The king is dead, long live the king.
Only 102 days to lights out for 2023..
Depends what you're looking for.
The-Race is good for sober analysis and technical chat.
FF1S is good for f1 comedy chat.
The one woth Eddie Jordan and Coulthard sounds good but I can't stand EJ.
Missed Apex can be good info but I can't stand the host trying to crack jokes all the time. They also have the Aside with Joe Saward which can have good info.
Racingnews 365 was good alright.
Chequered Flag is handy for a 20 min overview of quali or a race if you missed it live.
Also I’m thinking of heading to Monza next year, anyone with experience there? Recommend it? Probably fly into and stay in Milan and head out to the track each day by train seems to be the way to go?
Looks like a great event with all the Ferrari fans going bananas. Is it Well organised and easy to get to?
Which F1 podcasts are people listening to these days?
I used to like racingnews365 but they haven’t released one in a while. I listen to the race regularly with but it’s fairly bland in terms of their content.
It’s been a boring enough season in terms of the championship, RB and Max have been utterly dominant and it’s really difficult to see anyone matching him over the next couple of seasons - I think that RB would have to get an update wrong as well as another team getting something right for it to be more competitive.
What I have found surprising is how high the reliability of the cars and drivers is this year. We get very few safety cars to throw the cat amongst the pigeons, which makes it easier again for RB to pick up race wins.
Still think there’s been a few interesting things this year, Piastri looks immediately at home, Astons rise and fall, Alpine being all over the place, DeVries short career and Danny Rics short return! But in general it does feel like one of those Mercedes seasons from a few years back.
BBC Chequered Flag reporting that Sainz's 14 laps in the lead are the most by any non Red Bull driver this year. The season is a bit knackered. Ive lost interest this year. I catch up on the results but I don't make sure to listen to quali or the race on the F1 app anymore. Hope next season is more competitive. Drive To Survive will need to do some serious creative story writing to make this season sound good.
Not a great week for Mercedes PR wise, first Hamiltons spat about Maxs team mate and then Toto fobbing off Maxs 10 in a row wins as only soemthing that will be on Wikipedia that it's not important and again pointing that they had two drivers fighting at the front, so salty and a bad look.
If Aston didn't have waste of space racing with Alonso Mercedes could well have finished behind a customer team this year, that would have been sweat.
I see you are able to use logic here, very mature.
Ye your right. Daniel should have just drove right through him lol.
Ehhh, he didn't force anyone to crash, that is a seriously dumb thing to say. Ricciardo crashed on his own accord.
You might want to lay off the lemons in your diet.
@Andrew76 The car does look pretty good. I've no problem making the cars more accessible for women once it doesn't tamper the cars. The rear wing has some similarities to the wing on the super formula cars. We all know Strolls seat isn't under any kind of threat but saying isn't a big gap in performance is being very generous. Aston should be well clear of Merc giving how good the car was at the start of the season
Never change @AMKC, never change.
Sure. He's a rookie and is still making rookie mistakes in his rookie season.
He's done really well for a rookie. Great trajectory.
Oh ye great job he is doing. He crashed and forced Daniel Ricciardo to crash and break a bone in his hand because of it. I hope he and McClaren apologised to Daniel and I also hope they compensate Daniel for the races he is missing out on.
Cameras just happen to be there and all these deals are told out the back
What did I miss here chaps? I don't watch Netflix at all these days. Toto spilling the beans before he's supposed to?
@PsychoPete - that new F2 car looks great actually! Reading the article on the-race sounds like they're making changes to how it drives to make it a little bit more accessible for female drivers to handle it, that's no bad thing I guess. So Stroll is ever so slightly closer to Alonso than Sergio is to Max - both second drivers are having a sub-par season when you look at the car they have - Stroll more so imo.
To be fair there is only 121 points and 7 podiums between them
Perez also about to enter the top 10 for all time race starts and will be 9th on that list before the season ends. That doesn't happen because you are average.
That and Perez actually has more wins than Leclerc. Not that he is a better driver than Charles, but he does a good job for Red Bull and has gotten the wins that Max hasn't this season.
True but Redbull really could have anyone they wished in car no 2 so you can't really say they have issues with driver line up.
If you have an hour, this is a brilliant and candid chat with Alonso.
That flatters Piastri a bit but i suspect that by this time next year he'll have proved you right. He's done really well for a rookie. Great trajectory.
Sainz is a bit accident prone too.
On the whole though, I completely agree. They have the best driver lineups by a long way.
Mercedes, Ferrari and McLaren the 3 teams with great drivers in both seats. The other teams can't really say the same.
Fair play. They have 2 decent drivers so I'd say they're all happy. Hopefully Mercedes can catch up with RB next season. The Mercedes lads are pretty evenly matched so 3 way championship battle should be class. It could get extra spicy with 2 teammates involved.
Toto told a kid on German TV and the kid just blurted it out...I am not joking.
Did Netflix happen to spot Russell getting told by Toto at the back of the garage again?
Next generation of F2 car was announced
So both Lewis and George have been resigned until the end of 2025.
Ever watch the Guy Martin special with Red Bull F1?
He was supposed to drive the F1 car but couldn't in the end because he had a wrist injury at the time. Flat out on the superbike was no problem to him though, no where near as tough on the arms.
Fully agree, anyone who sits on a motorbike that has the nearly 300hp isn't a "normal" human.
Granted, I think F1 drivers are just as mental when it comes to it, and I think it show that a comeback can be done rather quickly if things go well. I'd say it is an outside bet for a return at Singapore.
Maybe so but those guys are mental. The injuries they race with wouldn't fly in F1.
Such a shame for Ricciardo. He (and we) needs a run of races to establish his form. Whatever you think about Ricciardo, I think everyone wants him to refind his form. This injury doesn't help.
