Edd headed trackside at Sakhir for second Bahrain Grand Prix practice and one car stood out to him as maybe the most user-friendly in the whole field. But it's not one that's likely to get anywhere near the podium...
Here's his just-for-Patreon video about that car, and you can read his trackside assessment of the whole field and how thing...
2025-04-11 20:41:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Formula 1 looks set to adopt a series of rules concessions for 2026 aimed at alleviating concerns about the new engine regulations.
The mooted switch to V10s engines was also a key part of a big engine summit on the Friday of the Bahrain Grand Prix, as Edd Straw and Jon Noble explain all you need to know, ad-free here on Patreon.
2025-04-11 19:42:21 +0000 UTC View PostMatt Bishop and Richard Williams return with part two of their two-part mini series on the life and legacy of one of motorsport’s most important and enduring individuals: Enzo Ferrari.
They finished the last episode at the point that Ferrari won its very first world championship Formula 1 race - the British Grand Prix in 1951. In this episode they’ll guide you through the Fifties, Sixties, Seventies and Eighties, during which time the idiosyncratic Enzo dealt with triumph and traged...
2025-04-11 00:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem faces fresh questions about his leadership, after his deputy president for sport Robert Reid resigned on the Thursday morning of Formula 1's Bahrain Grand Prix.
From the Bahrain paddock, Edd Straw and Jon Noble have everything you need to know about yet another explosive twist in the FIA saga, as ever ad-free here on Patreon.
2025-04-10 19:03:43 +0000 UTC View Post
We talk with Gary about Red Bull’s troubles and how it managed to win with a tricky car that took a long time to troubleshoot at Suzuka, and tackle your questions on the minimum weight limit, design drawings and airbox intakes. And with tyre weight a big talking point of late, we discuss whether or not the wheels should be excluded from minimum wight tests.
2025-04-10 17:56:32 +0000 UTC View Post
The second season of Bring Back V10s Revisited kicks off with the 1993 South African Grand Prix from Kyalami.
Glenn Freeman, Edd Straw, Matt Beer and Ben Anderson look back on the race that marked the resumption of the Alain Prost vs Ayrton Senna rivalry, and how Michael Schumacher and Senna kicked off the season with another controversial collision. We also explore Damon Hill’s difficult Williams debut, and Sauber’s impressive first F1 start.
2025-04-10 09:42:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The Bahrain Grand Prix weekend is set to be significant both on and off track, with a meeting of F1’s stakeholders about ideas for a possible change of engine formula - perhaps even to V10 engines - taking place on Friday.
Jonathan Noble joins Edd Straw to explain exactly what the meeting is about, and how far F1 really is from making such a dramatic change, and what options might be on the table for discussion.
We also tackle what it will take to ma...
2025-04-09 18:04:49 +0000 UTC View Post
A 76-point deficit to McLaren, some embarrassing mistakes and Lewis Hamilton now suggesting his car is slower than team-mate Charles Leclerc’s - this is not how Ferrari’s much-hyped 2025 season was supposed to start.
Our latest video explains what you need to know about Ferrari's current predicament, available ad-free here on Patreon.
2025-04-09 12:33:11 +0000 UTC View Post
For the final Bring Back V10s Debrief from Season 11, Glenn Freeman goes through your comments and questions about the 1996 Monaco Grand Prix, where Olivier Panis took his memorable sole F1 win.
There's even a confession from Glenn about something that was accidentally left out of the original episode!
2025-04-09 12:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Before the 2025 MotoGP season started, Jack Miller and the Pramac Yamaha team promised Jack would answer The Race Members’ Club’s questions for an exclusive podcast.
Then Jack and Pramac got even busier than they expected in their new roles helping Yamaha’s MotoGP recovery but kept promising they’d sit down with Simon to tackle your questions list.
And before the Austin weekend, they finally did - and it was worth waiting for, as Jack thoroughly enjoyed ex...
