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Peter takes questions and comments from viewers and listeners on the Thursday after the Chinese GP.  Some of the road dust has settled - but still there's plenty of it out there, swirling in the lithiumionishphere... With thanks to Jetcraft, the world's largest buyer and seller of executive jets: https://jetcraft.com To TrackNinja, a lap-timer and data app designed to help users improve...

The factory Mercedes team - George Russell heading Kimi Antonelli - duly finished one-two in Melbourne, exhibiting more power, more downforce, more grip and more balance than all of their opposition - and capped all of that with perfect strategy calls. Ferrari pushed them hardest, with Charles Leclerc beautifully taking the lead into T1 and exchanging early-lap power surges with George Russell, bu...

No surprise about the subject matter here!  We suspect Cameron was doing his usual devil's advocate thing but he did nevertheless succeed in winding up PW well beyond his analogue rev-limiter.  This is the Monday morning after the infamous 2026 Australian GP, opening round of F1's much-revised - and massively inferior - new show.  No substantive beverages required. With thanks to Jetcraf...

With the 53% ICE-47% Electric F1 now upon us, we spoke to Gavin White, the CEO and co-founder of About:Energy, one of the world's leading battery modelling and simulation companies.  A motor racing fan in his own right, Gavin, 31, was introduced to the industry by Formula Student and today lists Porsche and Mercedes amongst his blue-chip customers. His insight into the new F1 - into the pitfa...

It's the Tuesday before the Australian GP - Round 1 of the 2026 FIA F1 World Championship.  Lots to talk about and to contemplate, in other words - particularly with turbulence in the Middle East now colouring the F1 calendar and the FIA re-writing the piston compression ratio rules. Peter in this podcast responds to all these topics and more.  With thanks to Jetcraft, the world's larges...

Recorded during the last phase of Bahrain Test 2, this podcast provides fascinating insight from Mark Slade on a number of major topics, including - (00:00) the relative performance right now of Mercedes, Ferrari, Red Bull and McLaren; (03:33) the prodigious talent of Nico Hulkenberg (a driver with whom Mark has worked on numerous occasions); (07:52) the mess at Aston Martin-Honda; (23:00) the ele...

It being the Monday before the second Bahrain test, Cameron loses no time in this video the key issues of the moment - namely the 2026 F1 start procedures; the pace (or not) of the Newey AM; the complexity of PU management; and what the fans are going to see (or not) on screen.  No need for any caffeine as you listen to this one... With thanks to Jetcraft, the world's largest buyer and seller...

With the first week of Bahrain testing underway, Peter Windsor and Mark Slade take questions live on YouTube chat.  Subjects include: power harvesting and deployment; how some drivers will more effectively be able to enhance rear axle performance; active aero; overtake modes; start procedures; fuel-flow management; and how fuel will be burned...to generate electrical power. Mark Slade has been a r...

Our second livestream this week focuses again on the new regs, the new synthetic fuels, the new driving techniques of the new season plus the familiar journeys into Senna, Prost, Clark, Mansell, Williams and Hunt territory.  Non-stop F1 chat, in other words, all driven by you. With thanks to Jetcraft, the world's largest buyer and seller of executive jets: https://jetcraft.com To OEM Exclusiv...

THE F1 shakedowns are over and what have we learned?  Who's looking good - and who's looking less than good? Join Peter Windsor live on YouTube chat with all your questions and comments about F1 past, present and future. Please note that we are now limiting questions to two per person: this way everyone will have a better chance of making contact. With thanks to Jetcraft, the world'...

We were delighted to be joined by Craig Scarborough for this livestream - particularly as we were in the midst of the Barcelona "closed-door" tests.  Lots of new cars to analyse and discuss, therefore - and lots of great questions from the viewers.  In the second half of the stream, Peter took more queries from viewers and also paid tribute to Hans Herrmann, the outstanding German driver...

At the later time of 19:00 CET, lots of new listeners joined this programme from all over the world.  Here's all the chat and comment - two hours of unabridged F1 content, flavoured with PW's unique F1 anecdotes and perspectives. With thanks to Jetcraft, the world's largest buyer and seller of executive jets:https://jetcraft.com To OEM Exclusive, the passionate suppliers of OEM upgr...

Welcome to the 2026 F1 season - and thanks for all the great questions and comments.  This podcast begins with a quick look at the McRae family - as in Jimmy, the five-times British Rally Champion and Colin, the much-missed Rally1 hero - after which we open the F1 vault. Topics range from Sir Frank Williams' road accident to Christian Horner's future and what Alan Jones felt after finish...

