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Episode 374 - Right Thoughts Right Words Right Action
May 20, 2025
Well if that was the last Grand Prix at Imola for the forseeable future, it didn't leave us with a sour taste in the mouth and while it wasn't a classic race it was still better than some of the parades we've had round the circuit for the last 5 years since F1 made a return there in the patched together 2020 season.
This week we take a look back at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, the first of 2 Italian races this season and the start of the European races to boot. Could McLaren and in particular Oscar Piastri keep up their dominant form from the first quarter of the season, now we're not flying away as much, or with the appearance of a few upgrades (as is traditional at this time of year), would we see more than the papaya cars in the mix?
The answer was both sort of yes and sort of no as Max Verstappen spoiled the papaya party this week by completely turning around a RedBull that he wasn't overly keen on up to Saturday afternoon to pull out his most Max-like performances of the season so far. After "that move" on turn 2, there was seemingly no stopping him from running away with it. Especially when McLaren decided to let their drivers race rather than try to strategise a win!
Obviously we're as tangent heavy as always (for some reason that you'll hear) and we've ended up with Franz Ferdinand as our featured band of the week (when did this become a music pod?) And as a bonus, while he's not here this week, Dan has promised to be on more shows this year!
If you want to join in with the chat during the races (along with practice and qualifying) head over to our Discord where there’s always a great crowd of people to watch along with. And on the socials weve got our Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky & Twitter (or is it X) and Paul’s attempts at Sim Racing on our Twitch channel. And if you want to support us you can donate to our Patreon as well from as little as £/$/€ 1 per month
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Episode 373 - The Papaya State
May 05, 2025
Florida is known for orange things, mainly oranges. But this weekend it was a slightly different shade that captured all the headlines in Miami as we saw a hugely dominent showing from the Papaya clad McLaren team at the Miami Grand Prix weekend. Taking the top 2 steps on the podium in both the Sprint and Grand Prix races showed that this season the comeback is fully on!This week on the pod we take a look at the Maimi GP raced round the car park of the Hard Rock Stadium, home of the Miami Football Franchise (well that's what it said on the official F1 shirts anyway) where Lando & Oscar traded wins across Friday and Saturday with just about everyone else as an also-ran.There's the usual team by team review and look at what the F1 news is at the moment and what will probably come out after this pod's released (come on Tuesday, show us what you've got) with all the speculation from the aftermath of his lap 1 exit that we may have seen the last of Jack Doohan for now in an Alpine.Expect the usual tangents as well and also the return of Dan while Kieren is sunning himself touring the breweries of California! (Not a joke, that's actually what he's doing on holiday this week)If you want to join in with the chat during the races (along with practice and qualifying) head over to our Discord where there’s always a great crowd of people to watch along with. And on the socials weve got our Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky & Twitter (or is it X) and Paul’s attempts at Sim Racing on our Twitch channel. And if you want to support us you can donate to our Patreon as well from as little as £/$/€ 1 per monthEnjoy
Episode 372 - Jewel In The Dessert
Apr 17, 2025
After the fairly restrained Japanese Grand Prix we needed a bit of a plate cleanser and that's exactly what Bahrain served up to us for out 2nd race in the Gulf this season. A dominant win for McLaren's Oscar Piastri , but eith more FIA based chaos hiding beneath the surface.
This week on the podcast we look at the Bahrain Grand Prix which saw a huge number of technical gremlins strike several teams, and some very strange and late calls from the stewards, which ened up ahving a negative effect on a few driver's races. It all kicked off on Saturday when Nico Hulkenberg's best Q1 lap time was deleted during Q3, but the problem was he'd already taken part in Q2 when it turned out he shouldn't have actually got through, this had a knock on effct on Alex Albon, who should then have made the 2nd session with a car that team principle James Vowles claimed had th pace for Q3.
It didn't get much better from there as we had timing failures, George Russell able to open his DRS manually and by mistake (when he wqas trying to use the radio) and who knows what else. As usual there's our team by team review and the expected sheload of tangents!
If you want to join in with the chat during the races (along with practice and qualifying) head over to our Discord where there’s always a great crowd of people to watch along with. And on the socials weve got our Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky & Twitter (or is it X) and Paul’s attempts at Sim Racing on our Twitch channel. And if you want to support us you can donate to our Patreon as well from as little as £/$/€ 1 per month
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Episode 371 - Balls Of Fire
Apr 08, 2025
That about sums up 2 of the 3 most interesting things about the Japanese Grand Prix this weekend. The other one was, of course, Max Verstappen's blistering Q3 lap for pole position. But there was fire aplenty at trackside and you've got to feel for Isack Hadjar after his seatbelts were causing him grief in what Top Gear would describe as "The Gentleman's area"
This week on the pod we try and make up things to say about one of the dullest Japanese GP's we've had the pleasure of sitting through, it was the first race outside of Monaco where the top 6 on the grid were the top 6 by the end of the race and that stat would have gone further down the order had Lewis not passed Hadjar's Racing Bull to break the tedium (we're really selling this episode aren't we!)
There are thankfully a few tangents to break the parade up and there's a great Is That Glock as well, so it's not all that bad!
If you want to join in with the chat during the races (along with practice and qualifying) head over to our Discord where there’s always a great crowd of people to watch along with. And on the socials weve got our Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky & Twitter (or is it X) and Paul’s attempts at Sim Racing on our Twitch channel. And if you want to support us you can donate to our Patreon as well from as little as £/$/€ 1 per month
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Episode 370 - The Switcheroo
Apr 01, 2025
Well they've done it again, RedBull have done a mid-season driver swap with RB and this time it's a new record. Liam Lawson only got 2 races in the "big" team as Max Verstappen's team-mate to prove himself, even though he's now in his 3rd rookie season after 2 years as VCARB's super-sub.
This week on the podcast we take a deep dive into whatever the hell it is that RedBull (Mainly Helmut Marko) is playing at and how they've potentially managed to derail 2 driver's careers in one badly thought out move. Of course we could be wrong and this could turn out to be the genius move of the season, but previous form, and they've got a LOT of previous form in this, says that it probably won't be,
There's a brief few bits of other news including Ferrari's floor and Aston Martin selling shares and buying shares at the same time along with the usual healthy amount of tangents and we've even got a new Is That Glock (complete with jingle as well!)
If you want to join in with the chat during the races (along with practice and qualifying) head over to our Discord where there’s always a great crowd of people to watch along with. And on the socials weve got our Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky & Twitter (or is it X) and Paul’s attempts at Sim Racing on our Twitch channel. And if you want to support us you can donate to our Patreon as well from as little as £/$/€ 1 per month
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Episode 369 - Gene Simmons Floor?
Mar 25, 2025
2 weeks in to the 2025 F1 season and we think we all know which way the wind is blowing and also that it's coloured Papaya! BUT it wouldn't be an new season without a little RedBull turmoil and the meat grinder might well be called into action sooner than we expected this time round.This week on the podcast we look back at the Australian GP with its multiple disqualifications, Ferrari going from triumph to utter disaster in the space of a day and the whole will they or won't they with RedBull and Liam Lawson. The rumours coming out are fairly varied, ranging from Yuki Tsunoda is swapping seat with him for or before Japan, to Franco Collapinto is going to be in a RedBull branded car before then. One thing you can say about that team is that they never leave us short of things to talk about (which is just as well because there isn't a race next week)There's all the tangents you'd expect and the return of Is That Glock? (please, please please send some new ones in to us!)Also we’ve got the results up already for the prediction league for both races in China this past weekend, along with opening the predictions for the upcoming race at Suzuka aloong with our league in the official F1 Fantasy gameIf you want to join in with the chat during the races (along with practice and qualifying) head over to our Discord where there’s always a great crowd of people to watch along with. And on the socials weve got our Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky & Twitter (or is it X) and Paul’s attempts at Sim Racing on our Twitch channel. And if you want to support us you can donate to our Patreon as well from as little as £/$/€ 1 per monthEnjoyAs always, you can listen here or on YouTube, iTunes, Amazon and most other podcast apps too along with Spotify, Acast and TuneIn Radio on your smart speakers.
Episode 368 – Words Of Wisdom, Water is Actually Wet
Mar 18, 2025
Not from us though! Ferrari’s pit wall did it again after their calculated deductions that the reason that Charles’ seat was wet must have been because of water and in other news rain falls from the sky (thank you Will Buxton).
This week we look back on a season opener that had just about everything you could ask for; wheel to wheel racing, on-track passing, a bit of rain, a variety of pit strategies (once again, thatnk you Ferrari, you never dissappoint) and minimal interference from the stewards/FIA.
