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CONTENT WARNING: The following Podcast contains transphobic rhetoric you may find upsetting. If you don't want to listen to that segment, we recommend stopping after the segment about the Driver Intros around the 50 minute mark. Thanks for listening. An extended edition of the M101 Podcast this week with the travelling circus heading to Miami. Within it, a deflating race if you're a fan of the Mex...

Hey gang, sorry this came up a bit late, lot of juggling to get through, but we had to get this one out about IndyCar at Barber and the intense Romain Grosjean and Scott McLaughlin fight! We genuinely thought that this was finally going to be the race that Grosjean put it altogether and take that elusive first IndyCar win... only for a failure of his Push-To-Pass system when he had 100 seconds of...

Well, well, well... nice quiet round in Spain wasn't it? It's a shame that the best MotoGP race of 2023 so far was marred by controversy, but we have to mention first that brilliant fight for the win between Francesco Bagnaia and Brad Binder, that went all the way to the final corner, with Bagania keeping it upright and taking home another GP win, in what would also be KTM's best ever weekend in M...

Baku stunk. I know it, you know it. It wasn't a good time for anyone involved. So we largely decided to ignore it and took about everything else bar the result itself! We talk in-depth about the Sprint Shootout, the changes from the F1 commission designed to improve the format and get more aggression out of the teams. Did it work? Well, yes and no. We breakdown in detail why it won't solve the pro...

It was a good weekend to have a Jaguar powertrain as Envision and Jaguar both split wins as Formula E returned to Tempelhof Airport in Berlin! Mitch Evans led a Jaguar 1-2 finish (Their first ever) in Race 1, with Nick Cassidy taking Race 2 by the scruff of the neck in Race 2, in two fantastic races, with record-breaking numbers. 362 overtakes across the weekend, with 9 different leaders and 22 le...

We tried to tell you that Kyle Kirkwood was special. And proven right we were... In this episode of Motorsport101, we also feature a special guest, Ruby Acosta, Sim Racer for Queens Design eSports and an important ambassador for the LGBT+ community. As we've always said on this network, this show is made by all walks of life, FOR all walks of life, and we want to platform those beyond our usual sc...

We start the podcast with a sombre tribute to the tragic passing of Craig Breen, who died in a rallying accent last week. He was a wonderful ambassador to the sport, and to Irish representation in global sport in general, and he'll be sadly, sadly missed. In our MotoGP Episode, we talk about Alex Rins, who had a near perfect weekend, with a 2nd place in the Sprint, and a win in the GP itself after...

IndyCar is back on the dockett for Round 2 of the series in Texas, and we got a genuine all-time classic for the PPG 375. No seriously, Texas came through for the first time since... 2016?! Josef Newgarden and Pato O'Ward led nearly 90% of the racing laps as they went back and forth relentlessly, with overtakes, two wide running, and even Pato trying to lap the field at one point. And at the end,...

"Francesco Bagnaia... Why are you the way that you are?" - Cam Buckley Welcome back to MotoGP, and we have a brand new winner as the calendar returned to Argentina as the VR46 Academy scores its first ever MotoGP win at the hands of totally not a Marco Simoncelli lookalike, Marco Bezzecchi! He was brilliant in a dominant display in heavy wet conditions as he smacked around Johann Zarco and new pol...

Just what Formula 1 needed after two drab, predictable offerings... a complete shitshow of an orchestrated finish! The record books will show that Max Verstappen took his 2nd race of the season in dominant fashion! The reality is how we got there was a record breaking, wild affair - The first F1 race in history, to have three red flags in it, with their very status as a tool brought into question,...

An extra special edition of the Motorsport101 Podcast this week as Dre and RJ were joined by a special guest - Jens "Geinou" Sobotta, contributor to RacingBlog. De and Japanese Motorsport journalist that's commentated on all three Japanese Supers, GT, Formula and Taikyu! In this feature length special, both RJ and Jens cooks on Super Formula and Super GT's 2023 Seasons starting this weekend and ne...

We're not going to lie to you folks - This one's a little unhinged, even by our standards. We were tired, but having fun and a Formula E Race Review is somewhere in here, as well as a rare blooper of RJ O'Connell screaming in visceral horror. True story! But MITCCCCCCCCCH BRRRRRRRRRRRRAH is still alive and well as he took a narrow win in Formula E's debut in Brazil at the Sao Paolo street circuit....

