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Everything's weirder in Texas. That's how the phrase goes, right? Dre and Cam return to make sense of IndyCar's big new showpiece round, the Grand Prix of Arlington. And with it, Andretti taking a dominant 1-3-4 despite making five errors out of their eight pitstops across the race. But a perfectly executed gameplan on track came together to demote Alex Palou to a devastating... second place. Kyle...

The small Italian child did the damn thing! An amazing result for Kimi Antonelli who was just one lap shy of a Grand Slam in Shanghai as he dominated the Chinese Grand Prix to become F1's just second teenage winner.  He did by taking advantage of small errors from teammate George Russell and another dogfight with the plucky Ferrari's. Dre and Cam Buckley review all the action, as well as the midfi...

Sorry it's taken a bit longer than billed, but here's a big IndyCar catchup Podcast before our Arlington episode drops this weekend as the season finally takes a proper chill week! Dre and RJ wrap-up a very straightforward beat em' up weekend for Alex Palou in St Petersberg as Marcus Ericsson and Scott McLaughlin could only try to keep up, but spend the majority of the time catching up on all thin...

After all the talk, all the hype and all the debate, the 2026 F1 Season finally got underway at the Australian Grand Prix in Albert Park, and it was a hectic event to say the least. Adrian Newey said his car was unsafe for purpose before we even turned a wheel! Mercedes were every bit the bookies favourite many thought they were, taking complete control of the weekend with a 1-2 finish. But we did...

And finally, just in the nick of time, here's our F1 Season Preview! Dre, Cam and RJ break down everything you need to know about the 2026 season, from the brand new car, the complicated new mechanics behind them, and then go team-by-team breaking down the state of the field! Aston Martin gets moved to the top of the order as we examine their pre-season from hell, and an AMR26 that feels unfinishe...

The first regular episode of the Motorsport101 Podcast in quite sometime as our main series kick off to start 2026, and here comes MotoGP's Season Opener from Buriram for the Thai Grand Prix. And for Marco Bezzecchi, he started 2026 how he ended 2025, with victory! Aprilia's greatest day in MotoGP, with all, four of their bikes in the Top 5, taking advantage of Michelin's stiffer casing on their t...

Man, we flew in terms of pace on this one. 20 minutes on the big track news and we still got it done in less than 100. Go us! Dre Harrison, Cam Buckley and RJ O'Connell sit down to preview the 2026 MotoGP Season, and it's off the back of some heated circuit news - Phillip Island, the holy grail of MotoGP races in Australia, is moving to the Adelaide Street Circuit in 2027, on a six-year deal. Ther...

It's Season Preview Season for 2026! And this week it's IndyCar's turn to go under the microscope as Dre, RJ and Cam breakdown all you need to know heading into the opening race on March 1st in St Petersberg. The team breakdown all the news of series changes, including Honda and Chevrolet now becoming charter owners within IndyCar and where they could place a potential factory entry into the serie...

Sorry this one took a little longer one to get out, as you're about to hear, it's a busy week for your man Dre, trust him on this one. This is an extended episode of Motorsport101, given the circumstances of timings, we decided to merge a massive Silly Season explosion of stories in MotoGP, IndyCar's controversial latest addition to the calendar and the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, into one episode!...

It's that time again! For the last few years, we've covered the IMSA Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona and this year is no exception! Along with Dre, is RJ O'Connell covering IMSA this season for Racer.com and DailySportsCar.com , and Cameron Buckley, who's sportscar knowledge is the reason he still hasn't paid rent yet! All four of the classes are covered, including former Williams F1 driver Logan Sargea...

Forgive us for taking a little longer this year, both Dre and Cameron have been sick in recent weeks, but here is our bit first special of the year, looking back on the best, worst and everything inbetween in the 2025 M101 Awards, the 10th time we've done it! We've got the best overtake as Kamui Kobayashi makes a brilliant appearance against the best of Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc, who was...

And in our final Podcast before Christmas, Dre, RJ and Cam sit down for a nearly 3 hour long roundtable on the 2025 Formula 1 Season. The gang go team-by-team to breakdown their strengths, weaknesses, and what to expect heading into a radical 2026 regulation change. From Alpine and a miserable surrender half way through the season, to Kick Sauber's great comeback under the helm of Jonathan Wheatle...