The 2025 season has got off to a strong start for some and not exactly strong for others, but it’s a long year and we’ve still got 23 races and 6 sprints to go so don’t plan on celebrating just yet if you did well and don’t think that your season is over if you didn’t (unless you’re Jack Doohan and the rumours are tru and you’ve got to make a VERY quick impression on good old Flavvy B)
Also we’ve got the results up already for the prediction league along with open predictions for both races in China this weekend and we’ve finally got the league sorted out in the Official F1 Fantasy game
If you want to join in with the chat during the races (along with practice and qualifying) head over to our Discord where there’s always a great crowd of people to watch along with. And on the socials weve got our Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky & Twitter (or is it X) and Paul’s attempts at Sim Racing on our Twitch channel. And if you want to support us you can donate to our Patreon as well from as little as £/$/€ 1 per month
Can you believe it? We have been doing this podcast for 10 whole years now! OK we haven’t been as regular as normal lately, but sad to say life happens. But as we head into a new F1 season, we’re going to make an effort to get back to some kind of regular schedule again, starting right here.
On this week’s podcast we get all over-excited about the new season starting this weekend in Australia. There’s new driver on the grid, there’s rookies with more experience than some well known F1 names from the past and there’s only 2 teams with the same lineup as 2024. So there’s a lot to unpick already and we’ve only had the 3 day pre-season test
There’s also the new Prediction League kicking off this week and we’ve finally managed to get the results sorted out for the 2024 version as well where the top 3 came out as:
Jonathan Payne
Thane
Gennady Spirin
Congrats to the 3 of you and if anyone wants to sponsor prizes for this year, just hit us up!
(One last thing, Paul would like to apologise for getting so much wrong this week!)
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Episode 366 – Exit Through The Gift Shop
Dec 19, 2024
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So it’s finally happened, this month’s “worst kept secret in F1” has come to fruition and Sergio Perez & RedBull have parted company. This has been rumoured to be happening for a while and for the last couple of months it was becoming more of a “when” than an “if”.
This week on the podcast we look at the reasons behind why Checo has been let go and what the future is like for RedBull’s seemingly cursed 2nd seat.
Also you wouldn’t believe the amount of tangents we’ve managed to fit in this week, We may not be able to call ourselves an F1 podcast if it carries on like this, for example there’s discussion of Chris unboxing a pack of Chocolate HobNobs from almost 9 years ago!
But in other F1 related stuff, this week has the debut of our “new” quiz, Is That Glock?
(Any resemblance to any other previous quiz on the pod is purely coincidental and not at all ripped off because it was a great idea and we’re buggered if we can think of a better type of quiz to replace it with)
Have a great Christmas from all of us at 3L4W and we’ll be back sometime over the festive season, or festive season adjacent for our season review and maybe the return of Thicc Ricc too. You can also join in with us all winter on Discord too, along with Facebook, BlueSky & Twitter and Paul’s attempts at Sim Racing on our Twitch channel. And if you want to support us you can donate to our Patreon as well from as little as £/$/€ 1 per month
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Bit of a change for us, we’ve recorded this week’s show an hour after the chequered flag in one of the most penalty strewn races that we’ve seen in a while, the Qatar Grand Prix. As of approx 8:30 GMT on Sunday night, this was the finishing order we had, but we’re not 100% sure this will still be the same by the time you listen to it.
This week on the pod we also look at the chaos that is the FIA, with all the sackings, new race directors, new race directors that get sacked before they’ve had a chance to direct a race and where does the money go?
All this and a ton of tangents to keep you going until the last race of the season next weekend in Abu Dhabi.
Don’t forget to see how you did in our prediction league for both races this week and put your entries in for the last Grand Prix of the season at Abu Dhabi in the games section and you can also join in with us all season on Discord too, along with Facebook, BlueSky & Twitter and Paul’s attempts at Sim Racing on our Twitch channel. And if you want to support us you can donate to our Patreon too
Episode 364 – Vauxhall Viva L4s Veg4s
Nov 27, 2024
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He’s done it! Max Verstappen has taken his 4th World Driver’s Championship crown after it looked a bit patchy in places this season. But the current guy to beat on the grid has walked away with the title with 2 races and sprint to spare in the half conquering RedBull (his half is all conquering, but when you average things out…)
This week on the podcast we’ve not only got all our thoughts on a pretty decent 2nd edition of the Las Vegas Grand Prix, but also the news that broke on Monday(!!!!!) that GM/Cadillac are going to be on the F1 grid from 2026 after all the to-ing and fro-ing with the Andretti bid that they were part of.
There’s the usual glut of tangents as well and also we debut our new theme tune this week. After almost 10 years we’ve decided to make a bit of a tweak. Patreon subscribers might know this song from their exclusive shows and hopefully you’ll like the tune as well. It’s called A Song About Trees by an Isle of Man band called Veto
Don’t forget to see how you did in our prediction league for Vegas (baby) and put your entries in for both the Grand Prix and the sprint this weekend in the games section and you can also join in with us all season on Discord too, along with Facebook, BlueSky & Twitter and Paul’s attempts at Sim Racing on our Twitch channel. And if you want to support us you can donate to our Patreon too
Episode 363 – It’s All About The Rear End
Nov 19, 2024
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We’re back (again!) Not to say that 2024 has been a difficult year, but by ‘eck it has! But most of the problems are vanishing in the rear view mirror like a Sauber that you’ve just overtaken and, fingers crossed, we’re back for the rest of 24 and beyond.
This week on the podcast we’ve got a bit of a look back at what we’ve missed over the last month while we’ve been away and there’s quite a bit to talk about! Checo’s utter loss of form and dubious future, the FIA imploding, Max getting back to championship winning for with a storming Sao Paolo GP performance and Lance “Gravel Man” Stroll
Also as we’ve been away for a while we’ve saved up all the tangents we could for our comeback and we’re more than happy to share them with you (short musicians being just one of them!)
Don’t forget to see how you did in our prediction league for Brazil and put your entries in for Las Vegas the weekend in the games section and you can also join in with us all season on Discord too, along with Facebook, BlueSky & Twitter and Paul’s attempts at Sim Racing on our Twitch channel. And if you want to support us you can donate to our Patreon too
Episode 362 – Do We Only Pod When Ferrari Win?
Oct 22, 2024
Another enforced break, another comeback and another Ferrari victory. We should be getting paid by the Scuderia to take more time off!
This week on the (yet another) return of the podcast we try to catch up on everything we’ve missse over the last month and a half and also fit a USA Grand Prix review in as well. Has the challenge from Lando Norris fizzled out as he ended up (his own words) “driving like a Muppet” on Sunday which ended up with a controversial penalty, although all the penalties and non-penalties this week were controversial. And does this mean Max is now on the front foot for the WDC fight this year?
When it comes to the constructor’s championship, that’s so far up in the air it’s practically in orbit and with a Ferrari 1-2 in Austin we could be in for a 3-way fight for it over the final 5 weekends of the season.
As said on the show, hopefully we’ll see you next week, seeing as we’re 1 race weekend in to the 1st of 2 triple header (maths!)
Don’t forget to see how you did in our prediction league this weekend, and put in your predictions for Mexico next weekend in the games section and you can also join in with us all season on Discord too, along with Facebook & Twitter and Paul’s attempts at Sim Racing on our Twitch channel. And if you want to support us you can donate to our Patreon too
First we’ll start with an apology for being more anonymous than your average Sauber for the last 2 months. We’ve had a few things to put up with, family stuff, Covid (again), day job stress, mental health problems and more But what a time to make a comeback!
This week on the podcast we look back at the Italian Grand Prix where once again McLaren seemed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and hand a win to the home team of Ferrari. At least RedBull have suddenly found themselves dropping down the pack with a massively unbalanced car that’s getting more expletives from Max than we heard from him in the Toro Rosso days!
There’s all the news as well (up to Monday anyway, thank you very much Adrian Newey) with Kimi Antonelli joining Mercedes, Nobody having a clue what’s going on with the RedBull/RB seats for next year and you can tell we’ve had a couple of months off as Alpine have got another new team principle
Advance warning, thanks to 3 of us being on holiday at the same time (not all together though, Kieren would never fit in a suitcase) we’ll be back in a couple of weeks and you never know, we might do that poolside podcast we were threatening last year!
Thanks again for bearing with us during the enforced break
Don’t forget to see how you did in our prediction league this weekend, and put in your predictions for Baku in 2 week’s time the games section and you can also join in with us all season on Discord too, along with Facebook & Twitter and Paul’s attempts at Sim Racing on our Twitch channel. And if you want to support us you can donate to our Patreon too
Well Lewis Hamilton has finally won a race again for the first time since Jeddah 2021 and of course there were plenty of stats and new records broken so who better to discuss this week’s British Grand Prix with than VirtualStatman Sean Kelly.
