Formula 1 Podcast

Episode 286 – The Magnificent 7, Or Damon & 6 Others

04 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This year’s Portuguese Grand Prix threw up what some said wasn’t a thriller of a race, but there were still a few talking points to come out of th...

Episode 285 – English Mustard, American At A Push

27 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

You’ll have to wait until the end of the show to find out what this week’s title means though! This week we take a look at the news that F1 sprint...

Episode 284 – It’s Time For Him To Go Sit In The Stands

20 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We might have had a 3 week gap between races, but Sunday at Imola certainly made up for it. Safety Cars, red flags, on track passing and a great slab ...

Episode 283 – They’re Using All The Words

13 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A 2 week break would have been unthinkable last season when we had more triple headers than you could shake a 2 metre long socially distanced stick at...

Episode 282 – Answering Questions Before They’re Asked

30 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What a way to open another F1 season! We got to see battles all the way down the grid and one of the tightest finishes we’ve had in ages. To quote ...

Episode 281 – I Ditched Michael For Fake Bono

23 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-season is all done and we get down to business for the 2021 F1 season this weekend with the opening race back at the Sakhir Circuit in Bahrain. Th...

Episode 280 – Lizards & Oompa-Loompas

16 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

After a shortened pre-season test this year where we only got 3 days of running instead of the usual 6, there’s still a lot of questions over this y...

Episode 279 – Now We Are 6

11 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Not 6 members on the team, or even 6 podcats, but we’ve now been doing this podcast for 6 years! When we did our 1st show in 2015 we were excited by...

Episode 278 – Finally We Have A 2021 Line-Up*

09 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

After about a year of speculation. although it seems like longer, Lewis Hamilton has put pen to paper on a new contract. However it’s only for 1 sea...

Episode 277 – It’s Like 2020 2 – The Sequel

02 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We’re back! After our Christmas & New Year’s break we thought it was about time to inflict ourselves on you again with more vaguely F1 related non...

Episode 276 – Did Anyone Stay Awake To The End?

15 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After a unique season, the likes of which we’ve never seen before and hopefully we’ll never see again. 2020 finished for Formula 1 with a bit of a...

Episode 275 – Sergio Perez Race Winner At Last

08 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

He’s finally done it, after 190 starts from 194 race weekend Checo Perez has finally made it to the top step of the podium after safety cars, pit st...

Episode 274 – There’s A LOT To Go Through Here

01 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We didn’t do a show last week as there was very little to discuss, but Sunday’s race in Bahrain more than made up for that. This week we’re join...

Episode 273 – 44 X 7

17 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What a way to seal a World Championship! After an amazing drive and some of the best tyre management in some of the trickiest conditions we’ve seen ...

Episode 272 – Another Blast From The Past

10 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Another return to a track from F1’s recent history is coming this week as the circus returns to the Istanbul Park circuit in Turkey, location of the...

Episode 271 – Seven And Seven Is…

03 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

…The formula for yet another season of Mercedes dominance. This weekend at F1’s return to Imola, the Silver Arrows clinched their 7th consecutive ...

Episode 270 – Any Portimao In A Storm

22 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sorry we’re a few days late with the pod again this week, but this having a life and being an adult business isn’t what it’s all cracked up to b...

Episode 269 – Dedication’s What You Need

13 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

If you want to be a record breaker anyway. And this week we had one record broken and one record equalled at the 1st (and as we keep saying, probably ...

Episode 268 – Autumn In Europe

06 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The make-do and mend 2020 F1 season carries on and this week we’re visiting a track that we last raced on in 2013, the Nurburgring in Germany’s Ei...

Episode 267 – Bees, Big Ones But Not Nuclear Or Fire

29 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Another Russian Grand Prix that for the most part was nothing to write home about for track action, but things got a little controversial before the r...

Episode 266 – Voyage Into The Unknown

15 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mugello, a circuit that F1 hasn’t raced on before in its 70 year history and also somewhere that the majority of the grid haven’t even experienced...

Episode 265 – From Out Of Nowhere

08 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

12 months ago Pierre Gasly was in a tailspin, demoted from the RedBull team back to Toro Rosso and his career was looking like it was following the sa...

Episode 264 – Not Exactly A Thrill A Minute

01 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How many years has the Belgian Grand Prix thrown out an absolute classic? Probably not as many as you’d think and this years was another one to add ...

Episode 263 – Another Calm Before Another Storm

25 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast we get chance to take a bit of a breather and look at the news that’s come out with the Williams team being taken over by D...

Episode 262 – Back To Business As Usual

18 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton were back on the top step of the podium in the Spanish Grand Prix at the weekend after losing out for the first time in th...