Return of the Marc, watch my flow, you know that I'll be back (Here I go...) Welcome to a bumper edition of the M101 Podcast as Dre, RJ and Cam review the 2025 MotoGP Season, with all the factories and their status spoken about as we enter a critical off-season! For Yamaha, is the switch to the V4 from their in-line history going to be enough for them to persuade Fabio Quartararto to sacrifice ano...

The record shows, he took the blows, and Lando did it his way. He is your 2025 Formula 1 World Champion, doing just enough to survive the final assault from Max Verstappen, who did everything he could to win the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Dre Harrison and RJ O'Connell reflect on what was actually a rather milquetoast decider, where everything the formbook suggested, just happened. McLaren played it sup...

No really McLaren, just wrap this shit up already. Honestly... ...Dre, Cam and RJ are back to review the penultimate race on the F1 2025 calendar at the Lusail International Circuit as Max Verstappen laid down one more victory to bring his Championship deficit to 12, and questions asked in the McLaren strategy department yet again. With the race a mandated two-stopper and 25 lap stint maximums wer...

Remember folks, what Verstappens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.  Dre, Cam and RJ are back to review yet another mad twist in the Championship race. Max Verstappen overcome a wet qualifying session and a spooked Norris off the line to take a dominant win in Nevada, but with the added bonus of both McLaren's being disqualified after the race for excessive skid block wear. It turns out lifting and coastin...

One last ride to close out the 2025 MotoGP Season as Marco Bezzecchi takes to the front and dominates the final round of the Championship in Valencia, and seal third overall in the standings. With it he also seals Aprilia's best ever season in MotoGP, with 4 wins across the brand, the first to win two in a row, and their first 1-2 finish since Catalunya 2023. Is the most serious warning shot yet t...

And to complete the pre-race festivities, it's Miguel Oliveira, and a boat. It was a weird MotoGP weekend in Portugal in the sport's first ever 21st round. We had one of the greatest Sprints ever with Pedro Acosta and Alex Marquez in combat for the win in what was a classic... followed by a completely boring GP where Marco Bezzecchi tinkered with the bike overnight and then dominated the oppositio...

Oh boy. Lando Norris is on a rampage. Six races ago, it looked like it was Piastri's to lose. Now there's a bigger chance that Lando Norris wraps the Championship up earlier.  How did we get here? A perfect 33-point double victory weekend for Norris, who dominated Brazil, leading every single meaningful session in the process, with Piastri spinning in to the outside wall during the Sprint, and the...

It's been 11 years of Motorsport101 in your listening world, and to celebrate the occasion in a free week of F1 and MotoGP, Dre Harrison and RJ O'Connell sit down to rewatch a iconic race of the turbo-hybrid era - F1's 2015 Malaysian Grand Prix from Sepang International Circuit. It was iconic for many reasons. Sebastian Vettel won for Ferrari in just his second ever start in red, after spending al...

Wish this was a brighter and perkier episode of Motorsport101, but sometimes we get no choice in the matter. This episode is dominated by the horrific accident between Noah Dettwiler and Jose Antonio Rueda during the Moto3 sighting lap last week. Dettwiler's bike had a technical problem and was slow on the outside of the track, Rueda didn't know that and ploughed into the back of him at near full...

What a time for Lando Norris to break out arguably his greatest weekend in his F1 career. Not once across the three days, even giving up a practice session for Pato O'Ward deterred Norris from dominating the weekend, taking pole by four tenths of a second, before leading every single lap enroute to a 30-second victory, the biggest win of the 2025 season so far. Across the garage though, Oscar Pias...

After four years, the greatest Moto2 Rookie Season of all-time, three different times, and two different brands, Raul Fernandez finally reached the mountain top and took his first Premier Class victory in MotoGP, and in dominant fashion. Because 2025 hasn't finished being weird yet.  Dre, RJ and Cam talk about what led Fernandez down the road of making him a MotoGP race winner, ponder whether Apri...

Uh-oh... why do I hear Jaws music playing in the background? Just when McLaren badly needed a normal weekend just to restore some feeling, they wipe each other out in the Sprint, go slow in Qualifying, and then have a mediocre race so that Max Verstappen is now within 40 points of the title, an unthinkable prospect given he was 104 behind in Zandvoort barely two months ago. What the hell?! Dre, Ca...

First of all, sincere apologies, this took about two weeks longer than we would have liked, a combination of commitments from our man RJ, me coming down with a cold, and Cam coming down with COVID meant this got pushed back a little bit. Won't happen again, I promise, and sorry for the wait - Dre It's time to review one of the greatest seasons of IndyCar ever... if you're Alex Palou that is! It's...