This week on the podcast we veer off into our normal tangents about former drivers, along with Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch as Kieren regrets things he’s done in the past! There’s also our wrapup of one of the best British Grands Prix that we’ve seen in a long time.
Another one for fans of nostalgia and quizzes sees the one-off, we’re trying to make it more than that, return of “Who The Bloody Hell’s That Then” (Lee won’t let us call it by its old name unless he’s asking the questions)
All together a fun couple of hours!
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Episode 359 – Keith Flint’s Taxidermy Rabbit
Jul 02, 2024
Well that was an ending that we were and weren’t expecting all at the same time. Lando and Max going literally toe to toe over several laps at turn 3 at the RedBull Ring in [...]
We never thought we’d see the day again. No not a Mercedes on the podium, a broken Ferrari strategy or even a Max Verstappen win. But F1 actually allowing a race to start while it [...]
Episode 357 – Beware Of Sunday Drivers
May 28, 2024
All the action compressed into approximately 45 seconds, but spread out over almost 3 hours. That’s the best way to describe the Moncao Grand Prix this year. This week on the podcast we try and [...]
Episode 356 – Have We Got A Championship?
May 21, 2024
In the old days the Grand Prix at this circuit used to be known as the San Marino GP, now however we have to call it the “FORMULA 1 MSC CRUISES GRAN PREMIO DEL MADE [...]
Congratulations to Nick Heidfeld for re-taking the coveted spot as the F1 driver with the most podiums without a win, yep that means Lando isn’t on that list anymore as he’s FINALLY WON A GRAND [...]
We’ve been talking about it for weeks and now it’s finally here. No not the first Sunday Grand Prix of the season (although that’s happening as well this weekend) but we have finally managed to [...]
Episode 353 – Lights Out And Away He Went
Mar 05, 2024
2024 starts just as 2023 finished with an utterly dominant win for the seemingly unstoppable Max Verstappen in the all conquering RedBull. But all is not sweetness and light behind the scenes at the Milton [...]
Episode 352 – Thumpering A Litter Tray
Feb 27, 2024
Testing is done and the next time we see the cars on track will be on Thursday (surely some mistake?) for the 1st practice session of the 2024 F1 season. Seeing as there’s only 4 [...]
Episode 351 – The Big TeamUp (3L4WEF1 Not VCRABS)
Feb 20, 2024
What better way to kick the 2024 F1 season off than getting together with friends to talk all things F1 and all other things as well? In our usual form we managed to squeeze some [...]
Episode 350 – Nothing Happens Before Testing
Feb 02, 2024
Or does it? Well we’ve had a couple of weeks of late off-season madness haven’t we. Andretti getting their bid to join the grid rejected, Guenther leaving Haas, the possible return of Sepang, rumours of [...]
22 Races and 21 wins along with another 5 sprint wins for good measure. You could say that this has been Red Bull’s season right from the start, with just a blip in Singapore stopping [...]
Episode 348 – We Are Running Out Of Superlatives
Nov 09, 2023
17 wins in a season with 2 races still to go, what more can you say about Max Verstappen’s out and out dominance in 2023 that hasn’t already been said? He chalked up the record [...]
Episode 347 – We Thought We Could Win Too
Oct 31, 2023
Was Sergio Perez ever in with a chance at winning his home race this year after saying he was fed up of “just” being on the podium? Well you might not be able to win [...]
Episode 346 – When Is A Podium Not A Podium?
Oct 24, 2023
When the stewards announce disqualifications after the race again. This time round though it was for worn planks and skid blocks instead of track limits, so I guess that makes a change! This week on [...]
Episode 345 – Finally The Top Half Of The Grid!
Oct 03, 2023
That was an unexpected break for us thanks to a lot of reasons we don’t want to bore you with, but we’re finally back with new hardware and software and we can finally finish the [...]
Episode 344 – Half A Half Term Review
Aug 15, 2023
We weren’t planning on taking an early summer break this year, but due to a variety of reasons we’ve only just managed to get things together to record a show. So to make up for [...]
Sometimes doing a show a day late has its benefits and this week we managed to get both the news of Williams putting out a Gulf livery for 3 races (Singapore, Japan & Qatar) and [...]
Episode 342 – Nikki Lauda’s Album Drop
Jul 04, 2023
First off we want to start with a big announcement, we’d like to welcome Kieren Thomson to the team as a full member. He’s been helping us on out on the show over the last [...]
What a milestone weekend for RedBull, their 100th win as a team and the 200th win for an Adrian Newey designed car. Is there any stopping them in 2023? Probably not! This week on the [...]
Episode 340 – Eh Canada (Wrong Vowel)
Jun 13, 2023
Well that was an unexpected hiatus for the show that we hadn’t planned on! But we’re back this week in a slightly cut down form because due to various other commitments and TT recovery Paul [...]
Episode 339 – Needs More Michael Buffer
May 09, 2023
So Miami then, another temporary street(ish) circuit, or more concrete blocks dumped in a car park? We knew that F1 was going to go for as much glitz & glamour as they could this weekend [...]
Another week and another controversy? Well not quite, but the Australian Grand Prix was certainly an event. From the start of the weekend it looked like this would be a different kind of race to [...]
Episode 337 – Close Calls With Brick Walls
Mar 21, 2023
The tight, twisty and fast Jeddah Corniche Circuit in Saudi Arabia has thrown up 2 races with big talking points since 2021 and for its 3rd running it didn’t let us down and we’ve got [...]
We’re ready for the 2nd race of this record breaking F1 season as the circus moves to the Jeddah Corniche street circuit this weekend, after 2 previous races there (even if Paul can’t remember both [...]
We’re up and running in Formula 1 for 2023 and I defy anyone to point out any differences at the front of the grid from last year. Go on, we can wait… This week on [...]
Episode 334 – We’re Not A Documentary Either
Feb 28, 2023
It’s Race Week (right we’ve got that out of the way now so we can continue) for the first time in 2023 with testing done, all the cars revealed in all their limited colour, carbon [...]
Episode 333 – Duck Season, Rabbit Season, Launch Season
Feb 14, 2023
We’re in the final stretch of the off-season and the 2023 Formula One World Championship is just around the corner. We just have to make do with all the pesky car launches and media events [...]
Episode 332 – New Year, New(ish) F1, Same Old Us
Jan 16, 2023
Happy 2023 everyone. After a troubled year for us we’re back and race fit for 2023! There’s loads to look forward to in the coming year for Formula One and this time we’ll get a [...]
Episode 331 – If Danny Can Make A Comeback…
Nov 28, 2022
Just like Danny Ric walking back into the familiar surroundings of the RedBull HQ in Milton Keynes, we’ve returned to the podsphere after a little bit of a break, on the subject of which I [...]
This week we take a bit of a deep dive into a few off-track areas of F1, with an emphasis on the reports that came out last week that RedBull have exceeded the cost cap [...]
Episode 329 – Max Verstappen World Champion?
Oct 11, 2022
Japan, home of the F1 fans with the best hats who aren’t afraid to spend all weekend in the stands in a race suit plus a helmet and also a place where championships are won. [...]
Episode 328 – Leclerc To Start From The Pit Lane on Cornettos
Oct 04, 2022
After 3 years F1 returned to the original home of the night race around the streets of Marina Bay in Singapore. And to welcome it back the weather decided to dump an entire marina’s worth [...]
Episode 327 – Marked Safe From Ferrari Strategy
Sep 06, 2022
The Orange Army were certainly out in force at Zandvoort this weekend as Max Verstappen continues in his quest for a 2nd World Championship and with another win under his belt that is getting ever [...]
If you’re just watching the race, you’re doing it wrong! Fast & Loose: F1® is where the world of Formula 1 collides with comedian Will Arnett for his hilarious and shockingly insightful commentary immediately following [...]
Episode 326 – Keeping Up With The Car Crashians
Aug 23, 2022
Well that was an interesting summer break wasn’t it! Also look what happens when we go on holiday and record a show early, I’d love to say we’re not doing that again, but you know [...]
Episode 325 – Suitcase Packed And Out Of Office On
Aug 01, 2022
The Hungarian Grand Prix has become the traditional last race before the F1 Summer Break and as we’re past the half way point of the season we get a good idea of what teams need [...]
Episode 324 – Get Pastis Ferrari And You’ve Won
Jul 27, 2022
Have we seen the last of the French Grand Prix at the Paul Ricard Circuit? Everyone seems to think so if the current rumours are to be believed, and we’re pretty sure that Ferrari will [...]
