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Just when you thought this season was done throwing up surprises - Fermin Aldeguer becomes MotoGP's first rookie winner since Jorge Martin in 2021! It was an unpredictable weekend in Mandalika for the Indonesian GP, and Aprilia's Marco Bezzecchi had more pace than he knew what to do with. He nearly botched te Sprint but came back from 6th on the opening corner to win it on the final lap. But a hug...

A surprisingly loaded episode of the Podcast off the back of a relatively tame GP. Funny how these things happen. With RJ on the way to Atlanta for Petit Le Mans, Dre and Cam have you covered for F1's latest Singapore GP, and it was a dramatic one in some strange ways. First of all, completely out of nowhere, George Russell dominated the weekend to take his second victory of 2025. To follow that u...

The inevitable finally happened. After 2,184 days, 4 surgeries, 2 bouts of Dipalopa and over 100 crashes, Marc Marquez wins his seventh MotoGP World Championship, and his ninth overall as a MotoGP rider. Dre, Cam and RJ breakdown what's made Marc Marquez's season so special, as well as the nature of his six-year long comeback and return to the top of the mountain. Is this one of the greatest comeb...

Just when you thought Max Verstappen was out of the title picture, McLaren gonna McLaren. Again. Dre and RJ are back to review the 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix from Baku, and with it, a weekend that had McLaren score the least amount of points in a weekend since Las Vegas 2023.  There was a qualifying session with no less than SIX red flags, lasting 118 minutes as Alex Albon, Nico Hulkenberg, Franco...

"They define themselves" - Marc Marquez Dre and Cam sit down for a heated and emotional Grand Prix weekend in Misano for the GP of San Marino. During it, Marc Marquez actually crashed during Saturday's Sprint Race, won by Marco Bezzecchi and led to a huge number of his and Valentino Rossi's fans booing as he hit the deck. Was that okay? Is booing in sport a fight worth having?  Marc would take rev...

Technically speaking, this means it's still been 105 days since a Marquez failed to win. Technically. It was a tale of two races in Barcelona, as Alex Marquez went from Zero-to-Hero, crashing out from a comfortable lead in the Sprint and gifting Marc Marquez his 15th consecutive win, before coming back on Sunday to take his second GP victory and beating older brother Marc straight up for the first...

We just can't have anything straightforward at McLaren can we? Dre, Cam and RJ are back to make sense of F1's latest trip to Monza's Cathedral of Speed and the 2025 Italian Grand Prix. One part was straight-forward and that was Max Verstappen, whose work with Red Bull's new floor and new low-downforce package led to the fastest lap and race in F1 history, a lap at 164mph, and a race that was over...

Just when you thought the title fight was reaching its climax... Dre and RJ Review the 2025 Dutch GP from Zandvoort, as Oscar Piastri lead from lights to flag in the Australian's first career Grand Slam victory., But right behind him, a severed oil line via Lando Norris' chassis lead to a DNF, and a 34-point mountain to climb for the British driver, meaning likely having to win at least 7 of the f...

We'll be honest, it's rare when IndyCar takes priority over F1 or MotoGP in this network. However, given all the bombshells coming out of the series that affects now only IndyCar, but potentially European Motorsport and F1, we thought we'd make an exception. Dre and RJ sit down to discuss the final round of the IndyCar season first, the Music City Grand Prix from Nashville Superspeedway. And it tu...

Just when you thought you'd seen it all in IndyCar in 2025, an act of god led to a miraculous win for a driver many of us said should be parked after Portland! Dre, Cam and RJ review the 2025 Milwaukee Mile race, with Cam actually there in person and still recovering from how good the root beer was. He's also rather posiitve about the track's chances going forward given an improved turnout on 2024...

What'chu know about seven? Pay me!  Dre, Cam and RJ are back with another biking edition of Motorsport101, as MotoGP headed to Balaton Park for the sport's first Hungarian Grand Prix for 33 years! And with it, a shocking result - Marc Marquez extending his winning streak to 14, winning both his 7th Sprint and GP in a row, and his 10th of 2025.  We talk about the biggest talking point of the weeken...

Our bikes is back! MotoGP finally returns after a three-week summer break, and the sport heading to Austria and the Red Bull Ring for Round 13 of 22, and the second verse was the same as the first for Marc Marquez who took his sixth Sprint and Grand Prix win in a row.  But again, it wasn't a straight forward story for Marc, who had to fight off a valiant effort from Marco Bezzecchi, who was at it...

