By now you'll hopefully have enjoyed the recent episode of The Race F1 Podcast in which Edd Straw, ably assisted by Jon Noble, put your questions to F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali. But what were Edd and Jon's lasting impressions of what Stefano had to say?
On this episode of F1 Extra, they share their thoughts on the interview and the value of the exercise, and attempt to tackle some of the questions you sent in that we unfortunately didn't have the chance to put to Domenicali.
2025-08-13 14:15:48 +0000 UTC
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The moment many of you have been waiting for is finally here: the 'lines are open' for you to submit your questions for the end of Season 12 of Bring Back V10s!
Submit your question about anything to do with F1 from 1989 to 2005 in the comments below this post.
We'll get to as many as we can in the Season 12 finale, and we'll answer more during bonus episodes exclusively for The Race Members' Club in the gap before Season 13!
2025-08-13 13:13:52 +0000 UTC
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Alex Palou is the man of the moment in the IndyCar Series after winning his fourth title and his third in a row last weekend. And he’s on this week’s show just for you.
Palou picks his favourite stat from the year and his Ganassi career so far, picks some of the reasons he feels this success has been possible, discusses Chip Ganassi taking a chance on him and sticking with him through tough times, and the crew behind him that has made this possible.
There’s also special insi...
2025-08-13 11:25:24 +0000 UTC
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With the 10 Formula 1 teams taking a well-earned August break and 14 race weekends in the record books, there's no better time to evaluate their performances so far.
In our latest video, released early and ad-free here on Patreon, we've assessed each team and allocated them a school report grade: a letter from A to F - A being excellent, F being terrible - to reflect the overall level of the team, with three available sub-divisions to reflect the team's effectiveness in maximising the p...
2025-08-13 10:00:36 +0000 UTC
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Edd Straw's mid-season driver rankings feature is out now, which means YOU had the chance to grill him about where each driver is positioned on the list and more.
Who would Edd take in his 2025 driver line-up (hint, it's not Lando Norris OR Oscar Piastri!), who has surprised him by being higher or lower in the rankings than expected and how wet weather races impact t...
2025-08-12 11:00:16 +0000 UTC
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As MotoGP 2025 prepares to resume from its summer break, the paddock looks poised to be joined by Formula 1 cult hero Guenther Steiner as his long-mooted deal to take over the Tech3 team moves closer to fruition.
Val Khorounzhiy, Simon Patterson and Matt Beer go behind the Netflix Steiner stereotype to explain what he’ll actually bring to KTM’s second team and ponder Tech3’s wider future shape. Plus, we want your help for an upcoming episode...
Ahead of the second half of a ...
2025-08-12 08:00:07 +0000 UTC
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You've heard our podcast interview in which Stefano Domenicali answered your questions about the future shape of Formula 1 - now here's the video rundown of the key things we learned from the conversation, available ad-free here on Patreon.
2025-08-11 14:19:26 +0000 UTC
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In an exclusive interview for The Race F1 podcast, we put YOUR questions to Formula 1 chairman and CEO Stefano Domenicali about the future of grand prix racing.
Listen in as Edd Straw, accompanied by Jon Noble, pose a range of questions submitted by you - the Members' Club - to Domenicali, with the topics including 2026's big rules shake-up, power unit regulations, sprint races, the F1 calendar, and the fan experience.
Thank you again to everyone who submitted a question - we only...
2025-08-11 09:22:43 +0000 UTC
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Two years ago, the feature-length documentary Villeneuve Pironi: Racing's Untold Tragedy was released, telling the powerful story of two of Formula 1’s fastest ever racing drivers, 1981-82 Ferrari team-mates Gilles Villeneuve and Didier Pironi.
With the recent addition of Film Club to our Patreon collections, we wanted to reshare this special podcast episode - one...
2025-08-11 08:29:04 +0000 UTC
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With Season 12 of Bring Back V10s flying by, it's time we caught up on some more Debriefs!
So send us your thoughts, comments and questions about the 1999 German Grand Prix where Mika Salo moved over to hand Eddie Irvine victory, and McLaren had a day to forget.
2025-08-10 15:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Edd has used his averages from all our grand prix weekend driver rankings scores so far in 2025 to create a worst-to-best order and given his mid-season judgement on each driver.
