Aha, topical pun!

Oh man, things have changed around here! It’s going to be a big time re-adjustment around here, as we’re moving forward with committing to the Podcast as our top priority!

We’ll be talking all about the expanding plans for the #Motorsport101 Podcast going forward, as well as:

– Changes to Motorsport101 as a Podcast (VIDEO FOR THIS WILL BE UP ON WEDNESDAY)
– F1 moving to Channel 4, 10 Live Races in 2016, Jake Humphrey’s production company in charge (Whisper Films),
DC already confirmed
– Refuelling talk again?
– Susie Wolff launches female driver initative “Dare to Be Different”
– Pastor Maldonado potentially losing seat, late payments, Kevin Magnussen seen in Enstone, apparently.
– And your questions in the ‪#‎Motorsport101‬ Q+A!

It’s a very exciting time for all of us here, and we can’t wait to keep pounding out more episodes! Enjoy the new and improved Motorsport101!

Music:

Intro – “Unity” by Dropouts (from NoCopyRightSounds)
Musical Breaks – “Spiral Ahead” and “Burnin’ Rubber” from the Ridge Racer 4 Soundtrack

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Oh erm… Hi there. Been a little while huh?

I need to explain myself methinks. Basically, the way this Podcast was hosted was a MESS. A ton of massive files to upload, it slowed the site down massively, and file size limits meant that I had to butcher the quality of the Podcast just to make sure it fitted with WordPress’ limited conventions.

It took me and my website designer Steph THREE months to iron out a solution, and we got there in the end. Internet Archive now hosts the Podcast, and now we can stream it here instead, and everything is still on iTunes, so yay, we’re all sorted!

Also, we have a new permanent third host, as Adam Johnson of Team Bombersports on YouTube has joined in to help produce the show, and be another presenter. Hope you all like 80’s rock and NASCAR references. He’s basically even more American than I am, but he’ll add a lot of random banter to the show, so yay!

In this massive, 135 minute reunion special:

– Lewis Hamilton’s media tour as he celebrates his third World Championship, going on Kimmel, Corden and dropping his mixtape. Insert joke here.
– We give Nico Rosberg credit for closing the year stronger than he ever has before, and why we just refuse to give him the credit for it, because the season’s already over. Apparently, winning 14 races in 4 seasons just isn’t good enough any more.
– We have to derail the Max Verstappen hype train. Seriously, we just do. It’s for your own good.
– We re-review Rossi vs Marquez. It’s just as painful as you expect.
– The FINAL Susie Wolff Update from Ryan King (Sad face)
– The Motorsport Q+A, featuring the Conor Daly fanclub, the potential of BBC losing its rights (Whoops, we were a bit early on this one), and the recent YouTube drama of F1 YouTubers. (Yawn)

Massive thanks for your patience, and for all the listeners, thank you for your continued support, and have a wonderful Christmas season!

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I owe you for the episode title, George.

Motorsport 101, where you wait a long time, then two Episodes come along at once. We decided that Monza was so newsworthy, we decided to give you another episode, immediately!

In this bonus episode, we talk about the Italian Grand Prix in all its mediocrity, Lewis Hamilton’s embarrassing social media faux-pas after ignoring Justin Wilson’s minute of silence, and the massive deflation scandal and the FIA’s decision not to punish Mercs for breaking a technical infringement.

And, there’s a huge Ask Dre section too, talking MotoGP, IndyCar, Closed Cockpits and who our most underrated and overrated drivers are! Enjoy!

Music: “Breakbeat Generation” by E-Z Rollers (Rollcage Stage 2 Soundtrack)

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*sighs*

It’s been another rough month in Motorsport since the last time we did one of these. IndyCar lost a great driver, and a tremendous human being in Justin Wilson. We talk about his tragic accident at Pocono this past weekend and his impact on the sport, as he passes on at the age of 37.

We also talk about the IndyCar Season Finale as Scott Dixon won at Sonoma from 9th on the grid to win the Championship on COUNTBACK from Juan Pablo Montoya. We also talk about the collisions that shaped the Championship, and the incredible amount of salt thrown from the Rahal camp, as well as the Penske’s as Montoya… went full Montoya.

We also talk the Formula 1 news and Belgian Grand Prix, with Kimi Raikkonen being retained at Ferrari, Lotus potentially being bought out by Renault, as well as Charles Pic suing the team, as well as the blowouts that Nico Rosberg and Sebastian Vettel suffered over the weekend and how we’re bemused people were so adamant over what caused it for no real reason.

