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We're catching up with shows over the next few days, and first up, the 2022 Spanish grand Prix for Formula 1, and it was a newsworthy and actually somewhat interesting edition of the series at Catalunya. At the front, it was a war of attrition. A massivbe gust of wind (No, Nico Rosberg), blew over the track and put Carlos Sainz and Max Verstappen in the gravel early doors. But Max would climb back...

Episode #364 takes us to Berlin and one of our favourite rounds at Templehof Airport. And for all the chaos that this series tends to provide, this was... a different affair. A calm, energy saving tactical pair of races. And the story of the weekend... was off the track. In Formula E's worst kept secret, McLaren made it official that they're joining the series in Mercedes place as we head towards...

A record crowd of 110,000 on race day heads to Le Mans to witness home hero Fabio Quartararo... finish off the podium?! It was Enea Bastianini who stole the field's lunch money again with a stunning 2nd half of the race performance to not only beat but humiliate the factory Ducati bosses after beating Francesco Bagnaia so bad he panicked and crashed at the final corner with 7 laps left. It was suc...

We were due a crazy one in IndyCar at some point with this season, and we just got one as IndyCar kicked off its Month of May with a rain-affected GMR Grand Prix of Indianapolis! It was Colton Herta that took full advantage of the changeable conditions, gambled on slicks first, leapt to the front from 14th and would then be virtually unstoppable at the front. Mind you, he got a gift in the hands o...

Let's be honest here folks - This was the one we were all circling on the calendars. One of the most heavily anticipated and hyped races ever seen in F1, and we extended our show to compensate. Buckle up, because this one is wild. We had to talk about the hype going in. This was so heavily promoted that we had a Wednesday night concert with all the drivers and team bosses before a wheel was even t...

IndyCar returned for Round 4 of the 2022 Season, and we had to stand back for fireworks at Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama, as we had a prime slab of beef to deal with! First and foremost, the winner. Pato O'Ward, Mr Fast Hands, was superb in his final stint, passing Rinus on cold tyres round the outside of Charlotte's Web, and would hold off a fast charging Palou to take his first win of 2022....

A return to Monaco for a race that last year, we called the 2021 Motorsport101 Race of the Year. It was a much anticipated affair, but in the end, Stoffel Season returned to the streets as he took an impressive win over Jaguar's Mitch Evans and DS's Jean-Eric Vergne. We talk about some of the excellent gamesmanship tactics of Stoffel's win, as well as the expense of Porsche's Pascal Wehrlein, who...

This was an emergency episode we recorded and turned around ultra quick because for obvious reasons. We were shocked to hear on Monday afternoon the news that Suzuki would out of nowhere, told the team their intent to quit the sport at the end of the 2022 season. The ramifications from this are massive. Suzuki haven't even realised any official statements yet as Japan are in the middle of Golden W...

Welcome back, Fabio Quartararo, we missed you in this 2022 title race! MotoGP's 4th round of the Championship had the runners and riders return to Portimao for the Portuguese Grand Prix! And we got an absolute seal-clubbing of a win from the reigning Champion, Fabio Quartararo. We talk all about the polarity between his speed, and the rest of the struggling Yamaha paddock at the top of the show. W...

No, we're not going to call it the full name, you're welcome spell-checker! Welcome to Imola, and Round 4 of the Formula 1 World Championship, and after Charles Leclerc dominated the proceedings in Australia, Max Verstappen lead a near perfect Red Bull weekend, and a Grand Slam of his own to get back in title contention. Oh, and did we mention rain? We talk all about that, as well as the rare mist...

While Monaco prepares itself for the REAL Grand Prix it has down there, we look back on Formula E's Rome Double Header weekend and for the first time since Season 6, we had a back-to-back winner as MITCCCCCCCCCCCH BRRRRRRRAH (Evans), dominated the weekend, including a Race 1 Dub where he came from 9th on the grid and still won comfortably. Mitch now resides just 9 points off the top of the Champio...

A very different kind of brilliance befell the Circuit of the Americas for Round 4 of the MotoGP World Championship. Marc Marquez, the heavy favourite, got hit with a technical gremlin off the line and fell to the back. So of course he still finished 6th, just 6 seconds off the win. We go weak at the knees over this ride. Oh, and Enea Bastianini won! That was cool. We discuss the prospects of whet...

Long Beach. A race of 95% excellent and 5% comedy. You'll see what you mean as you listen on! It was another outstanding display from Josef Newgarden at Long Beach, overrunning last year's winner in Colton Herta, then surviving an intense amount of pressure from Alex Palou and Romain Grosjean from behind, both arguably with faster cars. We break down Josef's most exciting win since... the previous...

