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BONUS: More on Aston Martin’s latest major F1 team changes

Following the news of Aston Martin making major changes to its F1 team structure for 2025, here is early access - exclusively for our Patreon members! - to the audio from the video discussion we will be releasing later on our YouTube channel.

Hear the thoughts of Ben Anderson and Scott Mitchell-Malm in this chat, separate to our full podcast episode on the same story, hosted as always by Edd Straw.

Ad-free F1 pod: Why Aston Martin has made a surprise team boss change

Aston Martin's reshuffle at the top of the team is the focus of the latest episode of The Race F1 Podcast. 

Samarth Kanal joins Edd Straw to explain why Andy Cowell has taken over as team principal and what it means for the team's way of working. 

We discuss the new roles of Mike Krack (who previously held the role) and Tom McCullough, as well as the wider changes being made to allow Aston Martin to live up to its potential. 

And with Adrian Newey arriving in ...

Video: The controversial deal that puts a 2025 F1 driver at risk already

Alpine has a new Formula 1 signing that puts a 2025 race driver at risk already - here's the full story behind it in our latest video, available ad-free to The Race Members' Club here on Patreon.

Franco Colapinto has joined Alpine as a test and reserve driver on a multi-year deal in a move that makes him an obvious threat to Jack Doohan, who will at least start the season racing for the team alongside Pierre Gasly.

F1’s a notoriously ruthless place, especially where the driver m...

Ad-free F1 pod: Why Alpine have signed Colapinto - and what it means for Doohan

We explain Franco Colapinto's move to Alpine as test and reserve driver and what it might mean for Jack Doohan in the latest episode of The Race F1 Podcast. 

Scott Mitchell-Malm joins Edd Straw to unravel the interestingly-worded deal, and discuss how it fits into Alpine's plans for the future. 

The question of how Alpine's other newly-announced test and reserve driver Ryo Hirakwa fits in with Colapinto - not to mention Paul Aron, who was signed as a reserve driver ...

⭐️ Early access: Bring Back V10s S11 E3 - Misery for Mansell at Portugal '91

VOTE FOR US! This is your last chance to help Bring Back V10s win Best Motorsports Podcast at the 2025 Sports Podcast Awards. Cast your vote here and if we win we'll add an EXTRA EPISODE to the end of Season 11 as a thank you!

Nigel Mansell's 1991 F1 championship charge effectively ended at the Portuguese Grand Prix that year, when a wheel departed ...

Ad-free MotoGP pod: Our bold 2025 predictions

The Race MotoGP Podcast has a reputation for making bold predictions, and a record that varies between getting them spookily spot on and wildly way off the mark and not a lot in between.

So how will Simon Patterson, Val Khorounzhiy, Megan White and Matt Beer's 2025 MotoGP predictions age?

They answer questions suggested by the MotoGP Podcast community in The Race Members' Club on Patreon, and it's as much about how new team/rider relationships and cross-garage pairings will play o...

Spoilers? Edd and Scott look ahead to our F1 podcast live shows

In just over a week's time, The Race F1 Podcast will be going live as Edd Straw, Scott Mitchell-Malm, Mark Hughes and Ben Anderson take to the stage in London (on Thursday January 16th) and Birmingham (on Friday January 17th).

If you've already bought your tickets, we can't wait to see you there! If you haven't, then what are you waiting for? Pick up yours today at https://podlifeevents.com/home/the-race-l...

VIDEO: Red Bull's 2025 gamble risks ruining two F1 drivers

Here's our latest F1 video, available to watch ad-free! If being Max Verstappen’s team-mate is the hardest job in F1, as Red Bull likes to claim, then finding the right team-mate must be a close second.

History tells us that sooner or later, the second driver gets the axe. But Red Bull’s 2025 choice might burn two of them...

Ad-free IndyCar pod: 5 things to watch for in 2025

The IndyCar off-season always feels much longer than other series, especially for fans, but luckily The Race IndyCar Podcast is back to pick out five things to watch in 2025.

Indy 500 runner-up, IndyCar podium finisher and former Indy Lights champion JR Hildebrand is alongside The Race’s Jack Benyon to look in-depth at some big topics.

What Andretti might look like with less Michael involved, how Prema’s new IndyCar team will fair, McLaren’s personnel reshuffling and Christi...

Special F1 podcast alert! Send us your questions

Happy New Year everyone! We know there's still a long way to go until the F1 season starts, and we've listened to all of you who have been asking for an opportunity before March to put questions to our podcast team.

