Formula 1 Podcast

So it's farewell to Zandvoort for the time being then. The Dutch Grand Prix was a welcome return to the F1 calendar in 2021, a tyear later then planned, but we don't talk about that! It's chucked up a few interesting races over the last few years and this year's wasn't an exception to that either.

This week (it's getting a bit regular again isn't it!) on the pod we take a look at a race that turned out to be interesting in ways that we hadn't expected. Nobody thought that Max would be done before the end of the 1st lap, Oscar Piastri wasn't expecting to be called into the pits every few minutes on a strategy that even Ferrari in their prime would call "a bit daft" and Hulk made possibly the best save of his career in avoiding his spinning team-mate, Gabriel Pirouetto

There's a load of other F1 related nonsense as we get back into talking rubbish in public again on a weekly basis and don’t forget to see how you did in the ⁠Prediction League⁠ and ⁠Official F1 Fantasy League⁠ too.

And if you want to join in with the chat during the races (along with testing, 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 we’ve 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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Hello and sorry! We thought that after that one show we managed to do in May, we'd be able to make a full comeback for this season, but sadly ill health raised its ugly head and that put all our plans on hold for a while. But after only doing a small handfull of podcasts in 2026, it now looks like things are on the up and we're ready to roll again for the 2nd half of this F1 season and beyond.

This month on the show (it'll be back to being "this week" from next week) we take a look at what's been going on over teh summer break as it turned out there were a few talking points with contracts, team principle changes and just before we started recording, a substitute appearance for both RedBull backed teams.

Of course there was Thursday News as this one got recorded on a wednesday night, so we missed the Max contract extension announcement, but you already knew about that anyway didn't you?

Anyway, F1 is now back and so are we, so pull up a comfy seat and strap in for the 2nd half of what's turning out to be an interesting season!

Also don’t forget to see how you did in the Prediction League and Official F1 Fantasy League too.

And if you want to join in with the chat during the races (along with testing, 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 we’ve 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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It's been way too long since we've been able to do this thanks to the new mixing desk deciding to stop working half way through recording episodes 3 times (It's going back to get fixed or replaced ASA-bloody-P)  But we've finally managed to cobble something together to make a comeback 10 weeks and 4 Grands Prix after the last succesful attempt at recording something!

And what a great race to come back to. We've seen the new order at Mercedes with Kimi Antonelli living up to the hype and taking the lead in the championship with 4 straight wins, a resurgent Ferrari (although McLaren acting like they were the team in red with their Sunday strategy helped) and a tweak to the regulations that we'd still not managed to get used to from the start of the sesason already coming into force!

This week (month?) on the podcast we do a bit of a free-form look at the Canadian GP weekend just to ease us back into doing this pod-thingy and see if anyone still wants to listen to us ramble about F1. We still enjoy it, when technology allows, so it's a start!

All being well, we're back to a weekly schedule again (until the old mixing desk conks out anyway) so once again, we're back and sorry!

Also don’t forget to see how you did in the Prediction League and Official F1 Fantasy League too.

And if you want to join in with the chat during the races (along with testing, 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 we’ve 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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So the new season is finally here, with the new regulations, new teams, new driver (singular), returning drivers (X2) and new worries about the cars being fast enough, stable enough, capable of lasting for an entire qualifying session (let alone a race) and a whole new order up and down the grid.

Well we got a half decent opening to 2026 at least, overtakes with the new moveable aero (don't call it DRS, even though that's what it looks like) and drivers seemingly having to do hardcore maths while working out batter levels and charging/clipping/superclipping levels.

This week on the podcast we look back at the Australian Grand Prix, where the new order appears to be the last order but 2 with Mercedes taking the top 2 steps on the podium this time out, but was it as clear-cut as the results say? There was a recovering Max thanks to an issue with the car in Q1 that sent him into the barriers, and some questions over Ferrari's strategy call under a VSC (at least some things don't change!)