It was inevitable and we all saw it coming - But Alex Palou can finally say he's a four-time IndyCar Series Champion. Yes, it was a gift after Pato O'Ward's ECU burnt to a crisp, but it was all wrapped up in an intense decider in Portland as IndyCar heads towards the end of its 2025 season. Will Power did what he had to do at the front, using an alternate strategy and immense raw pace to leapfrog...

The Motorsport101 gang is back in full! Dre, Cam and RJ are back to make sense of a highly strategic and tense Hungarian Grand Prix, celebrating their 40th edition of the staple race on the calendar. (And Dre drops some important personal news) McLaren pulled off their fourth 1-2 finish in a row, the first time they've done so since Senna and Prost in 1988 - But it didn't come easy! Oscar Piastri...

He's almost there. And in a near flawless fashion, Alex Palou put one hand and four fingers on the Astor Cup, with another dominating, suffocating display at Laguna Seca. And with his eighth win of the season, Palou is now chasing history, and one of the oldest records in North American Motorsport history. Dre and RJ review what was a comprehensive beating of the field, ahead of Christian Lundgaar...

Apologies this was a day later than planned. Safe to say, something came up. - Dre Dre and RJ sit down to review Formula 1's Belgian Grand Prix and it was a race heavily affected by rain, and opinions on what to do with said rain. Oscar Piastri won a pretty comfortably wet to dry game of tyre conservation as Lando Norris had to over-drive his McLaren on Hards just to keep it close. But it was an 8...

Well, that was a race where you may have needed a degree if Mathematics to figure out what was happening. Unfortunately for Dre, his was in Broadcast Journalism.  Anyway, Dre, Cam and RJ review IndyCar's 40th Anniversary of the streets of Toronto, and it took a spirited effort from Pato O'Ward, the right level of aggression and a little bit of strategic fortune for him to take his second victory i...

This is getting kinda one-sided, ain't it? Marc Marquez takes his fifth double victory in a row, and his eighth out of the 12 races in 2025 so far. And with his brother failing to score a point all weekend, it pushes his Championship lead up to 120 points. We went from the consistency of Alex being a title threat to pondering just how early Marc will wrap this up.  It wasn't straight forward thoug...

Sorry this ended up more than a week off, been mad busy with the day job (Dre speaking), but here's a review of our Double Header from Iowa over in IndyCar. And it as a weekend centered around Josef Newgarden, in every sense. In an alternate universe, he probably wins both races as the clear class of field. But in a classic Penske in 2025 moment, he ends up with neither. In Race 1, Pato O'Ward ove...

Welcome back to the King of the Ring - Did you miss it? Dre's being totally honest in the intro, he feels like listening to this would be charity given we all bloody well knew what was about to happen, and yet here we are! Yep, Marc Marquez took both the Sprint and the Grand Prix in what ended up as his 9th MotoGP win in Germany, his 12th in all the classes, and his 69th Premier Class win, bringin...

Here it is folks, Episode Number 600 of the Motorsport101 Podcast! After nearly 11 years, we've reached another incredible milestone, and we couldn't have done it without our incredible audience, thank you so much for listening, watching, and supporting us. As we've so often said, you're the best audience in the world and it's a privlege we get to entertain you. To celebrate the occasion, RJ sugge...

Oh dear. Just when you thought Alex Palou had it in the bag, he goes and looks human for just about the first time all season! Dre and RJ are joined by Frontstretch.com 's Chris DeHarde to review IndyCar's Indy200 at Mid-Ohio, where Alex Palou dominated the running of the race, leading over 60 laps from pole position, and was looking great until running wide at Turn 9 opened the door for a fuel-sa...

Thank the Racing Gods we were here to make a Podcast about this one BEFORE the news dropped for one. But yes, the reason this Podcast went up straight away is because we had to address Christian Horner being sacked from Red Bull Racing after 20 years on the job. We talk about the role the Verstappen camp MAY have played in it, what next for Horner, Red Bull and Racing Bulls with Laurent Meikes and...

If there was ever a time for Marc Marquez to turn the screw on the MotoGP World Championship, this was the one.  It's a little late, so forgive us, but here's our review of the Assen TT, where Marc Marquez was bruised, battered and still victorious with his fifth double victory of 2025. This was despite two big crashes during the weekend, including a cup check of the unfortunate variety on Friday,...

Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have another race long battle in the hills of Spielberg, and this time, it was the British driver who came out on top. Dre, Cam and RJ review the 2025 Austrian Grand Prix, with a lot of different stories to tell. At the front, it was Lando Norris who won the battle with Oscar Piastri and held off the Australian's stronger pace in open air to win his third race of the...