Formula 1 Podcast

The tight, twisty and fast Jeddah Corniche Circuit in Saudi Arabia has thrown up 2 races with big talking points since 2021 and for its 3rd running it didn’t let us down and we’ve got [...] The post Episode 337 – Close Calls With Brick Walls appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

We’re ready for the 2nd race of this record breaking F1 season as the circus moves to the Jeddah Corniche street circuit this weekend, after 2 previous races there (even if Paul can’t remember both [...] The post Episode 336 – Calling All Nations appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

We’re up and running in Formula 1 for 2023 and I defy anyone to point out any differences at the front of the grid from last year. Go on, we can wait… This week on [...] The post Episode 335 – Desert Moon appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

It’s Race Week (right we’ve got that out of the way now so we can continue) for the first time in 2023 with testing done, all the cars revealed in all their limited colour, carbon [...] The post Episode 334 – We’re Not A Documentary Either appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

We’re in the final stretch of the off-season and the 2023 Formula One World Championship is just around the corner. We just have to make do with all the pesky car launches and media events [...] The post Episode 333 – Duck Season, Rabbit Season, Launch Season appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Happy 2023 everyone. After a troubled year for us we’re back and race fit for 2023! There’s loads to look forward to in the coming year for Formula One and this time we’ll get a [...] The post Episode 332 – New Year, New(ish) F1, Same Old Us appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Just like Danny Ric walking back into the familiar surroundings of the RedBull HQ in Milton Keynes, we’ve returned to the podsphere after a little bit of a break, on the subject of which I [...] The post Episode 331 – If Danny Can Make A Comeback… appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

This week we take a bit of a deep dive into a few off-track areas of F1, with an emphasis on the reports that came out last week that RedBull have exceeded the cost cap [...] The post Episode 330 – Count Those Beans appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Japan, home of the F1 fans with the best hats who aren’t afraid to spend all weekend in the stands in a race suit plus a helmet and also a place where championships are won. [...] The post Episode 329 – Max Verstappen World Champion? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

After 3 years F1 returned to the original home of the night race around the streets of Marina Bay in Singapore. And to welcome it back the weather decided to dump an entire marina’s worth [...] The post Episode 328 – Leclerc To Start From The Pit Lane on Cornettos appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

The Orange Army were certainly out in force at Zandvoort this weekend as Max Verstappen continues in his quest for a 2nd World Championship and with another win under his belt that is getting ever [...] The post Episode 327 – Marked Safe From Ferrari Strategy appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

If you’re just watching the race, you’re doing it wrong! Fast & Loose: F1® is where the world of Formula 1 collides with comedian Will Arnett for his hilarious and shockingly insightful commentary immediately following [...] The post Wondery Presents: Fast & Loose: F1® appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Well that was an interesting summer break wasn’t it! Also look what happens when we go on holiday and record a show early, I’d love to say we’re not doing that again, but you know [...] The post Episode 326 – Keeping Up With The Car Crashians appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

The Hungarian Grand Prix has become the traditional last race before the F1 Summer Break and as we’re past the half way point of the season we get a good idea of what teams need [...] The post Episode 325 – Suitcase Packed And Out Of Office On appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Have we seen the last of the French Grand Prix at the Paul Ricard Circuit? Everyone seems to think so if the current rumours are to be believed, and we’re pretty sure that Ferrari will [...] The post Episode 324 – Get Pastis Ferrari And You’ve Won appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

After the British Grand Prix restored our faith in F1 we were waiting for the race at the RedBull Ring in Austria to bring us back down with a bump. We’re good at getting things [...] The post Episode 323 – Ring On The Prancing Horses appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

What.A.British.Grand.Prix.That.Was! That race had everything, from the drama at the start with Zhou Guanyu’s horrific crash and flip over the tyre barrier at turn 1, to wheel to wheel action at the end with drivers [...] The post Episode 322 – That’ll Shift Some Cufflinks appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Race number 10 already, this season is going quicker than ever before and we’re on to Silverstone again for the British Grand Prix. This week on the podcast we look forward to a British Grand [...] The post Episode 321 – Goes Better With Fire appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

We’re back after our TT and Covid break, just as F1 is back in Canada after a couple of years away for 50% of those reasons and it was a decent enough return to the [...] The post Episode 320 – Back To Montreality appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Have we seen the last of the Monaco Grand Prix? It’s a question that’s been asked a lot this week as the tight, slow circuit is on the last year of its current deal and [...] The post Episode 319 – One Last Dance? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Back to Europe, back to what passes for sanity in F1 and back to Spain for the 2nd time this year when the times and pace do matter! This week on the podcast we look [...] The post Episode 318 – Turning Spain Taronja/Anaranjado appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

The debut of the Miami Grand Prix was hailed as the big showbiz event that F1 has been waiting for, especially since Chase Carey promised us “23 SuperBowls a year” and while it certainly seems [...] The post Episode 317 – One Better Than Austin? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

So Miami then. We’ve not had a car turn a wheel and there’s people up in arms about the fake marina and beach club in one of the turns. TBH all we’re bothered about if [...] The post Episode 316 – May Contain Pitbull appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

So we’ve had our first sprint race of the season and you could say it went pretty well for Red Bull and Max Verstappen in particular after his grand slam weekend of pole (and starting [...] The post Episode 315 – First Sprint Is The Deepest appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Sorry for missing last week as the ‘rona made its way into 3Legs Towers and knocked Paul for if not 6, then at least 5 and we couldn’t get Nico Hulkenberg to be our last [...] The post Episode 314 – In The Absence Of Hulk appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

