Formula 1 Podcast

Episode 188 – Sort Of F1 & Sort of Patreon

16 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It’s a bit of a mixed show this week, there’s not a great deal of F1 news out there and we also found out we’d got 2 broken microphones during t...

Episode 187 – Arrivederci Maranello

09 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

2019 has started with a surprise for us, there was news on a Monday and it was a big story as well. As you’ll have probably seen by now Maurizio Arr...

Episode 186 – Season Wrap Up with Craig Scarborough

11 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

With the 2018 F1 season fading into the distance we look back at things from a more technical perspective with Craig Scarborough this week. Amongst ot...

Episode 185 – Tis The (Off) Season (Again)

04 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Our first off-season show of the year and once again we’ve managed to get a special guest to join us for it. This week on the podcast we’re joined...

Episode 184 – Like The Rain Misses The Desert

27 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Well that’s it for the 2018 season then. It’s been an interesting year in F1 and we got a decent race to wrap things up. But before we do a season...

Episode 183 – No Regrets, No Tears Goodbye?

20 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the last race of the 2018 season this weekend and it’s the last race (for now) for at least 3 and maybe 5 drivers on the grid. We already kno...

Episode 182 – Oops Upside Your Car

14 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Brazilian Grand Prix had a couple of talking points didn’t it? From Sebastian Vettel destroying the scales when he got called into the weighbrid...

Episode 181 – There’s Lots of Chickens in Indonesia

06 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast we say goodbye to Rob Smedley as he’s moving on to pastures new after announcing (on a Monday as well) that he’s leaving ...

Episode 180 – Lewis Hamilton 5 Times World Champion

30 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

For the 2nd year running Lewis Hamilton has clinched the World Driver’s Championship at the Mexican Grand Prix and once again he didn’t have to fi...

Episode 179 – Ice(man) Ice(man) Baby

23 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Although we nearly called this week’s podcast “Fluffing Finally” as we’re pretty sure that what Kimi said on the radio when he got his 1st win...

Episode 178 – Westbound And Down

16 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

F1 heads out to Texas this week for the US Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin and it could be the race where the 2018 Driver’s Cham...

Episode 177 – Spoonman

09 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Well that’s what we were calling Sebastian Vettel all weekend after all the issues he had at the Spoon corner in Suzuka during the Japanese Grand Pr...

Episode 176 – New Orders Divide The Joy

02 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

So the Russian Grand Prix finally brought the Mercedes team orders into play, which we knew were coming at some point of this season. It’s not a new...

Episode 175 – A Jump Cut Into A Round Table

25 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

With not much news to report on Monday we thought we’d have another of our round table “state of the nation” chats about F1 again this week, whi...

Episode 174 – That Lap, Just That Lap

18 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Yes, “that” lap from Lewis on Saturday in Q3 turned out to be the highlight of the Singapore Grand Prix this year after a race where strategy rule...

Episode 173 – Technical Special With Added Jump Cuts

11 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Another special show this week as we’re joined by F1 Technical Expert Craig Scarborough to discuss the upgrades the teams have got for the 2nd half ...

Episode 172 – Mammia Mia, We Got News Again

04 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Monday is being good to us right now, for the 2nd time in the space of 3 podcasts we’ve had new news to talk about on the show without having to res...

Episode 171 – What Was The Name Of That Beyonce Song?

28 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

If the Belgian Grand Prix did one thing then surely it must have put an end to the halo debate, while there’s nothing to say that Fernando Alonso’...

Episode 170 – It’s A Gas Gas Gas

21 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Just for once we got some news on a Monday and it was before we started recording! RedBull announced that Pierre Gasly is to make the step up from Tor...

Episode 169 – Ciao, Adios, He’s Done

14 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The 2018 F1 Silly Season has just got even sillier (even though we thought it was already at peak silliness) with the announcement this afternoon  th...

Episode 168 – It’s All Getting Silly Now

08 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We thought around June that the silly season was going to be the most active one we’ve had for a few years and we weren’t wrong. By the end of the...

Episode 167 – Appetite For Dest.. Relaxation

31 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Hungarian Grand Prix has now become the regular last race before the summer break in the F1 season and we’ve got to be honest, it seemed like mo...

Episode 166 – From Despair To Where?

24 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We’re getting spoiled this season with some great Grands Prix (I got the right spelling and everything there!) And last weekend’s German Grand Pri...

Episode 165 – Got Wood? Good!

17 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

After a weekend recovering from the triple header, we’re straight back into preview mode on this week’s podcast where we look forward to what’s ...

Episode 164 – We’re Deliberately Incompetent

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Passions were running high at Silverstone at the weekend for the British Grand Prix where we got to see another Ferrari/Mercedes coming together in th...

