We’ve been talking about it for weeks and now it’s finally here. No not the first Sunday Grand Prix of the season (although that’s happening as well this weekend) but we have finally managed to get the author of Overtake My Heart, The Polesitter Always Rings Twice and Oh The Races You Will Throw, “Anita Driver” on the podcast! After releasing 6 F1 books over the last few months Anita has caused a bit of a sensation in the world of motorsport and we’re pleased to welcome them along for a chat...

2024 starts just as 2023 finished with an utterly dominant win for the seemingly unstoppable Max Verstappen in the all conquering RedBull. But all is not sweetness and light behind the scenes at the Milton Keynes based team… This week on the podcase we look back over the Bahrain Grand Prix which showed that you can’t always believe what you see in pre-season testing, aka the Winter Championship. And some teams might have done a little bit of bagsanding (it’s the opposite of sandbagging!) Of...

Testing is done and the next time we see the cars on track will be on Thursday (surely some mistake?) for the 1st practice session of the 2024 F1 season. Seeing as there’s only 4 of us to fill the time this week, we’ve picked up where we left off in last week’s mega show and we’re going through what we think we’re going to see this season, a few bold predictions and many many tangents.   As always at the start of the season, there’s the admin to get out of the way. There’s the...

What better way to kick the 2024 F1 season off than getting together with friends to talk all things F1 and all other things as well? In our usual form we managed to squeeze some F1 content in between the tangents with our friends from the Everything F1 Podcast And what a great bunch they are too, So in what’s become our biggest show yet the 9, yes NINE, of us talk about the upcoming season after we’ve seen all the car launches, who looks good, who’s bluffing and will Haas be a let down...

Or does it? Well we’ve had a couple of weeks of late off-season madness haven’t we. Andretti getting their bid to join the grid rejected, Guenther leaving Haas, the possible return of Sepang, rumours of a new street race in Chicago on the NASCAR/iRacing circuit and the slight matter of Lewis Hamilton leaving Mercedes for Ferrari at the end of the 2024 season! There was no way we couldn’t come back after all this as we’ve got tons to talk about, sadly however we had more technical gremlins so...

22 Races and 21 wins along with another 5 sprint wins for good measure. You could say that this has been Red Bull’s season right from the start, with just a blip in Singapore stopping them from a complete clean sweep? You could say that but lets face it, it’s Max Verstappen that has done the majority of the heavy lifting for the team this year. So much so that he actually scored more points on his own than any other team managed with 2 drivers! So this week on the podcast we look back at the...

17 wins in a season with 2 races still to go, what more can you say about Max Verstappen’s out and out dominance in 2023 that hasn’t already been said? He chalked up the record (along with his 4th sprint win of the season too) at Sao Paolo at the weekend in what used to the called the Brazilian Grand Prix, but is now the Sao Paolo GP instead This week on the podcast we take a look back at the weekend, one that Toto Wolff has described as one of Mercedes’ worst weekends in their entire time...

Was Sergio Perez ever in with a chance at winning his home race this year after saying he was fed up of “just” being on the podium? Well you might not be able to win a race on turn 1, but you can certainly lose one. This week on the podcast we look back at a surprisingly incident packed Mexico City Grand Prix where Max Verstappen took the outright record for the number of wins in a single season and came one step closer to winning the Constructor’s Championship for RedBull effectively on his...

When the stewards announce disqualifications after the race again. This time round though it was for worn planks and skid blocks instead of track limits, so I guess that makes a change! This week on the podcast we look back at the US Grand Prix (the 2nd US Race out of 3, but the only one called the USGP, following?) where, due to the sprint format, teams only had 1 practice session on Friday morning to actually get their cars ready for 2 races. While some teams went cautious when setting up...

That was an unexpected break for us thanks to a lot of reasons we don’t want to bore you with, but we’re finally back with new hardware and software and we can finally finish the half term review, even though we’re closer to the end of the season than we were when we started it! To make up for taking a bit of time off, we thought we’d come back with something a bit special and the week for the first time in nearly a year and a half, we’ve got Craig Scarborough with us, so if anyone can tell...

We weren’t planning on taking an early summer break this year, but due to a variety of reasons we’ve only just managed to get things together to record a show. So to make up for it we’ve packed things out this week with over 2 hours of stuff First up is our half term review of the back half of the teams where we go from Alpha Tauri in 10th to the chaos that is Alpine in 5th place. Also this week Paul & Kieren had a chat with F1 and all-round motoring writer Adam Hay-Nicholls about his...

Sometimes doing a show a day late has its benefits and this week we managed to get both the news of Williams putting out a Gulf livery for 3 races (Singapore, Japan & Qatar) and something about a driver change at Alpha Tauri? Yep, the news that’s shocked nobody was made official today (July 11th) that Daniel Ricciardo will return to the sister RedBull team for the remainder of the 2023 season replacing Nyck DeVries after the F2 & Formula E champion failed to impress the seemingly...