Well... this was a lot. MotoGP's season opener was always going to be an anticipated affair, but this weekend was all over the place and it was pure unbridled chaos. We had a dodgy Portimao circuit that had Pol Espargaro clatter an unairfenced wall at speed as the gravel refused to slow him down. The result, a horror crash with a lung contusion, a broken mandible and a broken back. That was intens...

Surprise! We got another bonus episode for you in the cooker! And with RJ O'Connell repping Daily Sportscar, we felt like it was only fitting to get a podcast special in with both Sebring Endurance races - The new WEC Season Opener; the 1000 Miles of Sebring (That never goes 1000 Miles), and IMSA's 12 Hours of Sebring! Ferrari snagged a pole in their WEC Debut! But Toyota came through to eventuall...

No, your eyes aren't playing tricks on you, they really are this dominant and there is every chance Red Bull runs the table. F1 returned to Saudi Arabia and it was a beating by Sergio Perez after Max Verstappen had to settle for second... after coming back from 15th in order to do it. Call forth the realisations that this is going to be a two-man fight for the title and we're already trying to giv...

"Hey Gang - Dre here, editor and all that. Quick note - Yes, this is very late, almost a month so. We're really sorry about that. This had some technical issues that took a while to iron out, and on top of that, we got caught up in the start of F1 season, the surprise of actually getting Ryan Nanni as a guest and Season Previews for all of the big stuff. This won't happen again, and hey, with Form...

It's the final episode of Season Preview Season here on Motorsport101, and with MotoGP back in Portimao to kick off their 2023 season on Sunday, Dre and Cam sit down for a feature-length deep dive on the state of the sport heading into the new year. Now, we're going to be honest here, things look a little bleak. Ducati are set to dominate with eight bikes, a GP23 that broke Portimao's lap record i...

Welcome back to IndyCar 2023! And we already had a complete shitshow of a race to start of the season, where half a dozen cars didn't make the fourth corner. Welcome back to... chaos? IndyCar's back in St Petersburg, and the whole running was dominated by a massive incident at Turn 4 where Scott McLaughlin lost control of his car and clattered into Romain Grosjean in a key flashpoint in a battle f...

Okay, toss the scripts out of the window on this one! With an incredible coup, RJ only went and got us Ryan Nanni! Host of the Shutdown Fullcast of College Football fame, and someone you may have also seen as an alumni of Secret Base, the incredible video wing of SB Nation! We talk to Ryan, an F1 novice about the first race of the season, and Red Bull completely tearing the field a new asshole, a...

Welcome back to the circus. It's time for the big one, the 2023 Motorsport101 F1 Season Preview! And we're not going to lie folks, we're not going to pretend like there's a huge amount to be excited for besides just seeing cars go round. Red Bull were expected to defend their title, cost cap breach be damned. Then they beat the brakes off the field in testing and they're odds on for Verstappen and...

Welcome back to #SeasonPreviewSeason on the Motorsport101 Podcast, and were start up with IndyCar as their 2023 Seasons kicks off this weekend in St. Petersburg! In this feature length edition of the show (110 minutes), we break down all of the runners and riders of the 2023 season in detail. Why AJ Foty entered the season in such a problematic way. Does Meyer Shank have a plan for the future? Is...

So you mean to tell me that Ryan King only came back on the show because Dan Ticktum got caught speeding at 115mph?! Yes, yes we did! In this episode of Motorsport101, we catch up with more FIA politics as the sport's governing body clarified its stance on political activism during their weekends... and yeah, the Internet flipped out on this one. But was it justified. King helps Dre and Cam explai...

Sorry this one was a little later than planned, we've been a bit spread out over the last week or so, normal service will resume soon! But here's our review on the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, and all within it as a new chapter in sportscar racing began! And yet, some things didn't change! Meyers Shank retained the crown in a 1-2 for Acura, with the #10 of Wayne Taylor Racing close behind as a 24 ho...

A Podcast of two halves on this one. In the first half of the show, we discuss a bit of F1 catchup, with Red Bull announcing a tie-up with Ford with their 2026 power-units as Red Bull Ford Powertrains was born. But also FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem's pretty awful month. In 3 weeks the man was called out for sexist comments from 2001, alienated the current teams further with comments about pr...

You asked for it, and you got it! Dre sits down with Cam and RJ, massive sportscar lovers and experts to preview tomorrow's Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona! It's the dawn of a new era in sportscar racing and the new top flight is broken down, including Porsche's headstart in testing with Penske, Acura and where they fit in against Cadillac, and a round-up of the qualifying, that had the shocker of Nick...