There's also a look at the other stories circulating round the paddock at the moment, especially concerning the Bahrain & Saudi Arabian Grand Prix and if they're going to happen at all this year, or will the current conflict in the Middle-East leave us without F1 for the entire month of April?

Also don't forget to see how you did in the Prediction League and Official F1 Fantasy League too.

And if you want to join in with the chat during the races (along with testing, 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 we’ve 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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It's the eve of the 2026 season (Seasonmas Eve?) and 10 teams are poised to launch into 2026 with new cars, with new aero and engine regulations, but wait... Who's that clunking round at the back with bits falling off the car at half the speed of everyone else? It's the new Aston Martin Honda powered donkey!

As we all wait in anticipation for the start of the latest new era of F1, good old Honda have done it again, they've managed to create an engine that vibrates itself practically to pieces and has done so, so many times that they've run out of spare parts and it looks like they might only make the first few laps when when the season opens in Melbourne this weekend!

This week on the pod we take a brief look back at the 3 testing sessions that took place in Barcelona and Bahrain where, as usual, we learnt next to nothing over who is going to be quick and reliable, but did learn who isn't!

Bit of a hurridly thrown together show this week, but we've still managed to cram as many tangents in as possible, along with the launch of this season's Prediction League and Official F1 Fantasy League too.

And if you want to join in with the chat during the races (along with testing, 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 we’ve 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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Happy New Regulations everyone! Yes it's 2026 and the new F1 rules are coming into force very soon, even if the teams, F1 themselves and even the FIA aren't 100% sure of what they are and how they'll work. What could go wrong? (We'll find out soon, Scarbs will be joining us to explain all that!)

This week on the first podcast of 2026, we take a look back at the major F1 stories that have happened since we last got together a couple of months back. We've seen Friend of the Podcast Lando Norris become World Champion, the end of the Helmut Marko era at RedBull, rumours about the return of Christian Horner to the grid (with Alpine this time) and we wildly speculate about when we'll see the Renault name back in F1 again after they left, not for the first time, this year.

There's a load of tangents as well as we just generally have a catchup as it's the first time all 4 of us have spoken to each other at the same time since before Christmas, so it's a bit of a freeform, all over the place kind of show. But we have got an Is That Glock for a change!

And if you want to join in with the chat during the races (along with testing, 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 we’ve 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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It was all lined up. The penultimate race weekend of the season at a track that isn't exactly condusive to overtakes. Lando  just needed to outscore both his rivals by 2 points over the sprint and the Grand Prix to claim his first World Driver's crown, he was starting ahead of Max Verstappen in both races and he's had the measure of Oscar Piastri recently. It's a sure thing isn't it?

This week on the podcast we look back at the race weekend where Lando Norris could well have lost the championship after McLaren took a gamble on strategy straight out the Ferrari playbook and managed to keep the 3 way title fight alive right up to the final race of the season next weekend in Abu Dhabi (and we all know how that's gone before don't we). How did they manage to get everything so wrong and be the only team not to pit under a safety car with 50 laps to go when there were compulsory stops after a maximum of 25 laps on a set of tyres?

At least for the likes of us we've got another season where the finale isn't a dead rubber/lame duck and we're not going to know who the 2025 World Champion is until Sunday afternoon (unless something goes badly wrong in qualifying of course!) So of course we're speculating like nobody's business on that and on what the 2026 RedBull & VCARB lineups are going to be along with which one of the 5 prosepective drivers is going to be left without a seat (spoiler, it's Yuki) until someone messes up and gets demoted/fired! Obviously we've got a good few tangents as well as it wouldn't be an episode of 3L4W without them!

And 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 we’ve 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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As the saying goes; what happens in Vegas, stays In Vegas. And that was true about Lando Norris's 24 point lead over 2nd place in the World Driver's Championship after a double dq for McLaren and an imperious win for (former, but on longer title outsider) Max Verstappen. Could Max actually do it this season, from an over 100 point deficit to taking the title in the last 2 race weekends? If he does manage to pip both papaya clad drivers to the title, this will probably go down in history as just about the greatest championship win ever. So get your popcorn ready, we're at the sharp end!