2025-04-09 07:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Edd Straw faces your questions on his assessment of the drivers from Suzuka, explaining how he ended up with the driver rankings order that was published on Monday. Some of you might even have changed his mind about a couple of things!
2025-04-08 15:24:55 +0000 UTC View Post
In the latest episode of F1 Extra, Glenn Freeman joins Edd Straw to tackle another batch of questions from The Race Members’ Club.
We discuss how impressive McLaren's Oscar Piastri has been in the start of the 2025 Formula 1 season, and whether he's taken a step forward in his development.
There’s also a look at Jacques Villeneuve's commentating debut for Sky Sports F1 at the Japanese Grand Prix.
And we assess whether this year's rookie drivers are the strongest crop to ...
2025-04-08 08:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
It wasn't the most enthralling Formula 1 race you'll ever see, but the Japanese Grand Prix revealed a lot about 2025 F1 driver and car performance trends.
We picked our 10 main takeaways from the Suzuka weekend in our latest video.
2025-04-07 17:24:19 +0000 UTC View Post
World Superbike Championship superstar Toprak Razgatlioglu is being linked to MotoGP yet again - but this time with a twist.
Simon Patterson, Val Khorounzhiy and Matt Beer gather on The Race MotoGP Podcast to assess whether the mooted plan for Razgatlioglu to be part of Honda’s factory 2027 MotoGP line-up is realistic and how he might fare.
With Jorge Martin expected to finally start his double-injury-delayed title defence at this weekend’s Qatar Grand Prix, w...
2025-04-07 10:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
After every grand prix, Edd Straw answers your questions and comments about his F1 driver rankings, exclusively for The Race Members' Club on Patreon.
Have a read of his full rankings below, then leave your message for Edd in the comments at the bottom of the post!
Started: 1st Finished: 1st
The Red Bull isn’t a no-hoper, but it’s a difficult car to g...
2025-04-07 07:48:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Edd Straw is joined by Mark Hughes and Scott Mitchell-Malm to unpick the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka.
They discuss whether Max Verstappen's astonishing virtuosity was always going to deny McLaren victory, or whether the papaya team dropped the ball on strategy in its fight against the Dutchman.
They also discuss impressive showings from rookies Isack Hadjar and Kimi Antonelli, unpack Lewis Hamilton's intriguing post-race comments, and assess Yuki Tsunoda's Red Bull debut.
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While Yuki Tsunoda’s underlying performance was encouraging, the Japanese GP weekend exposed how much work he and Red Bull must do to get to the level expected of Max Verstappen’s team-mate. That was made even more obvious by Verstappen’s against-the-odds pole position and first win of 2025.
2025-04-06 14:16:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Drop your questions below for Edd and the team to tackle in our post-race podcast from Suzuka!
2025-04-06 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Even Max Verstappen was happy to admit his Japanese GP pole lap was a "very special one" as he and Red Bull stunned, well, just about everyone in F1.
Join Scott and Jon in our latest video - available ad-free to The Race Members' Club here on Patreon - as they look at whether this was one of the all-time great pole position laps, how Red Bull and Verstappen made this happen, what happened to the other Red Bull and where McLaren stands after an unlikely qualifying defeat.
2025-04-05 14:33:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Friday practice for the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix was badly disrupted by FOUR red flags in FP2, but there’s still loads we’ve learned at Suzuka already. Scott Mitchell-Malm and Jon Noble (out of consideration to busy colleagues using more hushed tones than usual) bring you the inside line from the Suzuka paddock on Yuki Tsunoda's first day in the Red Bull RB21, Liam Lawson's return to Racing Bulls, and everything else that's been happening so far - with input from Mark Hughes too.
2025-04-04 13:44:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Bring Back V10s dusts off its VHS player to celebrate the incredible Murray’s Magic Moments video from the mid-1990s in this bonus episode.
Glenn Freeman, Matt Beer, Ben Anderson and Edd Straw look back over all of the main segments covered in this classic F1 clips show that celebrated F1’s rise from the mid-1970s all the way to the mid-1990s.
So get ready for talk of Gilles Villeneuve’s antics (plus a bit of Jacques), John Watson’s heroics from the back of the...
2025-04-04 12:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Filling the gargantuan two month gap in the 2024-25 ABB FIA Formula E world championship season, Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt discuss several key talking points before the campaign resumes at Homestead, Miami next week.
The main topic of conversation is the messy collapse of an attempted takeover of the Maserati MSG squad, which Smith broke the news of recently.
Details of the aborted deal are discussed, as is the future of the Monegasque team and how it can attract a new own...
2025-04-04 11:56:48 +0000 UTC View Post
An awful qualifying for under-pressure reigning champion Marc Marquez set up an incredible race day charge in the 2015 Italian Grand Prix at Mugello - but it didn’t end well.
Simon Patterson, Megan White, Val Khorounzhiy and Matt Beer’s race by race revisit of the 2015 MotoGP season reaches the home of Valentino Rossi and Ducati, both of whom also feature very prominently, though they end up overshadowed.
2025-04-04 10:56:04 +0000 UTC View PostFresh from seeing the cars trackside throughout Friday at the Japanese Grand Prix, Scott Mitchell-Malm gives his verdict on who looked most impressive - including Yuki Tsunoda on his first day in the senior team.
2025-04-04 08:06:34 +0000 UTC View Post
On their way back from their first day at the Japanese Grand Prix, Scott Mitchell-Malm and Jon Noble discuss how Yuki Tsunoda and Liam Lawson are reacting to Red Bull's big driver swap.
There's also talk of what Max Verstappen thinks plus what other drivers have said about the brutal swap.
2025-04-03 13:14:49 +0000 UTC View Post
New revelations have emerged ahead of the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix about what's driven Red Bull to make its controversial swap of Liam Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda after just two races. Scott Mitchell-Malm and Jon Noble debrief from the Suzuka paddock having spoken to team insiders and heard from lead driver Max Verstappen - who is not happy...
2025-04-03 12:43:48 +0000 UTC View Post
We hope you enjoyed early access to episode 1 of series 3 of And Colossally That's History! yesterday, which was part 1 of our Enzo Ferrari double header.
This season Richard and Matt are going to do something special for The Race Members' Club - an exclusive Q&A episode, affording you the chance to ask follow up questions on the topics covered on the show.
So if you have a question you'd like to ask about Enzo Ferrari, drop it in the comments below.
Richa...
2025-04-03 08:14:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, we wanted to update you on what’s going on with our podcast feeds for those of you who link them up to your podcast apps either by RSS feed or through connecting with Spotify.
Since before we teamed up with Patreon we’ve been asking if they would have the functionality to allow for customisable feeds. We do a lot of different shows at The Race and we know that not everybody will want to listen to every show, so just having one ‘Members’ feed t...
2025-04-02 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostFerrari is the most famous and celebrated marque in motorsport, and one of the most recognisable brands in the world - but how much do you really know about its founder, Enzo Ferrari?
If your answer to that question is 'very little' then help is at hand, because Season 3 of And Colossally That's History! is kicking off with a double header of Enzo episodes - and as a Race member you can enjoy early access to Part 1 today!
On this first episode, Matt Bis...
2025-04-02 15:46:25 +0000 UTC View Post
We dissect Ferrari’s disappointing start to the season and ask if there’s any sign of a turnaround in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast.
Ben Anderson and Roberto Boccafogli, who is a key part of The Race’s new Italian YouTube channel, join Edd Straw to consider an Italian perspective on goings on at Ferrari.
We also evaluate Lewis Hamilton’s start, and the impact of his sprint-race win in China, and how Italy has taken to him after his arrival. 2025-04-02 11:11:45 +0000 UTC View Post