Episode 163 – Nobody Moves, Nobody Gets Fired

03 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Max Verstappen has finally won a race without Daniil Kvyat losing his job! After his 3 previous wins in the last 2 years since he moved up to the main...

Episode 163 – Monkey Business As Usual

26 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The French Grand Prix then, an unknown quantity with the circuit with its brain frying patterned run-off areas, over 160 possible track configurations...

Episode 161 – à la recherche de temps perdu

19 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

(Or looking for lost time) Which is what RedBull will be doing now they’ve announced their switch to Honda power, just a convenient few hours after ...

Episode 160 – Bring Back Groundhog Effect

12 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Well that wasn’t the Canadian Grand Prix we were expecting was it? Coming after a Monaco race that even the F1 purists amongst us said was “a bit ...

Episode 159 – Island Race

06 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Yes, we’re a day late with this week’s show thanks to various TT goings on, but the Isle Of Man isn’t the only island with racing going on this ...

Episode 158 – Lazy Sunday Afternoon

29 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

So yeah, Monaco? It was a bit processional in the end and let’s face it we didn’t expect it to be anything else as it’s not really possible to b...

Episode 157 – By The Sea

22 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Monaco Grand Prix aka The Jewel In The F1 Crown, otherwise known as an outdated processional race with zero overtaking and the only excitement bei...

Episode 156 – Upgrade Season with Craig Scarborough

15 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Spanish Grand Prix has now become the race where we get to see all the first upgrades to each season’s cars and this year was no exception, so w...

Episode 155 – Easy Like Sunday Afternoon

08 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Another race week to look forward to at 3Legs Towers and it’s got a lot to live up to after the drama in Baku, but as it’s the Spanish Grand Prix ...

Episode 154 – You’re Unpredictable

01 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Another race in Baku and another result that didn’t look likely when the lights went out. This week on the podcast we’re joined by VirtualStatMan ...

Episode 153 – Castles in the Sky

24 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast we preview the Azerbaijan Grand Prix which doesn’t form part of the European season, even though the Baku City Circuit was ...

Episode 152 – The China Syndrome

17 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Come on then, at the end of FP3 on Saturday morning, did anyone actually predict that Daniel Ricciardo would be on the top step of the podium the foll...

Episode 151 – Where’s The Party At?

10 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

So where was the party mode on the Mercedes then? After a dominant performance by Ferrari all through the weekend, the Bahrain Grand Prix was topped o...

Episode 150 – Circle (with extra bits) In The Sand

03 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

One race into the 2018 F1 season and we’re already on our first back to back weekends of the year with races in Bahrain and China to come over the n...

Episode 149 – I See Red

27 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Well there’s no doubting it now, F1 is back for 2018! And as season openers go the Australian Grand Prix was a pretty good one. It’s often the cas...

Episode 148 – 2018 Season Preview with Sean Kelly

20 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a long 4 months, but we’re only a matter of days away from the 2018 F1 season finally getting underway at Albert Park in Melbourne Austr...

Episode 147 – Testing Review with Craig Scarborough

13 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Testing is done and Formula 1 has moved on from Barcelona (for a couple of months until the Spanish GP of course) and now all the teams are back at th...

Episode 146 – BarSnowLona?

06 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Testing at the Circuit de Catalunya has become the norm for the last few seasons rather than testing in Bahrain. It’s easier to get spares to the te...

Episode 145 – I Got A Silver Machine

27 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

All the new cars are out and the pre-season testing has begun, so it must be time to get ready for the 2018 F1 season. And once again, Paul & Lee have...

Episode 144 – Trains & Boats & Planes, But Mainly Cars

20 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What a week! Lee & Paul are back from Mercedes with a few stories to tell about the factory visit which ended in a surprise tour of the facility (mass...

Episode 143 – By George We Got It!

15 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve only gone and done it again, this week we managed to spend some time with Mercedes Young Driver (and ART F2 racer) George Russell. Massive tha...

Episode 142 – New Kids On The Grid

08 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Grid Girls situation continues to cause more debate than anything in recent F1 history and while it’s a very divisive issue, it’s at least get...

Episode 141 – All Day And Most Of The Night

30 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Tuesday strikes again! On Monday evening we recorded a podcast that featured the Daytona 24 pretty heavily as we spent all weekend watching and live-b...

Episode 140 – Lando Norris Special

23 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve been teasing it for ages that we were going to do something special last weekend and that thing was that Paul & Lee took a trip to the McLaren...

Episode 139 – I Don’t Like Tuesdays

16 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We knew it, we bloody knew it! We’ve been waiting for Williams to make the 2018 driver announcement for weeks and they go and do it on a Tuesday mor...

Episode 138 – 24 Hours From Somewhere

10 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The new F1 season is still a couple of months away, but there’s still a few things to keep us ticking over. Kimi has lost his race engineer, There’...

