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Max Verstappen has not won a race in 2026. Ben thinks Sepang is where that changes. Tawana thinks Lewis wins it, and since he called Lewis for Barcelona and got it, nobody is laughing this time. Neither of them picks the championship leader, which tells you everything about how weird this season has become. The Bahrain Grand Prix is being held in Malaysia, the race starts at 9AM Warsaw time, and F...

Ben said George fumbles. George won. By 0.196 seconds, over Max, on the line, the closest finish in Formula 1 since 2002. Ben now owes a 6 km run and he said "I'm a runner, guys" on air, so there's no getting out of it. Baku gave us everything Madrid didn't: Kimi in the wall in Q1 and back to P5, Hadjar on the podium on his first weekend back from injury, Colapinto taking out Gasly and Norris on a...

Tawana picks Max Verstappen to fumble in Baku. Max is also her P2 for the race. She knows. "Thank god this doesn't count." It counts. After the Madrid protest, Baku is a proper race again: six kilometres, 51 laps, a 2.2 km straight that eats the battery, and a quali session that gave us six red flags last year. Kimi leads by 81, Hadjar is back in the Red Bull, Sepang is next, and Monaco is getting...

Four overtakes. Four. Tawana and Ben recorded this entire episode in sleep masks as a protest, because the first Madrid Grand Prix was the biggest snooze fest of the season, and yes, that includes Monaco. The autopsy: quali was brilliant (Lando on pole brushing the wall, Kimi P2), then the race gave us one good turn. Lewis takes his first DNF of the season with brake failure after a lap 1 squeeze...

Nobody has ever raced this track. Madrid is on the calendar, F3 managed 19 DNFs on it, and Tawana and Ben are predicting completely blind, so this week the rules change: each host must pick a podium trio they have never picked before. Lindblad P3 gets said out loud. So does Gasly. Before the chaos: the standings after Monza have Kimi on 267 and George sounding beaten ("the gap is just too big now"...

He started P19. He won the race. Tawana and Ben lose their minds over Kimi Antonelli's 25-overtake charge at Monza, the most overtakes ever recorded in a single Grand Prix, from a 19 year old leading the championship. Also in the wreckage: Gasly takes a shock pole by two tenths, Leclerc and Hamilton go wheel to wheel at turn 1 before Leclerc crashes out at Parabolica on lap 3 (2020 flashbacks, any...

Kimi Antonelli leads the championship and starts dead last at his home race. Welcome to Monza. Tawana and Ben size up the Temple of Speed: 11 races in 14 weeks left, two braking zones, battery games and super clipping, Ferrari debuting yet another engine at home, and the standings after Zandvoort (Kimi 242, George and Lewis tied on 183). There's a Monaco 22 flashback into Ferrari's broken telephon...

The last-ever Dutch Grand Prix went out with a BANG — and we have questions. Norris goes back-to-back at Zandvoort, lap 1 was pure carnage (smoke, spins, Max on the grass), and Mercedes pulled the mid-race swap that has us heated: Merc was right to ask… but should George have said no? We also get into Max signing to 2030, Ferrari's radio problem ("you have the data, dog"), Alonso appearing in P9 l...

F1 2026 Dutch Grand Prix predictions — and it's the last ever Dutch GP at Circuit Zandvoort. A sprint weekend, a 60% chance of rain, and Kimi Antonelli 50 points clear. Nobody has any data. We predicted it anyway. Tawana and Ben are back from the summer break for episode 29 of MaggottsBeckettsF1, and Zandvoort has handed them the hardest predictions weekend of the 2026 season: one hour of practice...

The 2026 mid-season driver tier list is here. Tawana and Ben rank all 22 F1 drivers from E tier to S+, judged on one thing: expectations vs. delivery. It gets spicy fast: a reigning title contender is handed a D, Max Verstappen sits winless on a C+, Fernando Alonso and Nico Hulkenberg get the retirement talk, and the Williams teammates are separated by a single point and a Hungary incident nobody...

Our f1 mid season review with receipts: in February we predicted George wins the championship and Williams finishes P5. The actual championship leader was not in our top five, and Williams is ninth with 11 points. So this is us grading every F1 team from S to E at the summer break, and the grades get personal — one team gets a straight E, the Ferrari debate nearly ends the show, and only one team...

Quick note- this one is different folkes. The Hungary bet ended 10-10 and we never made a tiebreaker rule — so this is a full f1 trivia special settled with the games we built ourselves: The Know-It-All (guess the F1 driver) and Paddock Feud (F1 family feud). The stakes: the loser makes Lance Stroll their phone wallpaper until summer break ends. Shown in every video. No mercy. What follows is the...

