Introducing Recharge!

As the first week of official testing came to a close, we sat down to discuss where the model currently stands for the first episode of our mini-podcast. What are our predictions? What will we be looking for this season? Tune in to find out!We’re still perfecting our audio quality, and we also mention a few F1 personalities that may not be familiar to the new or casual F1 fan. See below for a short dramatis personae . . .Adrian Newey: Featured in our “Kingdoms of Speed” series, he’s arguably the best car designer to ever walk the grid. He recently departed Red Bull for Aston Martin where he now serves as team principal.Hannah Schmitz: A former high school water polo player and graduate of Cambridge University, which has produced some of the sport’s best engineers, she sits on Red Bull’s pitwall in her capacity as their Principal Strategy Engineer. She often makes some of the best strategy calls.Gianpiero “GP” Lambiase: He has long served as Max Verstappen’s righthand man as his race engineer, and he recently became Red Bull’s Head of Racing.“Bono”—Peter Bonnington: He worked with Lewis Hamilton as his race engineer at Mercedes when the latter won six of his seven World Driver’s Championships. To everyone’s surprise, he remained at Mercedes instead of following Hamilton to Ferrari. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit overtakemode.substack.com