Episode 261 – Last Week SilverstONE, This Week SilversTWO

11 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It’s taken until the 5th race of the season, but we’ve finally got someone who doesn’t drive for Mercedes on the top step of the podium. Max Ver...

Episode 260 – No, Seriously Bonno, They Are Finished

04 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

So what to make of this year’s British Grand Prix? Looking at the facts on paper we had a driver returning at the last minute after missing out on t...

Episode 259 – There’s Some Circumstances

28 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve had the 1st week off from F1 since racing started and we’re getting ready for the next Triple-Header with 2 races at Silverstone and then (h...

Episode 258 – From Romain To Robots

21 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We’re already 3 races in to the 2020 F1 season and with the races all being double and triple headers this year they’re going to come thick and fa...

Episode 257 – That Was The Weekend That Was

14 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For the first time in F1 history we’ve had 2 consecutive championship races at the same circuit. Following on from last week’s Austrian Grand Prix...

Episode 256 – Back With A Bang

07 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Well that was worth the wait! almost 4 months after the aborted start of the season, Formula 1 came back at the weekend with the Austrian Grand Prix a...

Episode 255 – Our 2nd 1st Race Preview Of 2020

30 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It’s finally here, we’ve got a Grand Prix to preview over 3 months after the aborted attempt to run the Australian Grand Prix at the start of the ...

Episode 254 – The End Of Our Lockdown

24 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

1st off, we’re really sorry about last week’s disastrous attempts to get a show recorded, between work commitments and 2 (TWO) mixing desks that w...

Episode 253 – It’s All In The Name

10 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

So we now know the dates, locations and names of the first 8 races of the 2020 season when it gets going in just over 3 weeks time and we’re not hav...

Episode 252 – Have The Glory Days Gone For Good?

03 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Another week closer to the start of the 2020 season and we’re now worried how many car we’ll see on the grid when we kick things off in Austria in...

Episode 251 – Hope The Schedule Was Written In Pencil

27 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Another week and another change to the 2020 F1 season. After the UK Government announced that anyone entering the country after June 8th has to isolat...

Episode 250 – Here Come The Sainz Bit

20 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What a week last week was, we thought we’d peaked with the official Tuesday News about Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari parting company and we’d have ...

Episode 249 – 2 Shows In One

13 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It all started so normally Monday night, we had our usual podcast recording including about quarter of an hour’s speculation on the news that Ferrar...

Episode 248 – Lando 500

06 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There was a bit of a kerfuffle at the weekend as Lando Norris took part in his 2nd ever virtual IndyCar race after winning in his previous one at Circ...

Episode 247 – Gearing Up?

29 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Could we be close to seeing some racing after all? As some countries are making preparations to come out of their Covid-19 lockdowns, there’s a chan...

Episode 246 – There Might Be Some Good News…

22 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Could things be improving to the point where we might get some racing in the next few months? It’s certainly possible as Austria has started to life...

Episode 245 – We’re All In this Together

15 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome along to another of our lockdown shows from the (as you can see in the title photo) sunny Isle of Man! This week we look at the current state ...

Episode 244 – It’s Virtually Racing

08 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the latest of our lockdown special podcasts, this week on the show we’re joined by Suzie Kennedy to talk about the latest virtual GPs and...

Episode 243 – The Cars The (Hundreds Of) Stars

01 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Week 3 of our lockdown shows and we’re not showing signs of cabin fever yet, Chris has been getting artistic (check out his colouring work on Scarbs...

Episode 242 – Lockdown Special WIth Sean Kelly

25 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast we’re joined by the first member of the Automobile Club de Monaco to apply for a job at Walmart (his word not ours!) Sean K...

Episode 241 – We’re Still Here (If A Little Different)

18 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We all know by now that Formula 1, F2 & F3 along with just about all sports events have been put on hold due to the current Global Coronavirus pandemi...

Episode 240 – 2020 Pre Season Special With Craig Scarborough

10 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

At this stage of the year we usually have an idea about what’s going to happen on-track, certainly for the first few races of the season after pre-s...

Episode 239 – Testing’s Done, Now What?

03 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-season testing is done for 2020, but what now. With the current Covid-19 situation, we don’t actually know if we’ll have an F1 season to talk ...

Episode 238 – Was Is DAS?

27 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Testing week 1 is done and what an innovation the Silver Arrows have dropped on us this year? Up to last Wednesday, steering wheels just rotated left ...

Episode 237 – Radio Check, Are we Ready To Go?

18 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

That was one long winter break, but I think we got through it intact and we’re ready for F1 to get going again, and here it is! This week on the pod...

Episode 236 – Seriously Not Long To Go Now

05 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We’re only about a week away from the first car launches of the season and a couple of weeks from the start of the first test, so that means it won’...

