Welcome to the F1 News Zone, the show where we round-up the biggest stories in Formula 1 right now. Formula 1 is officially in its off-season, but there’s plenty of stories going around away from the track that’s setting us up for a very exciting 2025 campaign.

This week, we question whether Formula 1 stewards should be paid after Johnny Herbert’s sacking, we question whether Adrian Newey’s 2026 engine regulation predictions will be correct and the potential cause of Sir Lewis Hamilton’s Testing crash in Barcelona has been revealed. All that, and a whole lot more is coming up in today’s show.

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