Round 3 of the Formula 1 World Championship had the travelling circus head to Albert Park in Australia for the first time in 3 years, with a new chicane, but a familiar result - Charles Leclerc laying a whooping on the field and Max Verstappen suffering ANOTHER DNF as his car exploded off a fuel leak. We talk about the state of play in the title race as Max falls 46 points behind Charles in the ti...

Aleix Espargaro, at his 200th attempt, finally wins a MotoGP race. On an Aprilia. Just when you thought this era of MotoGP couldn't get anymore ridiculous. It was great to be back in Argentina after 3 years away, and we got a fantastic race long fight between Aleix Espargaro and Jorge Martin, with the veteran coming out on top. We talk about Aleix, his time in the sport, and what it means. Dre eve...

Well... that was a smooth weekend. The boys are back to talk Saudi Arabia for Round 2 of the F1 2022 Championship and the most newsworthy part of the weekend, landed on Friday night. A suicide drone hitting a local oil refinery raised a lot of concern over safety, including a 4 hour long driver meeting with the teams, the boss, and the track promoters. We discuss it all in the middle of the show....

The Rain Shaman, accidentally saving the Indonesian Grand Prix. None of this sentence was made up, honestly! For the first time since 1997, MotoGP returned to Indonesia, and it got wet! Stupid wet! Wet enough that the whole thing was put off for an hour! And amazingly, this was kind of the best option! Dre and Cam go hard on the preparation of the Mandalika Bay circuit after the dry running led to...

No really, Ferrari might be back. Sound the alarms! Alter the villagers! What the fuc- Here's Episode 348, or as admin Dre calls it - The one race between disasters for F1! We have the Bahrain GP, and to everyone's surprise, Ferrari's pace is real! Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen engage in an old rivarly, right before both Bulls give up the ghost in the final stint in what was a drama filled op...

Welcome back to Texas and IndyCar's second race of 2022 as we hit up Texas for the Xpel 375 and it was very much a tale of two races! So much so we got a special guest along too - In Cam's chair, is Chris DeHarde, IndyCar co-editor for Frontstretch and writer for Motorsport Magazine and the Indianapolis Star! We talk the race itself and its difficult spot on the calendar due to struggling ratings...

The big one. The season preview to end all season previews. It’s Formula 1 2022, and we have no idea what’s really about to happen! And that’s great! We try our very best to go team by team as we pick apart testing and multiple other factors as we try to guess how we think 2022’s F1 season will play out. New cars, some old faces, and a potential three-way title decider. Haas had to dump Nikita Maz...

After 15 years of struggles, difficulty, and tragedy, Gresini is back. This one was for Fausto. For the first time since that legendary day in Estoril in 2006, Gresini Racing wins in MotoGP and history was made as Enea Bastianini shocked the world and gave us the sport’s first ever female team principal win! We break down the unlikely win… and beyond, with Brad Binder and Pol Espargaro completing...

IndyCar is back baby! And we got a fascinating return for the series in St Petersburg (FLORIDA), last weekend, as Scott McLaughlin, a man who was 60/1 going into the weekend, would win from pole, despite just about every usual IndyCar shenanigans being thrown at him. From backmarker traffic, to cautions and a charging Alex Palou right at the end, we talk at length about the development and “projec...

The next episode in our season preview series is live as MotoGP returns on March 6th for its largest season ever! 21 rounds with the best riders in the world and we break it all down on Motorsport101! We went factory by factory, so KTM come up first. Is Miguel Oliveira at risk of losing his seat as KTM position its star talent. Tech3 is right there with the dominant Moto2 lineup of 2021 fo Remy Ga...

Time for the second in our Season Preview series heading into 2022, and in this one, it’s IndyCar Season coming to you from St Pete in Florida this weekend! In this 90 minute special, we preview all the key storylines going into the season. From the back half gaining reinforcements like Callum Illot, Tatiana Calderon, Conor Daly’s return, and Meyers Shank Racing going with a huge Indy 500 style De...

You know you’re a badass when you can extend a race by an extra lap and cripple a Formula E field… Just because you can. Welcome to Formula E in Mexico, Round 3 of the World Championship, and we had a genuinely great time with this one. We had Edo Mortara gunning for pole sideways in a brilliant set of improved Duels, and that was the pre-show! Mexico City’s ePrix was a superb race. We had some gr...