Episode 235 – And A New One Has (Finally) Begun

25 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

OK, ok, ok, sorry we’re late. We recorded this show as normal on Monday after a week’s delay thanks to Storm Brendan hitting the Isle of Man with ...

Episode 234 – Another Year Over

17 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

So the end of another year of F1 and now we get a couple of months without seeing a car spin it’s wheels (or in the case of one driven by Sebastian ...

Episode 233 – Flu Can’t Bring Me Down

10 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We’re back on track this week after 80% of us got taken down by a bad bout of Manx Flu! And what better way to celebrate being up and about again th...

Episode 232 – Literally Driving Into The Sunset

27 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

So is the Day/Night Abu Dhabi Grand Prix just one big metaphor then? With it being the only twilight race of the year and coming at the end of the sea...

Episode 231 – Try Summarizing That!

19 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Well that was a surprise, although we’re still not sure what was the biggest one, 2 Honda powered cars on the podium, Carlos Sainz getting 3rd (even...

Episode 230 – Brazilian Techno Special

12 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Don’t panic about the title, we’ve not gone off into a world of strange dance music! This week on the podcast we’re joined, once again by techni...

Episode 229 – Lewis Hamilton World Champion X 6

05 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Well he’s done it again! Congratulations to Lewis Hamilton for his 6th Word Driver’s Championship, coming after Mercedes clinched their 6th consec...

Episode 228 – We Could Be Lifted

29 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

So Mexico does things with the podium again! No rotating DJs this time, but a big lift for the winner in their car. Some say that the podium is the mo...

Episode 227 – Comin’ Atcha LIVE

22 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Not only are we back on schedule this week with a Tuesday podcast, but we’ve (Lee has anyway) invested in some new streaming equipment and we’re b...

Episode 226 – Better Later Than Never(er)

17 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sorry, sorry, sorry. Can you tell we’re sorry this week. It wasn’t just qualifying in the Japanese Grand Prix that was delayed this week. After so...

Episode 225 – Mad Hats Incoming

08 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It wouldn’t be the Japanese Grand Prix without what some of the most dedicated F1 fans in the world and one thing is for sure, the Japanese F1 fans ...

Episode 224 – More Winds Of Change

01 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

That’s what was blowing through Russia this weekend at least. After 3 races and one qualifying session where Ferrari dominated, we returned to norma...

Episode 223 – From Out Of Nowhere?

24 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Coming off the back of 2 wins at low downforce, high speed circuits, nobody thought that Ferrari would be in with a sniff of getting anything out of t...

Episode 222 – RedBull Gives You Cauliflowers?

17 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We promise you that the title of this week’s podcast will make sense when you listen to it! This week on the podcast we’re joined by the one and o...

Episode 221 – Due Is The Numero Magico

10 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A second consecutive for Ferrari and their first at Monza since Fernando Alonso all the way back in 2010, is the the start of the red resurgence? Prob...

Episode 220 – The 6th New Name In 10 Years

03 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Charles Leclerc has added his name to the list of Grand Prix winners and he’s only the 6th driver to do that this decade, such has been the balance ...

Episode 219 – Thursday Is The New Tuesday

29 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Well that was a day and a half! We’ve not even had a car on track after the Summer break and we’ve already had the 2020 calendar, driver confirmat...

Episode 218 – A Spa Vacation Or A Vacation And A Spa?

27 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

That’s the Summer Break all done and we’re back to racing this weekend. F1 makes its traditional return to the Belgian countryside for one of our ...

Episode 217 – Another Technical Special With Craig Scarborough

21 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve got another special show this week as Craig Scarborough joins us again to talk though what the teams have achieved in the first have of he sea...

Episode 216 – The Old RedBull Switcheroo (Again)

13 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

So RedBull have done it (and not on a Tuesday), Alex is in and Pierre is out (only out as far as Toro Rosso though). Can’t help but think we’ve se...

Episode 215 – The Chase Is Better Than The Catch

06 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

That’s 4 exciting races we’ve had in a row now in the run up to the Summer break. And for the first time in a while we saw Mercedes pull an amazin...

Episode 214 – Wet and Wild

30 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve finally had a wet race this season and what a race it was too! 78 pitstops, a mix of strategies (some worked some didn’t), points for Willia...

Episode 213 – Feuer Frei

23 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

F1 is back in Germany this weekend with the Hockenheimring getting to host races in consecutive years for the first time since 2006 and 9 teams seem t...

Episode 212 – Let’s Go (Crowd)Surfin’ Now

16 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

There’s one constant that you can expect from the British Grand Prix and that’s if Lewis Hamilton wins the race he’s going to crowdsurf like a p...

