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Sorry this was a little late, editor Dre's been ill for a little bit with a chest infection! But here's a mid-season F1 review, but not as we know it! It was RJ's idea to have a special buy-or-sell edition of an F1 mid-season review! Because saying Max Verstappen wins, lol for 50 minutes wouldn't be very interesting! So we came up with a bunch of semi-interesting F1 takes and Dre and RJ would deci...

It's happened again. Alex Palou has caused another big contract dispute, or it's continued on from last year depending on who you ask - And we called in our super-sub Ryan Erik King to fill in for Cam Buckley to try and make sense of this hot mess. So the latest chapter of the Palou dispute has now had the Champion-Elect Spaniard tell Zak Brown he's backing out of his agreement to join McLaren in...

IndyCar is often full of surprises. Just when you think Nashville was going to be another crash-fest, third time was the charm and everyone largely behaves themselves. At the front, a game of strategy was in order as Kyle Kirkwood in combination with team strategist Bryan Herta outworked pole-sitter Scott McLaughlin and passed him in the pits and never looked back to his second win of the season....

What do you mean Francesco Bagnaia didn't win a last lap decider again? Welcome to the Motorsport101 British GP Podcast Review, with a difference! You get to hear from Dre, who was there in person covering the event on the behalf of M101, The Race and as a guest of Monster Energy! From interviewing some of the best bike riders in the world to a sit down with Randy Mamola, Dre goes in detail about...

It wouldn't be Formula E without a final chapter full of carnage right? Mitch Evans gave it everything he had in the first half of the weekend, but Jake Dennis would survive two Red Flags and a huge team orders scandal to take the Formula E World Championship! The struggles are over! But Envision seemingly had a hand in their own demise by refusing to play team orders with Nick Cassidy destroying...

Another manic F1 weekend and yet again, in the end, Max Verstappen wins. He becomes just the second man in history to win eight races in a row, and in this episode, we break it all down! We talk about the very nature of wet racing as yet another rain-affected weekend played a big role as the Sprint got delayed by 35 minutes and then shortened on Saturday. Is the Extreme Wet tyre now useless? Chaos...

Can there be any worse feeling for Josef Newgarden after winning both Iowa races in such dominant fashion than seeing Alex Palou shake his hand after finishing on the podium? In a scene straight out of The Office, that's exactly what happened! M101 recount the tale as Josef Newgarden and Penske completely restablished their short oval dominance, leading literally 99.4% of all the Iowa laps across...

It's the hope that always gets you. Lewis Hamilton scores his first pole position in 33 race weekends, and only the second time all year a Red Bull isn't starting from pole... and he led the race for about 400 metres. It was the biggest beating of the field yet by Max Verstappen, a 33.7 second dominant display by the Red Bull, leaving Lando Norris in the dust, with Sergio Perez back on the podium...

Well, that was a wild one alright. Christian Lundgaard, after a good year of teasing a big day on a road or street track, dominates the entire Toronto weekend enroute to his first IndyCar win! And somehow he only had the second most incredible drive of the day. Because despite Alex Palou's winning streak coming to and end, he finished 2nd despite having a broken nosecone that led to his front wing...

NOTE: This was recorded before the news of the Nyck De Vries, Daniel Ricciardo deal. More on that next week! But this was a weird British GP. The weather largely behaved itself. Instead of being a typical tyre shredder, it ended up a one-stopper with as little an amount of tyre reg, or delta that we've seen all year. And while Max Verstappen continued to make history with his 6th straight win and...

Well... this was a wild one. Formula E had a scandal on its hands before the Portland ePrix had even started, with DS Penske given a 25,000 euro fine and a double pitlane start after the stewards got the word that the team had been placing RFID Scanners like you get at a Supermarket, in the pitlane to scan the barcodes on their competitors tyres. And when JEV was called out on the cheating, the ma...

A hell of a weekend in US Motorsport, so much so we had to make it an extra packed US special with Ryan Erik King joining Dre and RJ in the box! We had to include NASCAR's debut in Chicago and Shane Van Gisbergen's incredible victory, the first debut win in NASCAR for 60 years. The last time that happened, it wasn't even called The Winston Cup, and Johnny Rutherford was behind the wheel! And of co...

CONTENT WARNING: A fatal incident is discussed in this episode. It's been a weekend of chaos and sadness in the world of racing. In Austria, Max Verstappen won his 5th race on Austrian soil and 5th win in a row as Red Bull cement their greatest winning streak ever of 10 races. And they did it in style with a penultimate lap fastest lap attempt from the lead when Checo already held the bonus point....

