Lovecars On the Grid. Global Motorsport Podcast

Welcome to episode 35 of the Lovecars On The Grid Podcast!   Paul Woodman is at the airport this week, so slightly quieter than usual, but he's joined by Tiff Needell as always for the weekly motorsport roundup! We've had four major events form this weekend, including the Formula 1 in Brazil, Moto GP in Spain, IMSA in America and the Race of Remembrance in Anglesey, that Paul was a part of. &...

Nearly a year into our Global Motorsport Podcast, Paul Woodman and Tiff Needell are back, with episode 34!   We crowned 3 new champions this weekend, but we kick off with Formula 1 in Mexico. Unfortunately, it was quite an uneventful race, but Max Verstappen drove brilliantly and won the race, with Lewis Hamilton's Championship hopes are sadly dying away! Sergio Perez had the Mexican crowd be...

Welcome to episode 33 of the Lovecars On The Grid Podcast! Tiff Needell and Paul Woodman are back for another week of roundups with the latest motorsport updates!   We've been encouraging you all to watch NASCAR for weeks, but after an initially dull and boring race, the last round before the Grand Finale went right down the wire in the last 50 laps! Kyle Larson was caught speeding twice, but...

Welcome to Episode 32 of the Lovecars On The Grid Podcast! Tiff Needell and Paul Woodman are back with their global motorsport roundup after a very exciting week!   Kicking off with the Formula 1, which was this time taking place at Austin in Texas, the race was a fantastic one! The Lewis and Max Championship battle continued, with cars bouncing over the curbs both from Mercedes and Red Bull....

Tiff Needell and Paul Woodman take a look at motorsport events around the world with the Lovecars On the Grid podcast.   This week we kick off with World Rally Championships where the title race is going down to the wire. There's a family connect at the British GP and Tiff's favourite, Kyle Larson takes another win in NASCAR - where Paul shows his Google skills with some high level NASCAR tri...

Welcome to Episode 30 of the Lovecars On The Grid Podcast! Paul Woodman and Tiff Needell are back to give you a motorsport roundup from the past week!    We kick things off with Formula 1, that took place in Turkey this weekend, and we were in for an eventful race at Istanbul Park! Another wet Turkish Grand Prix led to Lewis Hamilton coming into the pits earlier to change his tyres. Merc...

Welcome to episode 29 of the Lovecars On The Grid podcast! Tiff Needell and Paul Woodman are back, with the latest updates from motorsport around the World!   Paul was marshalling at Castle Coombe this weekend, as a result of getting 9 points on his racing license after going through 2 black and white flags during the race in the Caterham Academy!    Starting with World Rally Champi...

Welcome to episode 28 of the Lovecars On The Grid Podcast. This week, Tiff Needell and Paul Woodman discuss the Formula 1, F2 and F3 at Sochi in Russia, the BTCC at Silverstone, Indycar and NASCAR in America, and of course the motorbikes!   Formula 1 was a terrific Grand Prix out in Sochi! The Russian Grand Prix was far from boring this year, with British-Belgian racing driver, Lando Norris l...

We kick off Episode 27, where else, but Goodwood for the incredible Goodwood Revival, where Tiff Needell was not only racing in some big old Jags... but also playing in the annual cricket match (where his team went on to lose!).   After some cricket trivia, together with some general Goodwood trivia, the boys stay in the UK and move to BTCC with two more new winners at Croft - but was it all...

This is episode 26 of our Lovecars On The Grid Podcast with Paul Woodman and Tiff Needell!   It's been an exciting week, but we kick off with the controversy in Formula 1 at Monza, where Red Bull driver, Max Verstappen ended up with his car on top of of Mercedes driver, Lewis Hamilton!    Following Max's poor pit stop, that took 11 seconds, the two drivers came together. Who was to...

Welcome to the Lovecars On The Grid Podcast, where we have our 25th Episode!   Paul Woodman and Tiff Needell kick off this episode with the hot off the press news of Finnish Formula 1 driver, Valtteri Bottas making the move to Alfa Romeo! Just waiting for Mercedes to announce the signing of George Russell now! Who will join Bottas at Alfa Romeo, will it be Mick Schumacher, Antonio Giovinazzi...

Welcome to Episode 24 of Lovecars On the Grid, the global motorsport roundup podcast! This week Tiff Needell and Paul Woodman discuss the F1 at Spa farce. Is a race behind a pace car actually a race??? Great to see Lando Norris setting such great qualifying pace, until a huge crash at the very controversial Eau Rouge. Does something need to happen to Eau Rouge to make things safer? More action in...

