this week's The Race F1 Tech Show

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Will this upgrade rescue a team's terrible F1 season?

Alpine produced its strongest weekend of the 2024 Formula 1 season following the introduction of the first major upgrade. But was that just coincidence? Edd Straw and Gary Anderson assess Alpine's changes

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Gary Anderson: Ferrari offers Newey what no one else can

If Adrian Newey is leaving Red Bull, there's only one place he should go - argues Gary Anderson

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F1 Tech Show: Mercedes' failed experiment and sprint changes

Formula 1's new sprint format posed a new challenge to the Formula 1 teams at the Chinese Grand Prix - but one team got it very wrong in particular

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Gary Anderson explains Red Bull's first major 2024 F1 upgrade

Red Bull’s first major upgrade package of 2024 was introduced at Formula 1's Japanese Grand Prix, revealing that although Red Bull completely changed its car concept over the winter, the development path it’s taking is remarkably similar to 2023