Episode 323 – Ring On The Prancing Horses
Jul 12, 2022
After the British Grand Prix restored our faith in F1 we were waiting for the race at the RedBull Ring in Austria to bring us back down with a bump. We’re good at getting things [...]
Episode 322 – That’ll Shift Some Cufflinks
Jul 05, 2022
What.A.British.Grand.Prix.That.Was! That race had everything, from the drama at the start with Zhou Guanyu’s horrific crash and flip over the tyre barrier at turn 1, to wheel to wheel action at the end with drivers [...]
Race number 10 already, this season is going quicker than ever before and we’re on to Silverstone again for the British Grand Prix. This week on the podcast we look forward to a British Grand [...]
We’re back after our TT and Covid break, just as F1 is back in Canada after a couple of years away for 50% of those reasons and it was a decent enough return to the [...]
Have we seen the last of the Monaco Grand Prix? It’s a question that’s been asked a lot this week as the tight, slow circuit is on the last year of its current deal and [...]
Episode 318 – Turning Spain Taronja/Anaranjado
May 24, 2022
Back to Europe, back to what passes for sanity in F1 and back to Spain for the 2nd time this year when the times and pace do matter! This week on the podcast we look [...]
Episode 317 – One Better Than Austin?
May 10, 2022
The debut of the Miami Grand Prix was hailed as the big showbiz event that F1 has been waiting for, especially since Chase Carey promised us “23 SuperBowls a year” and while it certainly seems [...]
So Miami then. We’ve not had a car turn a wheel and there’s people up in arms about the fake marina and beach club in one of the turns. TBH all we’re bothered about if [...]
Episode 315 – First Sprint Is The Deepest
Apr 26, 2022
So we’ve had our first sprint race of the season and you could say it went pretty well for Red Bull and Max Verstappen in particular after his grand slam weekend of pole (and starting [...]
Sorry for missing last week as the ‘rona made its way into 3Legs Towers and knocked Paul for if not 6, then at least 5 and we couldn’t get Nico Hulkenberg to be our last [...]
Episode 313 – 5 Red Lights 2 Red Cars
Mar 23, 2022
F1 is back officially, the 2022 season (with the 2021 rules) is finally here and with a race like we got this weekend, it was worth the wait. This week on the podcast we get [...]
As is now traditional this week of every year we get the double hit of pre-season testing (not a shakedown) and Drive To Survive, so in our own way we’ve done a bit of a [...]
Episode 311 – Shookdown And Ready To Test
Mar 07, 2022
The Shakedown (not a test) is over and the cars are heading out to Bahrain for not only the actual pre-season test (not a shakedown) but also the 1st race of the 2022 season with [...]
Episode 310 Turns Out Diario Is A Spanish Newspaper
Feb 15, 2022
After a couple of false alarms (we’re looking at you Haas & RedBull) we finally got to see some real life cars in the last week with the McLaren & Aston Martin launches, and don’t [...]
Episode 309 – He’s Back And So Are We
Feb 07, 2022
A slightly belated Happy New Year from all of us on the podcast. We did plan on doing a season review, but how do you easily sum up a year like 2021? Simple answer is [...]
Episode 308 – Max Verstappen World Champion
Dec 14, 2021
There were so many names we could have given this week’s podcast given the controversial nature of the 2021 season finale in Abu Dhabi this past weekend. But we’ve decided to err on the side [...]
Episode 307 – Watching From Behind The Sofa
Dec 07, 2021
Are any of us sure what we watched at the weekend? In all the years of F1 I don’t think any of us have seen a race quite like the first ever Saudi Arabian Grand [...]
Another Grand Prix and another aero related controversy. This time it was all over the question about some suspect markings on the Mercedes rear wings. Once again the battle between the 2 main antagonists (not [...]
Episode 305 – Winging It (Once Again)
Nov 16, 2021
Well that was a weekend in Brazil that will be talked about for a long time to come and may not be all sorted yet as the pod comes out. The newly renamed Sao Paolo [...]
Another race back on the calendar after the madness that was 2020 is the Mexico City Grand Prix (formerly known as the Mexico Grand Prix.) With a new name to reflect that it’s the city [...]
The US Grand Prix is always a major spectacle and this year was no exception as the organisers of the Austin race went all out to make up for missing out on a race in [...]
First I want to say a massive thanks to everyone (literally hundreds of you) that got in touch after my message last week and the best way I could think of to say thank you [...]
Hi everyone, I thought I’d do a quick audio message about what’s been going on lately and why we’ve been a bit off the boil when it comes to recording new shows. Take care Paul
Episode 301 – A Deluge Followed By A Giant Flood
Oct 04, 2021
Sorry we’ve been away for a couple of weeks and missed the aftermath of the Russian Grand Prix, we’re still upset about the whole thing over a week later and it’s taken that long to [...]
Episode 300 – Shoey At The Front, Schumi At The Back
Sep 14, 2021
This weekend’s Italian Grand Prix broke a few losing streaks, we got to see the first McLaren win since 2012, the first 1-2 by the papaya team since 2010 and the first Daniel Ricciardo winning [...]
The return of the Dutch Grand Prix finally happened a year late thanks to the turmoil of 2020 and that was an atmosphere worth waiting for. We all knew beforehand that the circuit would be [...]
Episode 298 – Not The Return We Wanted
Aug 30, 2021
By now the dust and spray has settled on what has been called a farce of a Belgian Grand Prix and with the benefit of a good night’s sleep and a chance to calm down [...]
Episode 297 – What The Hell Did We Just Watch?
Aug 03, 2021
Fresh off the back of the British Grand Prix controversy, all we needed was for things to get back to normal before the F1 summer break right? Well we didn’t get that did we! 6 [...]
I think we can safely say that was a British Grand Prix like no other before it. Qualifying on Friday evening, the first ever F1 Sprint (don’t call it a) race on Saturday afternoon and [...]
Formula 1 is the only real thing that is 100% guaranteed to come home every year, only by dint of the fact that the 1st world championship race was at Silverstone, so we can count [...]
Just like last year, Austria gave us a better race than Styria for some reason, although Mercedes probably wouldn’t agree after another dominant race for Max Verstappen (he got the grand slam of win, pole [...]
We’re 2 races into the 1st of 3 (correct at time of going to press) triple-headers this season and they’ve both had something in common, no it wasn’t the fact that the Styrian GP was [...]
Episode 292 – Wings Triumphant As Hell Freezes Over
Jun 23, 2021
Nobody saw that coming did they, an action packed French Grand Prix with racing all the way up and down the grid and RedBull out-Mercedesing Mercedes to take the win as well. This week on [...]
Episode 291 – Like An Out-take From The Heal The World Video
Jun 08, 2021
Well that made up for Monaco didn’t it! This year’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix had it all; red flags, cars out of position, blocking & passing and that was just Saturday’s qualifying session! This week on [...]
Episode 290 – Not The Robot They’re Looking For
Jun 02, 2021
The saying goes that good things come to those who wait and this week it’s not 100% true as we’re 2 days later than normal thanks to that good old excuse of real life getting [...]
So the Monaco Grand Prix then, the annual parade (don’t we say this every year?) This time at least there was a bit of drama with 2 of the top 3 qualifiers not making it [...]
Episode 288 – There’s No Script, We’re Told What To Say
May 18, 2021
It’s Monaco week and we hope that the McLaren Gulf livery reveal isn’t the most exciting thing to come out of this weekend’s race, but as it’s the Monaco Grand Prix, we’re not holding our [...]
Episode 287 – There Are 5 Barry Christs on LinkedIn
May 11, 2021
A bit of a rarity for once, we had a Spanish Grand Prix that wasn’t a flag to flag parade, we got to see both strategy and on-track overtakes, something that we’ve not had too [...]
Episode 286 – The Magnificent 7, Or Damon & 6 Others
May 04, 2021
This year’s Portuguese Grand Prix threw up what some said wasn’t a thriller of a race, but there were still a few talking points to come out of the weekend’s race at a circuit we [...]
Episode 285 – English Mustard, American At A Push
Apr 27, 2021
You’ll have to wait until the end of the show to find out what this week’s title means though! This week we take a look at the news that F1 sprint races on a Saturday [...]
Episode 284 – It’s Time For Him To Go Sit In The Stands
Apr 20, 2021
We might have had a 3 week gap between races, but Sunday at Imola certainly made up for it. Safety Cars, red flags, on track passing and a great slab of post-race controversy after George [...]
