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Oh dear, it's happened again. Dre, Cam and RJ review what was a wild weekend from IndyCar at one of our Podcast's favourite circuites, the Xpel Grand Prix at Road America. It was another brilliant victory for Alex Palou, who came back from being roughed up early on and had to navigate chaos, 5 cautions and multiple moments of Penske's running cars off the road to get to the front, and then defeat...

Well, talk about the air being sucked out of the room, phew.  On the one hand - We got the huge story that the European Commission has finally given Liberty Media the green light to complete their 84% purchase of Dorna Sports, MotoGP's commercial rights holder, with Chase Carey and Sean Bratches now on the big board of directors. What does it mean for the sport, and what does Liberty need to do to...

Oh boy, everyone's getting their first oval wins this year. Kyle Kirkwood is becoming a real problem.  Dre, RJ and special guest Ryan Erik King review what was one of the best IndyCar races of 2025, the Bonmarito Auto 500 from WWT/Gateway Raceway. And in a race that was defined by a huge Josef Newgarden/Louis Foster wreck, it was Kyle Kirkwood who took his 3rd win of the season and his first on an...

Sometimes, the story writes itself. On the face of it, a strange Le Mans. No major wrecks. Just one Safety Car in 24 hours of racing, and just a handful of Full Course Yellows. A Hypercar distance record, the second fastest race on average speed since the series moved on from LMP1... and yet, you've probably read the headlines. Robert Kubica, spearheading the timing sheets and the lap counter, led...

Just when you thought the title race was looking pencilled in, it takes another twist thanks to Lando Norris losing his patience. Dre, Cam and a returning RJ O'Connell sit down to talk the F1 Canadian Grand Prix, as George Russell would take complete control of the weekend, and winning from pole, holding off a stalemate of pace and early attacks from Max Verstappen, his teammate Kimi Antonelli, an...

Sometimes, the simple answer is the correct answer. And at Aragon, Marc Marquez was perfect.  Dre and Cam review what was a dominant Aragon weekend from #93, leading every single timed session across the weekend for the first time since Marc did it himself in Germany 2015. Even with a tricky GP25 bike, and a poor Sprint start, Marc never really looked like losing. The boys review that, the 32-poin...

Welcome to IndyCar's post-500 Hangover, as the series headed to the streets of Detroit, and where Kyle Kirkwood dominated the streets to take his second win of 2025, and making it so IndyCar's only had two winners in seven races for the first time since Champ Car's Sebastien Bourdais and AJ Allmendinger did it in 2006. The big news? Alex Palou put in the wall by David Malukas to reduce the Spaniar...

Oh Maximilian, you did it again... Dre, Cam and RJ return to talk about the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix, and there was one massive, overwhelming Championship flashpoint. Forget Oscar Piastri's 5th win of the season, this weekend will be known as the race where Max Verstappen suffered an industrial bout of headloss, driving into the side of George Rusell's Mercedes. He was given a 10-second penalty and...

It's been another hectic week in the land of MotoGP, and it's time for Dre and Cam to review a time period where for once, we got it right on the timing via Jorge Martin! First up, the news that Jorge Martin doubled down on his threat to leave Aprilia and that as it stands, he's set to leave them at the end of 2025. It shows the two sides are refusing to budge, with Aprilia claiming that the injur...

Going to go out on a limb here and suggest the new plan didn't go so well... Dre, RJ and Cam discuss the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix, as Lando Norris turned over the fastest lap in track history and handled the inevitable traffic to take a comfortable victory and reduce his Championship arrears to just three points heading into a critical race in Spain this weekend. But the big talk was the mandatory p...

Dear God, he actually did it. After all the fuss, all the jokes that the Indy 500 was the missing piece, and the near-misses that had held him back, Alex Palou finally did it and won the Indy 500 at his sixth attempt, and has arguably reached immortality in the realm of IndyCar. Dre, Cam and RJ sit down to discuss just how Palou did it, holding off the likes of Marcus Ericsson in the Andretti, Dav...

Sorry this came so late again, it's been a tricky schedule for me at the moment - Dre Dre, Cam and RJ sit down to review a pretty solid final goodbye to the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix at Imola. And it was GT Tester turned F1 driver Franz Hermann Max Verstappen who sent it around the outside of polesitter Oscar Piastri on the opening corner and never really looked back after that!  It marked the fir...