As it's an average of Edd's (and stand-in Ben's) scores so far, it's not quite the same as the usual rankings process - but Edd is still poised to take your questions and comments on the order and how he's rated the drivers in the first half of 2025. Just pop your question in the comments on this p...
2025-08-10 08:48:54 +0000 UTC
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Join Edd Straw and Glenn Freeman as they tackle another batch of your questions, starting with the thorny topic of whether a collision between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri is inevitable as the season approaches its climax.
There are also questions on whether the Hungaroring is a better circuit than Spa, what we make of back-to-back DRS zones, whether Edd feel vindicated by Borteleto's current run of form, and how F1's current era will be remembered in the future...
2025-08-09 13:00:12 +0000 UTC
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The latest film in our The Race Presents series of uncovered archive gems is the UK TV coverage of the famous 1976 British Grand Prix - one of the classic flashpoints in James Hunt and Niki Lauda's championship battle.
It's what happened in the months after the race that made it so important in the title fight narrative, as on-the-road winner Hunt eventually lost his victory to Lauda two months later after McLaren and Ferrari's legal tit-for-that over whether he should have been allowed...
2025-08-09 11:00:08 +0000 UTC
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MotoGP 2025 resumes in Austria next weekend with the shape of the 2026 grid almost but not quite set.
Honda's plans now it's not getting Jorge Martin might not be as obvious as they seemed, we still don't know which Pramac rider is getting squeezed off the grid, two Moto2 riders deserve a shot somewhere (more on them in Simon and Val's Moto2/3 special next week) and there have been plenty of wild rumours over recent weeks about leftfield moves.
Simon, Val and Matt discuss the late...
2025-08-09 07:54:04 +0000 UTC
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As Alpine heads into the summer off the back of another miserable weekend on-track AND a heavy post-race test crash, we delve into its still unresolved driver situation - assessing the case for Franco Colapinto staying on, the case for Jack Doohan being given another chance, and asking what might actually happen next.
2025-08-08 11:06:23 +0000 UTC
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Given Danilo Petrucci’s career path went from Superstock and the lashed-up backmarker world of MotoGP’s CRT class to winning the Italian Grand Prix as a factory Ducati rider, then off to World Superbikes via a sad KTM stint, the Dakar Rally and MotoAmerica, it’s no surprise that you had a glorious variety of questions to ask him when we gave you the chance to.
Here’s Ollie in conversation with Danilo on your behalf, in an interview that might cover a wider variety of motorbike r...
2025-08-08 10:00:16 +0000 UTC
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Bring Back V10s goes 'Hybrid' for the second time in its history, heading back to the 2015 Malaysian Grand Prix where Sebastian Vettel took his first win for Ferrari, and inflicted Mercedes' first proper defeat of the hybrid era by beating Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg in a straight fight.
Glenn Freeman is joined by Ben Anderson and Edd Straw, who were both at Sepang that weekend, to look back on why Ferrari had the upper hand on Mercedes in race trim, and if Mercedes' cautious appro...
2025-08-07 13:13:35 +0000 UTC
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We ask why Lewis Hamilton’s move to Ferrari has so far fallen short of expectations in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast.
Mark Hughes and Scott Mitchell-Malm join Edd Straw to discuss the fallout from Hamilton’s struggles during the Hungarian Grand Prix, and the comments he made during the weekend, have led.
We tackle questions from The Race Members’ Club about whether Hamilton’s form is beginning to be untenable and how he bounced back from such a diff...
2025-08-07 09:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Onboard footage is probably the very best visual part of F1's television coverage - and the cameras behind it are incredible, highly developed pieces of technology.
Recently, our own Samarth Kanal got to see F1's broadcast command centre at Biggin Hill - and have this chat with Dino Leone, the head of F1's onboard camera operations.
Apart from Dino's fascinating explanation of the cameras and how that - and all the other data - is transmitted from the cars, look out for a relic of...
2025-08-06 15:00:14 +0000 UTC
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To no-one's surprise we received a huge number of responses to episode two of Season 12 of Bring Back V10s on the 1990 Japanese Grand Prix.
