The Autosport F1 Podcast

Today we’re delighted to bring you another exclusive interview in our #thinkingforward series. Following the interview on Monday with Zak Brown, we go from team boss to Formula E driver today. The podcast features Motorsport Network President James Allen and Jess McFadyen talking to DS Techeetah driver Jean-Éric Vergne. They talk about why he grabbed the opportunity to join esports, how real racin...

On the podcast today, Motorsport Network President James Allen and Motorsport.com F1 Editor Jonathan Noble are talking to McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown. Zak talks about the lessons learned from managing a McLaren team member testing positive for COVID-19, about his optimism around getting 15 races in for the 2020 F1 season, and whether we’ll see Fernando Alonso racing again for McLaren outside of I...

Today we’re going to bring you another exclusive interview, and the latest in our #thinkingforward series. During the current crisis we're talking with motorsport leaders to hear how they're reacting to unprecedented challenges. Motorsport Network President James Allen and Motorsport.com F1 Editor Jonathan Noble spoke with Red Bull Team Principle Christian Horner. On the podcast today: •Red Bull’s...

Ex-Ferrari Formula 1 boss Stefano Domenicali says it would be "criminal" for motorsport not to seize the opportunity for major reform for the future presented by the coronavirus pandemic. Stefano was talking to Motorsport Network President James Allen from him home in the Dolomites. On the podcast today, hear why he thinks we need to be positive about how motorsport benefits the automotive industr...

On the Autosport podcast today, interviewing duties are handed to Autosport Magazine Editor Kevin Turner, as we sit down for over an hour with Britain's most recent Le Mans 24 Hours winner Nick Tandy. Kevin and Nick talk about life as Porsche Factory Driver, that 2015 Le Mans win in the Porsche 919, driving in the IMSA SportsCar Championship and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit p...

Today we’re going to bring you another exclusive interview and the latest in our #thinkingforward series. During the current crisis we're talking with motorsport leaders to hear how they're reacting to the unprecedented challenges. Motorsport Network President James Allen, and Autosport Deputy Editor Marcus Simmons, spoke with Motorsport UK chairman David Richards. Learn more about your ad choices...

On the podcast today you can hear Formula E Chairman Alejandro Agag speaking with Motorsport Network’s President, James Allen. Speaking exclusively to Autosport for our #thinkingforward series with motorsport leaders, Agag struck an optimistic note about the scale of opportunity that faces the industry, despite the severe challenges caused by the temporary cancellation of all events. They talked a...

On the show today, your host Alex Kalinauckas (Grand Prix Editor, Autosport) is joined by Jonathan Noble (F1 Editor Motorsport.com), Stuart Codling (Executive Editor,GP Racing) and Luke Smith (F1 Reporter, Autosport). Last week Jean Todt joined us live on the Autosport Podcast to talk a range of subjects from the revised 2020 calendar to budget caps. Today we discuss some of the biggest talking po...

It’s not every day you get a Zoom call from the President of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), but that’s what happened earlier when Jean Todt called us from his office to speak with James Allen (President, Motorsport Network) and Jonathan Noble (Motorsport.com F1 Editor). He talks about the challenges facing global motorsport when racing returns, what he thinks of F1 stakeholde...

Alex Kalinauckas (Grand Prix Editor, Autosport) is joined by the team from Motorsport Games to talk about how fans of real life motorsport can get into racing Esports. And can this period of lockdown be an opportunity for racing to increase its reach into new audiences? https://motorsportgames.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On the show today, your host Alex Kalinauckas (Grand Prix Editor, Autosport) is joined by Jonathan Noble (F1 Editor Motorsport.com), Stuart Codling (Executive Editor, GP Racing) and Jake Boxall-Legge (Technical Editor). Last weekend saw two big Esports events happen in the world of motorsport but can it ever replace the real thing? Or should we always think of it as complimentary to 'real' racing....

On the show today, your host Alex Kalinauckas (Grand Prix Editor, Autosport) is joined by Jonathan Noble (F1 Editor Motorsport.com), Stuart Codling (Executive Editor,GP Racing) and Jake Boxall-Legge (Technical Editor). Formula 1's key players have agreed to postpone the introduction of the planned 2021 technical regulations until 2022, amid the continuing uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pand...

