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Edd on the F1 car that impressed him most from trackside (and it's not the McLaren)

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...

The major decisions from F1's crunch V10 engine meeting [ad-free video]

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.

And Colossally Thats History S3 E2: Enzo Ferrari - The uncompromising path to F1 immortality (Part 2)

Matt 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...

How F1's reacting to another explosive FIA controversy [ad-free video]

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.

How Red Bull managed to win in Suzuka with a tricky car

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. 

BBV10s 1993 Revisited: South African GP

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.

What’s behind F1’s Bahrain V10 engine summit?

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...

Where Hamilton’s Leclerc deficit claim fits into Ferrari’s 2025 struggles [ad-free video]

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.

BBV10s Debrief: 1996 Monaco GP

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!

Yamaha MotoGP star Jack Miller answers YOUR questions

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...

Edd answers your Japanese GP F1 driver rankings questions

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!

F1 Extra: Has Piastri taken a step in 2025?

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 ...

Everything we learned from the Japanese Grand Prix [ad-free video]

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.

MotoGP Podcast: New Razgatlioglu MotoGP intrigue + Martin's return

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...

Ask Edd Straw about his Japanese Grand Prix F1 driver rankings

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...

Japanese Grand Prix race review (ad-free)

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.

Yuki Tsunoda’s disappointing Red Bull F1 debut explained [ad-free video]

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.

Send us your Japanese GP F1 podcast questions!

Drop your questions below for Edd and the team to tackle in our post-race podcast from Suzuka!

Stunning Verstappen/Red Bull turnaround at Japanese GP explained [ad-free video]

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.

Tsunoda’s Red Bull start - What we’ve learned at F1’s Japanese GP already [ad-free video]

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.

⭐️ Bring Back V10s - Murray's Magic Moments special

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...

⚡️Formula E: The big season interlude episode (ad-free)

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...

2015 revisited: Marquez's epic - but doomed - Mugello charge (Round 6)

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.

How is Tsunoda looking? Scott's trackside report from Japanese GP Friday

Fresh 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.

Scott and Jon on how F1's reacted to Red Bull driver swap at Suzuka

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.

New Red Bull F1 driver swap revelations and Verstappen’s verdict [ad-free video]

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...

What do you want to know about Enzo Ferrari?

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...

An update on our new podcast feeds

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...

🚨 EARLY ACCESS: And Colossally That's History! S3 E1: Enzo Ferrari - From middling racing driver to winning constructor (Part 1)

Ferrari 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...

Ferrari's early season struggles + We speak to Tsunoda ahead of his Red Bull debut (ad-free)

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