Cut To The Race: FormulaNerds F1 Podcast

On this week’s Cut to the Race, Abby takes her turn in the host seat and is joined by Hannah to discuss the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix. The panel begin by touching on the touching tributes to Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger 30 years on from their passing's. Abby and Hannah then dissect the three free practice sessions, which proved to be action-packed with three red flags. They discuss Alex Al...

On this week’s Cut to the Race, James is in the host’s seat and is joined by Abby and Hannah to discuss all things Miami. The Miami Grand Prix weekend was a great weekend that saw lots of on-track across both F1 and F1 Academy. The panel begin by diving into Free Practice 1, which saw a red flag, and then Sprint Qualifying, touching on some surprise SQ3 appearances. The trio move on to the Sprint,...

On this week’s Cut to the Race, Oli is joined by Abby, James and new panellist, Hannah, to review F1’s return to the Shanghai International Circuit for the Chinese Grand Prix. The panel begin with their weekend ratings and share their views on the new Sprint format, before delving into the weekend action. With one free practice session, the panel quickly discuss what happened including a bizarre f...

On this week’s Cut to the Race, it’s a full panel with Oli, Abby, Sam and James. The panel review the Japanese Grand Prix but first, they share an important announcement. Afterwards, the quartet share their weekend ratings before diving into the free practice and qualifying action. They talk about Logan Sargeant’s crash in FP1 and the repercussions for Williams as well as the lack of running and D...

On this week’s Cut to the Race, Oli, Abby and Sam dive in to what happened over the Australian Grand Prix weekend. To begin, the trio give updates on key bits of news, including the outcome of the investigation into Mohammed Ben Sulayem and Susie Wolff’s criminal complaint against the FIA. They then dissect the weekend action starting with free practice. FP1 saw Alex Albon crash out and it resulte...

On this week's Cut to the Race podcast, Oli, Abby and Sam are back to review the second round of the 2024 Formula 1 season. To begin, the panel touch on some key news from the ongoing Red Bull situation but also a driver change that happened over the weekend for Ferrari due to Carlos Sainz falling ill and the result of F1 Academy's Race 2. The trio discuss the events of practice and qualifying aft...

On this week's Cut to the Race, Oli hosts the first race review episode of the season and is joined by Abby and Sam to discuss all the things that happened over the Bahrain Grand Prix weekend, including a Bahrain-special quiz. Whilst the focus is on racing, there was a lot of drama over the weekend, and since, off-track. First up is the ongoing situation regarding Christian Horner. The panel give...

Join Oli, Sam, James and Abby as we gear up for the 2024 Formula One season! This episode dives into all the hottest topics: News Recap: We break down the latest headlines, including Lewis Hamilton's move to Ferrari, Gunther Steiner's departure from Haas, and the ongoing investigation into Christian Horner. Livery Showdown: From sleek to questionable, we discuss the best and worst liveries this se...

On this episode of Cut to the Race, Sam presents the FormulaNerds Awards 2023 and is joined by Abby and James to debate who the winners should be.  The trio are together for the awards ceremony where they give out accolades from the 2023 season. These include Driver of the Season, Livery of the Season, Moment of the Season and Mistake of the Season. Sam talks Abby and James through the 15 awards,...

On this week’s Cut to the Race podcast, Oli, Abby and Sam return for part two of the 2023 season review and another quiz. The panel start off with discussing the incredible performance of Aston Martin this year but also the downfalls that the team suffered as well. They also touch on Lance Stroll and whether or not he’s performed enough to keep his seat. Next up is McLaren. The trio dissect McLare...

On this week's Cut to the Race podcast, Oli is joined by Abby and Sam to review the 2023 season of the bottom five teams in the Constructors' Championship. James makes a brief appearance as well just in time for a quiz on the first half of the season. When reviewing the season, the panel begin with Haas and what 2023 revealed about the American team. They talk about the difference between the driv...

On this week's Cut to the Race podcast, Oli, Abby and Sam get together to talk about the final race of the 2023 season in Abu Dhabi as well as an Abu Dhabi Quiz. The panel begin with discussing what happened in free practice including the 10 rookies in FP1 that saw Felipe Drugovich to second fastest. They then move on to the red-flagged FP2 before touching on FP3. Next up is qualifying, which the...