Episode 211 – A Sort Of Homecoming

09 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This is the weekend where F1 comes home! The first Formula 1 World Championship Grand Prix was held at Silverstone in 1950 and the iconic circuit has ...

Episode 210 – That Was The Race We Needed

02 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We’d only just put our socks back on after the French Grand Prix bored them off last week and we were collectively happy to then have them blown off...

Episode 209 – They Did It Again

25 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

There’s 2 meaning behind the title of this week’s show as the French Grand Prix took the award for the strangest trophy of the season, with the re...

Episode 208 – We’re Still Getting Over Last Year’s Trophies

18 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

12 Months on from the last French Grand Prix and there’s still no rational explanation behind the gorillas that were handed out on the podium in Le ...

Episode 207 – Controversy, What Controversy?

11 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

So the Canadian Grand Prix then? Not many talking points at all really. There was Renault’s new found pace, a Mercedes Engine going “foom” in th...

Live From Montreal Trackside With Virtual Stat Man, Sean Kelly

07 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

FP2 in Canada has just finished and friend of the Podcast Sean Kelly (@virtualstatman) is right there next to The Wall Of Champions and he’s joined ...

Episode 206 – Their Home And Native Land

04 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

So the European F1 season is in full swing as we move across the Atlantic to… Canada. But it’s a first for this year’s Canadian Grand Prix as it...

Episode 205 – It Looks Like We Might Have Made It

28 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

That was an interesting Monaco Grand Prix this weekend. Once again Lewis Hamilton questioned the team’s strategy  choices and seemed to spend the l...

Episode 204 – European Updates With Craig Scarborough

21 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast we’re joined once again by Craig Scarborough to talk about the updates that some teams brought with them to last week’s S...

Episode 203 – Strategy 101 (Ferrari Nil)

14 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

So the headline of the Spanish Grand Prix was another 1-2 finish for Mercedes, but the real story was how Ferrari managed to screw up their strategy a...

Episode 202 – Will The Reign Continue In Spain?

07 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been four 1-2 finishes out of four for Mercedes this year and this weekend at the Spanish Grand Prix you can bet they are going all out to get ...

Episode 201 – Not With A Bang

30 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Over the last 2 years we’ve come to expect the unexpected when it comes to the Azerbaijan Grand Prix and after the drain cover and bridge incidents ...

Episode 200 – Yes it’s actually Episode 200

23 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Just in case you hadn’t noticed, it’s our 200th show this week and we decided to do something special for it… Actually we haven’t done anythin...

Episode 199 – Race 1000 Putting The “M” in HmmmmmM

16 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It wasn’t a thriller was it? The massively hyped up 1000th race in the F1 World Championship (we’ll get to the other 1000th races soon enough) tur...

Episode 198 – Millennium Bug Prevention

09 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

With the 1000th World Championship race coming up this weekend, F1 is in a celebratory mood combined with a lot of looking back over the last 69 years...

Episode 197 – Almost Within Touching Distance

02 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Charles Leclerc started Sunday as the 99th pole-sitter in Formula 1 and for all but 9 laps of Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix he looked set to be the 10...

Episode 196 – (Remember) Racing In The Sand

28 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We’re already on to the 2nd race of the F1 season and this week the circus heads to the desert in Bahrain for the first night race of the year, The ...

Episode 195 – Big Beard Energy?

19 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Finally after not being able to say this for the whole of 2018, we can congratulate Valtteri Bottas for winning a race, and what a way to do it as wel...

Australian Grand Prix Special

15 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Seeing as the 2019 season is finally about to start we’ve done an extra show with a special guest this week. Joining us from Melbourne is VirtualSta...

Episode 194 – Radio Check Are We Ready To Go?

12 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It’s a thing and it’s happening! The 2019 F1 season starts this week and for the first time this year we can say that we’ve got a preview show. ...

Episode 193 – Testing Wrapup With Craig Scarborough

05 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve now seen all the 2019 cars running on track during the 2 test sessions in Barcelona and this week we’re joined by Craig Scarborough to talk ...

Episode 192 – The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Tester

26 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-season testing is half way done and we’ve got to see all 10 cars and 21 different drivers (Haas gave Pietro Fittipaldi a run last week) and what...

Episode 191 – Testing, Testing, Is This Thing On?

20 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The 2019 F1 season has officially got (pre)-going with all 10 cars launched and the start of the 1st pre-season test in Barcelona.  This week on the ...

Epsiode 190 – Blackout? Not Exactly

12 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It’s Launch week and so far we’ve seen… some 2018 cars in fancy dress and renderings of 2019 cars where you don’t get to see too much technica...

Episode 189 – On The Road Again (Again)

05 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

There’s been quite a few F1 stories breaking over the last few weeks, so we’ve decided that it’s time we got off our backsides and got back to w...