Pure’s F1 fanatic, Matt Oostveen, is joined by former F1 driver Alex Yoong and F1 journalist Michael Lamonato to dissect all the action on the track and in the pits during the Japanese GP and what it all means for the championship.
Red Bull’s paying money. The team’s happy. It’s got no money. Verstappen’s got the cost cap off. How good is this!
Sergio Perez absorbs the pressure from Charles Leclerc to win his second race of the season on a scrappy weekend from champion-elect Max Verstappen. Featuring Abhishek Takle, freelance F1 journalist.
After Fernando Alonso started a record-breaking 350th Formula 1 race at last weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix, we chat to his first team principal and former Minardi owner Paul Stoddart about how he reflects on his five-year run at the helm of one the sport’s backmarker teams (04:37), the race to get to the grid for his first race as team boss in Australia in 2001 (09:16), his earliest memories of working with Alonso that season (12:25), the famous 2002 Albert Park race where Mark Webber finished fifth on debut (15:31), his memorable TV interview during the controversial 2005 United States Grand Prix (23:04) and his pride at the growth of the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne (27:22).
Oscar Piastri re-joins us on In The Fast Lane to discuss his rollercoaster of emotions on being named as a McLaren driver for 2023 (01:39), what it means to be joining a team with McLaren’s history of success and champion drivers (06:29), how having a start date for his F1 race career has sharpened his focus (09:36), what he’s expecting from new teammate Lando Norris (12:35), getting a call from Daniel Ricciardo after he was named as his compatriot’s successor at McLaren (14:16) and his excitement for his first true home grand prix at Albert Park next April (16:07).
In this episode of Off Track the championship lives on to the final round of the season, Michael tries to find the windscreen wipers and James gives out his own dropped flag penalties.
On this episode of Keel of Fortune we discuss why we never remember the heroes of boating.
It’s the fourth round of the Extreme E championship, and Off Track previews the Copper X Prix. Championship driver Fraser McConnell joins James to preview the track, while Michael and Freya take a look at the championship so far, consider why we’re racing in Chile and suggest other extreme places for the series to race in the future.
Alpine cracks the shits and Sebastian Vettel issues a rare public service announcement.
F1® is desperate for an American driver to help boost the sport’s popularity in the States. But should the rules be bent to allow Colton Herta onto the grid without a superlicence? F1 journalist and broadcaster Chris Medland joins hosts Matt Clayton and Michael Lamonato to talk through the background to the Herta story (02:10), what Nyck De Vries’ debut for Williams at Monza tells us about the depth in European talent (10:14), if Jack Doohan is a chance to race for Alpine if Pierre Gasly sticks with AlphaTauri (17:31), and suggests ways to fix the grid confusion caused by mass engine and gearbox penalties (20:36).
Charles Leclerc started on pole at Ferrari’s home race but Max Verstappen sent the Italian fans home disappointed by claiming another easy win. Featuring Lewis Larkam, F1 editor, Crash.net.
If the Italian national anthem is played but no-one can hear it, did the Italian Grand Prix really happen?
Our resident F1 expert and F1 journalist joins Sportsday.
Max Verstappen wins again at his home Dutch Grand Prix after a well-timed safety car ruins Lewis Hamilton’s bold victory gamble. Featuring Nate Saunders from ESPN.
NO COLLUSION. CROOKED WITCH HUNT. MAKE DANIEL RICCIARDO GREAT AGAIN.
Australians Daniel Ricciardo and Oscar Piastri are at the heart of one of the biggest Formula 1 ‘silly season’ stories in years. To make sense of a wild week of news on Ricciardo’s future and Piastri’s path to a full-time race seat, Scott Mitchell-Malm from the-race.com joins hosts Matt Clayton and Michael Lamonato to discuss where things unravelled for Ricciardo at McLaren (03:58), his options to race on or sit out in 2023 (07:09), McLaren’s role in the failed relationship (13:13), the pressure Piastri will face when he debuts (17:37), how Piastri declining an Alpine seat is seen in the paddock (20:26) and the impact of the contractual tug-of-war between Alpine and McLaren on his reputation (24:06).
Max Verstappen has dominated the Belgian Grand Prix with a storming drive from 13th on the grid to start the countdown to his second world title. Featuring Brazilian F1 correspondent Julianne Cerasoli.
With the F1 world championship all but over, we debate who will win the equally prestigious F1 gluten championship. Mercedes enters the Del Boca Vista stage of its decline.