This week on the podcast we look back at a Las Vegas Grand Prix that had more tha a few shocks. A wet track, an utterly abysmal Ferrari qualifying strategy, even by their own, already low, standards. Lance Stroll ending up as the victim of a move from Bortaletto that could only be described as "Strollesque" And a reault that's keeping the championship a three way scrap for far longer than anyone thought possible at the Summer break.

You might notice that we recorded this on Wednesday this week and thanks to a huge stroke of luck when it comes to F1 news, the Adrian Newey appointment as team principle at Aston Martin from next year was still doing the rounds of shocking and confusing everyone. What is Lawrence Stroll playing at? Is he actually a genius or will this come crashing down like his last few TP appointments did? (We're going to be going through a LOT of popcorn in the future)

And 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 we’ve 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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Said the greatest driver ever to come out of Brazil. Sadly a few too many of the current grid took that to heart this weekend and a few teams were left with serious repair jobs, penalties and wasted weekends.

This week on the podcast we look back at the Brazilian Grand Prix weekend where a combination of a drying track, soaking kerbs (hey, we're British OK!) and quite possibly a lack of spatial awareness from some drivers gave us both an entertaining sprint and a Grand Prix that showed us that you cannot count out Max Verstappen when there's even the faintest sniff of a podium

As usual, we go team by team for who did what, who didn't do what and what the hell were they doing throughout the weekend after 2 races that have firmly tipped the balance for the World Driver's Championship very much onto Lando's side.

And 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 we’ve 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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With a rare week between races, it's a good time to take stock of what's been going on this season and who better to do it with than VritualStatMan himself Sean Kelly.

This week on the pod, Sean joins us from StatHQ and as always he's got an absolute mountain of facts, stories and plenty of anecdotes from the F1 paddock and beyond. Including getting told where to go by Guenther Steiner, Adrian Sutil's fashion sense, Jenson Button's credit card and tons more!

There's all the usual tangents as well and what would a show with Sean on be without a quiz, so we've got an Is That Glock that we've been holding in reserve fot ages, just for him!

And 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 we’ve 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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Track limits, leaving the track and gaining an advantage, causing a collision, not leaving space at apexes, marshals on track with cars at full speed, contentious VSC on the penultimate lap, maybe at some point we'll get some racing in? The Mexican Grand Prix this year wasn't the best day for F1 race direction and the ever rotating cast of stewards. Amongst all the controversy we still got one of the best races of the season with battles going on all the way down the grid, even Lance Stroll managed to get a clean overtake in (if that doesn't say it's the end of days, I don't know what does.) And through all that, the 3 way battle for the championship is still going on and going down to the wire.

This week on the podcast we look back at the Mexican Grand Prix where Lando Norris managed to re-take the lead in the Word Driver's Championship for the first time since before the Suadi Arabian GP, after a very off the boil start to the weekend for team-mate and rival Oscar Piastri. But you can't forget the looming shadow of Max Vertappen, who is still up there too.

As always there's some attempts at predictions for how the rest of the season is going to pan out as we've still got 4 races and 2 sprints to go and it's really anyone's guess as to who is going to walk away with the 2025 crown. Doesn't stop us having a go though!

Also, sorry for missing last week after the US GP, but we were victims of the Amazon outage last Monday and it took until Wednesday to get things recovered properly

And 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 we’ve 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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(PS, sorry for the delay, but I got caught up playing Power Washer Simulator 2!0

So Singapore then? Yes we got to see George Russell on the top step with a seemingly resurgent Max Verstappen taking 2nd, which only leaves 1 step on the podium for McLaren and this time round it was Lando Norris, but it was in a way that didn't exactly please Oscar and the other side of the garage.

Congratulations to McLaren on clinching their 2nd consecutive World Constructor's Championship, but now the hard work really starts for them. They've got 2 drivers in contention for the driver's crown, but it seems like things aren't exactly cordial right now. After Forcing Oscar to let Lando past after a fudged pit stop in Monza and now not letting him by after the usual Sinagpore GP lap 1 "3 into 1 doesn't go" first corner. Do we get the impression that Oscar is now driving for Oscar, due to the team having got their spot at the top?

