This podcast is a conversation with Willem Toet, Head of Aerodynamics at the Benetton team in 1994.I wanted to talk with Willem to understand exactly what was going on in the team at the time, whether the allegations of cheating with traction control and launch control were true, and what was really going on underneath Benetton’s engine cover.
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This podcast is a conversation with Willem Toet, Head of Aerodynamics at the Benetton team in 1994.I wanted to talk with Willem to understand exactly what was going on in the team at the time, whether the allegations of cheating with traction control and launch control were true, and what was really going on underneath Benetton’s engine cover.
This podcast is a conversation with Dominic Hale, project lead at Alpine, where we talk about Fernando Alonso driving a Formula One car at Le Mans in 2021. I wanted to know if Fernando Alonso was really pushing, how they adapted the car for such an unusually long and fast circuit, and what was the lap time—would it be quicker than LMP1s or Hypercars? The team also shared the lap time data with me - and it’s fascinating. The team were very well prepared - they’d run many simulations and h...
Driver61 Podcast
This podcast is a conversation with Willem Toet, Head of Aerodynamics at the Benetton team in 1994.I wanted to talk with Willem to understand exactly what was going on in the team at the time, whether the allegations of cheating with traction control and launch control were true, and what was really going on underneath Benetton’s engine cover.
