{"id":157977,"date":"2025-06-04T16:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T16:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/157977\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T16:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T16:49:10","slug":"how-to-provoke-an-f1-team-into-ultra-high-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/157977\/","title":{"rendered":"How to \u201cprovoke\u201d an F1 team into ultra-high performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a packed edition this week as James travels to the impressive new Aston Martin factory at Silverstone to speak to CEO and team principal Andy Cowell, the latest in our series of F1 Team Principal interviews.<\/p>\n<p>Cowell speaks in detail about Adrian Newey\u2019s involvement in the design of the teams Honda-powered 2026 car and how he\u2019s \u2018provoking\u2019 the team to reach an ultra-high performance level.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/max-verstappen\/829269\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Max Verstappen<\/a> seemed to feel that his Red Bull team was anything but high-performing in the Spanish GP. But is that what drove his bizarre behaviour, colliding with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/mercedes\/36495\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercedes<\/a>\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/george-russell\/840489\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Russell<\/a>? James is joined in the studio by Motorsport.com Editor in Chief Ben Hunt and by Autosport\u2019s Dutch F1 writer Ronald Vording to discuss the fallout.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss the chance to compete against our expert writers on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/f1\/news\/race-our-writers-motorsport-launches-its-first-ever-featured-league-on-f1-fantasy\/10702182\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Motorsport\u2019s hugely popular F1 Fantasy League<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Send your comments or questions to: @jamesallenonf1 on X or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/f1\/news\/ja-on-f1-podcast-tbc\/10729598\/mailto:jamesallenonf1@autosport.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jamesallenonf1@autosport.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0            <\/p>\n<p>In this article<\/p>\n<p>    Formula 1\n<\/p>\n<p>    Aston Martin Racing\n<\/p>\n<p>Be the first to know and subscribe for real-time news email updates on these topics<\/p>\n<p>    Subscribe to news alerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a packed edition this week as James travels to the impressive new Aston Martin factory at Silverstone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[971,4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-157977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-aston-martin-racing","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-formula-1","11":"tag-formula1","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114626125032994623","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}