We try and make sense of what's coming for the rest of the 2025 season as well as a stack of our usual going off on tangents (there's more in the Patreon show if that's your kind of thing). Along with our usual team by team lookback at the race and some of the best radio we've heard from Fernando Alonso since the last time he let the pitwall know his thoughts!

And 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 we’ve 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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There's always something special about the Italian Grand Prix. It's a combination of the out and out speed of the circuit, the stands full of the Tifosi , even when Ferrari aren't on top form and of course a National Anthem before the race that it's impossible to sing without sounding like you 100% mean every word of it. And this week, we got the full package!

This week we look back at the Monza race where Max Verstappen proved that RedBull can still make a car that can destroy the rest of the grid on pure pace alone and McLaren proved that they are human after all by making mistakes and then fudging their solution to them when they crop up! Big announcement form us this week as well as we launch our new merch store, thanks to the wonderful people (especially Larisa) from Dashery. We've already got a few new designs up and it's not just t-shirts, there's mugs, stickers and even cushons with more designs to follow. Check it out at https://3legs4wheels.dashery.com/

Aside from that there's the usual ton of tangents and occasional missed jokes (Paul). And 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 we’ve 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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Has it really been a 2 month summer break for us? Yes it has and you don't know how sorry we are for vanishing again like that. But we're back and so's F1 after a turbulent summer for some!

This week on the pod we take a brief look at what's been going on since we last had chance to get round the mics. Including the least silly Silly Season in ages, lots of 2026 speculation, a compelling Dutch Grand Prix and a whole lot more besides. We've got a few new ideas and plans in the pipeline to0 for the future of the podcast (yes there is going to be a future) and maybe some new merch ideas too...

As for the title of this week's episode, well you'll have to listen to nearly the end to find out what it's about and please join in with what we've discovered by getting in touch below!

And 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 we've 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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Well that was a few days in the unhinged world of F1, we started off with an action packed British Grand Prix, which gave Lando Norris his first home win and Nico Hülkenberg his first podium in 239 starts, after some very mixed up weather conditions. And just when we thought the dust was settling in time for F1 to have the break before the official Summer break, RedBull go and pull something kind of unexpected out of the bag by announcing that their team principle and divisive character Christian Horner is no lonfer their team principle (or CEO for that matter)

This week on the podcast we unpick the events of the last few days and revel in the fact that we decided to record a couple of days late this week so didn't miss the big midweek story! There's a bit of a review of the British GP as I'm fairly sure that everyone's heard about it all by now, but fresh off  the newswire there's our deep dive into the trainwreck that is (and has been for the last year) the RedBull situation. It's not a case of "we come to bury Horner, not to priase him" but more of our honest thoughts on him as a team principle and his image as a person (not many punches were pulled in the making of this bit).

On the Sauber side of the garage, we end up doing an impromptu Is That Glock as Kieren & Paul had done their homework, so we made Sian & Chris suffer because of it!

Of course there's a fair amount of tangents too and 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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It's been a big time for Formula 1 these past few days, we've had the launch of Brad Pitt's long-awaited F1 movie coming straight after a triple header (that we managed to miss, but RIP the Groundhog) and then heading to Austria for what promised to be a shoot-out at RedBull's home track.

Well it didn't exacly pan out well for the team that gives you wiiings after all that (also Max didn't turn up to the movie premier in NYC either), but once again we saw a dominant performance from McLaren, who really have made THE car of 2025, leaving everyone else scabbling to pick up what they can from the race.

This week on the podcast there's some of your thoughts on the F1 movie, with a couple of spoilers (but there's a timer so you can skip through them) and the ups and downs of an Austrian Grand Prix that started with a fire and kind of went on from there.