Your f1 news and paddock news debrief from the Hungarian GP: Norris steals pole by 0.012 seconds and wins in free air, Piastri's gearbox quits while he's leading, and the FIA hands out a penalty for 0.1 kph while backmarkers nearly decide the title fight. Proper f1 fan discussion this week: the blue flag anarchy nobody got punished for, Russell's anti-stall disaster, Verstappen's dive-bomb on Hami...

It's Hungary — Monaco without the walls — and the last race before the summer break. We call our quali and race podiums, drop our 5-point wildcards, and raise the stakes to war-crime levels: lose the bet and it's Lance Stroll phone wallpaper until the break ends, shown in every video. One of us also picks a race winner he openly does not believe in and has a live mental breakdown about it. Also in...

Kimi Antonelli just DOMINATED Spa. Pole, fastest lap, and a win by two clear seconds after hunting down Leclerc, and on the other side of the Mercedes garage everything is on fire. George Russell crashed out on lap 1 with zero battery coming out of Eau Rouge, got silenced by the broadcast, and Ben is officially calling sabotage. Tawana isn't so sure... but the data is doing George no favours. In t...

Eau Rouge with zero battery. That's the 2026 Belgian Grand Prix in one sentence, and we spend this episode admitting neither of us knows what happens next. Spa has five straight-line mode zones, one real harvesting stop, and 70% of the lap at full throttle - and now there's rain in the forecast. We cover Red Bull losing their wing to an FIA safety call, whether Ferrari are next, Norris taking a 10...

We're back after two weeks of flu, heatwaves, and Ben moving house — and Tawana is serving the Austria bet forfeit in full Aston Martin merch. 💚 This one's a double debrief: Austria (battles everywhere, Cadillac literally on fire) and Silverstone, our home race, where Kimi's wheel cover heartbreak and a very sketchy safety car finish left us with questions. Then the big story — Max Verstappen to...

Austria predictions episode — but first, Benjamin pays his debts. Two lost bets, one of them five shots of vinegar, and a forfeit that literally stopped the recording (we came back the next day to finish). Then it's down to business: our Austrian GP top threes for quali and the race, wildcards, who's cooked, the European heat wave that could cook the Mercedes battery, Ferrari's ADUO upgrade, the V...

Lewis Hamilton has won his first race for Ferrari — at Barcelona, on strategy, with a virtual safety car flipping the whole thing on its head. And just like that, Kimi Antonelli's six-race win streak is over. Tawana and Benjamin react to one of the wildest results of the season: the first all-British podium since 1968, Russell's P2 and the simmering Mercedes tension, Charles' weekend to forget, Re...

Mercedes are six from six — and now they're heading to Barcelona-Catalunya, the circuit that's always been F1's truth test: if a car works anywhere, it works here. So can Kimi Antonelli make it six in a row on what feels like Mercedes' home turf? In this episode Tawana and Benjamin lock in their qualifying and podium predictions, argue over the ADUO engine catch-up and the upgrade war heating up (...

Monaco delivered chaos. In this episode, we break down a wild Monaco GP weekend where Kimi Antonelli made it 5 wins in a row and proved that Mercedes might be untouchable right now. After all the talk about Mercedes being vulnerable around Monaco, Antonelli controlled the race, survived the madness, and left everyone else chasing. We also get into Hamilton’s P2 for Ferrari, Leclerc’s painful home...

In this Monaco Grand Prix predictions episode, Tawana and Benjamin preview Round 6 of the F1 2026 season in full. They run through their qualifying predictions and race predictions, debate whether Monaco is still Formula 1's crown jewel, and lay out their wildcards — from the expected DNF count to the first-corner chaos they're convinced is coming. Benjamin's backing Lewis Hamilton and Charles Lec...

Canada delivered chaos. In this episode, we break down a wild Canadian Grand Prix weekend filled with Mercedes drama, strategy mistakes, reliability problems and big championship questions. Antonelli made it four wins in a row and extended his championship lead, but Russell’s race ended in heartbreak after leading from pole and looking like the man to beat. We also get into Hamilton’s strongest Fe...

The Canadian Grand Prix is here, and this one has plenty of storylines. In this episode, we give our full predictions for the Montreal Sprint weekend, covering Sprint Qualifying, the Sprint Race, Qualifying and the Grand Prix. The big focus is the Mercedes battle between George Russell and Kimi Antonelli, with Russell returning to a track where he has been strong before and Antonelli looking to ke...

Three teams. Three problems. Three different levels of cooked. In this episode, we take a deep dive into Aston Martin, Ferrari and Audi to understand what is really going wrong. Aston Martin have the facilities, the money, Honda, Adrian Newey and big expectations, but the results have been brutal, with the FIA’s ADUO framework now potentially giving Honda extra support after Canada. Ferrari arrive...