Formula 1 Podcast

Pre-season testing is done for 2020, but what now. With the current Covid-19 situation, we don’t actually know if we’ll have an F1 season to talk about for the first part of the year. Things [...] The post Episode 239 – Testing’s Done, Now What? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Testing week 1 is done and what an innovation the Silver Arrows have dropped on us this year? Up to last Wednesday, steering wheels just rotated left and right and that was all they did, [...] The post Episode 238 – Was Is DAS? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

That was one long winter break, but I think we got through it intact and we’re ready for F1 to get going again, and here it is! This week on the podcast we get to [...] The post Episode 237 – Radio Check, Are we Ready To Go? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

We’re only about a week away from the first car launches of the season and a couple of weeks from the start of the first test, so that means it won’t be long until we’re [...] The post Episode 236 – Seriously Not Long To Go Now appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

OK, ok, ok, sorry we’re late. We recorded this show as normal on Monday after a week’s delay thanks to Storm Brendan hitting the Isle of Man with 80MPH winds (about as fast as a [...] The post Episode 235 – And A New One Has (Finally) Begun appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

So the end of another year of F1 and now we get a couple of months without seeing a car spin it’s wheels (or in the case of one driven by Sebastian Vettel, just spin) [...] The post Episode 234 – Another Year Over appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

We’re back on track this week after 80% of us got taken down by a bad bout of Manx Flu! And what better way to celebrate being up and about again than to do a [...] The post Episode 233 – Flu Can’t Bring Me Down appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

So is the Day/Night Abu Dhabi Grand Prix just one big metaphor then? With it being the only twilight race of the year and coming at the end of the season then I guess the [...] The post Episode 232 – Literally Driving Into The Sunset appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Well that was a surprise, although we’re still not sure what was the biggest one, 2 Honda powered cars on the podium, Carlos Sainz getting 3rd (eventually), Ferrari taking each other out, an actual Mercedes [...] The post Episode 231 – Try Summarizing That! appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Don’t panic about the title, we’ve not gone off into a world of strange dance music! This week on the podcast we’re joined, once again by technical specialist Craig Scarborough to take a look back [...] The post Episode 230 – Brazilian Techno Special appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Well he’s done it again! Congratulations to Lewis Hamilton for his 6th Word Driver’s Championship, coming after Mercedes clinched their 6th consecutive Constructor’s crown 2 races ago in Japan. Although once again he didn’t take [...] The post Episode 229 – Lewis Hamilton World Champion X 6 appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

So Mexico does things with the podium again! No rotating DJs this time, but a big lift for the winner in their car. Some say that the podium is the most exciting thing about the [...] The post Episode 228 – We Could Be Lifted appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Not only are we back on schedule this week with a Tuesday podcast, but we’ve (Lee has anyway) invested in some new streaming equipment and we’re back on YouTube as well! So this week’s podcast [...] The post Episode 227 – Comin’ Atcha LIVE appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Sorry, sorry, sorry. Can you tell we’re sorry this week. It wasn’t just qualifying in the Japanese Grand Prix that was delayed this week. After somehow managing to get jetlag without leaving the sofa at [...] The post Episode 226 – Better Later Than Never(er) appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

It wouldn’t be the Japanese Grand Prix without what some of the most dedicated F1 fans in the world and one thing is for sure, the Japanese F1 fans sure love a crazy hat for [...] The post Episode 225 – Mad Hats Incoming appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

That’s what was blowing through Russia this weekend at least. After 3 races and one qualifying session where Ferrari dominated, we returned to normal service in Sochi with a Mercedes 1-2 that didn’t look even [...] The post Episode 224 – More Winds Of Change appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Coming off the back of 2 wins at low downforce, high speed circuits, nobody thought that Ferrari would be in with a sniff of getting anything out of this weekend’s race in Singapore on a [...] The post Episode 223 – From Out Of Nowhere? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

We promise you that the title of this week’s podcast will make sense when you listen to it! This week on the podcast we’re joined by the one and only Virtual Stat Man Sean Kelly [...] The post Episode 222 – RedBull Gives You Cauliflowers? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

A second consecutive for Ferrari and their first at Monza since Fernando Alonso all the way back in 2010, is the the start of the red resurgence? Probably not when you think about it as [...] The post Episode 221 – Due Is The Numero Magico appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Charles Leclerc has added his name to the list of Grand Prix winners and he’s only the 6th driver to do that this decade, such has been the balance of power in Formula One recently. [...] The post Episode 220 – The 6th New Name In 10 Years appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Well that was a day and a half! We’ve not even had a car on track after the Summer break and we’ve already had the 2020 calendar, driver confirmations from 2 teams, another driver confirmation [...] The post Episode 219 – Thursday Is The New Tuesday appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

That’s the Summer Break all done and we’re back to racing this weekend. F1 makes its traditional return to the Belgian countryside for one of our favourite races of the season. The Belgian Grand Prix [...] The post Episode 218 – A Spa Vacation Or A Vacation And A Spa? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

We’ve got another special show this week as Craig Scarborough joins us again to talk though what the teams have achieved in the first have of he season and where the upgrades are going to [...] The post Episode 217 – Another Technical Special With Craig Scarborough appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

So RedBull have done it (and not on a Tuesday), Alex is in and Pierre is out (only out as far as Toro Rosso though). Can’t help but think we’ve seen this before once or [...] The post Episode 216 – The Old RedBull Switcheroo (Again) appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

That’s 4 exciting races we’ve had in a row now in the run up to the Summer break. And for the first time in a while we saw Mercedes pull an amazing strategy move over [...] The post Episode 215 – The Chase Is Better Than The Catch appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

