The Outside Line Podcast

This week we cover the F1 race in Mexico where Kimi Antonelli was crowned World Champion. It was a weekend for contradictions, dramatic AND predictable, old guys AND young guys thriving, distraught AND accepting, yet some things remained constant: Ferrari found a way to lose, Perez came last. Also Ocon was fired. Music provided by Sascha Ende under the CC BY 4.0 license: https://filmmusic.io/stand...

This week we cover the F1 US Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. Kimi Antonelli shows us that it’s not his first rodeo (it’s his second) as he luckily avoids winning the championship in a country where he’s too young to drink champagne. George Russell shows he’s all hat and no cattle and bless their heart, Ferrari really looked like they might compete here. F1 Academy retur...

This week we dip back into supercars and discuss the 6 hours of Barcelona in WEC and the GT World Challenge Europe race at Portimao. As per usual, we couldn’t follow all the strategy, but still enjoyed the racing nevertheless. Max Verstappen increased the viewership of GTWC by a factor of 30, leading to idiot ignorant F1 fans arguing with idiot gatekeeping GT fans. In WEC, despite Genesis getting...

This week we cover the F1 races in Singapore. That’s races plural, as for some reason it’s a sprint race weekend, despite the notorious lack of overtaking at the Marina Bay Circuit. Still we got to see plenty of classic Singapore moments: Russell hitting the wall, Ferrari strategic blunders, and Lando crashing into Piastri. Music provided by Sascha Ende under the CC BY 4.0 license: https://filmmus...

This week we cover the Formula 1 Bahrain GP race in Sepang, Malaysia, where we got to see how much damage some rain could do to a billion dollar sport. Firstly, the FIA engine software stop the cars from accelerating on the formation lap and then half the grid gambles incorrectly on slick tyres. Still it leads to a fun race featuring many patches: software (from the FIA to the cars), purple (for M...

This week we cover the Formula 1 race in Baku, where the wheels literally and figuratively came off for Antonelli, but could Russell actually capitalize this time? Kimi wasn’t the only one to mess up as Pirelli apparently replaced the soft tyres with hards and Colapinto decided to create a diplomatic incident. In F2, Rodin finally got their car setup right as Dunne and Stenshorne shut out the fron...

This week the review and recap the 2026 Indycar season. Looking back, we can see a few phrases kept cropping up: “Malukas comes second again”, “Rahal’s somehow in third again”, “Sting Ray’s in the way again”, and “how has Palou got away with it again”. Despite not being quite as dominant as last year and making a few more mistakes than last year, Palou just kept extending his lead as his rivals wo...

This week we cover the F1 Spanish GP taking place at the new Madring circuit, which somehow managed to make the, usually fun and chaotic, F2 and F3 races boring. In the absence of any actual on-track overtaking, we search for what entertainment we can find in a processional race. We do discover Emma’s true calling in life though, which is telling George Russell and Zak Brown to shut up.  The...

This week we cover the F1 race in Monza and the Indycar finale at Laguna Seca. In F1, Kimi Antonelli obviously had his morning Espresso as he went from the back  to the front to challenge George Rus-tretto for the win. It was a great weekend for the French Press as Alpine took a surprising pole, while, at their home race, Ferrari did not deliver and instead we saw a Cold war Brewing. In Indyc...

This week we cover the two Indycar races in Milwaukee, as Palou looks to wrap up the championship. Despite rain causing significant disruption to the weekend, the Milwaukee Mile delivers some fun races with every round of pit stops seemingly shuffling the pack a little. The only real constant being Rahal and Siegel getting in the way. After Honda comfortably win the manufacturers championship, the...

This week we cover the return of F1 in Zandvoort following the summer break and the Freedom 250 on the streets of Washington DC in Indycar. Changeable weather conditions led to an apparently nervous Lando Norris defenestrating himself pre-race to reach the track, although more likely it was just to avoid Craig Slater. We also learnt that Max Verstappen signed a new 3 year deal with Red Bull this w...

This week we cover FE in London and Indycar Markham. It was a dramatic end to the FE season as team-mates, and even customer-team-mates, got involved in a tight battle for the championship. A chaotic end to race 2 determined the overall winner which overshadowed an incredible fumble by Mahindra, who somehow lost a race no one was trying to win. A trip to the new street circuit in Markham also prov...

This week we cover the Indycar race in Portland, as it embarks on 6 races in 5 weeks. The theme this weekend was silliness,  as silly-season is in full swing in Formula E and Indycar as the Erik(c)ssons are resigned, but true silliness was to be found on the international feed as Kevin Lee and Renus VeeKay join the fray. On track, we again spent the time hoping that someone, anyone, would ste...