So here goes: next Monday's episode of The Race F1 Podcast will be devoted to whatever you want to ask us!

Feel free to ask about what is to come in 2025, tying up loose ends from 2024 or anything else about the art of grand prix racing.

Edd Straw, Mark Hughes,...

Ad-free F1 pod: Will we see an unprecedented 4-team title fight in 2025?

We look ahead to the possibility of an unprecedented world championship fight in 2025 on the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast.

Edd Straw is joined by Scott Mitchell-Malm and The Race's exciting new recruit Jon Noble to run through the factors that could potentially make this one of the closest F1 seasons in history, and the factors that could swing it one way or an...

Send us your thoughts on Jenson Button's 2000 season - BBV10s Debrief

It's almost time for the first Bring Back V10s Debrief! We know you all heard episode one of the new season a while ago via early access, but if you can cast your minds back, send in your thoughts, comments and questions about Jenson Button's 2000 season - and anything specific about our BBV10s episode - and Glenn will go through them early next week!

Ad-free MotoGP pod: The latest on the KTM crisis

MotoGP starts 2025 with huge uncertainty surrounding how long one of its most important manufacturers will be on its grid at all, as more details of KTM’s financial crisis repercussions emerged over the Christmas period.

Val Khorounzhiy, Simon Patterson and Matt Beer explain the latest developments on The Race MotoGP Podcast, from the short-term picture with pre-season testing looming to why talk of a Lewis Hamilton rescue mission might be wildly off the mark, and the potential for a ...

EARLY ACCESS: We rank the 2025 F1 driver line-ups

We've ranked the 10 driver line-ups on the F1 grid for 2025, and we're releasing the video we've made based on that ranking early on Patreon!

Check out our ranking 24 hours before it's published on YouTube, and let us know which order you'd put this year's line-ups in!

⭐️ Early access: Bring Back V10s S11 E2 - Schumacher wins, Hill rages

VOTE FOR US! You can help Bring Back V10s win Best Motorsports Podcast at the 2025 Sports Podcast Awards. Cast your vote here and if we win we'll add an EXTRA EPISODE to the end of Season 11 as a thank you!

The rivalry between Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill defined the 1995 F1 season, and at Spa that year they had one of their most famous battles...

Ad-free F1 pod: The key 2025 battlegrounds

For our first episode of 2025, Edd Straw is joined by Mark Hughes and special guest Nelson Valkenburg (Viaplay Netherlands Formula 1 commentator) to discuss the key battlegrounds that will be fought during the 2025 F1 season.

Included in our list are how Lewis Hamilton will fare against Charles Leclerc at Ferrari, whether Mercedes will solves its physics issue, how Verstappen versus Norris 2.0 might look, and more.

The Race F1 Podcast Live... the first time around!

As you probably know by now, The Race F1 Podcast is taking to the stage for two live shows in January 2025, in London (Jan 16th) and Birmingham (Jan 17th).

As we countdown to those shows, we thought we'd re-post the recording from our very first live show in February 2023, when Edd Straw and Scott Mitchell-Malm were joined by Sky Sports F1's Ted Kravitz at the 300-seat Kings Place theatre in London to look ahead to the 2023 season.

If you like what you hear and you haven't bought ...

1997 top 10 drivers - our individual lists!

Here are the individual top 10s that created our combined ranking of 1997's best F1 drivers!

Thanks to everyone who has enjoyed the Revisited series, and all of you who shared your own top 10s and debated our final order.

We can't wait to pick another season for 2025 - with your help!

Ad-free MotoGP pod: Everything we got right (and wrong) about 2024

The Race MotoGP Podcast is always fond of a predictions episode and in 2024 we did quite a few. But this year we're holding ourselves to account and revisiting our predictions to see how often we nailed the prophecies and how often we were miles off the mark.

Special guest Lewis Duncan from Crash.net joins Simon Patterson, Val Khorounzhiy and Matt Beer to look back at everything from our 2025 rider market predictions to how ...

🏍 MotoGP Extra: Uncut interviews with the 2024 Honda and Yamaha riders

For the second of our special MotoGP Extra episodes packed with uncut rider interviews, we’ve got the full set of 2024 Honda and Yamaha racers.

Joan Mir is on blistering form as he talks us through his struggles at Honda and why he fears the team coming good without him, and Fabio Quartararo delves into both his loyalty to Yamaha despite everything and just how parlous his place on the grid was when he made his surprise arrival in MotoGP.

Ducati-to-Honda converts Luca Marini and...