To no-one's surprise we received a huge number of responses to episode two of Season 12 of Bring Back V10s on the 1990 Japanese Grand Prix.
Glenn Freeman has worked his way through as many of your comments, observations and questions as there was time for, to follow-up on some of the biggest talking points from the episode, and a few passionat...
2025-08-06 11:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Rather than being full of optimism that Hungary will be the launchpad for lots more shots at McLaren in the final part of the season, Ferrari’s lead driver Charles Leclerc is convinced the team’s just blown its only chance of a 2025 grand prix win.
So just what exactly went so wrong and is Leclerc right that Ferrari might not get another win shot this year? Our latest video - ad-free and early here on Patreon - explains more.
2025-08-06 07:56:18 +0000 UTC
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Red Bull ended the first half of the 2025 Formula 1 season on a new low that's left Max Verstappen with very low expectations for the rest of the year.
Our latest video - available ad-free here on Patreon - explores Red Bull's problems, and how long ago McLaren made the changes that have given the team its biggest area of superiority over Red Bull.
2025-08-05 13:21:26 +0000 UTC
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Why Lewis Hamilton is ranked last is among the topics on Edd's bumper review of your questions on his Hungarian Grand Prix driver rankings - there's even a comparison drawn between Edd and Lewis!
Keep an eye on your feed later this week for Edd's mid-season average rankings appearing, as he'll be taking your questions on those later in the summer break for a bonus driver rankings video.
2025-08-05 09:37:07 +0000 UTC
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F1's back and forth title fight took another twist before the summer break, while big performance swings jumbled the pecking order behind McLaren.
Here's everything we learned from the Hungarian GP, ad-free for your enjoyment here on Patreon.
2025-08-04 15:31:21 +0000 UTC
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All eyes might have been on the battle for victory in the Hungarian GP, but it was a couple of midfielders who stole the show in Edd's F1 driver rankings this week.
As ever, submit your questions for Edd about his rankings below and he'll answer them in an upcoming video.
Started: 7th Finished: 6th
For the fourth qualifying session in the last five, Bortoleto too...
2025-08-04 12:43:03 +0000 UTC
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Edd Straw, Jon Noble and Josh Suttill convene in Budapest to unpack the Hungarian Grand Prix, which was won by McLaren's Lando Norris after he held off charging team-mate Oscar Piastri in the closing stages. But why did Norris end up on the winning one-stop strategy, and why did Charles Leclerc’s victory chances evaporate after leading the first stint?
Those are among the questions answered in today's podcast, which also tackles the usual host of questions sent in by listeners in by ...
2025-08-03 22:54:20 +0000 UTC
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Lando Norris was only fifth on lap one of the Hungarian Grand Prix yet ended up beating McLaren team-mate and title rival Oscar Piastri to a vital victory thanks to a strategy switch that wasn't available to Piastri. Is McLaren playing it fair by allowing such alternate strategy splits when its two drivers are fighting for a championship?
Scott and Jon debate that and much more, and explain how this mid-race change of plan came about, in our latest video from the F1 paddock - which you ...
2025-08-03 19:39:05 +0000 UTC
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What do you want our F1 team to talk about, debate and answer on the Hungarian Grand Prix episode of The Race F1 Podcast?
Drop your question in the comments before 5pm UK time today, and we'll include as many as we can in tonight's episode and elsewhere in our Hungaroring coverage.
2025-08-03 14:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Scott, Edd, Jon and Josh wax lyrical about the best qualifying session of the year as they unpick the big talking points from Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying, on a more serene journey back from the track than usual.
It's a bumper run-through of why Q3 played out the way it did, who ended up where, and Lewis Hamilton's surprising remarks - while Edd supplies some light relief as well with some deliberate (and later accidental) horn honking, and a last-of-the-late-brakers traffic light st...
2025-08-02 20:21:00 +0000 UTC
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Qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix was arguably the most exciting one yet in F1 2025 - but the biggest talking point coming out of it didn't even happen in the Q3 shootout.
For our latest video, ad-free for The Race Members' Club on Patreon, join Scott Mitchell-Malm and Jon Noble in the F1 paddock as they analyse some stark comments and the battle for pole position at the Hungaroring.
2025-08-02 19:41:52 +0000 UTC
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