F1 is back officially, the 2022 season (with the 2021 rules) is finally here and with a race like we got this weekend, it was worth the wait. This week on the podcast we get [...] The post Episode 313 – 5 Red Lights 2 Red Cars appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

As is now traditional this week of every year we get the double hit of pre-season testing (not a shakedown) and Drive To Survive, so in our own way we’ve done a bit of a [...] The post Episode 312 – Sexy Pumpernickel? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

The Shakedown (not a test) is over and the cars are heading out to Bahrain for not only the actual pre-season test (not a shakedown) but also the 1st race of the 2022 season with [...] The post Episode 311 – Shookdown And Ready To Test appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

After a couple of false alarms (we’re looking at you Haas & RedBull) we finally got to see some real life cars in the last week with the McLaren & Aston Martin launches, and don’t [...] The post Episode 310 Turns Out Diario Is A Spanish Newspaper appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

A slightly belated Happy New Year from all of us on the podcast. We did plan on doing a season review, but how do you easily sum up a year like 2021? Simple answer is [...] The post Episode 309 – He’s Back And So Are We appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

There were so many names we could have given this week’s podcast given the controversial nature of the 2021 season finale in Abu Dhabi this past weekend. But we’ve decided to err on the side [...] The post Episode 308 – Max Verstappen World Champion appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Are any of us sure what we watched at the weekend? In all the years of F1 I don’t think any of us have seen a race quite like the first ever Saudi Arabian Grand [...] The post Episode 307 – Watching From Behind The Sofa appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Another Grand Prix and another aero related controversy. This time it was all over the question about some suspect markings on the Mercedes rear wings. Once again the battle between the 2 main antagonists (not [...] The post Episode 306 – Gives You Whinge appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Well that was a weekend in Brazil that will be talked about for a long time to come and may not be all sorted yet as the pod comes out. The newly renamed Sao Paolo [...] The post Episode 305 – Winging It (Once Again) appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Another race back on the calendar after the madness that was 2020 is the Mexico City Grand Prix (formerly known as the Mexico Grand Prix.) With a new name to reflect that it’s the city [...] The post Episode 304 – Hola Mexico (City) appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

The US Grand Prix is always a major spectacle and this year was no exception as the organisers of the Austin race went all out to make up for missing out on a race in [...] The post Episode 303 – Erm Murica appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

First I want to say a massive thanks to everyone (literally hundreds of you) that got in touch after my message last week and the best way I could think of to say thank you [...] The post Episode 302 – Winging It appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Hi everyone, I thought I’d do a quick audio message about what’s been going on lately and why we’ve been a bit off the boil when it comes to recording new shows. Take care Paul The post A Brief Message From Paul appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Sorry we’ve been away for a couple of weeks and missed the aftermath of the Russian Grand Prix, we’re still upset about the whole thing over a week later and it’s taken that long to [...] The post Episode 301 – A Deluge Followed By A Giant Flood appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

This weekend’s Italian Grand Prix broke a few losing streaks, we got to see the first McLaren win since 2012, the first 1-2 by the papaya team since 2010 and the first Daniel Ricciardo winning [...] The post Episode 300 – Shoey At The Front, Schumi At The Back appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

The return of the Dutch Grand Prix finally happened a year late thanks to the turmoil of 2020 and that was an atmosphere worth waiting for. We all knew beforehand that the circuit would be [...] The post Episode 299 – Smokin appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

By now the dust and spray has settled on what has been called a farce of a Belgian Grand Prix and with the benefit of a good night’s sleep and a chance to calm down [...] The post Episode 298 – Not The Return We Wanted appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Fresh off the back of the British Grand Prix controversy, all we needed was for things to get back to normal before the F1 summer break right? Well we didn’t get that did we! 6 [...] The post Episode 297 – What The Hell Did We Just Watch? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

I think we can safely say that was a British Grand Prix like no other before it. Qualifying on Friday evening, the first ever F1 Sprint (don’t call it a) race on Saturday afternoon and [...] The post Episode 296 – Call The Copse appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Formula 1 is the only real thing that is 100% guaranteed to come home every year, only by dint of the fact that the 1st world championship race was at Silverstone, so we can count [...] The post Episode 295 – F1 Comes Home (Twice) appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Just like last year, Austria gave us a better race than Styria for some reason, although Mercedes probably wouldn’t agree after another dominant race for Max Verstappen (he got the grand slam of win, pole [...] The post Episode 294 – Mediterranean Gestures appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

We’re 2 races into the 1st of 3 (correct at time of going to press) triple-headers this season and they’ve both had something in common, no it wasn’t the fact that the Styrian GP was [...] The post Episode 293 – Home Advantage? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Nobody saw that coming did they, an action packed French Grand Prix with racing all the way up and down the grid and RedBull out-Mercedesing Mercedes to take the win as well. This week on [...] The post Episode 292 – Wings Triumphant As Hell Freezes Over appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Well that made up for Monaco didn’t it! This year’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix had it all; red flags, cars out of position, blocking & passing and that was just Saturday’s qualifying session! This week on [...] The post Episode 291 – Like An Out-take From The Heal The World Video appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

The saying goes that good things come to those who wait and this week it’s not 100% true as we’re 2 days later than normal thanks to that good old excuse of real life getting [...] The post Episode 290 – Not The Robot They’re Looking For appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.