Mode Push - the American View of F1

After a few weeks of a midseason break, F1 is back and this time its taking a tour of the America's starting in Austin and the Circuit of the Americas for the US Grand Prix. We're down to only six races left in the F1 calendar and hosts Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez breakdown not just this weekend's race in Texas but how the rest of the season could shake out in what has become a very interesting con...

Hosts Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez jam during this F1 mini vacation talking ab out the Singapore GP, guess how the WDC and Constructors titles will end up.  Daniel Ricciardo is unceremoniously stripped of his seat at RB/VCARD and it looks as though the Honey Badger might be totally done in the sport.  McLaren and Lando Norris have found something extra that could put him over the top vs. M...

Hosts Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry review how Monza and the Italian GP went as Red Bull is being rundown by other teams on the grid.  Charles Leclerc got a career win at the temple of speed but it was McLaren who is getting closer and closer in the constructors title race to Red Bull as both Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris battled one another for a race win but ended up leaving Norris further fr...

George Russell pulled off one of the most impressive wins of the 2024 F1 season but it only lasted a short time as the FIA ruled that his car was underweight by a mere 1.5KG and Lewis Hamilton, who finished 2nd, was suddenly thrust into his second win of the season.  Dan and Alex discuss the wild ride that Spa was, and a lok forward to the driver market and silly season as the summer break st...

Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez get you ready for the final race before the Formula 1 summer break.  Last week's race in Hungary gave F1 fans a McLaren 1-2 finish for the first time since 1999 and Oscar Piastri got his first GP win in F1 in his career but it didn't come without any drama.  The McLaren garage had to plead with Lando Norris to give the 1st place position to Piastri after the te...

Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry get together for their weekly episode to preview the Hungarian GP.  Will Lewis Hamilton capture lightning in a bottle like he did at Silverstone?  Can McLaren cash in on their recent pace and finally get another win?  The guys talk about the news breaking today that Kevin Magnassen won't rejoin Haas next season on the F1 grid and we likely won't see K-Mag...

Mercedes had a little bit of luck and a massive amount of improvement over a short span that has now equaled wins in both the Austrian GP and the British Grand Prix.  With Max Verstappen and Lando Norris crashing one another out of the Austrian GP, George Russell took advantage and notched Mercedes first win of the season.  In an even more historic British GP, Sir Lewis Hamilton was able...

The F1 grid moves to on to round two of the European triple header this week the drivers find themselves in Austria at the Red Bull Ring where Max Verstappen will be racing in front of a Red Bull-heavy crowd and looking for yet another win on the calendar.  Dan JImenez and Alex Kirry talk about the driver lineups that are working and the drivers who are fighting to stay somewhere close to the...

Hosts Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry recap one of the more exciting races of the season after a wet, crash-filled Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal.  Max wins again but Lando Norris was right on his heels and Mercedes ends up with one of their best races of the season.  Ferrari would prefer to forget their weekend with a double DNF.   Dan then gives us the download of the new car reg...

Hosts Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry are back to review the Monaco GP that gave us a Charles LeClerc first-ever win in his home GP and has made the F1 Championship standings more competitive than we've seen since 2021.  Have Ferrari and McLaren made enough improvements to challenge Max Verstappen and Red Bull Racing the rest of the season?  Plus, Ocon is out at Alpine, Checo is back at Red B...

The lux atmosphere awaits in Monaco as F1 goes to one of its most storied tracks and the drama of the 2024 season heats up.  With a more competitive front of the field, can McLaren and Ferrari challenge Max Verstappen and Red Bull? Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry breakdown how Lando Norris was able to cut the Red Bull advantage in Italy and which teams are overperforming while sopme teams are mass...

Hosts Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry react to Lando Norris' monumental first win in Formula One in Miami.  In a weekend filled with tons of on-track and off-track drama, the Miami GP delivered a great race as Lando Norris was able to take advantage of a safety car and notch his first win.  Max Verstappen even seemed happy with the result for the British driver as the ret of the field seems t...