Okay, this is now getting ridiculous. Alex Palou is super hot. He took control late on in the GP of Road America and has now taken his third win in the last four races and extended his Championship lead to 74 points over Marcus Ericsson. And as a result, Dre and Cameron deep dive on the man's future. Should Palou stay at Chip Ganassi as the fastest man/car combo in the series and potentially domin...

Welcome back to the title race, Jorge Martin! The Spaniard had a perfect weekend, doubling up with a Sprint and Grand Prix win, the latter a back and forth dogfight that had them separated by just 0.064 seconds in the end! But let's be honest here - That's not why you're really here. You're here for Marc Marquez, and the weekend that broke the camel's back. SIX crashes on the weekend, the latter o...

Oh Canada, Verstappen won again! *logs off* But Motorsport101 is back to review a surprisingly decent Monaco GP as Max Verstappen made yet more history. A fastest lap shy of back-to-back Grand Slams and all 70 laps led to extended his streak to 224 at the front of the field. The last time someone else led a lap of F1, it was 45 days ago. And he caught a bird in his brake duct. Seriously. Straight...

Sometimes, you just gotta clean your room! We've been a bit behind on Podcasts lately, our bad! So we're doing what we used to do, mix and match some sports and play catch up! We talk a little bit about MotoGP in Italy, a weekend so devoid of news that we couldn't justify a full episode on it with Francesco Bagnaia winning via a Grand Slam in a Ducati Top 4 lockout. Oh and Marc Marquez crashes out...

After many years, and the permanent addition of a host 5 years ago who complained about the state of Endurance Racing, Dre Harrison has caught the bug of sportscar racing, and enjoyed the most important Le Mans in recent years. And the 100th Anniversary running of the world's greatest race was an all-time classic and massive game of attrition. And above it all, we had Ferrari winning their first L...

Detroit was a wild one, and this time it was for all the right reasons... mostly. The new street circuit down Jefferson Avenue was an awful layout but made for some decent recent in the end. But one thing still remains clear. Alex Palou is still HIM. His first ever Street Circuit win now puts in the drivers seat for the $1m bonus and he at times looked DOMINANT in a 74 lap leading charge. Dre and...

Look, we try to make this one seem like it was interesting, but sometimes you get what you're given. Max Verstappen completely dominated the Spanish Grand Prix, winning with a Grand Slam (by 24 seconds), and with it, has now led 155 consecutive laps in F1. Can anything stop him? Sergio Perez couldn't after getting knocked out in Q2 and could only manage 4th. 53 points back? Are we done here? Also,...

No, the thumbnail is not kidding, that really IS a NASCAR Stock Car on track alongside Le Mans prototypes. It's wild. But here's a special edition of Motorsport101 previewing the 24 Hours of Le Mans for 2023, the Centenary running of the World's Greatest Race! We break down all of the loaded Hypercar category! Toyota are the favourites with their wealth of experience and fleet of amazing drivers,...

Good news gang, for the first time, we can say Charles Leclerc finished a Monaco Grand Prix! It's a plus! But oh man, shock news! We actually got a good Monaco GP! I know right? Red Bull actually came *this* close to losing one, due to a torrential downpour with just 25 laps to go, and Fernando Alonso almost undercutting Max for the win in transition... but they put slicks on it! *headdesk* We als...

Well, that was a hell of an Indianapolis 2.5 right? We kid, but the 107th Indy 500 was yet another case of the tension being dialled up to the maximum in the final 50 laps! And in extra cool news, Ryan Erik King is back on the show this time around to break it all down! But first, we had to peel RJ O'Connell off of the ceiling as he celebrated his mans, Josef Newgarden finally winning the Indy 500...

The Month of May is here, and it's time to get through the half way point of IndyCar's biggest month of the year. In this episode, Dre Harrison and RJ O'Connell break down both the GMR Grand Prix on the Indy Road Course, and Qualifying for this weekend's 107th Running of the Indianapolis 500. And so far, Alex Palou is one step away from doing what Simon Pagenaud did in 2019 and sweeping the entire...

A special occasion for MotoGP as Le Mans came down with a record weekend attendance of 278,000 to witness the 1,000th MotoGP race. And with it, we saw another dominant weekend from the VR46 Academy's own, Marco Bezzecchi, who survived the chaos around him as Championship Leader Francesco Bagnaia crashed into the Aprilia of Maverick Vinales, and teammate Luca Marini and Alex Marquez collided at the...