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🏎 F1 EXTRA: Who'll be the next first-time world champion?

Join Edd Straw and Mark Hughes as they dive into another batch of YOUR questions - and, as usual, you've come up with some brilliant ones.

Has Max Verstappen won his last championship in F1? Who'll be the next first-time world champion? Which driver from outside the top four teams would hav...

⭐️ Bring Back V10s: Ranking the Top 10 drivers of 1997

To celebrate the end of our 1997 Revisited series, and to get you in the mood for season 11 of Bring Back V10s, we've ranked the drivers from that classic F1 season.

Following the format of our usual top 10 episodes, Glenn Freeman is joined by Matt Beer, Ben Anderson and Edd Straw to debate...

Help Bring Back V10s win an award!

We have exciting news - Bring Back V10s has been nominated for Best Motorsports Podcast at the 2025 Sports Podcast Awards, and we'd love for you to help us win!

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Ad-free Formula E pod: Sao Paulo review

The 2024-25 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship began with a bang in Sao Paulo with Mitch Evans taking an extraordinary last to first win in his new Jaguar Gen3Evo machine.

That was only part of a dramatic landscape to a race that also included two red flags, the last of which was for Pasc...

🔧 F1 Tech Show: Send us your questions for Gary Anderson!

Do you have a burning technical question about the 2024 F1 season that you'd like Gary Anderson to answer?

Next week, in the final episode of The Race F1 Tech Show of 2024, Gary and Edd will be putting a bow on the season just gone by tackling YOUR tech questions.

Just drop your que...

Edd answers YOUR Abu Dhabi GP F1 driver rankings questions

We had an incredible response to Edd Straw's driver rankings this week, and he took your grilling like a champ, sneaking off from Tuesday's F1 testing activity for a bit to go through your questions.

Thanks to everyone who sent in a comment. We're pleased to see this feature gaining momentu...

Ad-free MotoGP pod: Exclusive interviews - Life with Marc Marquez + Espargaro’s farewell

During the winter The Race MotoGP Podcast is bringing you a host of exclusive interviews with key riders across the main show and MotoGP Extra in The Race Members’ Club, and we’re starting with two of our favourites.

Alex Marquez had a lot of fun as he shared tales of life at Gresini Du...

Ask Edd Straw about his Abu Dhabi GP F1 driver rankings!

For one final time in 2024, our new feature where you get to grill Edd Straw on his F1 driver rankings is here.

Take a look at the full rundown of Edd's rankings below, then drop any questions, comments or observations underneath this post. Edd will then run through them later this week, t...

Ad-free F1 pod: Abu Dhabi review

Edd Straw is joined by Mark Hughes, Scott Mitchell-Malm and Samarth Kanal to discuss all the big talking points from the final race of the 2024 F1 season in Abu Dhabi, including McLaren defeating Ferrari to win its first constructors' title in 26 years.

They explain how Lando Norris was abl...

Send us your Abu Dhabi GP F1 podcast questions!

One last time in 2024, this is the place to drop your podcast questions from F1's season finale weekend in Abu Dhabi.

As usual, Edd and the team will tackle a bunch in our post-race show, and we'll get to some more of them later on, as we always try to.

Thank you so much to everyone...

And Colossally That's History S2 E10: Bernie Ecclestone's three decades as F1’s most powerful man (Part 2)

Matt and Richard round off season 2 of the pod with the second half of our mini-series on Bernie Ecclestone, the man who, as F1's long-term commercial rights holder, did more than anyone else to turn the sport into the global spectacle it is today.

Having charted his rise to power in part 1...

🏎 F1 EXTRA: Reflecting on the red-hot Russell vs Verstappen row 🔥

Join Edd Straw and Scott Mitchell-Malm in Abu Dhabi as they drive back to their hotel from the circuit, reflecting on an extraordinary media day in which the war of words between George Russell and Max Verstappen escalated dramatically.

Find out who said what, why the row has got so heated,...

Ad-free MotoGP pod: What KTM crisis means for its race programme

How can KTM's MotoGP programme continue when its parent company is in a financial crisis headlined by €3billion of debts?

Special guest Markus Zoerweg from Motorsport-Magazin.com joins Simon Patterson, Val Khoroun...

Ad-free F1 pod: Has Hamilton really lost his edge? Your questions answered

As Lewis Hamilton heads into his valedictory grand prix weekend with Mercedes, was answer your questions on his recent struggles in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast. 

Scott Mitchell-Malm and Samarth Kanal join host Edd Straw to dissect Hamilton's recent comments, and what the ...

⭐️ Bring Back V10s 1997 revisited: European GP at Jerez

Our look back at the 1997 season concludes with that year's epic finale, where title rivals Jacques Villeneuve and Michael Schumacher collided, and Mika Hakkinen came through to take the first race win of his F1 career on a day where Williams and his McLaren team came to an agreement over who sho...