First off we want to start with a big announcement, we’d like to welcome Kieren Thomson to the team as a full member. He’s been helping us on out on the show over the last few weeks while Chris has been busy and Lee’s been doing Lee things in Tennessee (we don’t want to know what those things were, so use your imagination!) So he’ll be more than our summer intern now and we’ll have to make our own tea and it’s back to getting our own biscuits again! Next up we’ve got about the only thing...

What a milestone weekend for RedBull, their 100th win as a team and the 200th win for an Adrian Newey designed car. Is there any stopping them in 2023? Probably not! This week on the podcast we look back to the Canadian Grand Prix where the stewards were handing out gird penalties like sweets and Alex Albon made his Williams so wide that passing him on the track wasn’t going to be an option and Ferrari looked like they were going to shift a few t-shirts As usual we go through the race...

Well that was an unexpected hiatus for the show that we hadn’t planned on! But we’re back this week in a slightly cut down form because due to various other commitments and TT recovery Paul & Summer Intern Kieren get to talk tangents and general waffle and also somewhere in there preview the Canadian Grand Prix this weekend. Also we take a look back at the 24 Hours of Le Mans that took place this weekend where long-time target Antonio Giovinazzi did a bit more than participate! This is...

So Miami then, another temporary street(ish) circuit, or more concrete blocks dumped in a car park? We knew that F1 was going to go for as much glitz & glamour as they could this weekend and it gave some a chilling premonition of how OTT Las Vegas is going to be when we go there in a few months time! This week on the pod we look back at another dominant performance by RedBull, but for once they had to do some work after a Charles Leclerc crash in Q3 brought out the red flags with Max...

Another week and another controversy? Well not quite, but the Australian Grand Prix was certainly an event. From the start of the weekend it looked like this would be a different kind of race to the usual Melbourne procession, and boy did it deliver. This week we look back at the weekend’s action from a race that brought out 4 red flags (one of them being after the finish) with a few more spectacular moments thrown in for good measure. On the face of it a Max Verstappen win with Lewis...

The tight, twisty and fast Jeddah Corniche Circuit in Saudi Arabia has thrown up 2 races with big talking points since 2021 and for its 3rd running it didn’t let us down and we’ve got a load to talk about after this weekend. So much that we’ve had to get someone else in to help with the talking! This week on the podcast we’re joined once again by VirtualStatMan Sean Kelly to fill us in on the details of the race as well as his interesting time since the end of the Bahrain Grand Prix 2 weeks...

We’re ready for the 2nd race of this record breaking F1 season as the circus moves to the Jeddah Corniche street circuit this weekend, after 2 previous races there (even if Paul can’t remember both of them) that have thrown up on and off-track incidents are we going to get more of the same? This week on the podcast we look forward to the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix and take a look at the goings on around F1 before the series gets to Europe when the main news happens. So very sorry Ferrari fans,...

We’re up and running in Formula 1 for 2023 and I defy anyone to point out any differences at the front of the grid from last year. Go on, we can wait… This week on the podcast we take a look at the Bahrain Grand Prix where on the face of it, it was business as usual for RedBull again with them picking up where they left off in 2022, but what’s that fast green car doing on the podium? Yep Aston Martin appear to be legitimately quick this year after being a little (a lot) disappointing in 2022...

It’s Race Week (right we’ve got that out of the way now so we can continue) for the first time in 2023 with testing done, all the cars revealed in all their limited colour, carbon fibre shaded glory and we’re ready to go for the Bahrain Grand Prix at the start of this year’s 23 race F1 season This week on the pod we’ve got a bit of a mixed bag as we look over what came out of the 3 days of the only pre-season test session and for once it doesn’t look like it’s going to be the same as last...

We’re in the final stretch of the off-season and the 2023 Formula One World Championship is just around the corner. We just have to make do with all the pesky car launches and media events first. This week on the podcast we look at what’s come out so far of the 7 teams that have launched their challengers (or at least renders of them) for the upcoming year and who is hopeful and who isn’t. We take a look at things like car weights and get upset at the amount of livery that’s been removed to...

Happy 2023 everyone. After a troubled year for us we’re back and race fit for 2023! There’s loads to look forward to in the coming year for Formula One and this time we’ll get a full year of shows in, starting with this week where we look at the new line-ups on the grid, new cars and a new circuit. Of course with no racing for a few more weeks we’ve had to dip into our bag of tangents and you can rest assured we didn’t come up empty handed There’s going to be some interesting inter-team...

Just like Danny Ric walking back into the familiar surroundings of the RedBull HQ in Milton Keynes, we’ve returned to the podsphere after a little bit of a break, on the subject of which I can’t thank everyone that’s been in touch over the last couple of months anywhere near enough (Paul) We missed the last 4 races  of the 2022 season so this week we’ve done a bit of a free-form chat between the 4 of us on the current state of F1 and the 10 teams going into next season after a few weeks of...