And finally, a brief review of MotoGP at Silverstone this weekend, with Valentino Rossi winning his 4th race of the season during a wet washout that badly affected Marc Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo, the former crashing, and the latter getting another case of wet weather “yips”. But it was Danilo Petrucci who stole the show, with Jack Miller taking headlines for the wrong reasons.

Thanks for listening, and I PROMISE it won’t be a month before we do another one of these!

Address to donate to Justin Wilson’s family:

Wilson Children’s Fund, c/o INDYCAR, 4551 W. 16th St., Indianapolis, IN 46222 OR http://www.justinwilson.com/donate

MUSIC:
GRID 2 Soundtrack – Elimination
GRID 2 Soundtrack – Checkpoint

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I think you can guess why we named this episode how we did. We kept the Bianchi talk brief, and the reason why, is because I hate being sad. Me and Ryan are passionate fans and aspiring journalists sure, but we also enjoy what we do, and we love having a laugh while talking some Motorsport, and that’s what we’ve done for 22 episodes now. I hope you all can understand that when listening. Cheers!

In the meantime, we probably treated this episode like Justin Gatlin does when he sees a drug testing van. We sped through a heap of topics, so lemme give you a rundown:

NEWS:

– Obviously, the passing of Jules Bianchi
– Haas revealing their interest of Esteban Gutierrez, Jean-Eric Vergne, Nico Hulkenberg and just about anyone who’s currently in F1, while we debate who should get that Ferrari seat between Bottas and Hulkenberg.
– Jenson Button rumoured to be a new BBC Top Gear host, and the original trio heading to Amazon Prime
– Carmen Jorda and Michèle Mouton going to war, and why we actually are taking Carmen Jorda’s side on this. Seriously.

– The Hungarian Grand Prix, Vettel reaching 41 Career Wins first, over Hamilton, Mercedes terrible day at the office, both controversial Daniel Ricciardo incidents, and why we condemned Autosport and Sky Sports’ ratings in protection of Lewis Hamilton. Again.

INDYCAR:

– Derrick Walker resigning as President of Operations
– A review of Milwaukee as Sebastian Bourdais pulled off a stunner, and Paul Tracy complimented his improved oval skills. Am I high?
– A review of Iowa, as Ryan Hunter-Reay remembered he was Ryan Hunter-Reay, as American take their first clean sweep of the podium since the 2006 Indy 500. And we nearly had Ed Carpenter fight Sage Karam. That was fun.
– Article 9.2.8, meaning IndyCar drivers can’t badmouth the series anymore without getting fined. Because that’ll change everything!

Enjoy the show folks!

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MUSIC:

“Slipstream” – Isamu Ohira (Gran Turismo 3 Soundtrack)
“Just a Day” – Feeder

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Hey folks, welcome back to Motorsport 101, and in this episode, we talk about Women’s Soccer! Yay for the England and USA teams on 3rd and 1st respectively. They’re all awesome. Fun fact: Me and King have enormous crushes on Alex Morgan and Meghan Klingenberg, so if you ever end up seeing a random black guy in your girls’ judo class, you know why!

But seriously, in this stacked episode:

– We talk about how terrible the GPDA Survey ended up being, and why the voice of reason against it was… Max Verstappen?!
– The British GP, how Williams lost the race, how Hamilton pretty much fluked the win, and all the other action in what was a crazy and awesome race, that F1 kinda needed.
– The Formula E Season Finale, and how Nelson Piquet nearly lost a Championship that was his for the taking as Sebastian Buemi narrowly lost out, and while Battersea didn’t really work as a venue, it was only a minor blemish on an otherwise FANTASTIC first season
– And a look at IndyCar in Fontana, in one of the craziest races of the year, Graham Rahal picked up just his second series victory in one as Takuma Sato and Ryan Hunter-Reay make a case for Pack Racing to be banned. But is it really as bad as many think?

All that and more in Episode 21 of the Motorsport 101 Podcast! Enjoy!

Musical Interludes:

Travelling Without Moving – Jamiroquai
The Infinite End – Enthusia Professional Racing Soundtrack
Electric Avenue – Eddy Grant

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Good news! Due to upgrading the website, the quality of the show should be much better now I effectively have no file size limit! Hooray for breaking my wallet out!

In this episode of Motorsport 101, me and Ryan King look back over the Austrian Grand Prix, a race where all of a sudden, Nico Rosberg took probably the best win of his career to date as Lewis Hamilton had no answer, Felipe Massa held off Sebastian Vettel for third, and we’re still trying to remove parts of Fernando Alonso from a buried Ferrari, as the midfield stole the show…

…or did they? After the serious amounts of complaints over said GP, we break down why it’s unfair to criticize the race itself, and why we as masochistic F1 fans are over-critical of the era we’re in, and why we make the past look so good.

