Motorsport journalist and podcaster
Rumours of McLaren-Honda’s rocky relationship simmered throughout testing, but at the Australian Grand Prix, the sport’s first competitive meeting of the year, the situation began to boil.
With Craig Scarborough. The Australian Grand Prix is won by a car that isn’t a Mercedes, Peter McGinley never comes home from the infamous Albert Park Pete’s Bar, and Michael and Rob talk Ferrari’s recovery and the benefits of vinyl with Scarbs.
The Strategy Report, powered by mobile strategy game Apex Race Manager, is an analysis and discussion podcast concerning the on-track tactical action at the 2017 Australian Grand Prix, but it often becomes distracted by Fernando Alonso’s ongoing trouble with career choices.
This week’s guest is Rob James from eerily familiar F1 podcast Box of Neutrals.
“Forza Ferrari” shouted Sebastian Vettel on his victory lap at the Australian Grand Prix. “This is for all of you!” The relief was obvious.
Almost no-one expected Ferrari to take the fight to Mercedes in round one, with the supposedly informed money being on Red Bull Racing putting together the class act of the field — but the Australian Grand Prix result turned expectations on their heads.