Low Downforce

Grands Prix get all the glory, but to end up on the top step, sometimes a heroic qualifying performance is needed! In this second episode of the F101 series, the four Low Downforce hosts describe all that goes down on track the day before the big race and how qualifying can set you up for victory or dash your chances of even scoring points. With the fastest times of the whole race weekend, tune in...

The lights are about to go out and officially start the 2025 F1 season! For the first time since 2019, we begin in Melbourne for the Australian Grand Prix, but before the cars send it over 200mph on track, we have to give you all the info on what to watch for and what to expect. The Low Downforce team will even make their first race weekend guesses at who will be victorious, who will miss out, and...

Maybe you're a brand new F1 fan, a seasoned veteran that needs to refresh their knowledge, or just someone trying to impress a friend or significant other before the start of the 2025 Formula 1 season. If so, the Low Downforce team has you covered with F101, a podcast series designed to start at the highest level and simply explain all of the facets of F1 and why now is the best time to get into t...

It is finally race week, but before we jump into our regular Prixviews and Reviews, we have to make our final preseason predictions on how 2025 will go! The World Predictors Championship (not yet trademarked) returns and this time with a twist! That's right, these season-long predictions from this episode will be revisited in December, after the final race concludes in Abu Dhabi, to shake up the s...

It's not quite time to see the cars on the track, so there's only one way to crown a winner in 2025 thus far: liveries. Yeah, yeah F1 is all about going fast and winning races, but who cares if you don't look good while doing it! Tune in to see who passed the eye test and who has more than just tunnel time to improve. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Finally, the cold, dark offseason is almost over. After a thrilling F1 season in 2024, it is time to scrub the slate clean and go again for what could be one of the greatest racing campaigns ever. And not only that, the Low Downforce podcast is back and better than ever before! Tune in as Josh, J9, Matt, and Ben start their engines and get ready for all that is to come in F1 in 2025. Hosted on Aca...

This is it! We have arrived at the final race weekend of the 2024 Formula 1 season. For the first time since the Drivers Championship in 2021 (don't look too into that one), a Championship will be decided at the final session of this year's campaign. Ferrari and McLaren look to take home the ultimate team award, while other drivers look to make one last memory with their current teams or within th...

While the line outside the Stewards Room surely keeps going, it's already time to unpack all that happened in a beyond chaotic Qatar Sprint Weekend. From penalties to crashes to Championship-level errors, Formula 1 still seems to keep climbing to its peak during it's penultimate Grand Prix! Tune in as the Low Downforce team tries to make sense of all the on-track, and a couple off-track, happening...

There's nothing like flying halfway around the world in the middle of triple header, but that's what we got thanks to F1! Back in the Middle East for the final two races of the 2024 season, the teams first stop is Qatar for the final Sprint Weekend of the season. With the most points left on the table this weekend, teams and drivers alike look to capitalize and cement their ranks in the Drivers an...

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, unless it's Formula 1 because then it makes it on our podcast! Under the brightest lights, the stars did shine crowning both a winner and a champion that keeps the headlines turning until the very end of the 2024 season. Tune in as the Low Downforce team recaps the first leg of the final triple header this year! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

We are back from break once more and this time for the final three races of the 2024 Formula 1 season. In the home stretch, it's "Go Big or Go Home", and where better to go big than under the lights on The Strip of Las Vegas! Back for it's sequel race, the story lines have already lived up to the hype, but can the Grand Prix? Tune in as the Low Downforce team predicts who will shine brightest and...

We just witnessed history. As the 2024 season winds down, surely we've already hit all the big headlines and unexpected turns, or so we thought! Brazil in the sun? Drama. Brazil in the rain? Chaos. We may never be able to fully unpack everything that happened in Sao Paolo, but we can certainly try, now that our heads have finally stopped spinning after one of the most insane race weekends ever! Tu...

As the season speeds towards its finale, the stakes keep rising and the drama keeps unfolding...and now it's time for Brazil. A pinnacle in the history of Formula 1, both vintage and modern, Interlagos always seems to throw out expectations and record books and replace them both with pure chaos! Everything is peaking at the exact moment for something special to happen in lone South American race....