Episode 283 – They’re Using All The Words
Apr 13, 2021
A 2 week break would have been unthinkable last season when we had more triple headers than you could shake a 2 metre long socially distanced stick at, but F1 have given us a bit [...]
Episode 282 – Answering Questions Before They’re Asked
Mar 30, 2021
What a way to open another F1 season! We got to see battles all the way down the grid and one of the tightest finishes we’ve had in ages. To quote Gladiator “ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?” [...]
Episode 281 – I Ditched Michael For Fake Bono
Mar 23, 2021
Pre-season is all done and we get down to business for the 2021 F1 season this weekend with the opening race back at the Sakhir Circuit in Bahrain. This means that for the first time [...]
Episode 280 – Lizards & Oompa-Loompas
Mar 16, 2021
After a shortened pre-season test this year where we only got 3 days of running instead of the usual 6, there’s still a lot of questions over this year’s cars and who better to answer [...]
Not 6 members on the team, or even 6 podcats, but we’ve now been doing this podcast for 6 years! When we did our 1st show in 2015 we were excited by the prospect of [...]
Episode 278 – Finally We Have A 2021 Line-Up*
Feb 09, 2021
After about a year of speculation. although it seems like longer, Lewis Hamilton has put pen to paper on a new contract. However it’s only for 1 season, so we’re right back where we started [...]
Episode 277 – It’s Like 2020 2 – The Sequel
Feb 02, 2021
We’re back! After our Christmas & New Year’s break we thought it was about time to inflict ourselves on you again with more vaguely F1 related nonsense! This week on the 1st podcast of 2021 [...]
Episode 276 – Did Anyone Stay Awake To The End?
Dec 15, 2020
After a unique season, the likes of which we’ve never seen before and hopefully we’ll never see again. 2020 finished for Formula 1 with a bit of a parade round the Yas Marna Circuit in [...]
Episode 275 – Sergio Perez Race Winner At Last
Dec 08, 2020
He’s finally done it, after 190 starts from 194 race weekend Checo Perez has finally made it to the top step of the podium after safety cars, pit stop dramas for Mercedes (Netflix were with [...]
Episode 274 – There’s A LOT To Go Through Here
Dec 01, 2020
We didn’t do a show last week as there was very little to discuss, but Sunday’s race in Bahrain more than made up for that. This week we’re joined by Technical Guru Craig Scarborough (@ScarbsTech) [...]
What a way to seal a World Championship! After an amazing drive and some of the best tyre management in some of the trickiest conditions we’ve seen Lewis Hamilton took the win in the first [...]
Episode 272 – Another Blast From The Past
Nov 10, 2020
Another return to a track from F1’s recent history is coming this week as the circus returns to the Istanbul Park circuit in Turkey, location of the notorious RedBull coming together that spelled the end [...]
…The formula for yet another season of Mercedes dominance. This weekend at F1’s return to Imola, the Silver Arrows clinched their 7th consecutive World Constructor’s Championship and also sealed the World Driver’s Championship for either [...]
Episode 270 – Any Portimao In A Storm
Oct 22, 2020
Sorry we’re a few days late with the pod again this week, but this having a life and being an adult business isn’t what it’s all cracked up to be. Anyway it worked out pretty [...]
Episode 269 – Dedication’s What You Need
Oct 13, 2020
If you want to be a record breaker anyway. And this week we had one record broken and one record equalled at the 1st (and as we keep saying, probably only ever) Eifel Grand Prix [...]
The make-do and mend 2020 F1 season carries on and this week we’re visiting a track that we last raced on in 2013, the Nurburgring in Germany’s Eifel Mountains for the 1st (and possibly only) [...]
Episode 267 – Bees, Big Ones But Not Nuclear Or Fire
Sep 29, 2020
Another Russian Grand Prix that for the most part was nothing to write home about for track action, but things got a little controversial before the race even started. After Lewis Hamilton was given a [...]
Episode 266 – Voyage Into The Unknown
Sep 15, 2020
Mugello, a circuit that F1 hasn’t raced on before in its 70 year history and also somewhere that the majority of the grid haven’t even experienced in their careers. Add to this the celebrations of [...]
12 months ago Pierre Gasly was in a tailspin, demoted from the RedBull team back to Toro Rosso and his career was looking like it was following the same trajectory as his new team-mate Daniil [...]
Episode 264 – Not Exactly A Thrill A Minute
Sep 01, 2020
How many years has the Belgian Grand Prix thrown out an absolute classic? Probably not as many as you’d think and this years was another one to add to the list of not the most [...]
Episode 263 – Another Calm Before Another Storm
Aug 25, 2020
This week on the podcast we get chance to take a bit of a breather and look at the news that’s come out with the Williams team being taken over by Dorilton Capital, a US [...]
Episode 262 – Back To Business As Usual
Aug 18, 2020
Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton were back on the top step of the podium in the Spanish Grand Prix at the weekend after losing out for the first time in this strange, but somehow normal 2020 [...]
Episode 261 – Last Week SilverstONE, This Week SilversTWO
Aug 11, 2020
It’s taken until the 5th race of the season, but we’ve finally got someone who doesn’t drive for Mercedes on the top step of the podium. Max Verstappen and RedBull made the best of an [...]
Episode 260 – No, Seriously Bonno, They Are Finished
Aug 04, 2020
So what to make of this year’s British Grand Prix? Looking at the facts on paper we had a driver returning at the last minute after missing out on the opening 3 races of the [...]
Episode 259 – There’s Some Circumstances
Jul 28, 2020
We’ve had the 1st week off from F1 since racing started and we’re getting ready for the next Triple-Header with 2 races at Silverstone and then (hopefully) a race in Barcelona. That’s as things stand [...]
We’re already 3 races in to the 2020 F1 season and with the races all being double and triple headers this year they’re going to come thick and fast with very little time off in [...]
Episode 257 – That Was The Weekend That Was
Jul 14, 2020
For the first time in F1 history we’ve had 2 consecutive championship races at the same circuit. Following on from last week’s Austrian Grand Prix at the RedBull Ring in Spielberg, Austria. This weekend we [...]
Well that was worth the wait! almost 4 months after the aborted start of the season, Formula 1 came back at the weekend with the Austrian Grand Prix at the RedBull Ring and in the [...]
Episode 255 – Our 2nd 1st Race Preview Of 2020
Jun 30, 2020
It’s finally here, we’ve got a Grand Prix to preview over 3 months after the aborted attempt to run the Australian Grand Prix at the start of the Covid pandemic. F1 has been working to [...]
Episode 254 – The End Of Our Lockdown
Jun 24, 2020
1st off, we’re really sorry about last week’s disastrous attempts to get a show recorded, between work commitments and 2 (TWO) mixing desks that were DOA there was nothing we could pull together. But even [...]
So we now know the dates, locations and names of the first 8 races of the 2020 season when it gets going in just over 3 weeks time and we’re not having 2 Austrian and [...]
Episode 252 – Have The Glory Days Gone For Good?
Jun 03, 2020
Another week closer to the start of the 2020 season and we’re now worried how many car we’ll see on the grid when we kick things off in Austria in just under 5 weeks time. [...]
Episode 251 – Hope The Schedule Was Written In Pencil
May 27, 2020
Another week and another change to the 2020 F1 season. After the UK Government announced that anyone entering the country after June 8th has to isolate for 14 days, the planned British Grand(s?) Prix have [...]
Episode 250 – Here Come The Sainz Bit
May 20, 2020
What a week last week was, we thought we’d peaked with the official Tuesday News about Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari parting company and we’d have to wait for details on his replacements and the start [...]
It all started so normally Monday night, we had our usual podcast recording including about quarter of an hour’s speculation on the news that Ferrari had given Sebatian Vetttel until the end of next month [...]
There was a bit of a kerfuffle at the weekend as Lando Norris took part in his 2nd ever virtual IndyCar race after winning in his previous one at Circuit of the Americas last weekend. [...]
Could we be close to seeing some racing after all? As some countries are making preparations to come out of their Covid-19 lockdowns, there’s a chance that some sports could make a comeback and F1 [...]
Episode 246 – There Might Be Some Good News…
Apr 22, 2020
Could things be improving to the point where we might get some racing in the next few months? It’s certainly possible as Austria has started to life some of its Coronavirus restrictions as they look [...]
Episode 245 – We’re All In this Together
Apr 15, 2020
Welcome along to another of our lockdown shows from the (as you can see in the title photo) sunny Isle of Man! This week we look at the current state of the season with the [...]
Welcome to the latest of our lockdown special podcasts, this week on the show we’re joined by Suzie Kennedy to talk about the latest virtual GPs and races and what it’s doing for the potential [...]
