Talking Bull

To celebrate International Women in Engineering Day, hosts Nicola Hume and Tommo McCluskey are joined by Red Bull Academy Programme Manager, Sarah Harrington, and Trackside Controls Engineer for Red Bull Racing, Ainhoa Begiristain.  Sarah and Ainhoa shed light on what it’s like to work behind the scenes in Oracle Red Bull Racing, from the thousands of ways to program a steering wheel to the work done to speed up a drivers’ reaction time at the start of the race. Sarah shares her path to working in the F1 academy, and how she looks to the future, as well as highlighting the unique challenges of scouting. And Ainhoa discusses her role, and how she made it to the control room trackside to be a key part of the race day operation. There are also a bunch of questions from the Paddock, on everything from drivers’ nutrition to the role of AI. And finally, Sarah and Ainhoa share their tips for women wanting to work in motorsport, and they highlight that diversity of background, opinion, and approach is always a strength in the team. 

Hosts Nicola Hume and Tommo McCluskey are joined by Matt Gallagher and Tommy Bellingham from P1 with Matt & Tommy. They discuss how Matt and Tommy met and started making F1 content, from WTF1 to P1, and Tommy shares a photo from when he met Christian Horner all the way back in 2010.  Plus, Matt and Tommy play a game of “Mr and Mr” - who would be the better team principal, and who would be the better driver? And there’s a bunch of listener questions from the paddock - Matt and Tommy talk through everything from their most painful moments watching F1, to the funniest memes in the F1 world, to whether they prefer to watch from home or the race.

Our host Tommo McCluskey wraps up the Canadian Grand Prix for us with post race interviews from Max and Yuki.

Our host Tommo McCluskey wraps up today's race in Barcelona bringing us to the end of this European triple header. We caught up with Yuki Tsunoda to get his thoughts on his race.

Talking Bull is back and live from the Monaco Grand Prix! Nicola Hume and new host Tommo McCluskey are joined by four-time Formula 1 World Champion Max Verstappen to reflect on the season so far, Max’s iconic overtake in Imola, sim racing, Franz Hermann, fatherhood, and his relationship with new teammate Yuki Tsunoda. Plus, Nicola and Tommo sit down with the youngest World Rally Champion in history, Kalle Rovanperä! Described at "the Max Verstappen of rally", Kalle chats to us about living in Monaco, his successes in the sport, the intense driver/co-driver relationship, and what other motorsports he would potentially like to try.

For the 2025 season, we have post-race wrap ups with our host, Tommo McCluskey. Following this weekend's race in Monaco, we caught up with both of our drivers, Max Verstappen and Yuki Tsunoda to get their take on the events of today.

At the end of a dramatic season, newly crowned four-time world champion Max Verstappen joins Nic for a live recording of Talking Bull, straight from MK7 at the Oracle Red Bull Racing technology campus. We celebrate Max’s 4th Driver’s Championship victory in a row; plus we look at Max’s highlights of the 2024 race season, including smashing through the field at a very wet Sao Paulo Grand Prix.

We're at the Oracle Red Bull Racing technology campus in Milton Keynes, and speaking to the team’s new driver for 2025… Liam Lawson. Liam has been part of the Oracle Red Bull Racing Junior team since 2019 and he talks about his excitement about being announced as the new driver for Oracle Red Bull Racing, and how it feels to be part of a team with such legacy and success. He runs us through his hopes and dreams for next season on the track as he will be teammates with 4-time world champion, Max Verstappen. He talks about his pride of representing New Zealand, how he’d love to be in a remake of ‘Cars’ and he gives Oracle Red Bull Racing fans some hints about what to expect from him.

Oracle Red Bull Racing are famous for the amazing stunts they put on with their retired F1 cars - from Checo driving the RB7 through a Las Vegas casino, to David Coulthard doing donuts on the helipad of a skyscraper - and today we meet the dream team that get to bring these ideas to life!   Joining Nic in the Talking Bull studio are Heritage team manager Tony Burrows, No. 1 Mechanic Mark “Crunch” Lenton, and No.2 Mechanic Thibaut Conand to answer questions like “who thinks of all these stunts” and “has a stunt ever come close to going seriously wrong?” (spoiler: no it hasn’t!). The team also reflect on their relationship with the main racing team, from Crunch’s memories of being on lollipop duty as a pit crew member, to how the team share knowledge and skills today so that everyone can get the best performance out of the cars. Plus we take your questions from the Paddock - could an F1 car ever drive upside down?  And just how challenging was the zero gravity pit stop stunt to pull off?

Nic meets legends of Sim Racing Frederik Rasmussen and Jarno Opmeer, who will compete for Oracle Red Bull Sim Racing in the 2025 F1 Sim Racing World Championship. Nic will find out from current World Champion Frederick how it feels to have won the Championship after so many years with the team, and will hear from two-time World Champion Jarno how it feels to have joined the team at this iconic time. She also delves deeper into the F1 Sim Racing world - finding out about the practicalities of training, prep and kit.  What does it take to be an F1 Sim Racing World Champion?  Just how long do the racers get to prep for each race?  And how realistic are the races they run? Plus we take questions from fans from around the world, submitted via Oracle Red Bull Racing’s fan site, The Paddock.