You thought the drama at the United States GP was crazy?! Everything is bigger in Texas, except on-track chaos apparently. There was movement in the Constructors Championship, penalties all over the track, and even a safety car in Mexico City. Maybe we're sounding like a broken record when we say 2024 F1 is living up to the hype, but we'll keep it spinning it all night long if this season keeps de...

We've barely gotten then chance to catch our breath from the Circuit of the Americas, and we are already right on top of another race weekend! Second stop of the "Americas" triple header: Mexico City. With a track like no other and only five races left in the season to cement your claim at glory, things are bound to hit habanero level spiciness south of the border! Tune in as the Low Downforce tea...

Everything is bigger in Texas, and that remains true about Formula 1. With a Sprint Weekend no less, there were more points, bigger headlines, and spicier drama over the course of the whole weekend! Veterans challenged rookies and title fight contenders battled to the limit and then some. Tune in as the Low Downforce team unpacks all the arose at the first race weekend back from a month-long break...

F1 is back (again) and no more breaks for real this time! With only six race weekends to go and fights in both championships, it's finally time for the ultimate showdown over the next month and a half. First, we must look no further than Austin, Texas to get back in on the action. Everyone is bringing upgrades, but who will go the quickest and who will be cruising like they're still on holiday? Tu...

On the brink of another 4-week break, Singapore gives us a snooze fest. Or did it? For the first time in its history, the streets at Marina Bay failed to create the need for a safety car, but other headlines are heading right for a red-flag collision! Tune in as the Low Downforce team unpacks the final Grand Prix before our 6-race showdown to cap off the ever-exciting 2024 season. Hosted on Acast....

Now that we've just started to catch our collective breath from the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, it's time to turn our focus to another oft-exciting and exhausting race weekend: the Singapore Grand Prix. Under the lights and in the humidity, it's the second leg of the street circuit double header at the Marina Bay Street Circuit! Tune in as the Low Downforce team makes their wildest after-hours predicti...

Well done, Baku. Formula 1 continues in spectacular form with a tight battle for victory between two teams not named Red Bull and between two drivers, maybe more surprisingly, not named Max Verstappen or Lando Norris! Azerbaijan brought the full smorgasbord of entertainment: wild overtakes, lead changes, and a crash between podium contenders. Tune in as the Low Downforce team dissects all the susp...

The European summer is over, but that does not mean that F1 is declining to the end of the season. In fact, the opposite is happening! We now head to the Land of Fire: Baku, a ruthless street circuit known for late moves, devastating crashes, and one driver calling himself "stupid". There's everything to race for in both championships as the margins get thinner and the stakes get higher. Tune in a...

Ferrari winning in front of motorsports' biggest fans?! It's hard not to be romantic about sports! As is the current trend in F1, the Italian Grand Prix brought no shortage of new headlines, shocking results, and pivotal strategic decisions. Following a race for the memory jars and history books, the Low Downforce team tries to unpack it all as the on-track implications have more and more champion...

Josh might be the only Ferrari fan leaving Italy just before this weekend because it is finally time for Monza! The Italian. Grand. Prix. Home of the Tifosi, Ferrari's most passionate fans, looking to will their scarlet cars to the front of the grid, but does the Low Downforce team feel the same about the Scuderia's odds this weekend? Tune in as they make their best predictions regarding who will...

2024 is the Formula 1 season that keeps on giving! With both championships on the line and the number of Grand Prix remaining winding down, even the calmer races have some crazy on- and off-track headlines! Tune in as the Low Downforce team unpacks all that happened on the banks of the Zandvoort's turns and their implications for some of the drivers going forward! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...

The wait is over, Formula 1 is back! And so is the Low Downforce team! Fresh and recharged, much like the 20 drivers on the grid, we shift our attention to the final 10 races of the season. First up: the Dutch Grand Prix. Will Max dominate for a fourth consecutive year, since Zandvoort returned to the calendar, or will a new challenger dethrone him? Tune in as the Low Downforce team shakes the rus...