With Formula 1 officially in hibernation, the team return for the final episode of 2025 — the 4th Annual Stirling Awards! Across the season, we’ve handed out our Top 5 drivers after every race. Now it’s time to reveal who finished number one for 2025. As we run through the full driver rankings, we break down the rookie class and who impressed us most, lament the stunning fall from grace of a once-elite driver who didn’t even crack our Top 10, and dissect the wildly contrasting seasons of Alex...
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With Formula 1 officially in hibernation, the team return for the final episode of 2025 — the 4th Annual Stirling Awards! Across the season, we’ve handed out our Top 5 drivers after every race. Now it’s time to reveal who finished number one for 2025. As we run through the full driver rankings, we break down the rookie class and who impressed us most, lament the stunning fall from grace of a once-elite driver who didn’t even crack our Top 10, and dissect the wildly contrasting seasons of Alex...
With Formula 1 officially in hibernation, the team return for the final episode of 2025 — the 4th Annual Stirling Awards! Across the season, we’ve handed out our Top 5 drivers after every race. Now it’s time to reveal who finished number one for 2025. As we run through the full driver rankings, we break down the rookie class and who impressed us most, lament the stunning fall from grace of a once-elite driver who didn’t even crack our Top 10, and dissect the wildly contrasting seasons of Alex...
A week removed from the Abu Dhabi season finale, the team look back on the 2025 Formula 1 season — and discuss our Top 5 moments from a thrilling year. Before we hit the rewind button, we re-examine the most debated incident of the finale with fresh eyes: the clash between Yuki Tsunoda and Lando Norris. Was either driver actually in the wrong? And once again, do FIA rules leave far too much room for interpretation? We also dive into the departure of Helmut Marko from Red Bull, marking the end...
Welcome to Mrs Norris' art class! We unpack a surprisingly flat season finale, where Max Verstappen took the race win but Lando did exactly what he needed — bringing it home in P3 to secure the title by just two points over Max and Oscar Piastri. We dive into Lando’s race, and where this championship ranks in modern F1 history, plus a heap of “what if” moments that could’ve radically changed this three-way fight. The team also revisit Lewis Hamilton’s deeply frustrating first year at Fe...
The team are back to break down the penultimate race of the season in Qatar! Jacqui, Nathan, and James unpack McLaren’s horrific and costly strategy calls that handed Max Verstappen yet another win — and ensured the three-way title fight will go all the way to Abu Dhabi next week. We dig into the big questions: • What on earth were McLaren thinking by not pitting both drivers under the Safety Car? • Was this “fairness” taken too far? • And is Oscar right to feel so wronged a...
We dive straight into the wild post-race penalties handed to Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri — and the massive impact they’ve had on the championship with just two races to go. It’s officially a three-way title fight. Can McLaren fix their floor issue before Qatar? Will those fixes cost them pace? And could Max really pull off the greatest championship heist in F1 history? The crew once again debate the chances of Max or Oscar reeling in Lando’s lead… and James thinks some apologies are owed b...
Nathan is back on deck and joined by Jacqui as we look ahead to the Las Vegas Grand Prix! With only three races left in the season, just how pivotal could Vegas be in deciding this championship fight? Is Oscar Piastri mentally cooked, or is a comeback still on the cards? We also dive into Franz Tost’s controversial comments about “stupid” mothers, and unpack the ugly situation involving a Racing Bulls employee allegedly encouraging fans to boo Lando Norris. Plus, you get a rare peek inside th...
Nathan is missing for only the second time in podcast history as Jacqui, James, and Taylor break down a wild Sprint weekend in São Paulo, Brazil! The team jumps straight into the big debate: was Max Verstappen’s charge through the field an all-time great drive, or just a lucky comeback? James and Taylor lock horns yet again over the answer. We also dig into Oscar Piastri’s penalty — was it fair or another stewarding circus moment? And with just three races to go, the championship momentum has...
The team are back during the F1 off week with Jacqui taking the wheel for her first-ever concept episode! Buckle up, nerd burgers — it’s calculator time as we meticulously crunch the numbers for the final four races to predict who will win the 2025 F1 Drivers’ Championship. Lando? Max? Oscar? …George?! Find out who rocked up with three minutes of prep, who struggles with basic maths, and who ends up clinching the title on countback! Once the spreadsheet chaos settles, we look ahead to 2026 an...
The team are back to break down the Mexican Grand Prix, where Lando Norris has stormed into the championship lead — by just one point over Oscar Piastri with four races to go! But was the championship shaped by yet another farcical blunder from the stewards? We dive deep into the controversial last-lap Virtual Safety Car that may have sabotaged both Oscar and Max Verstappen’s title chances, and question how the FIA keep getting it so wrong. From the baffling VSC call to marshals narrowly avoi...
The whole crew are back to break down Max Verstappen’s dominant US Grand Prix Sprint weekend in Texas! We dive into Max’s championship charge and how McLaren’s struggles in Austin have opened the door for a late-season twist — including our updated percentage odds relative to a unicorn, on Max’s title chances. We also unpack the “repercussions” at McLaren following last race’s collision and admit we might finally be reaching our breaking point with the Papaya team. Elsewhere, we break down th...