Sorry for the radio silence again, between covid, flu (thought it was meant to be Summer right now?) and various festivals and gigs we've either all not been able to be in the same place or speak for what seems like months! To make up for it, we recorded an extra show this week for our Patreon subscribers, that you can listen to if you sign up here

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

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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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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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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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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

Enjoy

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 [...]

The post Episode 219 – Thursday Is The New Tuesday appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 218 – A Spa Vacation Or A Vacation And A Spa? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 217 – Another Technical Special With Craig Scarborough appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 216 – The Old RedBull Switcheroo (Again) appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 215 – The Chase Is Better Than The Catch appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 214 – Wet and Wild appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 213 – Feuer Frei appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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! [...]

The post Episode 212 – Let’s Go (Crowd)Surfin’ Now appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 211 – A Sort Of Homecoming appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 210 – That Was The Race We Needed appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 209 – They Did It Again appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 208 – We’re Still Getting Over Last Year’s Trophies appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 207 – Controversy, What Controversy? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Live From Montreal Trackside With Virtual Stat Man, Sean Kelly appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 206 – Their Home And Native Land appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 205 – It Looks Like We Might Have Made It appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 204 – European Updates With Craig Scarborough appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 203 – Strategy 101 (Ferrari Nil) appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 202 – Will The Reign Continue In Spain? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 201 – Not With A Bang appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 200 – Yes it’s actually Episode 200 appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 199 – Race 1000 Putting The “M” in HmmmmmM appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 198 – Millennium Bug Prevention appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 197 – Almost Within Touching Distance appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 196 – (Remember) Racing In The Sand appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 195 – Big Beard Energy? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Australian Grand Prix Special appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 194 – Radio Check Are We Ready To Go? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 193 – Testing Wrapup With Craig Scarborough appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 192 – The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Tester appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 191 – Testing, Testing, Is This Thing On? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Epsiode 190 – Blackout? Not Exactly appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 189 – On The Road Again (Again) appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 188 – Sort Of F1 & Sort of Patreon appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 187 – Arrivederci Maranello appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 186 – Season Wrap Up with Craig Scarborough appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 185 – Tis The (Off) Season (Again) appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 184 – Like The Rain Misses The Desert appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 post Episode 183 – No Regrets, No Tears Goodbye? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 182 – Oops Upside Your Car appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 181 – There’s Lots of Chickens in Indonesia appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 180 – Lewis Hamilton 5 Times World Champion appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 179 – Ice(man) Ice(man) Baby appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 178 – Westbound And Down appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 177 – Spoonman appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 176 – New Orders Divide The Joy appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 175 – A Jump Cut Into A Round Table appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 174 – That Lap, Just That Lap appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 173 – Technical Special With Added Jump Cuts appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 172 – Mammia Mia, We Got News Again appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 171 – What Was The Name Of That Beyonce Song? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 post Episode 170 – It’s A Gas Gas Gas appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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. [...]

The post Episode 169 – Ciao, Adios, He’s Done appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 168 – It’s All Getting Silly Now appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 167 – Appetite For Dest.. Relaxation appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 166 – From Despair To Where? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 165 – Got Wood? Good! appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 164 – We’re Deliberately Incompetent appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 163 – Nobody Moves, Nobody Gets Fired appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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. [...]

The post Episode 163 – Monkey Business As Usual appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

(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 [...]

The post Episode 161 – à la recherche de temps perdu appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 160 – Bring Back Groundhog Effect appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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. [...]

The post Episode 159 – Island Race appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 post Episode 158 – Lazy Sunday Afternoon appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 157 – By The Sea appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 156 – Upgrade Season with Craig Scarborough appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 155 – Easy Like Sunday Afternoon appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 154 – You’re Unpredictable appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 153 – Castles in the Sky appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 152 – The China Syndrome appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 151 – Where’s The Party At? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 150 – Circle (with extra bits) In The Sand appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 149 – I See Red appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 148 – 2018 Season Preview with Sean Kelly appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 147 – Testing Review with Craig Scarborough appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 146 – BarSnowLona? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

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 [...]

The post Episode 145 – I Got A Silver Machine appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.