Nikolas Tombazis
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Oct 13, 2026
Edd StrawHOST
They've called it a bug in official stuff they've put out.
Edd StrawHOST
Nikolas Tombazis, when we spoke to him on Sunday night, called it a bug about eight times.
Edd StrawHOST
Um, uh, and again, I could be a little...
Edd StrawHOST
I was trying to look around, around on it a little bit.
Simon LazenbyHOST
So the cars that were stopping went into continuous offset, which is basically a 60-second emergency lockdown that can also knock out the ICE power.
Simon LazenbyHOST
Nicholas Tombazis came on, apparently, to the Writens afterwards and tried to explain what was going on.
David CroftHOST
And he's the head of the FIA single-seater.
David CroftHOST
Yes, that's right.
Former LegendHOST
But the race was delayed by weather and an aborted start after a software problem as several drivers [laughs] slowed dramatically or stopped altogether with Max Verstappen reporting a loss of power at the front of the field before Lewis, Esteban Ocon, and Valtteri Bottas all came to a halt at different stages.
Former LegendHOST
It led to FIA single-seater director Nikolas Tombazis confirming that a software bug had left several cars unable to accelerate normally after slowly dramatic- slowing dramatically in the wet conditions.
Former LegendHOST
It was a bit of a shitshow, to be honest, and a bad look and, um, it, it really fueled Max up to start talking about how great V8s are again, Aviel.
Andrew van LeeuwenHOST
Aviel.Yeah, it w- it's kind of, it's not new news that these regulations are way overly complicated and problematic.
KathrynHOST
The FIA, together with the teams and power unit manufacturers, will undertake a full review of the issue." And basically that means that they didn't know that this was going to be a problem.
KathrynHOST
But as we got a more detailed explanation from Nikolas Tombazis, the FIA single seater director, what happened was that we saw on track was that when cars were driving too slowly, this software issue prevented power from being redeployed so that the cars could start going faster again because the cars were going slower than the car computer system expected them to go.
KathrynHOST
They were going so slowly, why? I don't know, because maybe there was a river where the track should have been, and they maybe needed like paddle boats instead of cars.
KathrynHOST
But the excuse that the FIA single seater director used was, "We would have caught this prior to the race if we were testing in these specific conditions," which as we know, testing took place this year in Barcelona and Bahrain.
ToddHOST
And then, uh, and then they, they, they spun that out to all, you know, all teams and all the cars.
ToddHOST
Uh, so Nicolas Tombazis said that, you know, he can guarantee that the specific bug's not gonna recur, but he can't guarantee that there's never gonna be another problem-
Paul CharsleyHOST
Mm
ToddHOST
... uh, because the code-