Mode Push - the American View of F1

The first race weekend of the year is upon us and hosts Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry recap the final five episodes of a drama-filled season of Netflix's 'Drive to Survive'.  Are the newest drivers going to be made into the new class of villains of F1?  The guys also try to breakdown who are telling the truth about their race pace and who are the pretenders to begin the new season.  Also, of course F...

Mode Push are as giddy as you are for the start of the 2023 race calendar in mere days!  Before the final lights go out for the race, Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez jump into the first five episodes of the newest season of Netflix's Drive to Survive.  The drama unfolds and there certainly some favorite moments that they love.  Plus, teams have finished their winter testing and now the stop watch will...

Formula One fans, the wait is almost over for the start of the 2023 F1 season.  Every team has revealed their 2023 cars and with it, hopes of speed, aero and reliability improvements this season. Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez compare some of the obvious, albeit superficial changes to the cars. Mercedes is back in black and the color is more functional than you might think opting for less paint to sav...

With just over a month to go before the start of the 2023 Formula One season, hosts Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry chat about the latest on the Cadillac/Andretti announcement that would bring an American team into the exclusive F1 paddock, but they haven't gotten the war reception from the rest of the teams on the grid as they thought they might.  What would an American manufacturer in F1 do for the g...

Happy New Year Mode Push Listeners...Hosts Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry kick off the New Year with a new episode as we are counting the days for winter testing, new episodes of Drive to Survive on Netflix and a more closely contested F1 Championship.  There are new team principals, an exciting new grid and still lots of unanswered questions for teams going into the season.  Alex and Dan also breakdo...

Hosts Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez begin the podcast talking about the latest F1 news including the resignation of Ferrari's Technical Director Mattia Binnotto who finally stepped down after a couple of years of heavy criticism running the Mugello outfit.   The guys also ask the age old question of F1 racing...Can you be a nice guy and win an F1 title?  Max Verstappen is the latest in line of champi...

Max Verstappen wins the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and extended his season win total record along the way.  Alex Kirry, Dan Jimenez and Carlos Fortun jump into the last race of the season and the storylines that surround the final tilt at Yas Marina.  Lewis Hamilton has his first DNF of the year and his first season without a win in 15 years while the constructors race ended with little surprises and Re...

Welcome to the final race preview of the 2022 F1 Calendar.  The year has been a long one and with so many races, changes in the upcoming year's driver lineups and teams looking forward to the 2023 championship.  Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez are joined this week by Carlos Fortun, a KSL Radio producer, who hails from Spain and has worked for NBC Sports covering F1 and has been a Formula One fan for li...

The Brazilian F1 Weekend was filled with as much drama, intrigue and exciting race storylines that we wish the Formula 1 grid raced here every other week.  Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez talk about the insane storylines between Kevin Magnussen getting his first and Haas F1 Team's first poll position and Mercedes AMG off a 1-2 with George Russell cashing in on his first Formula One race win ever.  But...

This episode of Mode Push Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez get together to try and figure out if it would be worth attending the 2023 F1 race in Las Vegas.  Dan speculates that the race it self, while glitzy and a lot of fun to promote and get excited for might not actually prove to be much of a fun race from a pure competitive standpoint.  Red Bull have already wrapped up the constructors and drivers'...

The Mexico Grand Prix is in the books and Max Verstappen has won more races in an F1 race year than anyone ever! But what a boring race...Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez lament what could have been in Mexico as Max got to the front and the race was his.  Checo with a strong podium finish in his home Grand Prix wasn't enough to keep race fans glued to their seats.  The guys discuss Alonzo's string of ba...

The race weekend is upon us and the Mexican Grand Prix awaits the F1 grid in Mexico City. Can Red Bull be beaten? Is it Sergio Perez's weekend to win at his home grand prix? Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez preview the race, review some of the news from the week that was in F1 and get you ready for one of the final three races remaining on the F1 calendar.  Dan also dives a little into the regulation ch...

This episode of Mode Push, hosts Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez breakdown the exciting race that was the USGP.  A race that ended up being more action packed than almost any other race this season in Formula One. Plus, as Red Bull are now winners of their first Constructor's title in 9 years, we breakdown how dominant they have been as a team this year as well as how dominant Max Verstappen has been. ...

