Michael Schumacher was at his sublime best on the soggy streets of Monte Carlo, while Williams dropped the ball in spectacular fashion with a disastrous strategy call before the race even started. It was also a day for the underdogs, with Rubens Barrichello claiming Stewart's first podium finish, an...
2024-06-05 00:57:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Scott Mitchell-Malm and Josh Suttill join Edd Straw to discuss Alex Albon signing a new long-term deal with Williams. They explain why Albon has re-signed with the team, including why he didn't have many realistic options elsewhere, and what the deal means for Williams.After that, Edd and the team l...
2024-06-05 00:57:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Things finally came good for Heinz-Harald Frentzen at the 1997 San Marino Grand Prix, where his troubled start for Williams appeared to clear with a maiden victory narrowly ahead of Michael Schumacher's Ferrari. In round four of our 1997 Revisited series, we look back at how Frentzen came out on top...
2024-06-05 00:57:48 +0000 UTC View Post
After a weekend of trawling the paddock in Miami, Mark Hughes joins Edd Straw and Glenn Freeman to discuss the latest on Red Bull's soon-to-be-departing tech supremo, Adrian Newey. Included within that discussion are a host of questions from The Race Members' Club, including one on whether Newey cou...
2024-06-05 00:57:45 +0000 UTC View Post
On this exclusive members' podcast, The Race's Sam Smith is joined by Le Mans winner and former F1 driver Allan McNish to discuss what made Ayrton Senna so special. McNish is in a better position than most to comment on the topic, having worked extremely closely with Senna during his three-year spel...
2024-06-05 00:57:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Edd Straw is joined, from Miami, by Scott Mitchell-Malm and Mark Hughes to dissect how McLaren and Lando Norris were able to turn the tables on Red Bull and Max Verstappen to take a memorable first victory together.
Originally published on 06 May 2024
In round three of our look back at the 1997 F1 season, we recall Jacques Villeneuve's narrow victory over Eddie Irvine, plus Michael Schumacher making a mess of the start, a big 'what if' for Olivier Panis and Prost, and an even bigger 'what if' for Jordan after their drivers collided while in with ...
2024-06-05 00:57:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Edd Straw is joined by Glenn Freeman and Mark Hughes (with a cameo from Scott Mitchell-Malm) to tackle more of your questions, including a hypothetical about F1 drivers sharing cars, a proposed format tweak for sprint weekends, what rule F1 could implement from NASCAR, and more!
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It's official: Adrian Newey is leaving Red Bull Racing. Newey, the team's chief technical officer, will step back from F1 design duties this year and instead focus on Red Bull's RB17 hypercar project before leaving Red Bull altogether in early 2025. But why is Newey leaving? Will he end up joining a...
2024-06-05 00:57:31 +0000 UTC View PostAhead of the Miami Grand Prix, Edd Straw and Scott Mitchell-Malm are joined by special guest Guenther Steiner - now an ambassador for the event. They look ahead to this year's race, as well as discussing a number of other topics, including how Steiner feels watching Haas' impressive start to 2024 fr...
2024-06-05 00:57:26 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been a busy couple of days in the world of F1 news, and Mark Hughes and Ben Anderson join Edd Straw to unpack it all. First, they discuss Friday's big news: Nico Hulkenberg becoming the first Audi F1 driver signing. Is this a shrewd move on Audi's part, or an uninspired choice? And what might t...
2024-06-05 00:57:20 +0000 UTC View PostEdd Straw is joined by Mark Hughes and Glenn Freeman to host a selection of questions from The Race Members' Club, including ones on whether Max Verstappen is undervalued by fans, why Oscar Piastri has underwhelmed so far this season, and whether Aston Martin would ever drop Lance Stroll...
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Edd Straw (in Shanghai) is joined by Mark Hughes and Scott Mitchell-Malm to discuss the Chinese Grand Prix, which was won by Max Verstappen. They discuss why Red Bull's advantage was so big, how McLaren's Lando Norris was able to emerge as best of the rest, where Ferrari's pace disappeared to, and w...
2024-06-05 00:57:09 +0000 UTC View Post
For our next instalment of Bring Back V10s members' questions, Glenn Freeman is joined by Ben Anderson and Matt Beer. Subjects tackled this time include Juan Pablo Montoya racing for Williams in 1999 instead of Alex Zanardi, how Michael Schumacher's 1995 season would have gone with Ford power instea...
2024-06-05 00:57:03 +0000 UTC View PostMark Hughes and Scott Mitchell-Malm join Edd Straw to discuss F1's long-awaited return to China, with the Shanghai International Circuit set to play host to a first Grand Prix since 2019. They discuss what fans should expect from the circuit and the event, which includes the first sprint race of the...