We’ve finally had a wet race this season and what a race it was too! 78 pitstops, a mix of strategies (some worked some didn’t), points for Williams, spins behind the safety car and a [...] The post Episode 214 – Wet and Wild appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

F1 is back in Germany this weekend with the Hockenheimring getting to host races in consecutive years for the first time since 2006 and 9 teams seem to know what they’re doing this weekend, but [...] The post Episode 213 – Feuer Frei appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

There’s one constant that you can expect from the British Grand Prix and that’s if Lewis Hamilton wins the race he’s going to crowdsurf like a pro and this weekend at Silverstone was no exception! [...] The post Episode 212 – Let’s Go (Crowd)Surfin’ Now appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

This is the weekend where F1 comes home! The first Formula 1 World Championship Grand Prix was held at Silverstone in 1950 and the iconic circuit has gone on to hold the race another 51 [...] The post Episode 211 – A Sort Of Homecoming appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

We’d only just put our socks back on after the French Grand Prix bored them off last week and we were collectively happy to then have them blown off by an absolute classic of a [...] The post Episode 210 – That Was The Race We Needed appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

There’s 2 meaning behind the title of this week’s show as the French Grand Prix took the award for the strangest trophy of the season, with the return of the tyre wielding gorilla trophies and [...] The post Episode 209 – They Did It Again appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

12 Months on from the last French Grand Prix and there’s still no rational explanation behind the gorillas that were handed out on the podium in Le Castellet last year. Question is are we going [...] The post Episode 208 – We’re Still Getting Over Last Year’s Trophies appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

So the Canadian Grand Prix then? Not many talking points at all really. There was Renault’s new found pace, a Mercedes Engine going “foom” in the back of a Racing Point, Kevin Magnussen being read [...] The post Episode 207 – Controversy, What Controversy? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

FP2 in Canada has just finished and friend of the Podcast Sean Kelly (@virtualstatman) is right there next to The Wall Of Champions and he’s joined us for an extra mini-show looking back at Friday’s [...] The post Live From Montreal Trackside With Virtual Stat Man, Sean Kelly appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

So the European F1 season is in full swing as we move across the Atlantic to… Canada. But it’s a first for this year’s Canadian Grand Prix as it will be the first time that [...] The post Episode 206 – Their Home And Native Land appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

That was an interesting Monaco Grand Prix this weekend. Once again Lewis Hamilton questioned the team’s strategy choices and seemed to spend the last half of the race not happy with the state his tyres [...] The post Episode 205 – It Looks Like We Might Have Made It appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

This week on the podcast we’re joined once again by Craig Scarborough to talk about the updates that some teams brought with them to last week’s Spanish Grand Prix and to the 2 day test [...] The post Episode 204 – European Updates With Craig Scarborough appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

So the headline of the Spanish Grand Prix was another 1-2 finish for Mercedes, but the real story was how Ferrari managed to screw up their strategy again. It’s not much fun when what’s meant [...] The post Episode 203 – Strategy 101 (Ferrari Nil) appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

It’s been four 1-2 finishes out of four for Mercedes this year and this weekend at the Spanish Grand Prix you can bet they are going all out to get a fifth one. This week [...] The post Episode 202 – Will The Reign Continue In Spain? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Over the last 2 years we’ve come to expect the unexpected when it comes to the Azerbaijan Grand Prix and after the drain cover and bridge incidents on Friday, the 2 hour qualifying session on [...] The post Episode 201 – Not With A Bang appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Just in case you hadn’t noticed, it’s our 200th show this week and we decided to do something special for it… Actually we haven’t done anything out of the ordinary and we’re leaving it to [...] The post Episode 200 – Yes it’s actually Episode 200 appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

It wasn’t a thriller was it? The massively hyped up 1000th race in the F1 World Championship (we’ll get to the other 1000th races soon enough) turned out to be a bit of a walkover [...] The post Episode 199 – Race 1000 Putting The “M” in HmmmmmM appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

With the 1000th World Championship race coming up this weekend, F1 is in a celebratory mood combined with a lot of looking back over the last 69 years of Grand Prix history. However we’re all [...] The post Episode 198 – Millennium Bug Prevention appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Charles Leclerc started Sunday as the 99th pole-sitter in Formula 1 and for all but 9 laps of Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix he looked set to be the 107th race winner as well, but as [...] The post Episode 197 – Almost Within Touching Distance appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

We’re already on to the 2nd race of the F1 season and this week the circus heads to the desert in Bahrain for the first night race of the year, The Bahrain Grand Prix. This [...] The post Episode 196 – (Remember) Racing In The Sand appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Finally after not being able to say this for the whole of 2018, we can congratulate Valtteri Bottas for winning a race, and what a way to do it as well. His Australian Grand Prix [...] The post Episode 195 – Big Beard Energy? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Seeing as the 2019 season is finally about to start we’ve done an extra show with a special guest this week. Joining us from Melbourne is VirtualStatMan Sean Kelly. On the show we look forward [...] The post Australian Grand Prix Special appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

It’s a thing and it’s happening! The 2019 F1 season starts this week and for the first time this year we can say that we’ve got a preview show. This week on the podcast we [...] The post Episode 194 – Radio Check Are We Ready To Go? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

We’ve now seen all the 2019 cars running on track during the 2 test sessions in Barcelona and this week we’re joined by Craig Scarborough to talk us through what we’ve seen. This week on [...] The post Episode 193 – Testing Wrapup With Craig Scarborough appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Pre-season testing is half way done and we’ve got to see all 10 cars and 21 different drivers (Haas gave Pietro Fittipaldi a run last week) and what have we learned from it? This week [...] The post Episode 192 – The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Tester appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.