Episode 243 – The Cars The (Hundreds Of) Stars
Apr 01, 2020
Week 3 of our lockdown shows and we’re not showing signs of cabin fever yet, Chris has been getting artistic (check out his colouring work on Scarbs’s picture), Lee’s discovered the joys of milshake & [...]
Episode 242 – Lockdown Special WIth Sean Kelly
Mar 25, 2020
This week on the podcast we’re joined by the first member of the Automobile Club de Monaco to apply for a job at Walmart (his word not ours!) Sean Kelly joins us over Skype from [...]
Episode 241 – We’re Still Here (If A Little Different)
Mar 18, 2020
We all know by now that Formula 1, F2 & F3 along with just about all sports events have been put on hold due to the current Global Coronavirus pandemic. As an F1 podcast this [...]
Episode 240 – 2020 Pre Season Special With Craig Scarborough
Mar 10, 2020
At this stage of the year we usually have an idea about what’s going to happen on-track, certainly for the first few races of the season after pre-season testing is done. But things are different [...]
Episode 239 – Testing’s Done, Now What?
Mar 03, 2020
Pre-season testing is done for 2020, but what now. With the current Covid-19 situation, we don’t actually know if we’ll have an F1 season to talk about for the first part of the year. Things [...]
Testing week 1 is done and what an innovation the Silver Arrows have dropped on us this year? Up to last Wednesday, steering wheels just rotated left and right and that was all they did, [...]
Episode 237 – Radio Check, Are we Ready To Go?
Feb 18, 2020
That was one long winter break, but I think we got through it intact and we’re ready for F1 to get going again, and here it is! This week on the podcast we get to [...]
Episode 236 – Seriously Not Long To Go Now
Feb 05, 2020
We’re only about a week away from the first car launches of the season and a couple of weeks from the start of the first test, so that means it won’t be long until we’re [...]
Episode 235 – And A New One Has (Finally) Begun
Jan 25, 2020
OK, ok, ok, sorry we’re late. We recorded this show as normal on Monday after a week’s delay thanks to Storm Brendan hitting the Isle of Man with 80MPH winds (about as fast as a [...]
So the end of another year of F1 and now we get a couple of months without seeing a car spin it’s wheels (or in the case of one driven by Sebastian Vettel, just spin) [...]
Episode 233 – Flu Can’t Bring Me Down
Dec 10, 2019
We’re back on track this week after 80% of us got taken down by a bad bout of Manx Flu! And what better way to celebrate being up and about again than to do a [...]
Episode 232 – Literally Driving Into The Sunset
Nov 27, 2019
So is the Day/Night Abu Dhabi Grand Prix just one big metaphor then? With it being the only twilight race of the year and coming at the end of the season then I guess the [...]
Well that was a surprise, although we’re still not sure what was the biggest one, 2 Honda powered cars on the podium, Carlos Sainz getting 3rd (eventually), Ferrari taking each other out, an actual Mercedes [...]
Episode 230 – Brazilian Techno Special
Nov 12, 2019
Don’t panic about the title, we’ve not gone off into a world of strange dance music! This week on the podcast we’re joined, once again by technical specialist Craig Scarborough to take a look back [...]
Episode 229 – Lewis Hamilton World Champion X 6
Nov 05, 2019
Well he’s done it again! Congratulations to Lewis Hamilton for his 6th Word Driver’s Championship, coming after Mercedes clinched their 6th consecutive Constructor’s crown 2 races ago in Japan. Although once again he didn’t take [...]
So Mexico does things with the podium again! No rotating DJs this time, but a big lift for the winner in their car. Some say that the podium is the most exciting thing about the [...]
Not only are we back on schedule this week with a Tuesday podcast, but we’ve (Lee has anyway) invested in some new streaming equipment and we’re back on YouTube as well! So this week’s podcast [...]
Episode 226 – Better Later Than Never(er)
Oct 17, 2019
Sorry, sorry, sorry. Can you tell we’re sorry this week. It wasn’t just qualifying in the Japanese Grand Prix that was delayed this week. After somehow managing to get jetlag without leaving the sofa at [...]
It wouldn’t be the Japanese Grand Prix without what some of the most dedicated F1 fans in the world and one thing is for sure, the Japanese F1 fans sure love a crazy hat for [...]
That’s what was blowing through Russia this weekend at least. After 3 races and one qualifying session where Ferrari dominated, we returned to normal service in Sochi with a Mercedes 1-2 that didn’t look even [...]
Coming off the back of 2 wins at low downforce, high speed circuits, nobody thought that Ferrari would be in with a sniff of getting anything out of this weekend’s race in Singapore on a [...]
Episode 222 – RedBull Gives You Cauliflowers?
Sep 17, 2019
We promise you that the title of this week’s podcast will make sense when you listen to it! This week on the podcast we’re joined by the one and only Virtual Stat Man Sean Kelly [...]
Episode 221 – Due Is The Numero Magico
Sep 10, 2019
A second consecutive for Ferrari and their first at Monza since Fernando Alonso all the way back in 2010, is the the start of the red resurgence? Probably not when you think about it as [...]
Episode 220 – The 6th New Name In 10 Years
Sep 03, 2019
Charles Leclerc has added his name to the list of Grand Prix winners and he’s only the 6th driver to do that this decade, such has been the balance of power in Formula One recently. [...]
Episode 219 – Thursday Is The New Tuesday
Aug 29, 2019
Well that was a day and a half! We’ve not even had a car on track after the Summer break and we’ve already had the 2020 calendar, driver confirmations from 2 teams, another driver confirmation [...]
Episode 218 – A Spa Vacation Or A Vacation And A Spa?
Aug 27, 2019
That’s the Summer Break all done and we’re back to racing this weekend. F1 makes its traditional return to the Belgian countryside for one of our favourite races of the season. The Belgian Grand Prix [...]
Episode 217 – Another Technical Special With Craig Scarborough
Aug 21, 2019
We’ve got another special show this week as Craig Scarborough joins us again to talk though what the teams have achieved in the first have of he season and where the upgrades are going to [...]
Episode 216 – The Old RedBull Switcheroo (Again)
Aug 13, 2019
So RedBull have done it (and not on a Tuesday), Alex is in and Pierre is out (only out as far as Toro Rosso though). Can’t help but think we’ve seen this before once or [...]
Episode 215 – The Chase Is Better Than The Catch
Aug 06, 2019
That’s 4 exciting races we’ve had in a row now in the run up to the Summer break. And for the first time in a while we saw Mercedes pull an amazing strategy move over [...]
We’ve finally had a wet race this season and what a race it was too! 78 pitstops, a mix of strategies (some worked some didn’t), points for Williams, spins behind the safety car and a [...]
F1 is back in Germany this weekend with the Hockenheimring getting to host races in consecutive years for the first time since 2006 and 9 teams seem to know what they’re doing this weekend, but [...]
Episode 212 – Let’s Go (Crowd)Surfin’ Now
Jul 16, 2019
There’s one constant that you can expect from the British Grand Prix and that’s if Lewis Hamilton wins the race he’s going to crowdsurf like a pro and this weekend at Silverstone was no exception! [...]
This is the weekend where F1 comes home! The first Formula 1 World Championship Grand Prix was held at Silverstone in 1950 and the iconic circuit has gone on to hold the race another 51 [...]
Episode 210 – That Was The Race We Needed
Jul 02, 2019
We’d only just put our socks back on after the French Grand Prix bored them off last week and we were collectively happy to then have them blown off by an absolute classic of a [...]
There’s 2 meaning behind the title of this week’s show as the French Grand Prix took the award for the strangest trophy of the season, with the return of the tyre wielding gorilla trophies and [...]
Episode 208 – We’re Still Getting Over Last Year’s Trophies
Jun 18, 2019
12 Months on from the last French Grand Prix and there’s still no rational explanation behind the gorillas that were handed out on the podium in Le Castellet last year. Question is are we going [...]
Episode 207 – Controversy, What Controversy?
Jun 11, 2019
So the Canadian Grand Prix then? Not many talking points at all really. There was Renault’s new found pace, a Mercedes Engine going “foom” in the back of a Racing Point, Kevin Magnussen being read [...]
Live From Montreal Trackside With Virtual Stat Man, Sean Kelly
Jun 07, 2019
FP2 in Canada has just finished and friend of the Podcast Sean Kelly (@virtualstatman) is right there next to The Wall Of Champions and he’s joined us for an extra mini-show looking back at Friday’s [...]
Episode 206 – Their Home And Native Land
Jun 04, 2019
So the European F1 season is in full swing as we move across the Atlantic to… Canada. But it’s a first for this year’s Canadian Grand Prix as it will be the first time that [...]
