The Midfield Pod

Grab your tuxedo and champagne, it's awards night! Welcome to the 2023 Posteason Middie Awards hosted by Andy, Patrick and Dan. We recap some of our most notable events from the season and even have a few surprise upset winners!   0:30 Welcome to Awards Night 1:45 Best Moment 6:15 Radio Star  12:30 Least Impressive Driver 18:30 Most Improved Driver  23:10 Biggest Teammate Blowout 30:40 Princi...

Andy, Dan and Patrick recap the season finale from Abu Dhabi. We discuss our favorite moments from the weekend, ring the bell early, and finish with a(nother) Haas rant.  0:30 Ferrari vs Mercedes 6:30 Hamilton Hampered  10:15 Fernando's Brake Check 12:00 Brundle Always Delivers 13:35 Lando vs #11 Penalty 17:15 AT vs Williams  23:00 Why Can't the French Figure It Out?  28:10 Final Driver...

0:00 Reaction to the Las Vegas Grand Prix 11:11 Turn 1 Incident & Strategy Second-Guessing 14:35 Russell Penalty for Contact with #1 17:15 Alpine Infighting 18:15 Leclerc Last Lap Lunge  22:15 Williams/Haas Tire Degradation 24:20 No More Q3 Surprises 26:05 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Preview Follow The Midfield here! : https://www.patreon.com/MidfieldPod https://www.threads.net/@midfieldpod https://w...

Patrick and Dan break down the upcoming Las Vegas Grand Prix, Valteri Bottas' new calendar, and what is a livery?  00:45 Las Vegas Track is a Pig being Spit-Roasted  6:00 The Las Vegas Sphere 9:05 Pirelli Cheat Sheet for Las Vegas GP 10:45 Netflix Cup           Lando Norris/Rickie Fowler vs Carlos Sainz/Justin Thomas           Alex Albon/Max Homa vs Pierre Gasly/Colin Morikowa  17:10 New Ferr...

On this episode of The Midfield Pod, Dan, Andy and Patrick break down the 2023 Brazilian Grand Prix. Topics include:  00:00 - TMF Formation Lap 01:30 - Charles crashes out on Lap 0 09:00 - The carnage of Corner 1 14:45 - Alpha v Alpha 17:00 - Silver Arrow Slough 23:30 - Alpine had a "Great Weekend" 29:45 - Fernando is really good at racing 38:20 - Lando and Oscar 40:00 - Patrick on the H...

Dan & Patrick break down what they saw over the weekend at the Mexico Grand Prix. There was plenty of dynamic action throughout The Midfield.  3:00 Big Takeaway from MexicoGP  6:15 P13 Hulkenberg  8:15 P12 Tsunoda  14:00 Alpine Boys  18:20 P9 Albon 19:50 P8 Piastri  22:00 P7 Ricciardo  26:30 P6 Russell 32:30 P5 Norris 34:00 Ferrari Competence?  37:00 P2 Hamilton Follow The Midfield here! : htt...

Andy, Dan and Patrick breakdown the incompetence that was the weekend in Austin, going 18 er ... 13 to 1 on each driver on the grid. We then move on and look forward to an exciting weekend in Mexico City where the air is thin and the wings will be aggressive.  2:10 USGP Main Takeaways 13:30 P13 to P1 Rundown 14:00 Sargeant 15:10 Albon/Tsunoda  19:45 Panic Button for Haas?  21:25 Stroll 24:30 Gasly...

Andy, Dan and Patrick dive into the happenings in Qatar with our one big takeaway from the weekend. We also run through our trademark 13 to 1 finishers with tidbits on each driver along the way.  Then we transition into the US Grand Prix and preview what should be an amazing weekend at Circuit of the America's. Andy leaves you with a best bet after going 1-0 with his best bet in Qatar.  Follo...

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We welcome Patrick BACK to the pod for some spicy hot takes on the '23 Japanese Grand Prix. We give the 13 to 1 rundown of your midfield results at Suzuka. From Talking about Fernando, which is really talking about Lance, to definitely not talking about Sergio Perez, but definitely talking about Checo, we run the gamut of this weekend.  * Can McLaren catch Aston Martin? * Can Mercedes hold of...

We welcome our good friend, Patrick, to the pod. His F1 expertise is ... limited. Can someone who's watched every episode of DTS but not a single race still be an F1 fan? You decide on this week's episode of TMFP, where we break down every team on the grid and Patrick, in the end, picks his favorite garage to cheer for. Follow the Pod: https://x.com/@midfieldpod https://www.threads.net/@...

On this episode, Dan and Andy recap the '23 Italian Grand Prix. Topics Include: * 00:00 - Intro * 04:00 - P13 Sargeant * 05:30 - P12 Piastri * 11:30 - P11 Lawson * 13:30 - P10 Bottas * 16:00 - P9 Fernando * 19:00 - P8 Lando * 21:45 - P7 Albon * 25:15 - P6/5 Mercedes Boys * 30:30 - P4/3 Ferrari * 42:00 - Weekend Wrapup * 43:30 - Alpine? * 45:00 - Talking College Football * 47:15 - Where the he...