Sit back and enjoy the banter in the first Camchat of the New Year. The new cars, the closed-door testing in Barcelona, the state of the overtaking game, the prospects at Ferrari, the most recent of the Sergio Perez quotes: it's all here - together, hopefully with a latte and maybe a donut or two. With thanks to Jetcraft, the world's largest buyer and seller of executive jets: https://je...

In this livestream, Cory Pesaturo introduces new stats that may just elevate Max Verstappen to GOAT status (15:38); and a wide variety of viewers' questions and comments take us forward to the new regs of 2026, back to the under-rated brilliance of Renault and Jean-Pierre Jabouille in the 1979 French GP, sideways to the artistry of Mauricio Arrivabene's signature and centre-stage to the...

Peter, Mark Slade and viewers look back at the 2025 F1 season finale at Abu Dhabi. Max won it...but Lando took the title by two points. Plenty about which to talk right there - plus much more. As a special bonus, Mark Slade, a title-winning F1 race engineer, will be adding his views on the race and the season just past; the future of Alpine; the skill of Alain Prost; and why Ferrari have had so ma...

A somewhat shell-shocked Cameron chats to Peter on the Tuesday after the Abu Dhabi GP.  Lando is the new World Champion; Max is the season's winningest driver. So who won? And why? And what were the pivotal moments? And is the current F1 points-scoring system actually working? These were just a few of the topics covered on this particular morning, when the coffee was flowing freely and the su...

And so it ended.  Max, Oscar and Lando finished one-two-three on the Abu Dhabi road - but it was Lando who was thus ahead in the final standings of the FIA Drivers' World Championship by the margin of two points. Lando Norris = World Champion. Max was magnificent from the pole; Oscar ran hard Pirellis from the start (rather than the Mediums selected by all the other major runners) and, in so...

Against all odds - against all logic - Max Verstappen and Red Bull-Honda decisively and clinically won the Qatar GP on Sunday, with McLaren-Mercedes finishing only P2-P4, sandwiching the Williams-Mercedes of Carlos Sainz. In what will be remembered as the most inexplicable strategy call of the 2025 season, both McLaren drivers were told to stay out when a Safety Car was deployed on lap seven. Thus...

No prizes for guessing the hot topics in this chat with Cameron.  McLaren's Qatar strategy - or lack of it - forms the basis of the Cam-Peter interchange, with Cameron doing his best to wind up Windsor wherever possible.  And Windsor, of course, takes the bait.  There's also lots of Lewis and mountains of Max...so sit back, add the pumpkin spice and sip the latte. With thanks to Jetcraft...

Sit back to enjoy another Max Verstappen demonstration of how it should be done - this time with a Red Bull that was virtually undriveable on Friday, so bad was its bouncing.  Max struggled through to P4 in the Sprint but, after changes made to the car before qualifying, recovered to start the main race P3. That became P2 after the first corner and then P1 when the McLaren-Mercedes made their firs...

Peter and viewers/listeners look back at a sensational Las Vegas GP and ahead to this weekend's Qatar GP - the penultimate round of the 2025 F1 World Championship. Cars will be limited to 25 laps per set of Pirelli tyres in Qatar - and it's a Sprint weekend, too.  So what can we expect?  After the mayhem of Vegas, the Championship fight is still very much alive in the hands of Lando Norr...

Max Verstappen's domination of the Las Vegas assumed much greater perspective post-race when, incredibly, both McLaren-Mercedes were disqualified due to technical infringements. In this podcast, Cameron grills Peter on this key moment, on the brilliance of Max, on the troubles at Ferrari, and with Lewis Hamilton in particular, and on lots more besides.  Download, settle back and enjoy the cof...

It's all eyes on Vegas as Mark Slade delves into the nuances of car and tyre set-up for the fast street circuit - fast in the sense of long straights (as distinct from quick, demanding corners).  Temperatures will be slightly less cold this year due to the earlier scheduling of practice, qualifying and the race but Pirelli tyre preparation laps will still be critical - as Mark highlights in t...

Join Peter and viewers as they look back at a sensational Brazilian (São Paulo) GP at Interlagos. Peter in his opening monologue talks about the controversy surrounding the power unit change on Max Verstappen's Red Bull-Honda and the post-race comment by Ferrari's Chairman, John Elkann, in which he advised his two drivers - Charles Leclerc and Sir Lewis Hamilton - to "talk less and...