Episode 205 – It Looks Like We Might Have Made It
May 28, 2019
That was an interesting Monaco Grand Prix this weekend. Once again Lewis Hamilton questioned the team’s strategy choices and seemed to spend the last half of the race not happy with the state his tyres [...]
Episode 204 – European Updates With Craig Scarborough
May 21, 2019
This week on the podcast we’re joined once again by Craig Scarborough to talk about the updates that some teams brought with them to last week’s Spanish Grand Prix and to the 2 day test [...]
Episode 203 – Strategy 101 (Ferrari Nil)
May 14, 2019
So the headline of the Spanish Grand Prix was another 1-2 finish for Mercedes, but the real story was how Ferrari managed to screw up their strategy again. It’s not much fun when what’s meant [...]
Episode 202 – Will The Reign Continue In Spain?
May 07, 2019
It’s been four 1-2 finishes out of four for Mercedes this year and this weekend at the Spanish Grand Prix you can bet they are going all out to get a fifth one. This week [...]
Over the last 2 years we’ve come to expect the unexpected when it comes to the Azerbaijan Grand Prix and after the drain cover and bridge incidents on Friday, the 2 hour qualifying session on [...]
Just in case you hadn’t noticed, it’s our 200th show this week and we decided to do something special for it… Actually we haven’t done anything out of the ordinary and we’re leaving it to [...]
Episode 199 – Race 1000 Putting The “M” in HmmmmmM
Apr 16, 2019
It wasn’t a thriller was it? The massively hyped up 1000th race in the F1 World Championship (we’ll get to the other 1000th races soon enough) turned out to be a bit of a walkover [...]
With the 1000th World Championship race coming up this weekend, F1 is in a celebratory mood combined with a lot of looking back over the last 69 years of Grand Prix history. However we’re all [...]
Episode 197 – Almost Within Touching Distance
Apr 02, 2019
Charles Leclerc started Sunday as the 99th pole-sitter in Formula 1 and for all but 9 laps of Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix he looked set to be the 107th race winner as well, but as [...]
Episode 196 – (Remember) Racing In The Sand
Mar 28, 2019
We’re already on to the 2nd race of the F1 season and this week the circus heads to the desert in Bahrain for the first night race of the year, The Bahrain Grand Prix. This [...]
Finally after not being able to say this for the whole of 2018, we can congratulate Valtteri Bottas for winning a race, and what a way to do it as well. His Australian Grand Prix [...]
Seeing as the 2019 season is finally about to start we’ve done an extra show with a special guest this week. Joining us from Melbourne is VirtualStatMan Sean Kelly. On the show we look forward [...]
Episode 194 – Radio Check Are We Ready To Go?
Mar 12, 2019
It’s a thing and it’s happening! The 2019 F1 season starts this week and for the first time this year we can say that we’ve got a preview show. This week on the podcast we [...]
Episode 193 – Testing Wrapup With Craig Scarborough
Mar 05, 2019
We’ve now seen all the 2019 cars running on track during the 2 test sessions in Barcelona and this week we’re joined by Craig Scarborough to talk us through what we’ve seen. This week on [...]
Episode 192 – The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Tester
Feb 26, 2019
Pre-season testing is half way done and we’ve got to see all 10 cars and 21 different drivers (Haas gave Pietro Fittipaldi a run last week) and what have we learned from it? This week [...]
Episode 191 – Testing, Testing, Is This Thing On?
Feb 20, 2019
The 2019 F1 season has officially got (pre)-going with all 10 cars launched and the start of the 1st pre-season test in Barcelona. This week on the podcast we take a look at the 10 [...]
It’s Launch week and so far we’ve seen… some 2018 cars in fancy dress and renderings of 2019 cars where you don’t get to see too much technical detail on them. But let’s not spoil [...]
Episode 189 – On The Road Again (Again)
Feb 05, 2019
There’s been quite a few F1 stories breaking over the last few weeks, so we’ve decided that it’s time we got off our backsides and got back to weekly podcasts, so here we are! This [...]
Episode 188 – Sort Of F1 & Sort of Patreon
Jan 16, 2019
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 the recording, so we’ve put [...]
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 Arrivabene has left his role [...]
Episode 186 – Season Wrap Up with Craig Scarborough
Dec 11, 2018
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 other things we talk about the season long development race [...]
Episode 185 – Tis The (Off) Season (Again)
Dec 04, 2018
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 by ESPN presenter & BBC 5 [...]
Episode 184 – Like The Rain Misses The Desert
Nov 27, 2018
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 review in the next [...]
Episode 183 – No Regrets, No Tears Goodbye?
Nov 20, 2018
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 know that Fernando Alonso, Stoffel [...]
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 weighbridge during qualifying, to Esteban Ocon’s move on Max Verstappen in [...]
Episode 181 – There’s Lots of Chickens in Indonesia
Nov 06, 2018
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 Williams at the end of the season [...]
Episode 180 – Lewis Hamilton 5 Times World Champion
Oct 30, 2018
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 finish on the podium to do it! This week on [...]
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 in 113 races (or 2044 days). So Kimi finally [...]
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 Championship is decided. Lewis Hamilton [...]
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 Prix. On a positive not though, it was one [...]
Episode 176 – New Orders Divide The Joy
Oct 02, 2018
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 thing in F1 and it’s been Ferrari’s [...]
Episode 175 – A Jump Cut Into A Round Table
Sep 25, 2018
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, which always leads to discussions about the driver [...]
Episode 174 – That Lap, Just That Lap
Sep 18, 2018
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 ruled what was going on and speed was [...]
Episode 173 – Technical Special With Added Jump Cuts
Sep 11, 2018
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 of the season and also to shed some light [...]
Episode 172 – Mammia Mia, We Got News Again
Sep 04, 2018
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 resort to putting another [...]
Episode 171 – What Was The Name Of That Beyonce Song?
Aug 28, 2018
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’s airborne car would have made contact with [...]
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 Toro Ross for next season to [...]
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 that Fernando Alonso won’t be on the grid next year. [...]
Episode 168 – It’s All Getting Silly Now
Aug 08, 2018
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 1st week of the [...]
Episode 167 – Appetite For Dest.. Relaxation
Jul 31, 2018
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 most of the grid was on holiday [...]
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 Prix was no exception. Sebastian Vettel carried on his tradition of not [...]
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 now become the biennial German Grand Prix (wish they’d sort that [...]
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 the first couple of corners. This week it was Kimi Raikkonen [...]
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 RedBull team, every time he’s [...]
Episode 163 – Monkey Business As Usual
Jun 26, 2018
The French Grand Prix then, an unknown quantity with the circuit with its brain frying patterned run-off areas, over 160 possible track configurations and plenty of corners where running wide wouldn’t get too badly punished. [...]
Episode 161 – à la recherche de temps perdu
Jun 19, 2018
(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 we finished recording this week’s podcast, so listen out [...]
Episode 160 – Bring Back Groundhog Effect
Jun 12, 2018
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 processiony” we were hoping for overtakes, drama [...]
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 week that’s taking our time up. [...]
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 be. Just beacuse of the way [...]
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 being when someone sticks it in the barrier. This race [...]
Episode 156 – Upgrade Season with Craig Scarborough
May 15, 2018
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 we thought the best way to [...]
Episode 155 – Easy Like Sunday Afternoon
May 08, 2018
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 this weekend and the [...]
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 Sean Kelly to go though the Azerbaijan Grand Prix which [...]
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 the location for the European Grand Prix 2 years [...]
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 following afternoon? His car was in bits [...]
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 off with a Sebastian Vettel victory, Ferrari were expecting [...]
Episode 150 – Circle (with extra bits) In The Sand
Apr 03, 2018
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 next 2 weekends, so it’s [...]
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 case that what happens in Melbourne isn’t [...]
Episode 148 – 2018 Season Preview with Sean Kelly
Mar 20, 2018
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 Australia. So what better way to get things [...]
Episode 147 – Testing Review with Craig Scarborough
Mar 13, 2018
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 theie factories pouring over the [...]
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 teams when something breaks down or falls off [...]
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 been on their [...]
Episode 144 – Trains & Boats & Planes, But Mainly Cars
Feb 20, 2018
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 (massive thanks to Felix for showing [...]
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 thanks to all the team at Brackley for putting [...]
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 getting news coverage for Formula 1 during what’s traditionally a [...]
Episode 141 – All Day And Most Of The Night
Jan 30, 2018
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-blogging it and we didn’t give any thought to whether Fernando [...]
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 Technology Centre in Woking to [...]
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 morning after we recorded the show [...]
