The Autosport F1 Podcast

On this month’s edition of the Flat Chat podcast, Stuart Codling is joined by Mark Gallagher and Matt Kew to discuss how Carlos Sainz is winning his fight to stay at Ferrari.Mark is also fresh from visiting the track in Las Vegas and discusses how F1's return to Sin City affects the teams and the fans.And General Motors has registered to join F1 as a power unit manufacturer in 2028 via its Cadillac brand. The intention is to partner with the new Andretti F1 team, so this announcement is bound up in all the politics surrounding that. We’ve dug into the Andretti business in previous editions of the podcast but this has moved the story on a fair bit and the timing is significant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new Formula 1 documentary debuted today on Disney+ giving fans a look behind the scenes of the iconic 2009 F1 team. Brawn: The Impossible F1 Story is a four-part series that looks at the history of the Brawn team after Ross Brawn saved the former Honda team in 2008.Megan White sits down to talk about the documentary with Ross Brawn and Jenson Button. They talk about how their future relied on the F1 paddock coming together, how Jenson was afraid to show any weakness during his championship winning season, and the legacy that Brawn F1 left on the sport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The British Touring Car Championship season threatened to become a one-horse race at times in 2023, such was the searing speed of Ash Sutton and his Motorbase Performance-run Ford Focus ST.But reigning champion Tom Ingram kept it just about alive right up until the final weekend, before he was forced to hand his crown back to fourth-time winner Sutton.And TOCA's support classes were once again thrilling to follow. With no Ginettas competing for the first time since 2007, there was a different feel to the TOCA support bill this year but still plenty of impressive displays from the protagonists of the British Touring Car Championship's undercard.On the podcast today Martyn Lee is joined by Marcus Simmons and Stephen Lickorish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Autosport Awards are back next month for the 36th time, with the ceremony taking place at its usual venue of the Grosvenor House Hotel on London’s Park Lane on Sunday 3 December.But we can’t do it without our podcast listeners and readers of Autosport.On the podcast today, Kevin Turner is joined by Haydn Cobb to talk about why we need you to vote, and tell you the nominees for International Racing Driver of the Year, British Competition Driver of the Year, UK National Driver of the Year, Rookie of the Year, International Competition Car of the Year, and Rally Driver of the Year.You can vote for the candidate you think performed best in each category during the season now at https://awardsvoting.autosport.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Martyn Lee is joined by Matt Kew in Brazil, along with our F1 Reporter Filip Cleeren, to look back at the winners and losers at Interlagos for the 2023 Brazilian Grand Prix. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As Formula 1 grapples with what the sprint format might look like next year, the final outing of this iteration in Brazil provided plenty of action, at least in the midfield. Martyn Lee is joined by Jake Boxall-Legge to discuss today's race, and what the options are for the sprint weekends in 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Martyn Lee is joined by our F1 Reporter Filip Cleeren to try and make sense of a qualifying session which was eventually aborted due to severe weather. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The only records left for Max Verstappen to break this year are his own ones from last year, but could he get 16 wins in one season with a Ferrari front row lockout? To analyse all the action from Sunday's Mexico City Grand Prix, Martyn Lee is joined by Alex Kalinauckas and Filip Cleeren. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A mixed up qualifying set up a fascinating (long) run down to Turn 1 on Sunday afternoon in Mexico. And could we see a repeat of the exciting battle we saw in 2021?Alex Kalinauckas joins  Martyn Lee to talk about why some teams suddenly found pace as the track cooled, and why Formula 1 increasingly sees a queue of drivers stopping at the end of the pitlane during qualifying. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Martyn Lee is joined by Sam Hall to look at the first day of running in Mexico. Today saw five young drivers get a chance to not crash a Formula 1 car, and all acquitted themselves well.We also saw drama for Aston Martin, with the wheels literally not falling off their weekend before it got started. And we learned a little about the competitive order at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices