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Fantasy Podcast: How to play, pro tips, and most common mistakes

Samarth Kanal is joined by Val Khorounzhiy, Josh Suttill, and special guest Michael Urcinoli of Grid Rival to preview the 2025 F1 season from a fantasy perspective.

The specific fantasy game discussed on this podcast is Grid Rival’s contracts-based F1 game, which we think is the best fantasy F1 game out there, especia...

F1 2025: who's in trouble already (ad-free video)

With F1’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix right around the corner, there’s nowhere to hide for any driver, team or organisation in trouble.

Three days of pre-season testing don’t tell us everything about the 2025 pecking order. We’ll only know properly when the lights go out in Melbourne - but you can tell...

Steiner on Cadillac driver choice, Haas and F1's booing debate [early access]

Few current or former Formula 1 team bosses could command the kind of public interest that enables Guenther Steiner will visit 37 UK venues in less than three months as part of the latest leg of his national tour later this year.

Netflix’s Drive To Survive has made Steiner an unlikely household name and interest in w...

2015 revisited: Jerez - Lorenzo's back in business (Round 4)

After a very poor start to the 2015 season, Jerez was where Jorge Lorenzo found his feet again - though only after Yamaha had to dismiss pre-race rumours that he was about to leave for Ducati.

Val Khorounzhiy, Simon Patterson, Megan White and Matt Beer discuss Lorenzo’s on and off track situations as MotoGP 2015 Revis...

Why Aston's at odds with Ferrari, flexi wing row latest, and Raikkonen's engineer on testing (ad-free)

We hit the big news stories in Formula 1 and delve into the stories of pre-season testing with the help of Kimi Raikkonen’s former race engineer Julien Simon-Chautemps in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast. 

Along with Jon Noble and host Edd Straw, Simon-Chautemps sheds light on the successful legal bid mo...

Mark Hughes on why the Antonelli hype is so justified [early access]

As part of a multi-voice article on various pre-season F1 topics that will appear on The Race website next week, we asked Mark Hughes to give his take on Kimi Antonelli ahead of the teenager's race debut. We thought you might like an exclusive early look at Mark's thoughts:

We are going to see ...

What's your take on MotoGP's Pirelli move?

MotoGP is dropping Michelin and switching to Pirelli tyres from 2027 - and we want to know what YOU think about that!

What's your take on how Pirelli has got on in Moto2 and Moto3, or its Formula 1 tenure? How do you feel about Michelin's MotoGP era?

Tyres may not be the most exciting topic, but they're hugely sig...

BBV10s S11 E10: The Top 10 rivalries of F1's V10 era (early access)

For the finale of Season 11 of Bring Back V10s we're debating the top 10 rivalries of F1's V10 era.

Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Michael Schumacher and Nigel Mansell all feature prominently as you'd expect, as do the main foes they encountered - and usually fell out with.

Host Glenn Freeman is joined by the usual ...

Reviewing Palou's sensational season-opening St Pete win (ad-free)

The Race IndyCar Podcast shakes off the off-season rust to get its teeth into the first race of the season in St Petersburg, which provided plenty of drama.

Jack Benyon and JR Hildebrand join forces to break down another Alex Palou series victory, how he undercut Dixon, Dixon’s radio dramas, how Scott McLaughlin and C...

The Red Bull misconception that explains its early F1 2025 troubles

Red Bull has been one of the big mysteries from Formula 1’s pre-season build up – having revealed a car that did not look so new and then having a pretty under the radar three days of testing. Jon Noble explains what's going on in our latest video, available here on Patreon ad-free.

Where Ferrari's legal action fits into Aston Martin's tricky F1 2025 start

Ferrari winning a court case against one of Aston Martin's big technical signings, Enrico Cardile, adds to a tricky pre-season for Aston as our latest video (ad-free here on Patreon) explains.

Is the championship McLaren’s to lose? We answer your questions after F1 testing (ad-free)

How strong a favourite is McLaren? Is Lewis Hamilton able to drive the way he wants to in the Ferrari? How worried should Aston Martin be? These are among the questions we answer in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast.

Ben Anderson and Scott Mitchell-Malm join Edd Straw to work through listener questions about the...

How Lewis Hamilton's first Ferrari F1 pre-season really went

Lewis Hamilton ended his first Ferrari pre-season test second fastest and quicker than new team-mate Charles Leclerc - but how did it really go? Our latest video, ad-free here on Patreon, investigates...

How ominous was Marquez's Thai dominance? (ad-free)

It wasn’t just Marc Marquez dominating the 2025 MotoGP season-opener - it was the Marquez family, as his brother Alex not only backed him up in qualifying and both races but was also allowed to lead much of the grand prix to ensure Marc dodged a likely penalty.

Has that set the tone for the whole season to come? In th...

BBV10s Debrief: Send us your thoughts on Prost and Ligier in 1992!

The Bring Back V10s Debrief is returning after a short break! Now the pesky F1 car launches and testing for 2025 are out of the way, we can get back to basking in the V10 era.

So cast your mind back to episode six of season 11, when we covered the Alain Prost/Ligier saga of early 1992, and let us know your thoughts, co...

Too easy for Marquez? What we learned from the MotoGP opener [ad-free video]

Marc Marquez won the Thai Grand Prix comfortably even after letting his brother lead for a while so he could dodge a potential penalty. What does it mean for the rest of the season? That's what explore in today's video - available ad-free on Patreon.

Everything happening off-track in F1 - Jon on all the news he's chasing

Jon stops off on his journey back from F1 testing to share the contents of his trusty notepad with The Race Members' Club - here's everything that's been bubbling away in the paddock while the cars have been on track.

Our F1 team ranking after pre-season testing

This is where we've ended up after three days of long run and short run analysis, trackside observations and probing the drivers and team personnel for their thoughts on and off the record in the paddock: all 10 2025 F1 cars ranked from worst to best on performance as they head for race one in Melbourne - available ad-free he...

Get your Thai Grand Prix MotoGP podcast questions in!

What do you want us to explain or argue about in the post-race episode of The Race MotoGP Podcast?

Pop your questions in the comments on this post by 11am UK time on Sunday and we'll get through as many as we can in the Thai Grand Prix episode.

Simon's star performer of MotoGP 2025's first race

The rider who really stood out most to us in MotoGP's 2025 season-opening Thai Grand Prix sprint wasn't the winner or even on the podium (though he wasn't far off).

Here's Simon with more from the Buriram paddock on a rider who wowed his rivals as well as us.

How we make our trackside F1 car judgements

Scott and Edd convene in their Bahrain hotel to explain exactly what we're looking for when we assess car behaviour from trackside and share more insights into our processes at the end of F1 test week.

And if you think this video ends a bit abruptly, you're right... Here's Scott to explain why:

"There was a tech i...

Ask us an F1 testing question for our next podcast!

With the first, and only, pre-season Formula 1 test done and dusted, we want your questions to answer on The Race F1 Podcast episode that will be recorded at the start of the week.

Our team has been crunching the numbers, watching trackside and chatting to every paddock source they can chase down to build a thorough pic...

F1 2025 testing - everything we learned

Carlos Sainz set the fastest time of F1 2025's Bahrain pre-season test - but who was really quickest? Here's the main takeaways from our team on the ground in our latest video, available for you ad-free here on Patreon.

Testing Day 3: What's the pecking order heading to Australia - and are Red Bull in trouble? (ad-free)

F1 the final day of F1 pre-season testing complete, Edd Straw is joined by Jon Noble and Scott Mitchell-Malm to assess every team's performance and rank where each sits in the pecking order heading into the first race of the season in Australia.

Amongst the topics discussed are whether Williams or Alpine will head the m...

Final F1 test trackside report - Who looks good, who's got problems?

Who looks best, and does Red Bull have some worries? Scott's freshly back from his last trackside stint of 2025 F1 testing to bring you his thoughts on the cars.

And none of this video is filmed from inside his pocket.

IndyCar promises new era as 2025 kicks off in St Pete (ad-free)

The Race IndyCar Podcast is back to preview the St Petersburg race which promises to start a new era of the championship and its future.

Jack Benyon is joined by JR Hildebrand as they assess the impact of Fox Sports taking over the series’ TV coverage and the massive amount of additional promotion that’s allowed for...

Edd Straw's trackside view from the final morning of F1 2025 pre-season testing

Edd's found himself an over-priced sun hat and braved the relatively sweltering conditions to bring you an update on how all 10 cars are behaving as pre-season testing in Bahrain reaches towards its end game.

Good morning from the final F1 test day!

It's the final day of pre-season F1 testing - Scott, Edd and Samarth share some thoughts on what they're looking to see today, who they'll be talking to in the paddock and what teams are saying about each other, all filmed as they head into the track (and through paddock security).

What we learned from day two of F1 testing

The competitive shape of F1 2025 became clearer on day two of pre-season testing - but sorry Williams fans, the car that’s quickest so far isn’t really setting the pace.

Here's our video explaining what we learned from the second day of the test, accessible ad-free for you on Patreon.

Testing Day 2: Sainz's speed, Hamilton's progress & Norris's promising race pace (ad-free)

After another busy day of running in Bahrain, Edd Straw, Jon Noble and Scott Mitchell-Malm reconvene to discuss day 2 of testing.

On today's show the team discuss whether the pace shown by Carlos Sainz to top the timesheet for Williams is genuine, report back on what Lewis Hamilton had to say on his running so far for F...