Ad-free Formula E pod: Season 11 preview

A big fat 2024/25 ABB FIA Formula E season preview from The Race’s Formula E team sees a team-by-team prospect guide dug in to as anticipation for what could be the closest ever campaign reaches a crescendo.

Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt are joined by one of the pre-season favourites ...

Ad-free Tech Show: Inside the surprisingly interesting world of F1 fuel tanks

On this episode we’re lifting the lid (or should that be peaking under the fuel cap?) of F1 fuel tanks - an area of the car some might assume is fairly basic and uninteresting, but (like everything else in F1) is actually incredibly complex and has a huge impact on performance.

Joining us...

Answering your Qatar GP F1 driver rankings questions!

Ben Anderson fills Edd Straw's shoes to answer your questions about his F1 driver rankings from the Qatar GP weekend.

Thanks so much to everyone who is getting involved in this new feature. We're having a lot of fun putting it together and doing something different and exclusive for you he...

Ask a question about our Qatar GP F1 driver rankings!

We've got Ben Anderson filling in for Edd Straw on F1 driver rankings duty for the Qatar GP weekend, but we still want to hear your comments, observations and questions about the final order.

So just like Edd has in recent weeks, Ben will be diving into the comments on this post to record ...

EARLY ACCESS: Discussing the latest controversies around the FIA

After another weekend of tension in the F1 paddock, Ben Anderson, Scott Mitchell-Malm and Edd Straw discuss everything that is going on around the FIA, as motorsport's governing body keeps coming under fire.

This 'podcast' is a conversation that will be published later on our YouTube channe...

Ad-free F1 pod: Qatar GP review

Edd Straw is joined by Mark Hughes, Scott Mitchell-Malm and Samarth Kanal to dissect the Qatar Grand Prix, in which Max Verstappen's comfortable win was overshadowed by some controversial decisions from both the race director and the stewards.

They discuss all the big talking points, plus...

Send us your Qatar GP F1 podcast questions!

Hey everyone - Drop your questions below for Edd and the team to tackle after the race in Qatar.

As usual we'll get through as many as we can in the post-race show, and hopefully we'll get stuck into more of them mid-week before the season finale.

And Colossally That's History S2 E9: Bernie Ecclestone - His rise from used car salesman to F1 supremo (Part 1)

We're rounding off season 2 of And Colossally That's History with a two-part mini-series on none other than Bernie Ecclestone, who, as Formula 1’s commercial rights holder, was F1’s most powerful individual for nearly 40 years. 

Matt and Richard discuss his humble origins, how he b...

🚨 Special announcement: The Race F1 Podcast LIVE - Grab your tickets today! 🚨

We have a very important announcement that we wanted you, The Race Members’ Club, to hear first.

We're delighted to say that The Race F1 Podcast is going to be doing not one but TWO very special LIVE SHOWS in January 2025, ...

⭐️ Bring Back V10s 1997 revisited: Japanese GP

The 1997 Japanese Grand Prix weekend often gets overlooked because of what followed it at the Jerez title decider. But Suzuka set the scene for that famous finale with plenty of drama of its own.

Here on 1997 Revisited we look back at how the penultimate round of the season shaped what was...

Ad-free MotoGP pod: We debate the top 10 riders of 2024

Ranking the top 10 riders of the wild 2024 MotoGP season was not easy - and there's plenty of disagreement about it on The Race MotoGP Podcast.

It's a case of 'vibes' (Valentin Khorounzhiy and Matt Beer) vs 'reason' (Simon Patterson and Megan White) in our debate, with interjections from th...

🏎 F1 EXTRA: Should Tsunoda get the second Red Bull seat for 2025? Your questions answered!

Join Edd Straw and Glenn Freeman as they tackle another load of the questions sent in after the Las Vegas GP.

Would Max Verstappen still have won the 2024 title if he was driving a McLaren all season? Should Yuki Tsunoda be given the nod as Verstappen's Red Bull team-mate in 2025?

An...

Ad-free Formula E pod: Everything you need to know from pre-season testing

Just how did Formula E pivot from Valencia to Jarama to ensure its pre-season test happened at all? This and many other topics from this month’s test week are examined by Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt.

They are joined by Formula E digital reporter Alexa Rendell as news strands such as...

Edd answers your F1 driver rankings questions from Las Vegas

For the second time, Edd Straw has taken your questions about his F1 weekend driver rankings. Thanks to everyone who sent a question in about the Las Vegas GP order.

We'll keep doing these now as it's great to hear your takes on Edd's rankings, and to see if you can change his mind on anyt...

Ad-free F1 pod: What you need to know about Cadillac's F1 entry

Edd Straw is joined by Scott Mitchell-Malm to discuss the news that Formula 1 has reached an agreement in principle with General Motors to add a GM/Cadillac team to the F1 grid in 2026. But curiously within F1's announcement, there was no mention of Andretti, the entity that started this team's b...