Michael Lamonato, who runs the F1 Strategy Report and Box of Neutrals podcasts, joined the show to talk all things F1.
Even if you’ve never seen his face, you’ve almost certainly heard his voice: Scot Elkins’s dulcet tones grace not only Extreme E as the voice of the race director but an impressively large array of other high-profile motorsport series the world over.
If you had to define Scot’s motorsport career, it might boil down to one word: yes. Never afraid to agree to a new challenge, he agreed to commit his directing prowess to Extreme E before he even knew what it was, adding yet another feather to a broadening hat.
James and Michael managed to crowbar some time into Scot’s busy schedule after the hectic Arctic X Prix to talk about his life on the road and his lesser known passion for guitars.
Plus we hear from Extreme E CEO Alejandro Agag on the power motorsport has to influence positive change in the race for the planet.
Max Verstappen leads the championship by just five points arriving in Sochi, but Lewis Hamilton is poised to take back control at a Mercedes favourite track.
Former F1 driver and current IndyCar race winner Marcus Ericsson remembers racing Daniel Ricciardo as a junior in Macau, reflects on his five F1 seasons with Caterham, Sauber and Alfa Romeo, and talks about his transition to American open-wheel racing and the mental challenge of ovals.
Michael and Rob, two of the most gifted raw talents in modern Formula 1 podcasting, review the documentary Schumacher and embrace a 12-year-old meme as good content.
Michael Lamonato joined Matt Grubelich on Sports Drive to review Daniel Ricciardo’s win at the Italian Grand Prix in Monza, plus Michael shares his thoughts on Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton’s latest collision.
Vanessa Nöcker, producer and director of the much-anticipated Schumacher documentary premiering on Netflix this week, takes us behind the scenes on the creation of the film and working with Michael Schumacher’s family from concept to completion, while we wrap up Daniel Ricciardo’s brilliant win for McLaren in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.
Daniel Ricciardo leads McLaren to its first one-two finish in 11 years in Monza after another Max Verstappen Lewis Hamilton smash. Featuring Luca Manacorda from Motorbox.com.
Max Verstappen cracks the shits. Charles Leclerc gets the shits. Daniel Ricciardo is the shit.
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Michael Lamonato joins Sporting Goss to discuss the awesome win by Daniel Ricciardo at the Italian GP.
There’s nothing Timo Scheider won’t try. A karting champion before he was even allowed to race in his native Germany, he’s an endurance-race winner, a Le Mans podium-getter and a two-time DTM champion.
So when Extreme E beckoned as a new challenge, Timo had to be involved, and he’s now a key part of the team responsible for laying out the championship’s challenging courses as well as one of two nominated ‘joker’ drivers on call each weekend.
Timo caught up with James and Michael to explain how he was ‘stupid and crazy’ enough to reinvent himself as a track designer for Extreme E.
And we hear from series scientist Professor Richard Washington, key 2015 Paris Agreement architect Christiana Figueres and UN climate ambassador Lucas di Grassi about the race to zero emissions in the Extreme E workshop Tipping Point.
Michael Lamonato joined Matt Grubelich on Sports Drive to review all the action from the Dutch Grand Prix.
Alfa Romeo Racing driver Antonio Giovinazzi reflects on his unusual career path to F1®, remembers his last-minute debut for Sauber in Australia in 2017 and talks about his relationship with teammate Kimi Raikkonen, while we wrap up Max Verstappen’s win in the first Dutch GP for 36 years held at Zandvoort last Sunday.
Do not make toilet in the car, Nico. Featuring Dutch folk duo DJ Bingo and the Banking.
Max Verstappen beats Lewis Hamilton to a very popular home win at Zandvoort, leaving Mercedes to count its losses from a lack of strategy aggression. Featuring Luke Smith, Autosport F1 reporter.
Michael Lamonato joined Matt Grubelich on SportsDrive to discuss all the fall out from the Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix.
Catie Munnings and Timmy Hansen score their maiden Extreme E victory in an epic Arctic duel with Molly Taylor and Johan Kristoffersson, Carlos Duarte sums up the climate change threat posed by Greenland’s receding ice sheet, and James and Michael apologise for accidentally cursing two teams in Kangerlussuaq.
Sky Sports F1 host and presenter Natalie Pinkham talks about diversity and inclusion in Formula 1, remembers some awkward moments in her early days as a pit lane reporter and discusses the intensity of this year’s title fight between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, while we wrap up the resumption of the season last Sunday in Belgium.