The Race Presents: Gilles Villeneuve special (1981)

The next release from our 'The Race Presents' series of classic motorsport films is a special feature made at Monza in 1981 all about Ferrari icon and Canadian hero Gilles Villeneuve.

📕 F1 Book Club: Jennie Gow on How To Read F1

On the final episode of F1 Book Club in 2024, Edd Straw is joined by F1 reporter Jennie Gow, of BBC 5Live and Drive To Survive fame, to discuss her recently published book How to Read F1.

In 2022, Jennie suffered a major stroke and as part of her rehabilitation (while missing being in the paddock terribly), she wrote this book as a way of sharing her experience and knowledge of F1.

One of the few women to work in F1 media, Jennie opens up on her unique pe...

⭐️ Early access: Bring Back V10s S11 E1 - Jenson Button's debut F1 season

Bring Back V10s returns for its 11th season, and as has become tradition we are releasing episode one super early for our members!

We're kicking things off with an in-depth look back at Jenson Button's first F1 season with Williams in 2000, with the help of Mark Hughes and ex-Williams insider Jim Wright, alongside host Glenn Freeman.

There's lots of behind-the-scenes stories all the way from how Button got into the frame for the Williams drive, the shootout test against Bruno Junq...

Ad-free F1 pod: Red Bull dump Perez - all you need to know

Edd Straw is joined by Scott Mitchell-Malm and special guest Diego Mejia from Fox Sports Mexico and The Race en Español to discuss Red Bull confirming it is parting ways with Sergio Perez for 2025.

They explain why it has taken so long for this announcement to be made, given it has been expected for some time, why the partnership hasn't worked out, and whether this spells the end of Perez's F1 career.

They also discuss who is likely to replace Perez, why that announcement hasn't ...

VIDEO: The top 10 F1 drivers of 1997

You've heard the arguing, now you can watch it too! Here is the video of the full top 10 drivers of 1997 debate we recently had on Bring Back V10s, released as early access on Patreon before it goes out on our new YouTube channel. Enjoy!

Introducing: The Bring Back V10s Debrief!

We're celebrating the upcoming launch of Season 11 of Bring Back V10s by launching a new members-only bonus show!

The Bring Back V10s Debrief will be a short follow-up to each of our main episodes, available in video or audio form.

BBV10s host Glenn Freeman will sit down to talk you through some extra details about each show, revealing insight on the processes that went into putting the episode together, and highlighting interesting things that didn't make the cut in the final r...

🔧 F1 Tech Show: Gary Anderson answers your questions on 2024

On the final episode of The Race F1 Tech Show for 2024, host Edd Straw helps former F1 technical director Gary Anderson navigate through a bumper batch of questions from listeners. 

Included are questions on whether a loss of platform control was the reason behind Red Bull’s dip in dominance, whether there’s evidence that the windtunnel restrictions are what’s keeping the field close, why Mercedes looked strong in cool temperatures and weak in warmer climates, whether Fernand...

Ad-free MotoGP pod: Exclusive interviews with all the Honda and Yamaha riders

Honda and Yamaha used to monopolise the MotoGP title fights. Now they’re mocked as having their own ‘Japanese Cup’ at the back of the field, as even getting into Q2 feels like a victory given how far they’ve fallen.

All of which must make it tough to be a rider at one of those brands.

But when Simon Patterson sat down for exclusive one-on-one interviews with all six Honda and Yamaha riders for The Race MotoGP Podcast, their differing views on their situations shone through...

Ad-free F1 pod: Ranking the Top 10 drivers of 2024

It's time for our regular end of season episode, as Mark Hughes, Scott Mitchell-Malm and Ben Anderson join Edd Straw to countdown The Race's Top 10 F1 drivers of 2024.

As ever, we created our list by asking each of our guests to rank all of the drivers on the grid, with their scores then combined to produce a top 10. But which drivers made it in and who missed out? Are there any big surprises or will the top 10 mirror the drivers' championship standings?

Listen in to find out an...

🏍 MotoGP EXTRA: Uncut interviews with Bastianini, Marquez, Fernandez, Espargaro and more

Over the final months of the 2024 MotoGP season, Simon Patterson gathered a huge number of exclusive one-on-one interviews with riders looking back on not only this season, but some of the biggest moments of their careers.

You'll have heard a few parts of these interviews on The Race MotoGP Podcast and read some snippets from them in articles on The Race website.

But the only people (apart from Matt, Simon and Val) who get to listen to all these interviews in full and completely u...