Episode 137 – All Is Silent On New Year’s Day

02 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Yep, the calendar has flipped over to 2018 and as usually happens at this time of year, there’s very little in the way of F1 news happening. With al...

An Extra Podcast For Christmas

24 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve been doing extra podcasts for all our Patreon patrons for the last year or so, and what with it being Christmas, we thought we’d share this ...

Episode 136 – ‘Tis The Season (Review)

19 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

With Christmas and 2018 approaching about as rapidly as anyone about to lap a Sauber, we thought it would be the best time to finally do our review of...

Episode 135 – Addicted To That Russian?

12 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This time last year we were waiting on Mercedes to choose who would take the last seat on the grid after Nico Rosberg’s shock retirement, which ende...

Episode 134 – Hazy Shade of Winter

05 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The 2017 season’s been over for more than a week now and let’s be honest, we’re all missing F1! The good news is that there’s still plenty of ...

Episode 133 – It’ll Never Rain On This Parade

28 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What a gripping, down to the wire, edge of the seat race we watched this weekend. But then after watching highlights of the 2008 season finale we tune...

Episode 132 – I’m Like A Fledgling (I’m A Bit ****)

21 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Surely the Silly Season is normally wrapped up before November and we’re still not making wild stabs as to who is going to be doing what next year? ...

Episode 131 – Deja Vu All Over Again

14 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We’re pretty sure we did a “Felipe Massa has done his final Brazilian Grand Prix” podcast this time last year, but 12 months on and we obviously...

Episode 130 – Shabby Road

07 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Unlike The Beatles, Paul’s not dead! He’s just missing his first show in 130 episodes tonight. But Chris, Dan & Lee are on hand to keep things goi...

Episode 129 – That’s Podiumwang (and a championship too)

31 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Lewis Hamilton is the World Driver’s Champion for the 4th time and the 3rd time in the last 4 years. Pretty Impressive when you think about it. But ...

Episode 128 – Fly Like A (Virtual) Eagle

24 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

So we expected a quiet and understated US Grand Prix and that’s what we got, where was all the glitz and glamour that F1 was promising us for weeks ...

Episode 127 – A Day Late But Not A Dollar Short

18 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Happy Wednesday everyone! Thanks to Storm Ophelia this week we had to hold off on our usual Monday recording session due to 90MPH winds (still faster ...

Episode 126 – Boomshanka(lak)

10 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Massive thanks to our special guest Sean Kelly (@virtualstatman) for coming up with the title of this week’s show and for making another visit into ...

Episode 125 – A MAXimum High

03 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the podcast we take a look back at the best birthday present a 20 year old has ever had! Max Verstappen celebrated his birthday this week...

Episode 124 – Better Late Than Never!

29 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Sorry we’re a bit later than normal this week with the podcast, but holidays and such got in the way (even podcasters need a break sometimes!) But w...

Episode 123 – Slinging In The Rain

19 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

So we’ve finally seen what Singapore is like in the wet and it turns out it’s a bit (wet and) wild! The run of pole sitters winning the Singapore ...

Episode 122 – Wide Awake in Singapore

12 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The more eagle-eyed amongst you might have noticed that this week’s cover picture isn’t the Marina Bay circuit, but the Monte Carlo one from this ...

Episode 121- There’s Something In The Air (It’s Rain)

05 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Talk about a mixed up weekend! The 3 days of the Italian Grand Prix were all over the place, great weather on Friday, rain delays being dished out lik...

Episode 120 – My Heart Will Go On, But My Car Won’t

29 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

So Belgium then, a dominant win for Lewis Hamilton and proof from Ferrari that even on an out and out power circuit, they’re keeping pace with the S...

Episode 119 – There Goes Summer

22 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a long summer break (actually it hasn’t but it seemed it), but we got through it and F1 is back this weekend with the Belgian Grand Prix...

Episode 118 – The Cure For The Summertime Blues?

15 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We’re over half way through the F1 Summer Break, so there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and we’ll be back racing soon. But in the meantime ...

Episode 117 – Summer Break With A Guest

08 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What better way to spend the summer than with friends and guests? Well that’s what we thought, so this week on the podcast we’re joined by F2000 r...

Episode 116 – Stick Em In Your Mouth And Suck Em

01 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Current thinking at 3Legs towers is that Nico Hulkenberg & K-Mag won’t be on each others Xmas card lists after this weekend’s “ball-gate” inci...

Episode 115 – It Was All To Sell Spaceships

25 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the Hungarian Grand Prix this weekend and this race is always a great leveller for the front half of the grid as well as being a place where dr...

Episode 114 – Remember When We Used To Do An F1 Podcast?

18 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

But then the tangents crept in and it all went awry. Actually it hasn’t gone that badly and we do have an F1 podcast this week where we look back at...

