Formula 1 Podcast

The 2019 F1 season has officially got (pre)-going with all 10 cars launched and the start of the 1st pre-season test in Barcelona. This week on the podcast we take a look at the 10 [...] The post Episode 191 – Testing, Testing, Is This Thing On? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

It’s Launch week and so far we’ve seen… some 2018 cars in fancy dress and renderings of 2019 cars where you don’t get to see too much technical detail on them. But let’s not spoil [...] The post Epsiode 190 – Blackout? Not Exactly appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

There’s been quite a few F1 stories breaking over the last few weeks, so we’ve decided that it’s time we got off our backsides and got back to weekly podcasts, so here we are! This [...] The post Episode 189 – On The Road Again (Again) appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

It’s a bit of a mixed show this week, there’s not a great deal of F1 news out there and we also found out we’d got 2 broken microphones during the recording, so we’ve put [...] The post Episode 188 – Sort Of F1 & Sort of Patreon appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

2019 has started with a surprise for us, there was news on a Monday and it was a big story as well. As you’ll have probably seen by now Maurizio Arrivabene has left his role [...] The post Episode 187 – Arrivederci Maranello appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

With the 2018 F1 season fading into the distance we look back at things from a more technical perspective with Craig Scarborough this week. Amongst other things we talk about the season long development race [...] The post Episode 186 – Season Wrap Up with Craig Scarborough appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Our first off-season show of the year and once again we’ve managed to get a special guest to join us for it. This week on the podcast we’re joined by ESPN presenter & BBC 5 [...] The post Episode 185 – Tis The (Off) Season (Again) appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Well that’s it for the 2018 season then. It’s been an interesting year in F1 and we got a decent race to wrap things up. But before we do a season review in the next [...] The post Episode 184 – Like The Rain Misses The Desert appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

It’s the last race of the 2018 season this weekend and it’s the last race (for now) for at least 3 and maybe 5 drivers on the grid. We already know that Fernando Alonso, Stoffel [...] The post Episode 183 – No Regrets, No Tears Goodbye? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

The Brazilian Grand Prix had a couple of talking points didn’t it? From Sebastian Vettel destroying the scales when he got called into the weighbridge during qualifying, to Esteban Ocon’s move on Max Verstappen in [...] The post Episode 182 – Oops Upside Your Car appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

This week on the podcast we say goodbye to Rob Smedley as he’s moving on to pastures new after announcing (on a Monday as well) that he’s leaving Williams at the end of the season [...] The post Episode 181 – There’s Lots of Chickens in Indonesia appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

For the 2nd year running Lewis Hamilton has clinched the World Driver’s Championship at the Mexican Grand Prix and once again he didn’t have to finish on the podium to do it! This week on [...] The post Episode 180 – Lewis Hamilton 5 Times World Champion appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Although we nearly called this week’s podcast “Fluffing Finally” as we’re pretty sure that what Kimi said on the radio when he got his 1st win in 113 races (or 2044 days). So Kimi finally [...] The post Episode 179 – Ice(man) Ice(man) Baby appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

F1 heads out to Texas this week for the US Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin and it could be the race where the 2018 Driver’s Championship is decided. Lewis Hamilton [...] The post Episode 178 – Westbound And Down appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Well that’s what we were calling Sebastian Vettel all weekend after all the issues he had at the Spoon corner in Suzuka during the Japanese Grand Prix. On a positive not though, it was one [...] The post Episode 177 – Spoonman appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

So the Russian Grand Prix finally brought the Mercedes team orders into play, which we knew were coming at some point of this season. It’s not a new thing in F1 and it’s been Ferrari’s [...] The post Episode 176 – New Orders Divide The Joy appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

With not much news to report on Monday we thought we’d have another of our round table “state of the nation” chats about F1 again this week, which always leads to discussions about the driver [...] The post Episode 175 – A Jump Cut Into A Round Table appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Yes, “that” lap from Lewis on Saturday in Q3 turned out to be the highlight of the Singapore Grand Prix this year after a race where strategy ruled what was going on and speed was [...] The post Episode 174 – That Lap, Just That Lap appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Another special show this week as we’re joined by F1 Technical Expert Craig Scarborough to discuss the upgrades the teams have got for the 2nd half of the season and also to shed some light [...] The post Episode 173 – Technical Special With Added Jump Cuts appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Monday is being good to us right now, for the 2nd time in the space of 3 podcasts we’ve had new news to talk about on the show without having to resort to putting another [...] The post Episode 172 – Mammia Mia, We Got News Again appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

If the Belgian Grand Prix did one thing then surely it must have put an end to the halo debate, while there’s nothing to say that Fernando Alonso’s airborne car would have made contact with [...] The post Episode 171 – What Was The Name Of That Beyonce Song? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Just for once we got some news on a Monday and it was before we started recording! RedBull announced that Pierre Gasly is to make the step up from Toro Ross for next season to [...] The post Episode 170 – It’s A Gas Gas Gas appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

The 2018 F1 Silly Season has just got even sillier (even though we thought it was already at peak silliness) with the announcement this afternoon that Fernando Alonso won’t be on the grid next year. [...] The post Episode 169 – Ciao, Adios, He’s Done appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

We thought around June that the silly season was going to be the most active one we’ve had for a few years and we weren’t wrong. By the end of the 1st week of the [...] The post Episode 168 – It’s All Getting Silly Now appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

The Hungarian Grand Prix has now become the regular last race before the summer break in the F1 season and we’ve got to be honest, it seemed like most of the grid was on holiday [...] The post Episode 167 – Appetite For Dest.. Relaxation appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