Since none of our usual series were racing this weekend, we take the opportunity to revisit Drive to Survive season 1. With 8 years of hindsight, we recap the episodes and pick out the funny, the ironic, and the cringeworthy moments from the first season of the show that has arguably had the biggest impact on F1 in the last decade. Music provided by Sascha Ende under the CC BY 4.0 license: https:/...

This week we recap and review the F1 and F2 races in Hungary, the Formula E races in Japan, and, belatedly, the Indycar race in Nashville. It was a weekend of upsets as Aston Martin qualify for Q2 in F1, Kush Maini makes use of his experience in F2, Cupra Kiro actually get their strategy right in Formula E, and Mick Schumacher scores his first top 10 in Indycar, at an oval! There was also plenty o...

This week we cover the Formula 1 and Formula 2 races at Spa-Francorchamps. It’s hard to avoid conspiratorial thinking as George Russell’s car suffers further issues that don’t seem to affect Kimi Antonelli’s car and lenient stewarding and a suspiciously long VSC greatly advantage Leclerc. Conspiracies continue in F2 as Camara and Inthraphuvasak somehow avoid penalties and a very good weekend for I...

This week we cover the World Endurance Championship in Sao Paulo, but start by discussing the Goodwood Festival of Speed where Dan Ticktum, driving the Gen4 Formula E car, attempts to beat a rear wing with wheels at driving up a hill. In WEC, we do recap what happens to the hypercars but end up mainly talking about the story of Peter Dempsey in LMGT3. Then we stop in on ELMS and GB3 to see how pre...

In this episode we cover the nonstop weekend of motorsport that was the Formula 1, Formula 2, and F1 Academy races at Silverstone, the two Formula E races in Shanghai, and the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio. Bizarrely for Indycar, that race didn’t feature a single yellow flag, which would have been useful in FE, as none of the drivers actually obeyed them. In fact, a lot of bizarre things happened thi...

This week we cover the F1 Austrian GP where double trouble in qualifying thankfully prevents a front-row lock-out from Mercedes. However, there are several unsolved mysteries such as how the Red Bull car worked suspiciously well at the Red Bull Ring, how lifting off the throttle made you go faster, and how the F2 stewards were so lenient (unless your name is Stenshorne). The F2 races provided the...

This week we cover the Indycar Race at Road America and the Formula E race in Sanya. Despite being completely different formats, there were a lot of similarities between the two races. Both had trigger happy race directors, both finished with the green/white/checkered combo, both featured screw ups from defending champions, and in both Andretti were surprisingly competitive. Music provided by Sasc...

This week we cover the Barcelona-Catalunya GP in F1 and attempt to cover the 24 hours of Le Mans. It was a big day for sportsmen over 40 as Novak Djokovic was in attendance to wave the checked flag, Alonso got to live his dream of watching the race from his own stand, and Hamilton was looking to build on his recent form and make use of the latest updates from Ferrari. In F2, Rafa (Câmara not Nadal...

This week we cover the F1 race in Monaco and the Indycar race in St. Louis, both of which featured red flags, treating us to some fun shots of drivers having to hurriedly run back to their cars. This year Monaco shockingly delivered an exciting race, despite having little to no overtaking, as per usual. This was due to a plethora of mechanical issues and penalties that shook up the field to such a...

This week we cover the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix in Indycar, where, as you’d expect, the Chevrolet engines performed as poorly as usual. In a race where the stewards took revenge for their recent criticism by officiating at random, we were repeatedly tantalized by the prospect of someone challenging Palou for the win. We also briefly cover a few of the feeder series races where F1 Academy champ...

This week we cover an extraordinary weekend of motorsport with F1, F2, and F1 Academy in Canada and the 110th running of the Indianapolis 500. In F1, we finally get to see the silver arrows version of Papaya Rules, aka Mercedes Manners, play out, as Antonelli and Russell clash on track. In F2, Rodin come good as Dunne and Horny show their pace, and in F1A, Palmowski shows why she is the favorite t...

This week we cover the Formula E races in Monaco and the qualifying for the 110th running of the Indianapolis 500. We got to watch Cupra Kiro learning strategy in real-time as they attempted to capitalise on Dan Ticktum’s strong qualifying performance. Felix Rosenqvist was unexpectedly strong In the Indy 500 qualifying, while in the 24hrs of Nurburgring, Max Verstappen was expectedly strong. Howev...