On the show today, your host Alex Kalinauckas (Grand Prix Editor, Autosport) is joined by Jonathan Noble (F1 Editor Motorsport.com), Luke Smith (Formula 1 Reporter) and Andrew van Leeuwen (Australian Editor, Motorsport.com). Why did it take so long for Formula 1 to cancel the Australian GP? Should a decision have been earlier or was it right to wait? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcast...

Due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus throughout the globe, Formula 1's 2020 Australian Grand Prix was offficially cancelled, after a McLaren team member tested positive for the Coronavirus. The 2020 Chinese Grand Prix was already postponed, whilst Bahrain's status remains in the air. But these will not be the first cancelled races in Formula 1. So let's take a look back at a few of the races...

Breaking news the day before the first FP1 of the season, McLaren have pulled out of the Australian GP, following a McLaren employee being put in to self isolation after testing positive for the Coronavirus. James Allen talks to Rodi Basso, ex-Ferrari F1 engineer, and Stuart Codling and Ben Anderson of GP Racing Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Ahead of the season opened for Formula 1 in 2020, we Alex Kalinauckas (Grand Prix Editor) was joined by JBL (Technical Editor) and Kevin Turner (Autosport Editor) to rank every team and every driver. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

National Motorsport in the UK has always been a focus for Autosport magazine, which of course is celebrating 70 years in 2020. It's sometimes overshadowed by how much Formula 1 gets talked about, but our readers have been telling us they want more from National racing, so we've launched a new supplment to hear. And in audio form, here is a new podcast from the team. On the show today join Stephen...

Alex Kalinauckas (Grand Prix Editor, Autosport) is joined by Jonathan Noble (F1 Editor, Motorsport.com) and Stuart Codling (Executive Editor, GP Racing) to give the final verdict on pre-season testing ahead of the Formula 1 2020 season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today your host Alex Kalinauckas (Grand Prix Editor, Autosport) and Luke Smith (F1 Reporter, Autosport) are joined by Ben Anderson (Editor and Driver, GP Racing) to discuss day 2 of the 2nd pre-season test of the Formula 1 2020 season. Notable moments include a Mercedes break down and Ferrari topping the timesheets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're back in Barcelona for the first day of the second Formula 1 pre-season test. Alex Kalinauckas is joined by Jonathan Noble and Luke Smith to rundown the news from today and a notably slower fastest time than last week. Who's sandbagging? Ferrari? Mercedes? Racing Point? Listen to find out what the guys think. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mercedes ended the first week of Formula 1 testing in Barcelona with a fastest time and some of the best reliability. Valtteri Bottas set a time in the morning which already blows away the best lap of 2019 testing. Meanwhile, their rivals have been questioning the legality of the DAS system and whether the ability to change toe angles constitutes a breach of parc ferme rules. With three days of ac...

Today there was a buzz which rippled through the F1 Paddock - why was Lewis Hamilton pushing and pulling his steering wheel? As more of the assembled journalists saw on-board footage of the W11 the obvious question was: is this a technical problem or an innovation nobody else has thought of? As James Allison would soon confirm, it was the latter. Mercedes-Benz even have a name for it - 'DAS'. On t...

The first day of Formula 1® testing in 2020 is up and the team of Alex Kalinauckas (Grand Prix Editor, Autosport), Jon Noble (F1 Editor, Motorsport.com) and Luke Smith (Formula 1 Reporter, Autosport) bring you up to speed with the main talking points of Day 1 from the Barcelona Paddock. https://www.autosport.com/ Hamilton fastest as Mercedes dominates first day - https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/...

As Alex is travelling from Austria to Barcelona for pre-season testing, Jake Boxall-Legge jumps into the podcast today to run through Autosport's first impressions on the Alfa Romeo, the 'new' team Alpha Tauri and Williams. We also saw a Racing Point car earlier today but it was little more than a livery launch so we'll wait to see the car shakedown before we see their direction for 2020. Learn mo...