The Pad-Hoc

After the spicy reactions from George Russell and Valtteri Bottas at Imola, Lawrence was in the TV pen stirring the pot, while Chris remembers a smug Jos Verstappen before his son got promoted to Red Bull and Nate explains how he almost stopped Max shaking hands with Esteban Ocon in Brazil. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Racing is finally back, so Lawrence gets to talk about being trackside in a deckchair drinking beer, Nate remembers the wrong season-opener from 2010 and Chris tries to slow down the Yuki Tsunoda hype train, but they're all on it really. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What else could we talk about this week? Murray Walker was an absolute legend in the world of Formula 1 and beyond. So Lawrence, Chris and Nate share their memories and stories of times they met Murray and the impact he had, after he passed away at the weekend at the age of 97. Thanks for being our soundtrack to F1, Murray. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Someone rated us two stars, and this episode doesn't go any way towards rectifying that. Nate turns into Lawrence Stroll, Chris wants you to feel sorry for him because a hypothetical chance to drive some sports cars was missed, and Lawrence says his favourite car launch was the only one that wasn't a car launch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After the McLaren launch, Lawrence remembers the time an F1 team's unveiling meant he got too hot in a greenhouse, Nate got scarred by a massive beard when seeing a new livery, and Chris laughed at Franz Tost. With money no object, there are also some pretty impressive launch plans put in place if we had our own teams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One of those three is actually happening, but the other two we'd love to see. Grosjean's move to IndyCar gets everyone thinking what we'd like to see other F1 drivers have a go in, and there's also stories of Juan Pablo Montoya sitting on a plastic table in Texas and Esteban Ocon being a gatecrasher. Plus, Nate definitely says 'Bat-hurst'. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com...

Lawrence reminisces about his planned F1 team with a very dodgy name, Nate recalls the time he pretty much missed everything at Indy, and Chris goes through all your driver line-up choices. Plus there is some original, free marketing advice for Nick Cassidy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nate tries to reinvent the podcast with some music chat but fails, so eventually there's talk about Lewis Hamilton's knighthood, when and where the F1 season will start and who on the current grid would make for a good driver pundit after they stop driving. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nate has an inappropriate joke, Chris sort of sings a Christmas song sent in from a listener, and Lawrence actually gets this back on track with F1-related stories and content. The final episode of 2020 even goes as far as throwing in some bold predictions for 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It happened, so Lawrence gets used to life without any hair on his head, and Nate and Chris both admit things could have been much worse. There's a bit of reminiscing about life in F1 in 2020, plans for a Christmas special and confirmation of an extra bit of pain for all three thanks to the awesome generosity from everyone raising £5,000. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/...

That's right, it's Abu Dhabi weekend and Lawrence only has two mornings left waking up with hair on his head. Nate explains why he likes to play the role of 'stupid man' rather than 'bad cop', and Chris reveals a shocker of a haircut he once had. There's an F1 prediction in there too, if you can find it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We really wanted to call this episode 'The Paddock Haddock', you’ll soon know why. Basically some incredible things come out of Nate’s mouth, and Chris reminds him of them. But he has to suck up his own massive error that confused the Verstappens this weekend, and Lawrence slowly loses it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's happening, Lawrence is officially going bald and Nate and Chris are losing their beards too. But what's really getting Nate angry involves the World Drivers' Championship trophy, so we fix that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We’re not sure how we ended up here, but Lawrence spontaneously (honestly) agrees to a pretty remarkable challenge for Prostate Cancer UK, and then Chris and Nate both get involved in the fundraising too. It somehow all starts with an incredible nickname given to Nate by a Spanish Twitter user. We should really plan these episodes to avoid this sort of thing in future… (Fundraising link to the rig...

Nate's part-Italian, so it's fine. Lawrence finally picks an F1 intro song, this time Chris attempts to sing, there's a live new shoe unboxing, and we milk Ricciardo's recent appearance a little bit more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chris makes Daniel Ricciardo an unwitting Lawrence Barretto superfan, Nate sings and Lawrence can't think of a decent song to use as an F1 theme tune. There's a lot of cat chat for some reason, too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chris and Nate bring you a stunning discovery that makes everything about 2020 so much better, while Lawrence has another shunt. There's actually some real Imola stories in there too, and a public service announcement for the ages after the drama of the previous episode  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chris remembers the time he had to put his trust in an angry Max Verstappen, Lawrence remembers the time he made Ronnie O'Sullivan angry, and Nate sneezes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a pretty outrageous revelation, Lawrence creates the most manufactured shoey opportunity ever for Daniel Ricciardo, Nate is unhappy at the results of the buddy cop movies poll, and Chris says a few things he really wishes he hadn't. But he does make an F1-related joke, so that's something. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nate takes over the podcast this week as he wants to know who Lawrence and Chris would choose as their partners to fight crime from the current F1 grid. And, well, they all get a bit carried away with some of the ideas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nate finds a new favourite sport that he's never seen, Lawrence tries desperately to explain his outrageous footwear in Russia, and Chris risks the wrath of residents of both Colchester and Sochi (and gets interrupted by his intercom AGAIN). Plus there's the time Elvis met Elvis at a Rugby World Cup game ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/a...

Nate explains a joke, Chris makes a joke and Lawrence is a joke. But that's not all. After coming up with the concept for a future award-winning documentary series, all three recall their first races going to cover F1, cool moments they wish they had a personal photographer and discover Nate once thought his big break was having a tweet published by Lawrence on the BBC live text page. Learn more a...

You'd think the recent run of F1 races would make life really tough for those on the road, but instead Lawrence lets slip that the F1 TV crew spent most of their time coming up with stupid nicknames and identifying the world's best crisp. Nate reveals what ESPN really stands for, and Chris is also there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Spa to Monza is usually a chance for a road trip, but it took a little while to get on topic... Chris recalls some interesting background television while recording a different podcast a few years ago, Nate reveals his Italian nan can't make a good F1 engine and Lawrence just totally loses the plot. But there is an insider scoop about a potential controversy brewing regarding Cyril Abiteboul's tat...

It turns out Spa-Francorchamps has been the scene of LOTS of hangovers, with Claire Williams usually the catalyst. But people in F1 have been hungover in other places too, including Russia, where a Renault press officer was late to work ahead of a race for the only time in ten years because they didn't heed Alexander Rossi's words of wisdom... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices...