Most people predicted that Marc Marquez’s arrival in the factory Ducati MotoGP team was going to be bad news for Pecco Bagnaia, but this bad?
Ducati’s lead title hope for the last four seasons (and twice world champion for it) hasn’t beaten his new team-mate in a straight fight at all yet or even looked like doing so.
Val Khorounzhiy and Matt Beer put Bagnaia’s disappointing 2025 form centre stage in the latest episode of The Race MotoGP Podcast.
Is Bagnaia ...
2025-05-19 16:17:39 +0000 UTC
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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!
Two particularly-timed mid-race interruptions - in addition to the C6 being non-viable as a race tyre - meant the finishing order in the Imola Grand Prix was hardly representative of which drivers actu...
2025-05-19 12:15:03 +0000 UTC
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We’re giving away caps signed by Ferrari drivers Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton in an exclusive competition for The Race Members’ Club on Patreon, thanks to our friends at The Monaco Inside Track.
All you have to do to be eligible to win a cap signed by either Leclerc or Hamilton (we have one of each to give away!), is lodge your entry by commenting on this p...
2025-05-19 11:20:00 +0000 UTC
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Edd Straw is joined in Imola by Mark Hughes and Jon Noble to discuss all the important talking points from the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
Chief among them is how Red Bull managed to emerge with the quickest car, and whether Max Verstappen would still have won, even if McLaren's Oscar Piastri had beaten him into Turn 1.
There's also chat about how Ferrari saved face at its home race, after a dismal qualifying, plus there are plenty of questions to answer from you - The Race Member...
2025-05-18 22:06:43 +0000 UTC
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Max Verstappen's stunning victory in the 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix not only kept him in the hunt for the F1 world championship it also shocked rival team McLaren. Edd Straw and Jon Noble break down exactly why McLaren suddenly had no answer for Red Bull at Imola.
2025-05-18 20:16:12 +0000 UTC
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What do you want our F1 team to talk about, debate and answer on the Emilia Romagna 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 Imola coverage.
2025-05-18 14:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Yuki Tsunoda suffered his first major setback since becoming Max Verstappen's Red Bull team-mate, crashing out spectacularly in Q1 at Imola. Edd Straw and Jon Noble break down the incident, explain why Tsunoda was right to be so self-critical and discuss whether this the first sign of a worrying pattern repeating.
2025-05-17 21:21:32 +0000 UTC
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Jon shuttles Edd and Josh back from the Imola paddock (in a hire car with two fuel tanks), boldly claiming no sat-nav is required. Will they actually make it back to their hotel in Riolo Terme? In the meantime, they discuss an eventful qualifying day for the 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
2025-05-17 20:14:16 +0000 UTC
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Edd Straw ventured trackside during Friday's first practice session at Imola. Here's what he learned.
2025-05-16 14:30:35 +0000 UTC
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As this weekend’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix is just a few days after the 75th anniversary of the inaugural world championship race at Silverstone, it was inevitable that F1 would want to put on a show to mark the occasion.
On Friday, 10 minutes after first practice, and Saturday, 15 minutes after the conclusion of F1 qualifying, and Sunday, two-and-a-half hours before the grand prix, the historic cars will hit the track in celebration.
Some of the cars involved are on show ...
2025-05-16 09:42:13 +0000 UTC
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Did Marc Marquez still have a shot at the 2015 MotoGP title after all? Or was his German Grand Prix resurgence just a Sachsenring anomaly at a circuit where Marquez was unbeatable?
Simon Patterson, Megan White, Val Khorounzhiy and Matt Beer explore that plus Jorge Lorenzo’s change of form and a surprising contrast between Andrea Iannone and Andrea Dovizioso at Ducati in the latest episode of MotoGP 2015 Revisited.
But before all of that, we have to tackle Marco Melandri’s mise...
2025-05-16 09:00:07 +0000 UTC
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After weeks of intrigue, wild theories and paddock gossip, the FIA carried out a major inspection of the dominant McLarens following the Miami Grand Prix.
Ahead of this weekend's Imola race it revealed its findings. Jon and Edd discuss what the FIA would've been looking for and what its conclusion means for the title fight - and pitlane tensions.
2025-05-15 18:52:00 +0000 UTC
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On this week’s episode of And Colossally That’s History! Matt and Richard wind the clock back to 1950, as they reappraise the very first race of the F1 world championship era, which took place at Silverstone on May 13.
Along the way, they look at the origins of the term ‘Formula 1’, dig into the debate over where the first race run to Formula 1 regulations actually took place, and explain why Alfa Romeo emerged as the dominant force in the post-war years, leading ...
2025-05-15 16:32:20 +0000 UTC
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In our latest members-only Q&A, Glenn Freeman and Ben Anderson discuss another brilliant selection of questions.
Topics covered include who would win the championship if the 2003 driver line-up were driving their teams’ 1995 cars, if a case can really be made (even by Ben!) that Damon Hill was the rightful 1994 world champion, and if too much data in modern F1 takes away part of what made following races in the V10 era feel special.
2025-05-15 12:00:09 +0000 UTC
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It's time for episode 2 in our new series, which aims to dig deep into driving styles and explain what makes the best drivers in F1 so quick.
Having gone deep on Max Verstappen's technique in episode 1, it's his biggest rival over the last 12 months that Edd Straw and Mark Hughes are honing in on this time: Lando Norris.
Discover how Lando goes about extracting speed from the car, how his approach differs from Verstappen's, what his limitations are, and much more...
2025-05-15 08:00:09 +0000 UTC
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We looked ahead to what is set to be Imola’s final Formula 1 race - for now at least - in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast.
Jon Noble and Josh Suttill join Edd Straw in Italy to discuss whether the classic track deserved to stay on the calendar or F1 has outgrown it.
We also look ahead to Franco Colapinto’s return and whether he can make a success of what’s initially only a five-race run in the Alpine, as well as addressing the situation surrounding resi...
2025-05-14 18:54:54 +0000 UTC
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Williams is having its best season in a decade and has embarrassed one of F1’s biggest teams a couple of times in the process.
But it’s ready to sacrifice its current position, and the potential to achieve even more, with all its focus already on next year - as Scott Mitchell-Malm explains in our latest video, available ad-free on Patreon.
2025-05-14 16:12:44 +0000 UTC
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Thirty years ago today, Nigel Mansell's glorious Formula 1 career ended in bleak fashion as he retired his McLaren from the 1995 Spanish Grand Prix and then split with the team after a disastrously brief stint.
In an interview for sports journalist Graham Nickless' new audiobook Cheers to 50 years...On The Sporting Frontline, Mansell has revealed new details about Bernie Ecclestone's role in getting him out of IndyCar - where he intende...
2025-05-14 14:10:52 +0000 UTC
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Take a tour of Williams - and F1 - history as Edd Straw guides you round the Williams conference centre through the team's grand prix racing lineage.
Armed with a typically thorough amount of trivia, Edd is on hand to steer you through the first cars produced by Frank Williams and Patrick Head for Williams Grand Prix Engineering, to Williams's most successful spells first with Honda and then with Renault, plus its BMW era and its more recent challengers.
That includes arguably its...
2025-05-14 13:11:28 +0000 UTC
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Last week, And Colossally That's History! explored whether Eddie Jordan should be considered F1's biggest overachiever. And now it's your chance to send in your follow up questions.
As ever, Matt and Richard will answer a couple of them on this week's episode, with the remainder going into the hat to be answered in the end of season Q&A episode, which will be available exclusively to members.
Drop your question in the comments below!
2025-05-14 08:00:11 +0000 UTC
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The biggest question McLaren’s rivals are chasing an answer for right now is just why is the team’s 2025 car so good at managing its rear tyre temperatures.
Nobody outside of McLaren knows for definite, but it is fair to say that there is unlikely to be a single silver bullet element that is making the difference.
2025-05-13 18:03:01 +0000 UTC
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IndyCar dominator Alex Palou joins this week’s The Race IndyCar Podcast, which also includes a full preview of the first week of Indianapolis 500 action as the event starts this week.
Alex Palou - who has now won four of the first five races of the 2025 season - discusses what it would be like to win the Indy 500, how the new hybrid unit could effect the quality of the racing on track, and how the recent test shaped his expectations for his level of competitiveness at this year’s ev...
2025-05-13 10:21:12 +0000 UTC
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The hardest MotoGP rider rankings so far for Val to rule on?
That's what he reckons in this week's rankings debrief video, as he unpicks the madness of the French Grand Prix and explains the thought process behind his order - answering your questions on why the rookie who joined Marc Marquez on the podium wasn't ranked above the six-time MotoGP champion and much more.
2025-05-13 09:20:40 +0000 UTC
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Ferrari’s 2025 so far has been bitterly disappointing. To have any chance of salvaging something from what’s becoming, by its standards, a terrible season, it needs a BIG reset - and soon.
2025-05-12 16:18:43 +0000 UTC
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MotoGP’s French Grand Prix at Le Mans was a completely crazy race - but then even crazier news emerged the morning after.
Here’s a special double episode of The Race MotoGP Podcast starting with Simon Patterson and Val Khorounzhiy on the bombshell news that Jorge Martin is seemingly looking for a way out of Aprilia having barely even raced for it.
How that’s even possible, where he would go and what Aprilia would do are all debated in an emergency mini-episode recorded as Si...
2025-05-12 15:35:06 +0000 UTC
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McLaren’s tyre-management strengths have been a major talking point in F1 recently, with the FIA recently clearing its design following a detailed inspection after the Miami Grand Prix. The latest episode of The Race F1 Podcast delves into this.
Jon Noble and Ben Anderson join Edd Straw to discuss McLaren’s advantage and the reasons why certain rivals are pointing the finger behind the scenes.
We also discuss Carlos Sainz Sr’s emergence as a possible candidate to...
2025-05-12 11:15:05 +0000 UTC
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Here's Val's valiant attempt to create a coherent French Grand Prix MotoGP rider rankings after all the Le Mans chaos.
Agree? Disagree? Got a question? Leave your thoughts in the comments on this post and Val will address them in his next Rider Rankings Debrief video.
The events of the wet-dry-wet French Grand Prix felt like they had precious little to do with all the other premier-class sessions that had made up the rest of the ...
2025-05-11 22:09:46 +0000 UTC
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What on earth happened in MotoGP's French Grand Prix, how did Johann Zarco win it, who else should've won it and blew it, and are the new rules for wet/dry starts and tyre choices genius or infuriating?
Simon, Val and Matt give their takes on all of that in our latest MotoGP video.
2025-05-11 20:15:01 +0000 UTC
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What do you want Simon, Val and Matt to discuss, argue about, answer or try to make sense of in our French Grand Prix MotoGP Podcast?
Drop your question in the comments on this post and we'll do our very best in tonight's episode.
2025-05-11 12:25:36 +0000 UTC
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Before it's released on the website, get early access to Andrew van de Burgt's ranking of the top 10 Argentine Formula 1 drivers ahead of Franco Colapinto's return to the grid at Imola...
Colapinto became the 26th driver from Argentina to take part in a world championship Formula 1 grand prix when he made his surprise Williams debut last year, and the first since Gaston Mazzacane ended his stint with Prost at the 2001 San Marino Grand Prix.
Given that a significant chun...
2025-05-10 14:30:02 +0000 UTC
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