This was meant to be one of the biggest weekend's and stories of the year. Robert Shwartzman takes a 5,000/1 shot to become just the third rookie ever to take pole position for the greatest spectacle in racing. The first rookie to do it in 42 years, and the first new team to do in 43 years. In a world of Motorsport's dominance being well known in 2025, this was awesome... Until, less than 24 hours...

Safe to say, it's going to be a busy week of IndyCar Podcasts. In this special recorded last week, we talk all about the last two IndyCar race weekends - Barber and the GP of Indy, that shared one thing in common, Alex Palou running through the field like crazy. It gives him a 97-point lead in the standings after just five races, and well, the field is starting to turn on him. After a smattering o...

Well... this one's a whopper. After just one full weekend in the black of Aprilia, as well as two dangerous crashes and a training injury, Jorge Martin shocked the MotoGP world by having the story drop that he intended to use his release clause to leave the time a year early and blow up the rider market. Dre, Cam and RJ break down just how Martin came to this conclusion, the impact and the negativ...

And when it was all said and done, Oscar Piastri hit a Griddy for Miami.  Dre Harrison and Cameron Buckley sit down to review not only the Miami GP weekend and all the drama that came with it, but the latest news out of Team Enstone, with the breaking news that Oliver Oakes is gone at Alpine, and Jack Doohan has been replaced with Franco Colapinto for the next five races.  In Miami, Oscar Piastri...

Sorry for the delay on this one, been a busy weekend behind the curtain for your boy, forgive me! Welcome to the latest Motorsport101 and it's a review of MotoGP's Spanish Grand Prix, and with it, a little nugget of history. Because after 93 attempts in the top flight (I mean, come on now), Alex Marquez finally becomes a MotoGP Grand Prix winner, and becomes half of the first pair of brothers to e...

Never has such a familiar sim racing phrase made so much sense: "They say you cut the course, you'll have to give up the time gained!" The 2025 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was a race that was ultimately decided by a Turn 1 flashpoint, a rule change that came into play last year, and the subsequent penalty. Max Verstappen gets hit with a dose of game theory as he cut the chicane, and the 5-second time...

If a Palou falls in the Long Beach, and no-one got to see it, did it make a sound? That's the question Dre, RJ and Cam have to answer in the latest edition of Motorsport101, as IndyCar took to the famous streets of Long Beach for Round 3 of the 2025 Championship. And for the second time in three years, it would be Kyle Kirkwood that would conquer all, defeat Alex Palou for the first time this seas...

Oh man, I think we may just need to retire the #1 plate forever. Just give it to Mick Doohan or something. Welcome to our review of MotoGP's 2025 GP of Qatar, and for many, what they thought was going to be the Pecco Bagnaia renaissance era. Until Marc Marquez kicked his flowers out of the garden. Another double victory for the Spaniard, and with Bagnaia's poor sprint and Alex Marquez ramming Fabi...

It was a tale of two McLaren's at the Bahrain Grand Prix. On the one hand, Oscar Piastri checked off another huge box in his title winning aspirations as he took a dominant pole and win combo to reduce his Championship arrears to just three points. On the other, a clumsy race for Lando Norris that had him blow qualifying, start on the front row, miss his pit box, and get beaten by George Russell,...

We're not too impressed with McLaren in this one, so much so that Dre has adopted a new phrase to describe their Japanese Grand Prix weekend - Scared money don't make none.  Max Verstappen had a flawless weekend at Suzuka, taking a surprise pole position ahead of the McLarens of Norris and Piastri, and then led almost every single lap with the dirty air of the track holding McLaren back from a dir...

You know how they say that Austin likes to keep it weird? Well, MotoGP's return to Texas certainly qualified.  It was a weekend that went viral due to the changing conditions and another Marc Marquez highlight reel moment, with the man bolting off the track just seconds before the warm-up lap was set to start, causing chaos as he chased down his dry bike, and the majority of the roster following h...

Whoops, forgot the description!  For the first time on Motorsport101, we review the IndyCar Grand Prix at the Thermal Club and well... it was certainly different. An actual Championship round on its return, and a familiar face at the top as Alex Palou dominated the back end of proceedings to maintain his 100% record to start the season.  But he got there through a conservative strategy from McLare...

Well... that escalated quickly.  In one of the most shocking driver moves of recent memory, after just two Grand Prix, Liam Lawson has been sent back to Racing Balls in a swap deal, with former teammate Yuki Tsunoda heading the other way and making his debut for Red Bull at next weekend's Japanese Grand Prix. In an emergency podcast, Dre, Cam, and returning guest Ryan Erik King break down just how...