On this episode, Dan and Andy recap the '23 Dutch Grand Prix. Topics include Liam Lawson's F1 debut, Dano's Ricciardo prognosis, Alex Albon's fantastic weekend, wiley old veterans being wiley old veterans, and the (again) cancellation of the wet tyre. Follow the Pod: https://x.com/@midfieldpod https://www.threads.net/@midfieldpod This episode of The Midfield was edited by Dan L...

Andrew and Dan break down the current Super License Penalty Points of our Midfield drivers.  3:00 - Clean Drivers - Zero Penalty Points 4:00 - Leclerc   5:10 - Albon  6:55 - KMag 10:45 - Hamilton 13:00 - Sainz  16:00 - Norris 17:40 - Alonso 22:00 - Zhou 23:25 - Tsunoda 26:00 - Hulkenberg  27:50 - Russell 32:25 - Ricciardo 36:50 - Gasly  46:10 - Penalty Points Champion 60:40 - 2024 Penalty Points C...

On this episode, Dan and Andy break down everything that went wrong at Alpine. From the Renault to Alpine name change, conception of Alpine's 100 Race plan, the dismissal of Cyril and subsequent hiring of Otmar, the botching of the Piastri contract, to the dismissal of almost all their senior leadership, we deep dive into the chaos. Follow the Pod: https://x.com/@midfieldpod https://www.threa...

On this episode, Dan and Andy recap the '23 Belgian Grand Prix. We deep dive into the weekend in Spa. We talk about how the track is a combination of really two different tracks, how teams had absolutely no idea how the tyres would degrade, gave some Amateur Tech Talk on "downforce", and how absolutely silly it is that F1 carries all these Wet Tyres to each race track every weekend....

On this episode, Dan and Andy recap the '23 Hungarian Grand Prix. We deep dive into the weekend in Budapest. We talk about the Alternate Tyre Allocation, whether or not Alfa Romeo is back, who's the cheekiest driver on the grid, and whether or not McLaren can run down Ferrari and Aston or not. Believe it or not, no Guenther talk, but this pod is not short on talking crap on Ferrari and C...

On this episode, Dan and Andy preview the '23 Hungarian Grand Prix. We break down the State of the Midfield in July of 2023, talk about where Daniel Ricciardo fits in the mix, discuss the weekend Top 3, 6, and 10 Odds, tell you which track Budapest is most like, and try to put Mercedes' consistency to numbers. Show Notes:  00:00 Intro 02:50 Talking RIC 04:30 Who is "The Midfield&quo...

On this episode, Dan and Andy recap the '23 Great Britain Grand Prix. We give our Winners and Losers of the weekend, people other than McLaren and Williams, call Daniel Ricciardo's F1 return, and discuss how difficult it is to remember two things at once. Show Notes:  00:00 Intro 01:25 Weekend Recap 16:55 Talking McLaren 26:00 Talking Williams 31:30 Winner: Mercedes 34:45 Talking MSC 38:...

On this episode, Dan and Andy recap the '23 Austrian Grand Prix. We break down our Winners and Losers of the weekend. We solve the track limits fiasco, discuss some perplexing radio chatter, and is Logan Sargent good? We also preview the British Grand Prix exposing the key to a great track. Show Notes:  00:00 Intro 02:25 Winners and Losers 03:30 Ferrari 09:25 Mercedes 12:00 Aston Martin 16:00...

On this episode, Dan and Andy preview the '23 Austrian Grand Prix. We discuss the track that definitely should not be named, Dano has some surprising Bearish predictions, and we break down whether Charles Leclerc has a shot at repeating as the GP winner in Austria (he has zero chance). We also dig into the Summer of  Dano and his personal schedule of playing F1 Manager all day and not missing...

On this episode, Dan and Andy recap the '23 Canadian Grand Prix. We discuss Alex Albon's monster Midfield week in Montreal, why old guys are so good at F1, how Haas continues to choke on Sundays, and whether Checo should or should not be in "The Midfield". I wish I could say we didn't rant about Ferrari for 20 minutes, but that would be false. Show Notes:  00:00 Intro from...

On this episode, Dan and Andy preview the '23 Canadian Grand Prix. Dano gives his much anticipated DDD on Alpine from last weekend in Barcelona, we preview the track in Montreal, Dano (tries to) speak French, and Andy apologies about Carlos. Then we dive into our Bull and Bear Markets for this weekend in Canada. It's a big weekend for revenge drives, bad teams being bad, and we discuss w...

On this episode, Dan and Andy recap the ‘23 Spanish GP Weekend. We talk about how fun the permanent track at Barcelona was, how impressive the Silver Arrows were, and ZHO gets a provisional invite to the Kirkfield with no help from his teammate. A spicy week of hot takes is upon us as Dano brings the heat with two separate 8 and 10 minute rants on the FIA Stewards and Ferrari respectively. Show No...

On this episode, Dan and Andy recap the ‘23 Monaco Weekend. We talk about why Dano was wrong about Monaco, discuss how our "meaty" 9 team points competition played out, review our Bullish and Bearish predictions from last week, and give our Winners and Losers of the weekend. Dano's Deep Dive this week features McLaren, and he doesn't hold back on his criticism of a certain youn...