The United States Grand Prix is here and Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry preview the race where European teams show up dressed like its Cowboy Comicon.  News surrounding the Williams seat has gotten interesting as an announcement for their second seat will be made likely on Saturday.   Alex and Dan talk also about the cost cap violations as stiff penalty from the FIA to Red Bull probably isn't coming w...

Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez get into the actual punishments (or lack thereof) that Red Bull could be facing after violating the F1 cost cap in its first year with such a financial restriction.  Will Max Verstappen be stripped of his championship? Probably not.  Will Red Bull be penalized by taking a few constructor championship points?  Who knows, Dan and Alex will discuss all the scenarios.  Plus,...

Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez discuss the cluster *&$! that the Japan GP was.  After all the dust (and rain) settled, Max Verstappen is your F1 World Champion!  Despite the amazing year that Verstappen and Red Bull have had, the WDC clinching race ended with more questions than answers.  The guys also discuss the still-tumultuous driver market after some drivers swap teams and a new face will off...

Max Verstappen can wrap up the World Championship this weekend in Japan in Honda's backyard at Suzuka.  Will he do it?  The weather is looking ominous which could create a wild finishing order and push it to a clincher in Austin in two weeks.  Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez also breakdown the nitty gritty on trying to make it to an Formula One race in person.  How much is swag if you try to buy it at...

Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez bring you a review of a very exciting Singapore Grand Prix.  Dan is on the ground in Singapore and describes the sights and sounds of one of the most intense, wild races of the F1 calendar this season.  Checo Perez fights off a penalty, Charles Leclerc and Ferrari to capture the wet and wild race at Marina Bay.  The guys chat about Max Verstappen finishing 7th, having to...

Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry are your guides to the Singapore GP this weekend and its a really special episode because Dan is in Australia en route to the Marina Bay Circuit in Singapore.  The guys jump into what makes this race and other night races so exciting. Plus, it isn't that tough of an equation to get Max Verstappen to clinch his second straight World Driver Championship this weekend.  Can...

Mode Push today is an international edition as Alex Kirry is joined by his co-host Dan Jimenez from all the way across the globe as he gets some actual business done on his way to the Singapore Grand Prix next week.  The guys chat about the bad news that Colton Herta, seemingly on his way to be the only American F1 driver on the grid, and the first Yank since 2007 to have an F1 seat, will have to...

With no race on the F1 calendar this week and as the grid preps to head to Singapore for the end of the month, hosts Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez are taking a few episodes to take a dive into some of the history around the F1 teams, drivers and a 101 course in Formula 1 racing that has brought us from 1950 to the present.  This week Alex talks about one of the most successful teams in F1 history, Me...

Your hosts Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez breakdown a rather sterile Italian GP.  No two ways about it, this was probably the most boring race of the year.  Max Verstappen proves that he'll win the exciting races, the boring races, in the rain, on a train...well, anyway, you get what we mean. Verstappen continues to just win as the Italian GP marks the 5th win in a row for the Dutchman and his 11th of...

The grid finishes the third leg of a European triple header with The Italian Grand Prix at historic Monza.  Can Ferrari break the streak of terrible streak of bumbled strategy and poor reliability to win at their home GP?  Hosts Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez breakdown the crazy finishes and strange podiums this race has given F1 fans in the last two years and whether or not we will see something thin...

Max Verstappen capped a dream weekend after securing pole position he drives to his 10th GP victory of the 2022 season and has, what feels like, an insurmountable lead in the Drivers' World Championship. Hosts Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry jump right in for a full breakdown of the race weekend.  Mercedes joined Ferrari this week in shooting themselves in the foot to ruin their race. Lewis Hamilton sh...

How do you consume a Gran Prix weekend?  Do you watch every second of every practice session?  Maybe you only dip into the highlights of qualifying or really only watch the race.  On this episode of the Mode Push Podcast, Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry talk a little bit about F1 viewing habits of new and old fans alike.  Dan jumps into the new technical directive and how it has changed (or not) the po...