Episode 138 – 24 Hours From Somewhere
Jan 10, 2018
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’s still no news from Williams on [...]
Episode 137 – All Is Silent On New Year’s Day
Jan 02, 2018
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 all the factories on shutdown for the [...]
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 one with everyone. We don’t talk about F1 [...]
Episode 136 – ‘Tis The Season (Review)
Dec 19, 2017
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 the 2017 F1 season and in [...]
Episode 135 – Addicted To That Russian?
Dec 12, 2017
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 ended up leaving a vacancy at Williams after Valtteri [...]
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 news and wild speculation to keep us [...]
Episode 133 – It’ll Never Rain On This Parade
Nov 28, 2017
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 tuned in to the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix [...]
Episode 132 – I’m Like A Fledgling (I’m A Bit ****)
Nov 21, 2017
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? But thanks to Nico Rosberg’s retirement last [...]
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 enjoyed it so much that we’re doing it [...]
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 going and this week on the podcast there’s [...]
Episode 129 – That’s Podiumwang (and a championship too)
Oct 31, 2017
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 he claimed the title by being the [...]
Episode 128 – Fly Like A (Virtual) Eagle
Oct 24, 2017
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 beforehand? Well except for Usain Bolt, [...]
Episode 127 – A Day Late But Not A Dollar Short
Oct 18, 2017
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 than Marcu$ Eric$$on) and falling trees (130 in the [...]
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 the strange world of 3Legs4Wheels! We’ve got the usual full [...]
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 weekend by taking a well-earned victory in [...]
Episode 124 – Better Late Than Never!
Sep 29, 2017
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 we’re back with a preview of what’s left [...]
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 Grand Prix is over and Lewis [...]
Episode 122 – Wide Awake in Singapore
Sep 12, 2017
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 year’s Monaco Grand Prix. This has got something to do [...]
Episode 121- There’s Something In The Air (It’s Rain)
Sep 05, 2017
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 like engine penalties on Saturday and a [...]
Episode 120 – My Heart Will Go On, But My Car Won’t
Aug 29, 2017
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 Silver Arrows, but there was more than what [...]
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. So this week on the podcast [...]
Episode 118 – The Cure For The Summertime Blues?
Aug 15, 2017
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 we’ve taken this opportunity to do [...]
Episode 117 – Summer Break With A Guest
Aug 08, 2017
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 racer and the 1st driver to put a [...]
Episode 116 – Stick Em In Your Mouth And Suck Em
Aug 01, 2017
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” incident and Haas in general don’t seem to like the Renault driver [...]
Episode 115 – It Was All To Sell Spaceships
Jul 25, 2017
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 drivers can grab their maiden victories. [...]
Episode 114 – Remember When We Used To Do An F1 Podcast?
Jul 18, 2017
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 the British Grand Prix [...]
Episode 113 – Turns Out It Gives You Fin(n)s
Jul 11, 2017
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 podium in RedBull’s own playground. This week’s podcast [...]
Episode 112 – We Forgot the Nuclear Fire Bees
Jul 04, 2017
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 fizzy wake up drink people. Not just [...]
Episode 111 – It Was The Race We Wanted AND The Race We Deserved
Jun 27, 2017
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 some! This week we try and review the [...]
Episode 110 – Baku To Life, Baku To Reality
Jun 20, 2017
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 stopped calling it the European Grand Prix now) [...]
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 defending, great passing, team intrigue and to cap [...]
Episode 108 – Take Off To The Great White North
Jun 07, 2017
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 weekend with the Canadian Grand Prix from [...]
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 were impressed [...]
Episode 106 – Anyone Got Plans For The Weekend Then?
May 23, 2017
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 than a Schumacher/Barrichello formation finish) by the [...]
Episode 105 – You Spain Me Right Round
May 16, 2017
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 racing incidents and not just drivers being crashy! [...]
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 we traditionally see the 1st major [...]
Episode 103 – Not So Number 2 This Week
May 02, 2017
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 a dominant race where he made a [...]
Episode 102 – Insert Title Here (Paul Forgot it!)
Apr 25, 2017
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 packed podcast this week with our preview [...]
Episode 101 – We Did Whatever We Wanted (Mate)
Apr 18, 2017
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 along with putting the team on top of the [...]
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’s McLaren if he was told that it [...]
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 Australia, or will Mercedes have something [...]
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 broke that streak and got the Maranello team back on the [...]
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 Formula 1 to look [...]
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 wasn’t a thing when we recorded this [...]
Episode 95 – Let’s Face It, We Don’t Know
Mar 07, 2017
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 (they’re bloody big), new aero (whale tails & [...]
Episode 94 – A Sports Cry For All The Wrong Reasons
Feb 28, 2017
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! The new cars are launched and we’re finally getting [...]
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 mock-up of their 2017 car last [...]
Episode 92 – Sauber Are Going To Be 1st (for a change)
Feb 14, 2017
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 regulations along with the new [...]
Episode 91 – Paddy Lowe Must Have A Big Garden
Feb 07, 2017
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, what can you do in a garden during February? We [...]
Episode 90 – Fallout 5 Bernie’s Revenge
Jan 31, 2017
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? There’s been rumours that he’ll start his own racing [...]
Episode 89 – Nothing Happens In The Off-Season Or Does It?
Jan 26, 2017
What a week it’s been for F1! We got hints at the end of last week that the takeover could be completed very soon and that Bernie could be on his way out, followed by [...]
Episode 88 – We’ve Got All The News (For Once)
Jan 17, 2017
The thing that always annoys us about Formula 1 is that news always seems to happen on a Tuesday, which isn’t a major issue for most people but as we record these podcasts on a [...]
Episode 87 – At Least We’ve Got Some Launch Dates
Jan 10, 2017
When we recorded this week’s podcast Paddy Lowe was still at Mercedes, but in true 3Legs4Wheels form, the team announced the morning after that he’d officially left. IS this going to start the domino effect [...]
Episode 86 – 2016 Season Review And More
Jan 04, 2017
Happy New Year from the 4 of us at 3Legs 4Wheels! With not much F1 action at the moment, we’ve taken a bit of time out to put together a few off-season features to keep [...]
What we know so far is that Mercedes want Valtteri Bottas to replace Nico Rosberg, but where would that leave Williams? It now looks like the Grove team is going to offer Felipe Massa a [...]
Episode 84 – And Still We Wait (so we’ll award some prizes)
Dec 15, 2016
So the waiting goes on for the big reveal for who will partner Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes next season. We already know that they have made an initial approach for Valtteri Bottas which has been [...]
Episode 83 – It’s Make Your Mind Up Time Toto
Dec 06, 2016
Toto Wolff is going to be playing Santa this December, one lucky F1 driver is going to get a seat alongside Lewis Hamilton in the Mercedes team that’s won the last 3 championships. But who [...]
Come on, did anyone see this coming? 5 days ago, Nico Rosberg was crowned World Driver’s Champion and now he’s announced that he’s retiring from Formula 1. The F1 world is in total shock about [...]
Episode 81 – NICO ROSBERG, WORLD CHAMPION!
Nov 29, 2016
He’s finally done it! Nico Rosberg is the 2016 F1 World Driver’s Champion after his 2nd place in a tense, nail biting finish to the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at the weekend. It wasn’t plain [...]
Episode 80 – It All Comes Down To This
Nov 22, 2016
So we’re here at the last race of the 2016 F1 season and there’s still a Championship up for grabs. Currently Nico Rosberg leads Lewis Hamilton by 12 points and he just needs a 3rd [...]
Episode 79 – Max Verstappen On A Charge
Nov 15, 2016
What a race that was in Brazil! Max Verstappen’s performance has to have been the talking point of the day after the late it stop dropped him from 2nd to 14th. You’d think that would [...]
Episode 78 – A Hair Raising End To The Season?
Nov 08, 2016
Just 2 races to go in this year’s F1 season and where has the time gone? I can’t believe we’re up to the Brazilian Grand Prix already and after that there’s just Abu Dhabi to come [...]
Episode 77 – Charlie Says (or Who’s on 3rd?)
Nov 01, 2016
2 days after the Mexican Grand Prix and we think the result is official now, but we can’t be 100% sure! That was an interesting race though, except for the bits in the middle that [...]
Episode 76 – The Sweet Smell Of Success
Oct 25, 2016
This week on the podcast we review the 2016 US Grand Prix at The Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. Lewis Hamilton found himself back on the top step of the podium after seeing [...]
It’s the US Grand Prix this weekend, the first of 3 races in The Americas (with Mexico & Brazil to follow) and we should be all set up for a great weekend of on-track action! [...]