Former McLaren F1 mechanic turned author, TV presenter, YouTuber and speaker Marc Priestley joins hosts Matt Clayton and Michael Lamonato to talk about how he cut his teeth in the sport with McLaren’s test team (01:51), his first memories of what made Lewis Hamilton special (05:38), the fractious intra-team 2007 title fight and Hamilton’s first world title in 2008 (08:20), how McLaren fell from the front from 2009 and the team’s slow build to competitiveness since (11:34), Red Bull’s dominant 2022 season (17:10), the stigma of Red Bull’s cost cap breach and the similarities to McLaren’s 2007 ‘Spygate’ scandal (20:54), and where Ferrari have fallen short in their bid to end a long title drought (25:15).
Max Verstappen easily defeats Lewis Hamilton in the Mexico City Grand Prix with a bold one-stop strategy gamble to confound the Mercedes pit wall. Featuring F1’s pre-eminent stats man, Sean Kelly.
Daryl Somers bans us from interviews after we repeatedly and incessantly insist that Jason Donovan was robbed of the 1989 Gold Logie.