Anthony Davidson

And then the moment that track hits fucking tarmac, it goes ass ways.

Now, I even said this last Friday before the preview, and then bang, we roll into qualifying last Saturday, and it, the, the, the dr- Anthony Davidson, the drivers were literally saying pretty much the exact same words I was saying.

Obviously, different type of wording, but we literally said the exact same thing.

I even said this last Friday that sometimes too much grip fucks you because all of a sudden, if you're getting too much grip, it might be brilliant for one or two, three laps.

And, you know, most of the grid, or a lot of the grid, slowed to, what was it? 10 kph, 20 kph, something like that anyway.

science at the end if one needs to have a hard look at themselves and see how we ended up in this situation it's too complicated my only question mark is who five years ago decided that this was the direction to go because Now, this was Anthony Davidson when he was trying to explain to us on the Sky F1 WhatsApp group what was going on with the cars.

All right, try and follow this.

I'm trying.

parameters were going to be in the wet.

And surely the people who really understand this could have foreseen that there might be an issue when the cars go too slowly.

Because if Anthony Davidson is explaining it to us within seconds...

Then the team know that there was an issue, and Mercedes, whose cars really weren't slowing down their power units,

It's been threatened a couple of times, but this was the first time they've really been put to the pace and it can't be.

So now with the benefit of hindsight, um, what apparently it was, and I can't remember who it was, it might've been Anthony Davidson, could've been somebody else.

Somebody did a, a really, really good walkthrough as to what had happened, which was because the cars were going so slowly, um, they weren't...

And they're going s- very slowly around corners as well.

Now, the regulations which you mention yourself, I don't think there's an issue with the software unless it's working.

But the fact that they've got issues to iron out is the, the big issue here, and I think Anthony Davidson explained it, uh, perfectly at one point.

It, it was kind of like they were driving so slow on this formation lap that the turbo had stopped spinning, and then the car had no battery, and they were going so slow that, that Verstappen lost his throttle, then Lewis Hamilton did.

[laughs] And then it just caused probably the most chaotic formation lap I've ever seen.

... race director note.

Like, and also, uh, Anthony Davidson was saying that they could...

There is actually a bit of runoff there, so you could...

That they could go into the pits and then use the runoff on the inside to get back on the track.

And I really feel going into this weekend that we had a good shot of that, and it's proven so, so well so far.

One more question about the car, because we were talking with Anthony Davidson, trying to understand where the performance of the car comes from.

And you guys seem to have a great traction out of the slow stuff.

Is it the case? And why is the car complying so well in the wet conditions?

What? Hello and welcome to another episode of the new Silver Arrows Radio Show.

I'm Anthony Davidson and today joined by Trackside Engineering Director Andrew Shovlin.

How are you doing Shov? All good, all good, yeah.

We are waiting on Fred Vestey.