The Fast and the Curious

Welcome to the first ever Fast & Curious F1 Fone-In! Betty and Christian join Greg and his dog Barney in the garden and open the phone lines to listeners and unsung F1 heroes. Along the way Christian is revisited by our resident Year 9 Geography quizzers, the team are introduced to Charles Leclerc's (and Greg James') piano skills and meet one of the key brains in McLaren's F1 race team during...

Join the team back in Greg's garden as they dive back into the calls for the second part of the inaugural F1 Fone-In. The thoughts, feelings and gin are flowing fast as Greg, Betty and Christian catch up with Ellie, who started her Formula One journey this season after hearing the podcast. They also meet Mica from Perth (who grew up round the corner from Daniel Ricciardo), veteran Silverstone race...

Christian is back from Miami with tales from the Pit Lane - including door stepping Roger Federer, Vin Diesel and Christian Horner, all while successfully avoiding getting run over! Throw in LL Cool J and will.i.am rocking the Paddock, some live radio and getting to talk to all the drivers and it's fair to say he's had a good weekend. Plus a full debrief of events on the track in Miami as Max Vers...

Christian is in America ahead of the 2023 Miami Grand Prix and has secured a trio of Fast and Curious regulars! He catches up with Greg and Betty for a whistle-stop tour as F1 circus as it descends on Florida featuring the state's very own Logan Sargeant, Lando Norris (who has just bumped into Vin Diesel, obviously) and some incredible pet updates from Alex Albon. If that wasn't enough for our fav...

The team look back(u) on a fairly tame race in Azerbaijan with some of the slightly more interesting points from across the weekend including street race tourism, how the new sprint race format went down and what the results mean for the championship. Christian, Betty and Greg also look at how the race went for the Fast and Curious regulars and review the action of the first weekend of the F1 Acad...

The full squad are back and joined by a BRAND NEW driver co-host! Chloe Grant will be launching her F1 Academy campaign with ART Grand Prix in Austria this weekend, and tells us all about her journey so far before the series gets going. She's also joined by her mum Sharon who gives us the honest answer of how Chloe reacted to being asked to join the championship. There's also time for a round-up o...

George Russell (aka Curious George as he like to call himself on the podcast) is back for a catch-up with Betty and Christian during the early break in the season. He fills us in on everything he's been up to during his down time including meeting Novak Djokovic and checking in with the rest of the Mercedes team to plot out their return to racing in Baku. There's also some listener questions that...

Oscar Piastri returns on co-hosting duties to fill the team in on his debut home grand prix in Australia. With the race taking place a stone's throw away from his parents' house, Oscar tells Betty, Christian and Greg about returning home as part of the Formula One circus. From his nan cooking for the whole McLaren team to meeting a grid kid called Oscar(?!) and what went down in the driver WhatsAp...

What the HELL just happened? With Betty on other sporting duties, Greg and Christian try to make sense of the Melbourne mayhem. From red flags and listener questions, to fireballs, drunken listener voice notes and a review from our Melbourne correspondent they cover some serious ground. As always, thank you for all your input to the show. Send any questions for the drivers or the team to fastandcu...

This week Greg, Christian and Betty look ahead to the third race of the season in Australia with listener questions, some pretty bold predictions and Team Principle James keeps his drivers in check with an Australian geography lesson from new friends of the show F1,2,3,4. Along the way Betty plots to get her F1 simulator revenge, Christian is beaten (!!) by some teen Formula One fans and there's s...

Christian and Betty head to Williams HQ to spend the day with co-host Logan Sargeant. As well as answering listener questions and reliving his first moments as an F1 driver, Logan sets up a Fast And The Curious challenge on the Williams sim to let Christian and Betty really get to know the Australian grand prix circuit before the third race of the season. There's also a surprise lined up for Logan...

Following the Saudi grand prix, Betty, Greg and Christian have a debrief of the second race of the season to make sense of the action and cover breaking Formula One news. They discuss Red Bull dominance, how the dark arts* of Formula One could stop them storming the championship and cover the news of Fernando Alonso losing his place on the podium. We'll be back soon with a full episode including a...

As we head into race week two we hear from Alex Albon about how the Williams camp can make the most us picking up a point in Bahrain. There's also of *course* time for Betty and Christian to discuss Alex having THIRTEEN cats, how his professional golf playing thinks he's "uncoachable" on the course and the potential for George Russell's topless picture franchise. Team Principal Greg is back with a...

A bumper crop for you this time around. After Team Principal Greg sets out the plans for the episode Betty and Christian get to work with a Bahrain debrief with Alpine's French driver Pierre Gasly. But of course it's not strictly F1 chat, from learning English slang terms to his bath routine they cover some serious ground. Later in the show Christian heads to Mclaren's "space ship" headquarters fo...

Fresh off the back of the opening race of the 2023 season in Bahrain, a giddy Christian and Greg (Betty had actual sports broadcasting to do elsewhere) make sense of all the action from race week one and tee up what's coming up in the next full episode of The Fast And The Curious. Featuring some light coverage of race results, some of the names that were nearly used for the show instead of The Fas...

As the first race of the 2023 F1 season in Bahrain approaches, the team check in with McLaren's Australian rookie Oscar Piastri. They cover a serious amount of ground including how his career went from racing remote control cars to joining the grid and Oscar's plans to become more tidy now that he's an actual Formula One driver. There's also time for Christian to tee you up with everything you nee...

It's an early start for Betty and Christian in episode two as they join the Mercedes team for the launch of their 2023 Formula 1 season. They head back to Silverstone as they unveil the Mercedes F1 challenger, and catch up with Lewis Hamilton, team boss Toto Wolff and George Russell on everything from a driver Whatsapp group to the importance of using their platform to spark change off the track....

As pre-season testing gets underway The Fast And The Curious team head to Silverstone to introduce you to the world of Formula 1 and come face-to-face with drivers, engineers and what Christian calls "the beautiful beasts" on the track (cars to the rest of us). In this opening episode Betty, Greg and Christian tee up the 2023 season for newcomers and die-hard fans alike as Williams and Alpine roll...

Team Principal Greg James has signed up sports presenter Betty Glover, F1 fanatic and broadcast journalist Christian Hewgill and a rolling cast of some of the biggest drivers in the world to host this exciting new show. It’s a podcast for die-hard fans as well as those who are curious to learn more about the fascinating F1 world and the characters that inhabit it. The Fast And The Curious theme wa...