Michael Masi thrown under the bus? 21 year old wins WRC! Indycar and more!

Welcome to episode 9 of the Lovecars On The Grid Podcast! Tiff Needell and Paul Woodman are back again to give you a roundup of the motorsport events from the past week!   We of course have to kick off with Formula 1, where we've had testing in Barcelona for the 2022 season. Meanwhile, both Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton have been voicing their opinions over the Michael Masi saga. Hamilton has been voicing his opinions on having non-biased stewards, while Verstappen has been expressing his opinion that race director, Michael Masi has been thrown under the bus!   In the testing, we saw some good lap times from Ferrari, Mercedes and the other teams, but Alpine didn't seem to set any lap times, with Fernando Alonso even catching fire during testing! There's lots of talk about Nikita Mazepin not being part of the opening Grand Prix, and Pietro Fittipaldi replacing him temporarily. We don't think Russian drivers should be penalised for the horrible events in Ukraine! What would you do with the Mazepin situation? Haas have of course lost their main Russian sponsor already.   The World Rally Championship was taking place out in Sweden this weekend too. With 21 year old, Kalle Rovanpera winning with his co-driver Jonne Haltunen.  Indycar had an eventful weekend at St. Petersburg. With Kiwi driver, Scott McLaughlin taking the first win of the season.    Following Tiff's return from Daytona, NASCAR was at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California. We had some spins at 180MPH. With Tiff's favourite, Kyle Larson fighting for 1st place and ended up putting his team mate, Chase Elliot into the wall!    Coming up, we have NASCAR in Las Vegas! Moto GP is back at the Qatar GP, without Valentino Rossi sadly! We also have GP2 and GP3!