2024-06-05 00:57:00 +0000 UTC View PostEdd Straw is joined by Scott Mitchell-Malm and Josh Suttill to tackle the remaining questions from Race Members that were sent in after the Japanese Grand Prix (and were less time sensitive!). There are questions on the merits of F1 adopting a different start or grid system, and one on Kimi Antonell...
2024-06-05 00:56:55 +0000 UTC View PostEdd Straw is joined by Ben Anderson and special guest Lawrence Barretto, correspondent and presenter for F1.com and Channel 4 F1, to discuss the news that Fernando Alonso has re-committed his future to Aston Martin, with the Spaniard signing a multi-year deal. Our trio discuss why both parties were ...
2024-06-05 00:56:51 +0000 UTC View Post
We're back with the second episode in our special members-only series looking back at the 1997 F1 season one race at a time! Glenn Freeman is once again joined by Edd Straw, Matt Beer and Ben Anderson to discuss the key moments from Round 2 in Brazil, where Jacques Villeneuve won after a very lucky ...
2024-06-05 00:56:48 +0000 UTC View PostEdd Straw is joined by Scott Mitchell-Malm and Josh Suttill to tackle a range of topics posed by listeners, including whether Verstappen's dominance means that he'll be rusty in wheel-to-wheel situations in the future. There are also questions on Hamilton's motivation level, Lance Stroll's future, a...
2024-06-05 00:56:46 +0000 UTC View PostEdd Straw is joined, from Suzuka, by Mark Hughes and Scott Mitchell-Malm to look back on the Japanese Grand Prix. It proved another dominant victory for Red Bull's Max Verstappen, but behind him and team-mate Sergio Perez an extremely intriguing strategic battle played out, resulting in some fantast...
2024-06-05 00:56:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the first episode of our special members-only series looking back at the 1997 F1 season one race at a time! Glenn Freeman is joined by Edd Straw, Matt Beer and Ben Anderson to discuss the key moments from the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, where David Coulthard ended McLaren's mid-...
2024-06-05 00:56:35 +0000 UTC View PostHost Edd Straw is joined by Glenn Freeman and Josh Suttill to look ahead to this weekend's Japanese Grand Prix, and in particular why bringing the race forward on the calendar has made Suzuka an even better barometer of team progress and development direction. They also discuss the shock departure o...
2024-06-05 00:56:32 +0000 UTC View PostMercedes' courtship of Max Verstappen stepped up a notch recently, with Toto Wolff making more admiring comments about him, but could that move really be on for the future, or is the Silver Arrows chief just trying to stir the pot and inflict more uncertainty on an already fractious Red Bull squad? ...
2024-06-05 00:56:27 +0000 UTC View PostWe got SO many questions through from Race members after the Australian Grand Prix that we've needed another members-only bonus episode to get through them all! Join Edd Straw, Scott Mitchell-Malm and Glenn Freeman as they tackle questions on everything from Haas' development to changing the ATR res...
2024-06-05 00:56:21 +0000 UTC View Post
In a members-exclusive follow-up to our Alex Zanardi 1999 episode from series 9, Glenn Freeman and Matt Beer revisit the chapter of Zanardi's 2004 book, My Story, that focused on his doomed F1 season with Williams. While you heard snippets from that book in the full episode, here we read throug...
2024-06-05 00:56:16 +0000 UTC View PostAfter his sensational victory in Australia, Edd Straw, Glenn Freeman and Scott Mitchell-Malm convene to discuss Carlos Sainz, and in particular why the Spaniard is still underrated by some, and how much Ferrari might come to rue their decision to split with him for 2025 (even with Lewis Hamilton inc...
2024-06-05 00:56:07 +0000 UTC View PostMark Hughes and Samarth Kanal join Edd Straw to unpack an incident-packed, storyline heavy Australian Grand Prix, which saw Max Verstappen suffer a surprise DNF, Fernando Alonso get penalised, and Carlos Sainz return from illness to deliver a first win of the season for Ferrari.
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On this episode of F1 Book Club, exclusively for Race Members, we’re investigating the life of one of the most complex, well-known and imposing figures in the automobile world: Enzo Ferrari.
Edd Straw is joined by Luca Dal Monte, author of the impressive new tome Enzo Ferrari...
Another series of Bring Back V10s is over, but all that means is it’s time for us to get stuck in with lots of exclusive episodes for The Race Members’ Club! We’re kicking things off with the first of THREE members-only ask us anything shows, and for this one Glenn Freeman is joined by Mark Hu...
2024-06-05 00:55:53 +0000 UTC View PostEdd Straw is joined by Mark Hughes and Melbourne-based motorsport journalist and podcaster Michael Lamonato to look ahead to this weekend's Australian Grand Prix. They discuss how the event has gone from strength to strength in recent years and take a look at the contrasting fortunes of the nation's...
2024-06-05 00:55:48 +0000 UTC View Post