Welcome to Episode 23 of the Lovecars On the Grid Podcast where Tiff Needell and Paul Woodman kick off this podcast with what is possibly the most well-known race in the World! It is of course Le Mans, which was incredibly exciting! We all wanted number 7 to win, with British drive Mike Conway behind the wheel of the Toyota, alongside ex Formula 1 driver Kamui Kobayashi and Argentinian driver José...

Welcome to Episode 22 of the Lovecars On the Grid Podcast where we have had a weekend of really good battles!   Starting off with the World Rally Championship, that took place in Belgium this weekend. Paul Woodman and Tiff Needell discuss the win by Hyundai and Belgian duo Thierry Neuville with his co-driver Martijn Wydaeghe in the i20. The pair fought off their team mate, Craig Breen, who fi...

Welcome to Episode 21 of the Lovecars On the Grid Podcast, where we've had a jam packed week of motorsport!  We start with Paul Woodman's race in the Caterham Academy, which was at Brands Hatch this week. Even with Tiff Needell there to cheer him on, Paul unfortunately had a disappointing race, having chose the wrong tyres for the race this time. This comes after choosing the wrong tyres for...

Welcome to Episode 20 of the Lovecars On the Grid Podcast, the global motorsport roundup, where we have a jam packed week of motorsport!  Sadly, we start with a tragedy at Brands Hatch.  A member of the Orange Army, the marshall team at Brands Hatch sadly lost their life this weekend. Our thoughts go out to their family and friends. We couldn't go racing without the Orange Army, many of...

Welcome to Episode 19 of the Lovecars On the Grid Podcast, the global motorsport roundup, where this week seems to have been somewhat a quieter week of motorsport!    Speaking of quiet, we start off with Formula E, with a strange weekend, but two British driver's Winning at the Excel centre and plenty of car coming together! Towards the end of the final race, we even got a pace car and s...

Think you know what we'll be discussing after an action packed Grand Prix at Silverstone. Tiff and Paul also cover World Sportscar and World Rally rounds last weekend, plus some WRC with year old Kalle Rovenpera in Estonia, WEC in Monza, where Toyota win again but not without worries. But first up it’s F1 at Silverstone and who was to blame for the huge crash between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstap...

Welcome to Episode 17 of the Lovecars On the Grid Podcast, the global motorsport roundup, after a weekend when worldwide action was a bit thin on the ground! Sadly the Toronto Indycar we fancied got called off due to Covid, so the only single seater action was Formula E from New York, with a brilliant performance by Britains Sam Bird. The only other international racing the WTC in Spain, but back...

Welcome to Episode 16 of Lovecars On The Grid podcast, the global motorsport roundup, where this week we cover the Caterham Academy round at Silverstone, World Superbikes, Indycar and much more!   This weekend, the Caterham Academy was at the home of British Formula 1, Silverstone! Another controversy with our own Paul Woodman, following using dry tyres for the qualifying, the Lovecars car qu...

Welcome to Episode 15 of Lovecars On The Grid, the global motorsport roundup, where this week we cover the Styrian Grand Prix, NASCAR, British GT and BTCC!   Tiff was at the London Classic Car Show, hosting the talk stage and commentating on the classic cars on parade!    The Styrian Grand Prix, where Red Bull and Mercedes roles have been reversed this week, with the battle between...

Welcome to Episode 14 of Lovecars On the Grid, the global motorsport roundup, where this week is a very special one, as we announce the Winner of our Caterham caption competition from Facebook!   Also in this week's roundup, we cover the French Grand Prix and the continued battles between Red Bull's Max Verstappen and Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton after another exciting race!   We have more f...

Welcome to Episode 13 of Lovecars On the Grid the global motorsport roundup, where this week we kick off with the Caterham Academy Championship as it heads to Knockhill, Scotland - that saw our man Paul Woodman have a huge crash in race number 2. Also in this weeks roundup, Tiff Needell makes it look easy with 5 podiums from 5 races from a weekend at his home track of Thruxton, though he did have...

Welcome to Episode 12 of Lovecars On the Grid the global motorsport roundup, where this week we kick off with the Formula 1 in Baku for a Grand Prix full of drama, that had Ferrari on pole and went on to see huge crashes for both Lance Armstrong and Max Verstappen, with a rare mistake from Lewis Hamilton, leading to the most unlikely of podiums you’ll probably ever see! In F2 we discuss what to do...

Welcome to Episode 11 of Lovecars On the Grid the global motorsport roundup, where this week we start with the awful news that 19 year old Moto3 rider Jason Dupasquier succumbed to his injuries after an accident in qualifying. We pay our respects to this young man who's life was tragically taken too soon.  In terms of the race itself, the Grand Prix being at Mugello was a slipstream dream! Th...