With just six races to go James, Nathan, and Jacqui are back to unpack a headline-filled stretch dominated by McLaren drama! From the Oscar Piastri and Ferrari rumours to the ongoing legal mess with Alex Palou, we’ve got it all covered. Did Zak Brown really promise Palou an F1 seat, or was he simply not quick enough? And what should we make of the whispers about Piastri and Charles Leclerc swapping teams — could there be any truth to it? With McLaren wrapping up the Constructors’ Championship...
Jacqui joins the crew permanently as all four team members break down a dramatic Singapore Grand Prix! James celebrates George Russell’s big victory, but the spotlight is firmly on the controversy at McLaren as both drivers edge closer to the championship fight. With Lando barging past Oscar on lap one, is there a pattern emerging against the Australian? Will we see a rethink of the so-called “Papaya rules of racing”? We dive into Oscar’s mindset, debate whether Norris is getting preferential...
With Nathan out, Taylor and James are back to preview the Singapore Grand Prix! The boys go long on Max Verstappen’s championship chances before diving into the “Papaya rules” drama and the controversy around McLaren’s possible team favouritism. Do they secretly want Lando to take the crown? Australians are prickly about playing favourites, and Taylor asks the question 'what happens if a position swap ends up costing Oscar his shot at the title?' They also react to the news that Lewis Hamilto...
Jacqui joins Nathan & Nathan (aka the worst potential shampoo brand of all time) to break down a potentially championship-altering Azerbaijan Grand Prix! With Max Verstappen securing yet another Grand Slam, is he suddenly a sneaky long shot to snatch the title? We dive into Oscar Piastri’s nightmare weekend in Baku — from his qualifying crash to jumping the start, stalling, and crashing all on lap one. Is this evidence of cracks under pressure, or just a race to forget? The crew debates w...
The boys are back (sort of) to recap a controversial — if slightly dull — Italian Grand Prix from the home of the Tifosi! With travel chaos striking again, Nathan calls in friend of the pod Jacqui to join James’ Hawaiian audio snippets for a full Monza breakdown. We kick things off with a Mark Webber mention inside the first minute before moving on to his protégé, Oscar Piastri, and the dubious team orders from McLaren. We dissect why this call either pleased or infuriated us, and what it mea...
Please excuse the dip in audio quality this week — travel got in the way! The boys are back to break down all the drama from the Dutch Grand Prix, headlined by Oscar Piastri’s monumental achievement in drawing level with Mark Webber’s career win tally — and doing it with his first ever grand slam! We dive into Lando’s rotten luck, Ferrari’s brutal double retirement, and debate whether the Dutch GP really delivered as a spectacle. Did Carlos Sainz truly deserve his penalty? And why on earth di...
The boys are back with Part 2 of our F1 mid-season break listener questions! This time we tackle the big ones: will Adrian Newey work his magic again at Aston Martin? Who are our picks for the big risers and fallers of 2026? We debate who will drive for Cadillac — and who we’d want behind the wheel — plus ask if Williams can ever win a race again. We also get into the circuits: which tracks we’re desperate to visit, which we’d happily never see again, and the ones we’d love to return to. And ...
The boys are back during the F1 mid-season break to tackle your burning questions! We dive into the big topics you’ve sent in — from our top five drivers we’ve ever seen, to why George Russell keeps getting told to “pee off,” to whether Red Bull can actually make a success of their own engines. We debate if Cadillac can truly compete in 2026, decide which track should be “disappeared” by America’s ICE agents, and ponder whether F1 will ever return to Africa. To wrap things up, we heap praise ...
Following a tense and drama-filled Hungarian Grand Prix, the boys are back to break down all the action! What exactly went wrong for Charles Leclerc, who looked set for a standout weekend — until it all unraveled? We ask whether this was Lando Norris’ greatest victory yet, and dive into the mindset of Lewis Hamilton after his brutal qualifying comments where he called himself “useless.” Will the GOAT keep racing in 2026? Elsewhere, we take serious issue with Leclerc’s dangerous late-race defe...
Taylor rejoins James and Nathan to dive into all the chaos, controversy, and confusion from the Belgian Grand Prix! The boys kick things off by ripping into the FIA for the rain delay — has safety gone too far, or are we denying fans the thrill of real racing by overcautious calls? We debate whether Spa delivered a thriller or a snoozer and get into a heated discussion about the form of Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton. With Oscar Piastri taking the win and stretching his title lead, we unpa...
With Formula 1 officially in hibernation, the team return for the final episode of 2025 — the 4th Annual Stirling Awards! Across the season, we’ve handed out our Top 5 drivers after every race. Now it’s time to reveal who finished number one for 2025. As we run through the full driver rankings, we break down the rookie class and who impressed us most, lament the stunning fall from grace of a once-elite driver who didn’t even crack our Top 10, and dissect the wildly contrasting seasons of Alex...