It’s a seriously philosophical edition of the show, and I hope you enjoy the new and improved, Motorsport 101!

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First up, before anything else, a hearty thank you to you, the #DreNation for supporting this show. This was originally a University project, and it scored at 80% yesterday, meaning I got a first! Seriously, I’m over the moon and I couldn’t have done this without my web designer Stephanie Hunter, my co-hosts Sascha Wagenblast, Gino Van Den Broceke, Scott Woodwiss and of course, my partner in crime, Ryan King. You all are amazing.

In this stacked episode, we talk about all the recent F1 news, such as Raikkonen wanting more danger in F1, the fuel-saving and complaining about car difficulty and fuel saving after a mediocre Canadian GP, which we also review.

We also tackle MotoGP in Mugello as Jorge Lorenzo strolled to a 3rd consecutive victory, ahead of a very lucky Andrea Iannone. We also talk about Simone Corsi’s idiocy against Sam Lowes in Moto2 and Miguel Oliviera’s first Moto3 victory, making history for Portugal.

And we talk about IndyCar in Detroit and Texas as Carlos Munoz took his first IndyCar win, alongside Sebastian Bourdais in a thrilling Race 2, and Scott Dixon’s Texas 600 victory, as well as discuss THAT story about what happened when me and Sage Karam butted heads on Twitter… and I won. I should get a night with his girlfriend as a prize…

But enjoy the longest Motorsport 101 show to date with me, Ryan King, and a new co-host in Downforce Radio’s own Louis Suddaby, my radio husband. Enjoy!

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Man, it’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. A whole month as a matter of fact. I apologize, I’ve been extremely busy with University assignments so this kind of got pushed to one side. I wasn’t going to bother producing more episodes beyond “Newgarden of Eden” to be honest, as this whole Podcast was a University project, BUT, thanks to you the listeners, you convinced me to keep going, so thank you, it means a lot that you care enough that you want to hear more.

In this loaded episode with me and Ryan King, we talk about Jean Todt’s “I give no f***s” regarding Alcohol advertising, talk about Lewis Hamilton’s eye-watering £130m contract extension, then break down the Monaco snoozefest… well apart from the last 15 laps and the pit stop heard around the world, why Hamilton really hasn’t changed, and the big Grosjean/Verstappen crash that started the whole thing off. And I swear at King. A lot.

After that, we talk about the Indy 500, the drama before it, and the action during it, with Juan Pablo Montoya winning his 2nd Indy 500 ahead of Will Power, 15 years after winning his 1st one. We also talk about Simona being lazy as hell, Simon Pagueaud’s rough day at the office, the crashes and the other hilarity that ensued.

And finally, we talk about the FIA press release of a fortnight ago and the proposed changes to improve the show in 2016 and 2017. Is “improving the show” the right way to go for F1?

All that and more on the return of the Motorsport 101 Podcast, enjoy!

UPDATE 1/6: There ARE Skype undertones on this episode. What happened was when I was taping the show, it was going on in the middle of a Pit Bored taping on Downforce Radio, between 7 people, and they were obviously doing their show at the same time, so all the Skype notifications you’d get, got on the recording too, and I couldn’t really remove them without removing part of my audio, so yeah…it definitely hurt the quality a bit. I apologize, that was unprofessional of me and I’ll make sure that doesn’t happen again.

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Welcome back to the Motorsport 101 Podcast! We took a week off but we’re back, and we’re sweeping through another round of ridiculous Motorsport action this past week and a half or so.

We go through the recent news, as Force India keep pushing for an open engined formula, as well as bypassing Pirelli when it comes to potential tyre choices, whether Claire Williams as a point when it comes to potentially moving F1 races to 4pm CET, Azerbaijan potentially replacing Monza on the calendar, and Mick Schumacher’s F4 win, and why it’s such easy click-bait to talk about someone most corporations don’t actually give a shit about.

And of course, reviewing all the last 2 weekend’s action, including F1 in Bahrain as Lewis Hamilton continues to dominate, but with added Ferrari in the form of Kimi Raikkonen, as well as Renault and McLaren’s awful day’s in the desert. MotoGP gets a look as we review Argentina, and we take a look at the IndyCar races at Long Beach and Alabama as Scott Dixon and young star Josef Newgarden finally got his first series victory!

Enjoy the show with me, and Ryan King!

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