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First up, a small apology - We didn't have a show last week due to technical problems. My PC had a Blue Screen of Death and faulty RAM meant I couldn't record properly, apologies for the delay and hence, these episodes being merged in a sense. Apologies again - Dre The last two MotoGP races weren't exactly classics, so much so, we've combined them into one episode, and turns out we ended up talkin...

It was the overtake heard around the world. Jorge Martin runs slightly wide on the final lap of the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix, and Enea Bastianini sent it in a divebomb for the win. He ran wide, Jorge nearly crashed with the contact involved, and Bastianini goes on to win his second race of the year. Enter Dre and Cameron, who weren't exactly impressed a divebomb that ugly wasn't even investigated...

A newsworthy weekend on and off the track, Motorsport101 is back to review the Singapore Grand Prix and Dre and RJ produce a classic episode. On it, Lando Norris might have just pulled off the strangest dominant win of all-time. On the face of it, 21 seconds in front of Max Verstappen and just a fastest lap away from a Grand Slam. But with three near-misses that nearly led to an embarassing wreck....

And when it was all said and done, the Championship was partly decided by an unfasted harness buckle. Brutal.  Anyway, welcome to Episode 544 of Motorsport101 and on this edition, we review the IndyCar Championship finale at Nashville Superspeedway. Alex Palou came into the week with a 32 point lead, and then a poor qualifying session opened the door to Will Power potentially getting involved in t...

It's been a while since F1 had as near as we get to a good old fashioned barney, and the 2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix was no exception! With Charles Leclerc scoring his fourth straight pole position in Baku, he had the early lead, but a slow outlap and an aggressive Oscar Piastri had him take the lead and then hold off the Monaco man to take his second career win - And this time, he didn't have to s...

Just like London Buses, you wait 1,043 days for the first win to come around and then two come along at once! Marc Marquez took his second win in a week as he dominated the San Marino GP after the rain sprinkled down in the race itself, Francesco Bagnaia made a business decision to take the points, and Jorge Martin had another flare-up of the bozo gene and took a bike swap, with rather painful res...

It happened. It finally happened. After 1,043 days between Misano 2021 and Aragon 2024, after four surgeries, two bouts of diplopia, an arm twisted 32 degrees and a changed sport, Marc Marquez is FINALLY back to winning ways and he did it in DOMINANT fashion. Aragon was Marc's weekend. He dominated every single session of the weekend barring a wet Sunday warm-up, qualified on pole by eight-tenths...

There is nothing, and I do mean nothing that hits quite like a home victory, and Charles Leclerc has decided to have two of them for the year! Ryan King sticks around to have some chat about the 2024 Italian Grand Prix, and the drama at the front that unfolded, as Oscar Piastri refused to back down on the opening lap as Lando Norris now goes 0-7 on leading second laps from the pole. Ooft. But is i...

Well, this was a dramatic weekend to say the least. It's a four person edition of the Podcast as Ryan Erik King of Jalopnik joins the show, with input as well from FrontStretch's Chris DeHarde with both men and Cam Buckley in attendance in Milwaukee for the weekend itself! And there's a lot to get through, with the series CEO Mark Miles getting into a war of words with one of the series biggest pr...

Well, that was chaotic. IndyCar headed to Gateway for the Bonmarito 500 and the beginning of its five-race post-Olympics run-in to close out the section, and the back end of its race was riddled with more messy racing. Will Power and David Malukas collide when fighting for the lead, with the meme lord going into the wall, a controversial restart by Josef Newgarden leading to Power crashing, and th...

Whoops, forgot to add a bio here! But yes, welcome to MotoGP's 75th Birthday weekend and to do it, we got a throwback weekend but a very new result as Enea Bastianini took his first double victory in MotoGP history! We talk about how the other Ducati Italian has forced himself back into the title picture after nursing his rear tyres perfectly and beating Jorge Martin and Francesco Bagnaia, with th...

It was all coming up Milhouse for Mercedes. Lewis Hamilton was leading the Belgian Grand Prix and pulling away from Charles Leclerc. George Russell called his own number and asked to run a 1-stopper, he got to the front and he held off Lewis and Oscar Piastri for a 1-2 finish and George Russell becomes just the second repeat winner this season... ...Until he wasn't. His car was 1,500 grams underwe...

Originally a written article on Motorsport101.com , Dre catches up with all the news hitting Formula 1 before, during and after the Belgian Grand Prix, including Alpine's new team boss, Esteban Ocon going to Haas, Carlos Sainz to Williams, and Red Bull keeping Sergio Perez. 

Bit of a bumper edition of the show on this occasion. Before we get to IndyCar in Toronto, Dre, RJ and Cam discuss the Formula E Season Finale in London, as Pascal Wehrlein would win Race 1 and finish second in Race 2 to steal the title from Jaguar, who while winning their first World Championship since the Sportscar days of 1991, they missed the one title that eluded them, the drivers title, as N...

Never has such a dominant victory provided so much pointless drama! The timing sheet will say that McLaren had a 1-2 finish by 14 seconds ahead of Lewis Hamilton’s 200th career podium in third. But in reality, an ugly team orders scandal broke out that marred Oscar Piastri's first win as Lando Norris was given the lead due to an undercut from the McLaren pitwall and it led to the team begging him...

Just when you thought this title was looking half over, Iowa happens and more IndyCar chaos ensues. And not in a good way either.  The controversy started before we even had either race, with more hybrid issues disrupting qualifying, with Jack Harvey nursing back and neck spasms and doing three runs to get a time in, and Colton Herta almost risking a Race 1 pole to get another run for Race 2, whic...

Jorge Martin, in the words of co-host Cameron Buckley, why are you the way that you are? The full trio of hosts come together to make sense of MotoGP's German GP, the final round before the summer break, and with a key chance begging for Jorge Martin to restore his whittled-away Championship lead, he tucks the front and crashes from the lead with just two laps to go and just like that, Pecco Bagna...

It's been a good week for ending cold spells. Lewis Hamilton waited 945 days to win in Formula 1 again. Alex Bowman broke an 80-race dry spell in NASCAR to win in Chicago this past weekend. And over in IndyCar, Pato O'Ward was able to claim his first IndyCar win (while taking a chequered flag to do it), in 716 days, in an intense battle with Alex Palou in Mid-Ohio, with the Mexican winning by just...

After 945 Days, Lewis Hamilton finally returned to the winner's circle onm home soil via the British Grand Prix. For the hometown hero, it was a record-breaking NINTH win at Silverstone for the seven-time Champion, but how did he finally break that dry spell? Dre and RJ try to make sense of it all! The pair also breakdown another fumbled bag for McLaren as another chance to win, maybe even a 1-2 f...

Well... that was a beating.  Francesco Bagnaia spared absolutely no one in what Dorna called a Super Grand Slam, with Pecco winning both the Sprint and the GP from pole, while leading every single lap, AND the fastest lap in both races. In fact, the only session he didn't lead, was the Sunday warm-up. Dre, RJ and returning guest Ryan Erik King breakdown just how dominant Pecco was, as the title fi...

The clash heard around the world and the biggest flashpoint of the 2024 F1 season so far. After weeks of close battles and teasing, Lando Norris and Max Verstappen really go to war, and this time, they take each other out, leading to George Russell taking a shock win after sitting in third. Nearly the entire episode is dedicated to that Norris vs Verstappen clash and everything around it. Who was...

And meanwhile in IndyCar in California, Alex Palou decided to be the himminest him, that ever himmed.  Dre and Cam sit down and make sense of the Grand Prix of Monterrey at Laguna Sega, and Alex Palou who pulled off an insanity middle period of the race to come back into contention and win comfortably over Colton Herta and Alex Rossi, with Kyle Kirkwood in the mix early on too. How did Palou pull...

Originally a written article for Motorsport101.com , Dre Harrison opens his inbox for June's edition of #AskDre. Questions include, whether F2 has become unserious for a feeder series, guessing IndyCar's 2025 roster, an answer people won't want to hear on British GP tickets, wondering whether anyone else from Moto2/3 is moving up alongside Fermin Aldeguer and Dre damages his mental health when tal...

A familiar tale broke out at the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona. Max Verstappen takes early control of the race, only for Lando Norris in a quicker McLaren to try and gun him down managing his tyres better... but came up just shy. Ah, fiddlesticks. Dre and Cam break down a race where you could argue McLaren was truly faster for the first time, as well as Mercedes new found role as antagonists and...

The 92nd Running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans did not disappoint, with an all-time classic finish. 62 runners, 14 different marques, 23 Hypercars, and in the end, just 14 seconds covering the winning #50 Ferrari of Miguel Molina, Antonio Fuoco and Nicklas Nielsen taking it all over Jose Maria Lopez, Kamui Kobayashi and Nyck De Vries.  But how did we get there? Dre Harrison and RJ O'Connell fresh off...