F1 returns to the U.S. this weekend for the first time in 2024 for the Miami Grand Prix.  Max Verstappen won the first two races in Miami the last two seasons and all signs point to the three-time World Champion repeating hostory as no one can touch the fastest driver on earth.  Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez make their podium finish predictions for the weekend but they alo discuss the insan...

The Australian GP brought excitement via Max Verstappen's rare DNF that made everyone else on the grid feel like they may have a fighting chance to win a race this season.  Carlos Sainz got the win and with that win a whole host of questions for Ferrari not the leat of which might be "Is Lewis Hamilton the best option for us?"  Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry dive into the rumors swirling aro...

Max Verstappen and Red Bull's dominance continue with another one-two finish and Verstappen looking impossible to catch.  That could make for a boring race but the emergency surgery for Carlos Sainz the day before the race for Ferrari, F2 rising star Ollie Bearman got into the seat in Jeddah with no notice and turned a boring race weekend into a fun storyline for a possible future champion to...

The drama off the track continues as Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry try to make sense of the rumors swirling around the Red Bull Racing team since innappropriate allegations by Christian Horner of an RB staffer were dismissed.  Now Max Verstappen's Dad, Jos, is actively tring to get Horner out of Red Bull and has threatened that Max would go to another team.  Sounds like a reality TV show bu...

The first race of the intriguing 2024 F1 race calendar is finally here and Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry are here ready to breakdown winter testing, 2024 season hypotheticals and, of course, the reaction to Red Bull's clearing Christian Horner of wrongdoing after their investigation into misconduct with a female staffer at Red Bull Racing.  Dan also breaks down what was to be learned at this yea...

Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez host Mode Push as the 2024 season is now less than a month away.  One big story after another have rolled out of the garages on the F1 grid without even a test lap being logged by the teams.  The news of the Andretti-Cadillac F1 team being denied possible entry into F1, at least for now is where the guys start.  The biggest driver news and seat swapping dr...

This week is a special episode of Mode Push with a breakdown of Alex Kirry and Carlos the producer's trip to the Strip of flashy Las Vegas and the very first (modern) Formula 1 race in Las Vegas.  Dan Jimenez and Alex sit down and go through the full experience at the track, in the VIP areas, the grandstands and the whole set up of one of the most labor intensive purpose built tracks to ever...

This week, Mode Push has made the big time with a special preview episode of the podcast.  Alex Kirry is joined by co-host Dan Jimenez and Producer Carlos Fortun to preview the much anticipated Las Vegas Grand Prix.  Alex and Carlos will be headed to Sin City with press passes in hand to cover the race for KSL Sports.  The guys talk about the positive and negative press the $500M ga...

This week on the podcast, Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry run through the wild Mexico GP that saw a bad crash in the first turn that took Checo Perez out of his home race in less than a minute.  Where does Red Bull go with Checo now?  They discuss.  Red Bull rumors are flying around the paddock but when should we take them seriously?  With another dominant win for Max Verstappen, th...

The Race in Austin proved to be one of the more exciting and controversal races of the calendar in F1 this season.  Max Verstappen is still unstoppable but with Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc being disqualified from the race, the podium changed and suddenly the race results were tunred on their head.  Dan Jimenez explains to Alex what rule was broken, why only 4 cars were tested to s...

Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez get together for another breakdown of the weekend at the Qatar Grand Prix where Max Verstappen is crowned champion for the third year in a rown and joins rarified air when it comes to historical champions in F1 history.  Where does Max Rank among the sports' best?  Plus, the race itself at the Losail Circuit was a bit of a disaster and PR nightmare for Formula...

Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry are back in the lab working on ways to help America love the F1 world as much as they do.  This week Alex and Dan explore the amazing race that ended up in Japan with another Max Verstappen easy win, but also some surprise great racing from McLaren who finished with a 2nd and 3rd spot on the podium as the race to 2nd and 3rd in the constructors title race heats up w...

There is so much going on in the world of F1 as Singapore brought us the most exciting race of the entire Formula One calendar, not just because Carlos Sainz and Ferrari put together a giant slayer race and finally defeated Red Bull, Max Verstappen wasn't even on the podium.  There is hope that the rest of the field is catching up at least some to the World Champion-Elect but Alex Kirry and Dan Ji...