On this week's Cut to the Race, Oli hosts a mid-week show with Abby and James to discuss the key things to look out for in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - the 2023 season finale. Whilst Red Bull have secured the Constructors' Championship, there are still positions to play for. Mercedes and Ferrari have in a close battle with only four points between them. The panel debate which team will come out on t...

On this week’s Cut to the Race, Oli, Abby, Sam and James talk about the weekend action that was the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix. The panel begin with the drama that was free practice and the controversy surrounding Carlos Sainz’s penalty as a result. They discuss what happened before talking about the lawsuit and the delayed FP2 before briefly touching on FP3. The quartet then do a Vegas Specia...

On this episode of the Cut to the Race Podcast, James hosts the episode and is joined by Abby and Sam to chat all things Las Vegas. The Las Vegas Grand Prix is next week so it was only right for the panel to discuss the on-track developments and the off-track opinions. They begin by giving their general opinions before rating the track compared to animals, whilst debating how intriguing the weeken...

On this week’s Cut to the Race podcast, James takes the host seat and is joined by Abby and Sam as they dissect the action from the São Paulo Grand Prix weekend as well as doing another quiz. The panel start with their race ratings before diving into FP1 and Friday’s qualifying session, which saw a stormy early end to the session due to the weather, prompting some surprise results. They then move...

On this week’s Cut to the Race, Oli hosts the race review episode of the Mexico City Grand Prix as well as another FormulaNerds Quiz. The panel are back to review the México City Grand Prix that threw up a few surprises over the weekend. They talk about the practice sessions, which saw Alex Albon excel as well as five junior drivers take part in FP1. The quartet discuss qualifying, which saw Lando...

On this episode of the Cut to the Race Podcast, James hosts a debate with Abby and Sam as they try to solve the issue of sprint races. The trio begin by listing the aspects of the current format of a sprint weekend including the extra fight for points among the drivers. However, they soon move on to discussing the issues with sprints. The panel touch on the Sprint Saturday format being in the midd...

On this week's Cut to the Race podcast, Oli hosts the race review of the United States Grand Prix where he's joined by Abby, James and Sam to dissect the weekend action and do a sprint version of the FormulaNerds' Quiz. The panel begin by rating the weekend, which sees a big divide on the panel, before discussing Friday's action, which saw the grid set for the Grand Prix in Qualifying. With a diff...

This week the trio of James, Sam and Abby discuss all things Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri. With the spec’d-up MCL60, the McLaren duo are quickly developing into the envy of the F1 paddock. Norris has been consistently one of the standouts on the grid for a while now, and Piastri is going from strength to strength in his rookie season. With the latter taking his first race victory – grand prix wi...

On this week's Cut to the Race podcast, Oli hosts the Qatar Grand Prix race review and is joined by Abby and Sam to delve into the weekend action as well as doing a Max Verstappen special of the FormulaNerds quiz. The Qatar Grand Prix weekend saw a lot of drama on and off the track with it being a challenging Grand Prix and the fourth Sprint weekend of the season. With lots of sessions to dissect,...

On this week’s Cut to the Race podcast, James hosts the show and is joined by Abby and Sam as they discuss all the news regarding Andretti. The FIA announced this week that Andretti were the only bid approved to join the grid in 2026. Now the American team’s application is going to F1 and FOM. The panel discuss Andretti’s approval by the FIA, and what it could mean to have them on the grid in futu...

In this episode of the Cut To The Race Podcast, Oli, Abby, James and Sam discuss the World Destructors Championship, a tongue-in-cheek award given to the Formula 1 driver with the most crash damage costs at the end of the season. We cover the drivers with the most crash damage costs in 2023, compare them to previous years, and discuss the drivers with the least crash damage. We also discuss the co...

On this week’s Cut to the Race, Oli, Abby and James review Round 17 of the 2023 season, the Japanese Grand Prix. With very early sessions for UK viewers, the panel talk through the key takeaways from free practice, which saw a red flag brought out as the Alpine of Pierre Gasly ended up in the barrier. The trio also discuss Qualifying where Max Verstappen was back on form following Singapore and th...

On this episode of the Cut to the Race Podcast, Oli is joined by Abby and James to discuss all things AlphaTauri. This coming weekend is the Japanese Grand Prix, Yuki Tsunoda's home race, but will he be remaining at AlphaTauri - that is the question. The panel discuss the history of AlphaTauri and all the rumours surrounding Red Bull's sister team. With a name change set to take place for 2024, th...