Episode 113 – Turns Out It Gives You Fin(n)s

11 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Once again the RedBull Ring wasn’t the home race that the flying drinks cans were looking forward to and again Mercedes too the top step on the podi...

Episode 112 – We Forgot the Nuclear Fire Bees

04 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the Austrian Grand Prix this weekend at the Red Bull Ring and we all know that if any company does things TO THE EXTREME, it’s the Austrian f...

Episode 111 – It Was The Race We Wanted AND The Race We Deserved

27 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Holy C**p! That was some Grand Prix this weekend. Where do you start with it? Azerbaijan finally lived up what we were promised last year and then som...

Episode 110 – Baku To Life, Baku To Reality

20 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

After a weekend of WEC (WECend?) at Le Mans, it’s back to normal with some F1 again and the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku (at least they’ve stoppe...

Episode 109 – Make It Shoe Number 33

13 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Well that was the antidote to Monaco wasn’t it! A great Canadian GP with racing all the way down the field (from 4th place anyway), some great defen...

Episode 108 – Take Off To The Great White North

07 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

After the one-off that was Monaco and the learning experience that was the Indy 500 we’re back to what passes for normal in the world of F1 this wee...

Episode 107 – One Long Sunday

31 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

And what a Sunday it was, Monaco and the Indy 500. We were actually spoilt with the amount of racing we had to watch and 3 of us have to admit that we...

Episode 106 – Anyone Got Plans For The Weekend Then?

23 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This is going to be the BIGGEST weekend in motor racing for a long time, we’ve got the Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday followed in short order (closer t...

Episode 105 – You Spain Me Right Round

16 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What a Spanish Grand Prix that was, we had wheel to wheel racing, overtakes for the lead, defensive driving and a couple of unfortunate DNFs caused by...

Episode 104 – Europe A Go Go

10 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the start of the “European” part of the F1 season (until Canada breaks it up in 2 races time at least) and the Spanish Grand Prix is when w...

Episode 103 – Not So Number 2 This Week

02 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

While it wasn’t the most thrilling Russian Grand Prix to date, it was still a pretty historic one as it gave Valtteri Bottas his maiden F1 win after...

Episode 102 – Insert Title Here (Paul Forgot it!)

25 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The 2017 season is well under way now and we’re already looking forward to the 4th race of the year, the Russian Grand Prix in Sochi. There’s a pa...

Episode 101 – We Did Whatever We Wanted (Mate)

18 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve got a championship on our hands here! Ferrari’s Sebasitan Vettel takes a win in the Bahrain Grand Prix and goes top of the Drivers standings...

Episode 100 – Wow It’s Episode 100

11 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

If anyone had told us when we started this that we’d do 100 podcasts we’d have looked at them like Fernando Alonso would have looked at this year’...

Episode 99 – Chinese GP Preview

04 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

So on to the 2nd race of the season, the Chinese GP. Can Ferrari maintain their new found pace and momentum after their first win in 18 months in Aust...

Episode 98 Been A Long Time Coming

28 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been 18 months since we heard the Italian National Anthem at a Grand Prix (Singapore in September 2015), but this weekend Sebastian Vettel brok...

Episode 97 – Finally A Race Preview!

21 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The new F1 season is almost here! By the time this goes out the teams will be in Melbourne, the cars will be getting built and 4 months of not having ...

Episode 96 – A Testing Time Pt2

14 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Why did Force India wait until we’d recorded this week’s podcast to release the new pink car? Still we’ve put a picture of it up even though it ...

Episode 95 – Let’s Face It, We Don’t Know

07 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The 1st of the 2 pre-season test is done and we’ve found a few things out about reliability (The Black & Orange car doesn’t have much), tyres (the...

Episode 94 – A Sports Cry For All The Wrong Reasons

28 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a long bleak winter since Nico Rosberg won the 2016 Driver’s Championship and walked off into retirement, but F1 is back after the break...

Episode 93 – Launch Week (At Last)

21 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The new season is getting closer and we’ve now seen what 2 of the cars will look like, Williams went first with what turned out to be a computer moc...

Episode 92 – Sauber Are Going To Be 1st (for a change)

14 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

With 2 weeks to the start of pre-season testing we’re all on the edges of our seats waiting to see what the new cars will look like under the new re...

Episode 91 – Paddy Lowe Must Have A Big Garden

07 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Another week and Paddy Lowe still hasn’t been confirmed at Williams so does this mean he’s still on “garden leave” from Mercedes and if so, wh...

Episode 90 – Fallout 5 Bernie’s Revenge

31 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The dust is starting to settle from Liberty Media’s takeover of F1 and the first big shakeup of Bernie’s departure, so what now for Mr Ecclestone?...