We’re getting spoiled this season with some great Grands Prix (I got the right spelling and everything there!) And last weekend’s German Grand Prix was no exception. Sebastian Vettel carried on his tradition of not [...] The post Episode 166 – From Despair To Where? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

After a weekend recovering from the triple header, we’re straight back into preview mode on this week’s podcast where we look forward to what’s now become the biennial German Grand Prix (wish they’d sort that [...] The post Episode 165 – Got Wood? Good! appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Passions were running high at Silverstone at the weekend for the British Grand Prix where we got to see another Ferrari/Mercedes coming together in the first couple of corners. This week it was Kimi Raikkonen [...] The post Episode 164 – We’re Deliberately Incompetent appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Max Verstappen has finally won a race without Daniil Kvyat losing his job! After his 3 previous wins in the last 2 years since he moved up to the main RedBull team, every time he’s [...] The post Episode 163 – Nobody Moves, Nobody Gets Fired appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

The French Grand Prix then, an unknown quantity with the circuit with its brain frying patterned run-off areas, over 160 possible track configurations and plenty of corners where running wide wouldn’t get too badly punished. [...] The post Episode 163 – Monkey Business As Usual appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

(Or looking for lost time) Which is what RedBull will be doing now they’ve announced their switch to Honda power, just a convenient few hours after we finished recording this week’s podcast, so listen out [...] The post Episode 161 – à la recherche de temps perdu appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Well that wasn’t the Canadian Grand Prix we were expecting was it? Coming after a Monaco race that even the F1 purists amongst us said was “a bit processiony” we were hoping for overtakes, drama [...] The post Episode 160 – Bring Back Groundhog Effect appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Yes, we’re a day late with this week’s show thanks to various TT goings on, but the Isle Of Man isn’t the only island with racing going on this week that’s taking our time up. [...] The post Episode 159 – Island Race appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

So yeah, Monaco? It was a bit processional in the end and let’s face it we didn’t expect it to be anything else as it’s not really possible to be. Just beacuse of the way [...] The post Episode 158 – Lazy Sunday Afternoon appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

The Monaco Grand Prix aka The Jewel In The F1 Crown, otherwise known as an outdated processional race with zero overtaking and the only excitement being when someone sticks it in the barrier. This race [...] The post Episode 157 – By The Sea appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

The Spanish Grand Prix has now become the race where we get to see all the first upgrades to each season’s cars and this year was no exception, so we thought the best way to [...] The post Episode 156 – Upgrade Season with Craig Scarborough appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Another race week to look forward to at 3Legs Towers and it’s got a lot to live up to after the drama in Baku, but as it’s the Spanish Grand Prix this weekend and the [...] The post Episode 155 – Easy Like Sunday Afternoon appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Another race in Baku and another result that didn’t look likely when the lights went out. This week on the podcast we’re joined by VirtualStatMan Sean Kelly to go though the Azerbaijan Grand Prix which [...] The post Episode 154 – You’re Unpredictable appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

This week on the podcast we preview the Azerbaijan Grand Prix which doesn’t form part of the European season, even though the Baku City Circuit was the location for the European Grand Prix 2 years [...] The post Episode 153 – Castles in the Sky appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Come on then, at the end of FP3 on Saturday morning, did anyone actually predict that Daniel Ricciardo would be on the top step of the podium the following afternoon? His car was in bits [...] The post Episode 152 – The China Syndrome appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

So where was the party mode on the Mercedes then? After a dominant performance by Ferrari all through the weekend, the Bahrain Grand Prix was topped off with a Sebastian Vettel victory, Ferrari were expecting [...] The post Episode 151 – Where’s The Party At? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

One race into the 2018 F1 season and we’re already on our first back to back weekends of the year with races in Bahrain and China to come over the next 2 weekends, so it’s [...] The post Episode 150 – Circle (with extra bits) In The Sand appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Well there’s no doubting it now, F1 is back for 2018! And as season openers go the Australian Grand Prix was a pretty good one. It’s often the case that what happens in Melbourne isn’t [...] The post Episode 149 – I See Red appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

It’s been a long 4 months, but we’re only a matter of days away from the 2018 F1 season finally getting underway at Albert Park in Melbourne Australia. So what better way to get things [...] The post Episode 148 – 2018 Season Preview with Sean Kelly appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Testing is done and Formula 1 has moved on from Barcelona (for a couple of months until the Spanish GP of course) and now all the teams are back at theie factories pouring over the [...] The post Episode 147 – Testing Review with Craig Scarborough appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

Testing at the Circuit de Catalunya has become the norm for the last few seasons rather than testing in Bahrain. It’s easier to get spares to the teams when something breaks down or falls off [...] The post Episode 146 – BarSnowLona? appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

All the new cars are out and the pre-season testing has begun, so it must be time to get ready for the 2018 F1 season. And once again, Paul & Lee have been on their [...] The post Episode 145 – I Got A Silver Machine appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

What a week! Lee & Paul are back from Mercedes with a few stories to tell about the factory visit which ended in a surprise tour of the facility (massive thanks to Felix for showing [...] The post Episode 144 – Trains & Boats & Planes, But Mainly Cars appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

We’ve only gone and done it again, this week we managed to spend some time with Mercedes Young Driver (and ART F2 racer) George Russell. Massive thanks to all the team at Brackley for putting [...] The post Episode 143 – By George We Got It! appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.

The Grid Girls situation continues to cause more debate than anything in recent F1 history and while it’s a very divisive issue, it’s at least getting news coverage for Formula 1 during what’s traditionally a [...] The post Episode 142 – New Kids On The Grid appeared first on 3Legs4Wheels.